Here is the Offensive Deeper Dive as promised!
Tennessee, like Indiana, hired a new Offensive Coordinator for the 2019 season. In January the Volunteers gave coaching veteran Jim Chaney the reigns of the Offense in Knoxville. For the second time in two years Tennessee had to learn a new system.
Jim Chaney has been a football coach since 1985 and during those 34 years he’s made stops at seven schools and two NFL franchises. He has 20 years of experience as an Offensive Coordinator so he’s about as seasoned as they come.
He was at Purdue from 1997-2005 and helped Joe Tiller develop his ‘basketball on grass’ offense, which was essentially a spread offense before it became as widely accepted and implemented as it is today.
Chaney has a reputation for being great with quarterbacks and while at Purdue he worked with and helped develop Drew Brees. During his stay in West Lafayette Purdue’s offense finished in the top 10 in total offense six times. When Urban Meyer was learning the Spread at Bowling Green Jim Chaney is one of the coaches he consulted.
During his time in the NFL with the Rams and Titans Chaney moved philosophically to the Pro Offense. (For those who may not know a Pro Offense typically uses a tight end and two running backs and the quarterback will be ‘under center’ a large portion of time.) His trend toward a Pro Style Offense continued during Chaney’s first stint at Tennessee beginning in 2009 under Lane Kiffin. Before Chaney came back to Tennessee in 2019 he was at Georgia from 2016-2019 where he ran a mostly Pro-oriented offense for Kirby Smart.
Chaney emphasizes physicality above just about everything else. To Chaney the team that is more physical is usually going to win.
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Some words that can be used to describe Tennessee’s Offense under Jim Chaney are balanced, multiple, simple and creative.
The Vols are balanced – their offensive attack is a good mix of run and pass. In the 2019 regular season they ran the ball 426 times and attempted 326 passes – so they ran 56.6 percent of the time and passed 43.4 percent of the time. Early in the season the Vols tried to establish their identity as a power run team but later in the year they began throwing it quite a bit more. I would expect the ratio to be closer to 50-50 in the Gator Bowl.
Chaney does use some Spread concepts in his offense though not as much as many other teams. By his own words he wants “to do a little bit of everything and not be one dimensional” so the Hoosiers should expect multiple looks.
Being simple and creative at the same time may seem like a non-sequitur but it is possible. For example a simple zone run can become an option play depending on what the defense shows. Next they can run the option at the line of scrimmage but then send the running back and tight end on passing routes (as an example). Thus a play that starts out looking the same ends up with at least three different layers or wrinkles to it. The concepts build on each other making it easier for the offense to execute at a high level.
Another thing Chaney will do is use one personnel group in multiple formations with tempo. If you can get a defense thinking about what to do rather than simply reacting an advantage can be gained. He’ll also use exotic formations and unbalanced formations which means eye discipline will be key for Indiana.
Chaney’s system favors a drop back / pocket quarterback, which Junior Jarrett Guarantano is. Guarantano has quite a bit of freedom to check into better plays if he sees something he likes.
https://iufb.wordpress.com/2019/12/11/deeper-dive-tennessee-offense/
Tennessee, like Indiana, hired a new Offensive Coordinator for the 2019 season. In January the Volunteers gave coaching veteran Jim Chaney the reigns of the Offense in Knoxville. For the second time in two years Tennessee had to learn a new system.
Jim Chaney has been a football coach since 1985 and during those 34 years he’s made stops at seven schools and two NFL franchises. He has 20 years of experience as an Offensive Coordinator so he’s about as seasoned as they come.
He was at Purdue from 1997-2005 and helped Joe Tiller develop his ‘basketball on grass’ offense, which was essentially a spread offense before it became as widely accepted and implemented as it is today.
Chaney has a reputation for being great with quarterbacks and while at Purdue he worked with and helped develop Drew Brees. During his stay in West Lafayette Purdue’s offense finished in the top 10 in total offense six times. When Urban Meyer was learning the Spread at Bowling Green Jim Chaney is one of the coaches he consulted.
During his time in the NFL with the Rams and Titans Chaney moved philosophically to the Pro Offense. (For those who may not know a Pro Offense typically uses a tight end and two running backs and the quarterback will be ‘under center’ a large portion of time.) His trend toward a Pro Style Offense continued during Chaney’s first stint at Tennessee beginning in 2009 under Lane Kiffin. Before Chaney came back to Tennessee in 2019 he was at Georgia from 2016-2019 where he ran a mostly Pro-oriented offense for Kirby Smart.
Chaney emphasizes physicality above just about everything else. To Chaney the team that is more physical is usually going to win.
https://twitter.com/JesseReSimonton/status/1185744519108726789?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1185744519108726789&ref_url=https://iufb.wordpress.com/2019/12/11/deeper-dive-tennessee-offense/
Some words that can be used to describe Tennessee’s Offense under Jim Chaney are balanced, multiple, simple and creative.
The Vols are balanced – their offensive attack is a good mix of run and pass. In the 2019 regular season they ran the ball 426 times and attempted 326 passes – so they ran 56.6 percent of the time and passed 43.4 percent of the time. Early in the season the Vols tried to establish their identity as a power run team but later in the year they began throwing it quite a bit more. I would expect the ratio to be closer to 50-50 in the Gator Bowl.
Chaney does use some Spread concepts in his offense though not as much as many other teams. By his own words he wants “to do a little bit of everything and not be one dimensional” so the Hoosiers should expect multiple looks.
Being simple and creative at the same time may seem like a non-sequitur but it is possible. For example a simple zone run can become an option play depending on what the defense shows. Next they can run the option at the line of scrimmage but then send the running back and tight end on passing routes (as an example). Thus a play that starts out looking the same ends up with at least three different layers or wrinkles to it. The concepts build on each other making it easier for the offense to execute at a high level.
Another thing Chaney will do is use one personnel group in multiple formations with tempo. If you can get a defense thinking about what to do rather than simply reacting an advantage can be gained. He’ll also use exotic formations and unbalanced formations which means eye discipline will be key for Indiana.
Chaney’s system favors a drop back / pocket quarterback, which Junior Jarrett Guarantano is. Guarantano has quite a bit of freedom to check into better plays if he sees something he likes.
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