Question about Offense under Jonathan Smith

[TexasHusky]

I am a Husky fan and am anxiously waiting to see what Smith and Petersen do with the UW offense this year. They have been pretty vague about their intent, other than to say that the offense "won't look too different" than it did last season under Sarkisian.

I have gone back and tried to find highlights and cut-ups from the Montana offense from when Smith was the OC, but I haven't had a chance to go through them in too much depth.

Since I know the Griz have a very loyal and football savvy fan-base, I thought maybe some of you could help me out by telling me your observations of the offense under Smith. The more specific, the better.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Go win the Big Sky!

 

[DoubleNicks]

There are more knowledgeable people on this than me but since nobody has answered you yet, I'll throw out my thoughts.

Smith was OC for the 2010 and 2011 seasons at Montana. It was my impression that HC Robin Pflugrad was calling/influencing a lot of the calls those years, though. Pflugrad had brought the speed option from Oregon. A lot of misdirection, crossing dive plays, play-action, etc. Montana racked up the yards those years but some fans were upset when the team seemed to struggle on short yardage downs. Smith was also QB coach where he helped develop current starting QB Jordan Johnson.

Some footage from the 2011 playoffs when the offense was clicking the best:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkmWUpXWEkA[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsAaLzQwS74[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh8lagfW-aw[/youtube]

 

[grizeyes]

There are more knowledgeable people on this than me but since nobody has answered you yet, I'll throw out my thoughts.

Smith was OC for the 2010 and 2011 seasons at Montana. It was my impression that HC Robin Pflugrad was calling/influencing a lot of the calls those years, though. Pflugrad had brought the speed option from Oregon. A lot of misdirection, crossing dive plays, play-action, etc. Montana racked up the yards those years but some fans were upset when the team seemed to struggle on short yardage downs. Smith was also QB coach where he helped develop current starting QB Jordan Johnson.

Some footage from the 2011 playoffs when the offense was clicking the best:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkmWUpXWEkA[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsAaLzQwS74[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh8lagfW-aw[/youtube]

Man, I don't know about you but that offense was sure fun to watch - never knew what was coming.

 

[griz4life]

There is no similarity between what Pflugrad was running in and what Peterson runs. It would be overly generous to credit Jonathan Smith with plays of either offense.

 

[mtgrizrule]

The offense when Smith was here was heavily all Pflu's. Smith really did not have an opportunity to put his own stamp on the offense. It will be interesting to see how Washington's offense looks under Peterson and Smith.

 

[TexasHusky]

"There is no similarity between what Pflugrad was running in and what Peterson runs."

What Petersen ran for the majority of his time at BSU isn't what they ran for the past two seasons under Robert Prince. Unfortunately, that offense wasn't very good, which is probably why Prince wasn't brought along to Seattle. Prince also wasn't retained by Bryan Harsin when he took over the BSU job.

Moreover, Petersen is a little like Bruce Lee, in that his style is that he has no style.

Both Petersen and Smith have said that the new offense "will look a lot like what the Huskies ran last year", but that they will put their own stamp on it. Last year's UW offense was a departure from Sarkisian's USC-style routes, as it was basically 100% based out of the shotgun and pistol and was HUNH 100% of the time.

So my question about Smith was more to get an idea of the kinds of concepts he might be bringing to the party, rather than based on the expectation that he would run exactly what he ran at Montana.