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Remember how innovative Chip Kelly's no-huddle, no-mercy spread attack was just a few years ago?It was a defining moment in Oregon football history.The Ducks went from a good team to an elite one in just a matter of two years. Everyone wanted to replicate that offense. Everyone wanted to start hiring the minds associated with that offense and Chip Kelly.There literally was no greater innovation besides the forward pass perhaps. Maybe I'm over-glorifying it just a tad, but it was a pretty radical transition.And really at the root of it all was the simplicity. Chip Kelly's offense was all about exploiting mis-matches. It was line up, attack with tempo, wear down the defense and attack the weakest point.Oregon ran at such a high pace there was almost always a weakness to find. Whether it was a single player or the defensive formation entirely.And it wasn't a complexity of plays. Really it was quite simple. Just a few different plays with a few wrinkles all intended to confuse the defense. They were just ran so efficiently and effectively you had to have a near perfect for an entire game to defend it.Well that was then.Willie Taggart has made it abundantly clear he's putting his stamp on this Oregon program. From slogans to practices to workouts to pretty much everything in between.And that will include the offense.But what exactly is the Gulf-Coast offense?I'm by no means an expert so I did a little 'googling' to dig deeper into that question. Here's some of what I was able to find.Ultimately this offense really seems to have started in New Orleans with Sean Payton and the Saints. And giving him credit probably isn't fair, but he definitely brought it to the forefront.Here are a few of the better excerpts from the article.So if we look at this on the surface, that matches up with a lot of what Willie Taggart liked to do at USF. And what will make this incredibly interesting is to see how Taggart adapts this at Oregon.If this is something he plans to enforce at Oregon, that could easily mean a move to guard for super run-blocker Tyrell Crosby or even newcomer George Moore. His skillset seems almost a perfect fit for this style.We know Taggart likes to run the ball. This would be an innovative way to do it.This is likely why such a large emphasis was placed on signing a tight end last year. A guy like Josh Falo becomes absolutely pivotal in this offense. It also lends merit to signing guys like Darrian McNeal, Bruce Judson and Cyrus Habibi-Likio. Those guys offer the versatility of putting them in different spots to identify who the defense is matching up on.This also seems to have merit with how Taggart recruited receivers last year. He did sign several smaller, shiftier guys but all along the staff was looking for that 'big bodied' receiver. Bryan Thompson was the obvious key target late.With Ofodile, Carrington and Nelson he has a pretty strong first group. Why Oregon was attempting to sign a big group last year seems to have been him looking for that second group.The same at running back. Surely there is an incredible depth at running back this season. But Willie Taggart was trying to build for the future by signing multiple backs for next season and beyond. That's why I indicated in today's offensive breakdown, all of Oregon's running backs will see significant carries.And although it has its own variation to it, you can see the same concepts being adopted by the Patriots and Packers this season. Neither typically invests heavy into top running backs or receivers although Green Bay has Jordy Nelson.The Patriots are seeing a lot of success by using a lot of these elements presented here.The guys over at FishDuck.com did some pretty hefty analysis of their own on the Gulf Coast offense. There are a lot of the same elements from the 'Chip Kelly spread' but combined with a lot more power runs.Welcome to the new ear of Oregon football led by Willie Taggart.