Chris Petersen
Chris Petersen
Christopher Scott "Chris" Petersenis an American football coach, currently the head coach at the University of Washington...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 October 1964
CityYuba City, CA
consistent guy happen last next reason step taking talked whatever year
We talked last year about him taking the next step there, and that didn't happen for whatever reason where we wanted him to. Did he get better? He did. He got better on occasion, but he wasn't the consistent guy that we needed.
add cars change number talking
To add the number of cars you're talking about...will just change everything.
blend call chameleon
We call it a chameleon offense. We just kind of blend in and look one way one week, a different way the next.
best coaches couple fun nfl tried visited watch
We visited with the Colts this year. It was fun to watch the best quarterback in the NFL (Peyton Manning). Those coaches are very experienced. We tried to put in a couple of their plays.
aggressive blow coach creating envelope hawkins problems push stuff worried
Nothing is off-limits. Coach Hawkins is very aggressive in his thinking. If you're always worried that something could blow up on you, you're not going to push the envelope and not going to try new things. Some of the stuff does blow up on us, but the tradeoff is the problems we're creating for defenses whenÊit works.
best coaches faster full players slow study understand
The best way to get better is to study yourself. Our players and our coaches are always studying. We have that attitude. When you study, you know what to do, and when you understand your assignment, you play faster because you don't have to slow down to make decisions. We like to play at full speed.
head seen
It's kind of what I expected. I've been around for a long time. And around a lot of head coaches. I've seen a lot of things.
both fairly game knew needs step
They both know that that part of our game needs to step up. Anthony was, percentage-wise, fairly accurate, but we also knew not to put him in any questionable situations.
level physically
They were at a different level physically than we'd seen.
challenged good
That is something I'm always challenged with on the field. To be a good person even when it's not going like it should.
calling football fun outside spend stuff time turn wrong
It's awesome, man. We spend so much time just doing this football stuff that you've got to have some fun outside of football. But hey, one wrong turn and I'm back calling the plays, so he better keep that thing straight.
chemistry coming earn few gets guys matter talent
We're going to have to go out there and earn it, though. We had a lot of guys coming back this year. It doesn't matter how few guys you lose, the chemistry always changes. Talent only gets you so far. Chemistry ... has to come with it.
except four running seven teams tendency
We play a lot of people. That way not everyone has to know everything we're doing, except for the quarterback. He has to know everything. Some teams have a tendency to play three, four receivers. We'll play seven or eight. Some teams play one or two running backs. We'll play five.
We didn't have enough steaks for everyone so we had to go for two.