The 2021 Oregon Ducks Offense

This PDF contains 62 plays from the 2021 Oregon Ducks Offense. Each play is diagrammed, explained, and there is a QR code to scan for immediate access to film of that play. (Wide and End Zone Angles)

For our second deep dive into a particular team we at Must Squatch decided to choose the Oregon Ducks.  Oregon was #42 in scoring offense in 2021 and was ranked #50 in total offense for the year.  While Oregon may not be at the top of the ladder statistically they were able to do some creative things on offense that quickly drew our interest.

Joe Moorhead (now the head coach at Akron) was the offensive coordinator for the 2021 Oregon Duck.  Moorhead has had many stops along the way in his coaching career, most notable are as the Head Coach at Fordham from 2012-2015.  After Fordham he went to Penn. State as the offensive coordinator from 2016-2017.  After Penn.State he became the Head Coach at Mississippi State from 2018-2019.  From there Moorhead went to Oregon from 2020 to 2021 as the offensive coordinator.  As previously mentioned he is now the Head Coach at Akron and will be bringing his dynamic offense to MACtion.

As a play caller Moorhead likes to utilize unbalanced formations, varying tempo, and simple RPO’s that his offense can execute with ease.  At the FBS level you do not see a lot of teams that will get into quads and trips closed to the extent that Moorheaad does, this is what drew us to study his offense.

For this book we chose to break down eight total games of the 2021 Ducks Offense.  These eight games include Fresno State, Arizona, Utah for the PAC 12 championship, UCLA, Stanford, Ohio State, Washington, Washington State.  We feel that these eight games provide a perfect snapshot of Joe Moorhead and his offense.  The Ohio State game is probably when Oregon looked its best during the year.  This game by itself could be a book on its own.

We hope you enjoy this second installment from Must Squatch Football.  We have enjoyed studying the Oregon offense and we believe that there are many concepts from this offense that you can easily incorporate into your own team’s offense.