I give Jim Chaney credit for at least having the grace to throw himself under the bus.
Chaney also acknowledged that at times the offense tried to be more straight-ahead and physical when in fact freshman quarterback Jacob Eason was more comfortable in the shotgun.
“There was a little contradiction with that at times,” Chaney said.
The trick going forward is to make sure there’s nothing to apologize for again.
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“You’d love to be a downhill team, but you do have a young quarterback that has played in the gun more. So you have to find some happiness there,” Chaney said. “As we work through that sometimes it didn’t work out as well as we’d like to. There was a little contradiction with philosophies in regards to that, as we worked through it.”
Maybe I’m reading too much into that comment, but that sounds an awful lot like Chaney’s suggesting some of the square-peg-meet-round-hole play calling was less his philosophy and more Kirby’s.
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I would have to agree with this, but no way does Kirby call the toss to I-Mac on 4th and 1 in the Vandy game.
Bama has shown you can be a downhill team from the gun. Hell, Mike Bobo did the same thing in 2012-14
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If that play goes wide side, he does some damage, but short side, Ugh!!
Chaney, see me after class.
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4th and 1 game on the line 3 solid RBs on the team and you run the smallest kid on the field?
The article does confirm some of what I thought and why I have been more tempered on Chaney than I would be with Bobo. Smart and Chaney want a physical team with the QB under center but the QB has little to no experience under center. I made comments in the past that the staff stuck with the ground game against Nichols for the team to learn to be physical and that nobody expected it to be that close. On the flip side, I am glad the staff allowed Eason to air it out from shotgun against Mizzou. I don’t have faith the prior 2 OCs allow a true Freshman QB that long of a rope. UGA wasn’t a national title team, I hope everything pays off in the next few years.
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The last coach and OC allowed a true freshman QB to lead the offense in 2006 once the team’s goals were gone. The problem this year was they took a true freshman with no experience taking snaps from under center and made him run an offense not suited well to him.
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It was not what he knew but he is learning. If it is the style of offense you intend to run, he has to learn sometime. I had rather he learn when expectations are lower.
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Chaney looked like he had never coached a freshman QB in a game before. You adapt your scheme and plan to take advantage of matchups and your strengths. Other than the UNC and USCe games, we didn’t look like we did that at all. We did it against Missouri because they finally decided to quit trying to run against 9-man fronts. Expectations entering the season weren’t low … they were lowered when we failed to show up at Ole Miss and blew 4th quarter leads against UTK and Vandy.
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Because the alternative was a guy that couldn’t hack it at UVA?
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I didn’t say I thought Eason was a bad choice or that Lambert should have been the QB. I said Chaney looked like he had never coached a true freshman before. The guy made a career on being Drew Brees’s offensive coodinator. He’s done nothing of note since then.
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Smart may not have called it but Smart was aware of the call and did not overrule it. Remember that Vandy called timeout after we called the play and the offense and coaches huddled up. Smart could have used that second opportunity to overrule the call.Smart knew what play we were running.
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I agree and should have said that. It was another case of OJT for a first time head coach.
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Coach Bobo also called a dipshit, case of the cutes, they’ll never see this coming, goal line pass play against SC with the best running back in the SEC on the field, and most people on this blog think he is the second coming of Christ the Offensive Coordinator/ Head Coach in Waiting.
Let it go, people.
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I agree, but I would have to say that Chaney’s fat pencil couldn’t hold a candle to Bobo’s box of crayons.
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True. He did not attempt to run IMac between the tackles. Good point.
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umm…maybe just me, but didnt Smart call a timeout before that play and then allow the team back out there to run it after the time out.
I can’t really give him a pass on the play call in that situation.
4 and 1 in the 1st quarter, yeah maybe he isnt tuned in. 4 and 1 with the game on the line and you just used a timeout, you better approve of the play call and be damn sure because when it fails you just lost to fucking vandy at home.
If he is so out of the loop with the offense that he isnt tuned into it at that moment he is going to always have problems.
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Mason called the timeout, but you’re right Smart should shoulder the blame for the call as well.
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“less his philosophy and more Kirby’s”
Excellent move by Jimbo. Not only is it career enhancing but it also makes it less likely that he gets thrown overboard during Kirby’s battleship turning maneuvers.
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I bet Chaney’s life preserver is impressive.
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Indeed. During drills, they outfit him with multiple life preservers and refer to him as Bib the Michelin Man overboard
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At some point a star RB being consistently tackeled in the backfield should tell you something.
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If I can tell after the Nicholls’ game that adjustments were going to have to be made for there to be an effective offense against big conference teams, than surely, the coaches were able to tell. They just kept their thumbs up their butts because they wanted to push a physical philosophy.
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Remember after Chaney was hired he described his offense as being able to do what we want to do when we want to do it. Some have described our offense this past year as having no identity. Good luck reconciling that.
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What’s that smell in the air…disaster?
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Smells like plastic polystyrene, hydocarbon benzene and gasoline. CMR just beat Buffalo Bill by 17. The heat is on.
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Getting physically whipped by larger defensive front sevens and eights limits your options.
Playing a true frosh who grew up in a different offense further limits your options to change the play prior to the snap.
We got better between the 20s during the season as Eason learned the offense and Chaney moved upstairs, but problem #1 made our offense’s red zone performance nearly as bad as our defense’s.
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Chaney acknowledges that some of the offenses shortcomings may have been his fault……he also announced water is wet and he may have a weight problem….breaking news at 11.
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Can we stop with the classless comments about Chaney’s weight? It’s bush league Stingtalk garbage no matter who it is, but in this case it’s a coach wearing our colors.
I’m sure all of us are triathletes with no addiction or willpower issues.
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Agreed. I’ve been guilty of referring to him as “Jabba the Punt.” But, you’re right. That’s dip-shittish of me. Much obliged.
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To Cosmic Dawg….lighten up Francis. Chaney ain’t big boned, he does not have gland problems, he eats too much and exercises too little but regardless of those facts the water is wet reference was meant as humor…see if you can locate a sense of it…humor that is.
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Well, now that you mention it:
Sprint triathlons, Amber Ales, and Brunettes.
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If things do not improve offensively in 2017, Smart will be forced to can Chaney (and possibly others) after the season. It is called “self-preservation”.
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