Here's Van Pelt's exposure to offense:
At Pitt way back in his college days, he played under Paul Hackett who is of the Bill Walsh coaching tree for 3 seasons in the 80s. Hackett returned to Joe Montana in KC the same year Van Pelt got drafted.
Van Pelt got drafted by the Steelers and spent time learning the Erhardt-Perkins offense, which is the "Brady" offense before getting released.
He then returned to Hackett in K.C. and studied the west coast offense under Joe Montana for part of his rookie season.
His first three seasons in Buffalo he learned under Tom Bresnahan who was from the Jim Shofner tree, Shofner who ran a modified version of thr Erhardt and west coast offenses. Bresnahan ran the no huddle K-Gun offense.
He learned under Dan Henning, who is from the Joe Gibbs coaching tree that spun out the Shanahan tree.
He had a few seasons under Joseph Pendry who ran a version of the Erhardt-Perkins offense.
He then got more experience in the west coast system for a season under Mike Sheppard.
His final two playing years were under Kevin Gilbride's version of an Erhardt-Perkins system.
As a player, Van Pelt got plenty of experience in both the West Coast and Erhardt-Perkins systems, with a year of the Shanahan west coast zone system sprinkled in.
His coach exposure:
For two seasons, Van Pelt learned from Steve Fairchild who was from Martz Air Coryell system and then Lubick's zone offense which is part of the Shanahan tree.
For a season, he learned from Turk Schonert who was from Sam Wyche's no huddle west coast offense tree.
Van Pelt spent a year running a version of the no huddle in his first stint as OC in 2009.
He learn Greg Olsen's offense who just seems to adapt his offense but seems to like power zone.
He learned Tom Clements's west coast system in Green Bay and then from a combination of the Air Coryall and West coast from Edgar Bennett.
In 2018 he got more experience in a west coast offense and in 2019 he got a year under the McVeigh system under Zac Taylor in Cincinnati.
And for the last 4 years he's learned the wide zone west coast under Kevin Stefanski.
As a coach he has been under the Air Coryell and various West Coast zone offenses.
Van Pelt's over all experience should allow him to mix in the old Patriots Erhardt-Perkins system with the West Coast and Air Coryell offensive systems. It will be interesting to see if Van Pelt brings in any of the no huddle offenses he's been exposed to as both a player and a coach. If Mayo is smart, he will allow Van Pelt to design an offense around everything he knows and not limit him to the McVeigh style west coast offense.
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