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Coach Chip Kelly: “What We Stand For” (Pt. 1)

The following is part of the NIKE Coaches Clinic Presentation “EFFICIENT USE OF PRACTICE TIME given by Chip Kelly a year ago in spring of 2011 that was recorded and printed in the book, “2011 Coach of the Year Clinics Football Manual” by [D. Mark …
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The FishDuck Minute #11: Oregon has a Trap Play!

Oregon has shown a number of Inside Zone and Power Plays in the past and I always kept an eye out for a classic Trap Play. I never noted one until going through games of 2011—and there it is! The Chip Kelly Spread Offense has …
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The FishDuck Spring Scrimmage Report

Long before FishDuck.com existed, there were FishDuck scrimmage reports. Be it out on the fields or inside Autzen, when spring came around if the Ducks were practicing I’d do my best to document it all. These reports would get passed around various Oregon websites to …
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What IS a FishDuck?

Why the odd name for the website? Is it really named after you, or the other way around? Where did this name come from? What IS a FishDuck? How did this unusual website with twenty people on staff really begin-and why? And stop giving away …
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Coach Chip Kelly Explains the Oregon Spread Offense

The following is the NIKE Coaches Clinic Presentation given by Chip Kelly in spring of 2009 that was recorded and printed in the book, “2009 Coach of the Year Clinics Football Manual” by [D. Mark Robertson] the leading coaching education publisher, Coaches Choice and edited …
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The FishDuck Minute #9: Oregon’s Best No-Huddle Plays of 2010-2011

Oregon is well known for the Hurry Up, No Huddle Offense and the following plays are well known as touchdowns, but for different reasons than I credit. Rarely would any analyst look at the play before the touchdown to explain the six points, and …
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The FishDuck Minute #8: Oregon’s Pulling Center Changes the Spread Offense

Something we saw often this year was Hroniss Grasu, #55 pulling and leading the way on outside “Stretch” plays, as coaches will call it. A center has to be extraordinarily FAST to snap the ball and beat the RB to the corner and lead him …
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The FishDuck Minute #5: Oregon’s Jet-Lead-Fly Sweep with Play Action

A key to Oregon’s success has been running several different play series out of the same formations over the season. Which play is it? Is it run or pass? Much of our scoring punch has come from playing away from our tendencies such as the …
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The FishDuck Minute #4: Oregon QB Zone Read Essentials

How does Bryan Bennett run the Zone Read play so well? Let’s take a quick look at what makes this Quarterback so special with one of our foundation plays.
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The FishDuck Minute #3: Opposing Coaches Know

In this week’s FishDuck Minute-we get an interesting summary of the Oregon Defense by USC Coach Lane Kiffin, which gives us pause to reflect. Do let others know about “Video-Time Tuesday” as we release a video on that day of the week from now on. …
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