Ian Boyd takes a look at how Fromm’s 2017 season went, starting with a stat that likely won’t be repeated this year.
In eight of Georgia’s 15 games in 2017, starting QB Jake Fromm threw the ball fewer than 17 times. The Dawgs were 8-0 in those games.
It’s reasonable to expect the run/pass ratio Jim Chaney calls in 2018 to favor throwing a little more: Chubb and Michel are gone, Fromm is a year older and wiser, a rapidly improving offensive line, etc. What’s interesting is that Boyd thinks (unlike a lot of Georgia fans) that Jim Chaney has a clue.
However, it’s worth noting that offensive coordinator Jim Chaney is the same man who coordinated the Drew Brees-led spread offenses at Purdue, and this Georgia team will now include a talented and experienced cast of receivers and tight ends…
Coaching in the NFL with the Rams gave Chaney a greater appreciation for using TEs and running the ball, which has carried over in his second college stint, but the passing game knowhow is still there.
When Georgia did throw in 2017, you could see the high degree of complexity…
Georgia’s advanced passing game isn’t going to solve every third down, but it will see increasing prominence as Fromm progresses.
Will Chaney and Fromm combine to make Georgia’s passing game lethal enough to carry the team until the defense sorts itself out (something which, admittedly, may not take as much time as the fretters think)? Stay tuned…
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All depends on how the running game comes along. I know…it looks promising, but you never know until you know. Chubb & Sony will be very hard to replace.
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I hope we can stay “out of balance.” When your qb doesn’t have to make plays to win you know you’re owning the LOS. Thats who I want us to be.
Throwing against single coverage vs. loaded boxes is the way to go, if you can manage it.
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Agreed. For the players sake I hope there are some passing game fireworks because I want the boys to have fun, but from my seat it’s an awful lot of fun rotating backs that average 8+ypc.
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+1
If we are throwing 35+ a game, we are not playing Georgia football. Throwing more = more turnovers. We have 1700+ pounds of muscle across the front line to run the ball….not be a finess throw & go offense.
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After every failed play I’ll know Chaney made the wrong call.
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LOL!…that is what we do. Reminds me of this quote:
when asked what he thought of his team’s “execution.” He replied, “I’m in favor of it”.
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I don’t know if the quote is here, but John McKay for you. Try the veal!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZcLJF5yriU
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OK…for the X and O guys ; We played against loaded boxes all year last year because all we could do “throw slants.” Now this year we will play against constant pass rush D cause we “graduated all the running back talent” ….Somebody help me understand this please!!
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Throw slants??
Chauncey…..
Chauncey……
Wake up!!!
It’s almost football season.
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my like button doesn’t like me….but, you’re right….Chauncey
09/01 cant get here soon enough
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Joe Tiller was in charge of Purdue’s offense. Saying Jim Chaney was in control of that offense is like saying Neil Callaway was in charge of Georgia’s offense from 2001-2005. We all know it was Mark Richt running the show.
Last year is the FIRST year Jim Chaney had what can be described as a “good” or “great” offense in which he is completely 100% in charge of the offense.
Usually, he improves a team’s offense by leaving it. Brandon Allen was a mediocre QB and Arkansas’s offense was bottom of the league under Chaney. He leaves for Pitt, and suddenly they’re not only a very good offense under Enos, but Allen is an all-SEC QB. Pitt’s offense is in the bottom half of the NCAA in 2015 under Chaney, and then the next year with all the same players under Matt Canada they’re suddenly one of the highest scoring offenses in all of CFB. In 2016 they actually scored more PPG than the national champion Clemson Tigers.
I don’t believe in Jim Chaney because his career (and the last 13 minutes of the title game in which he continuously slammed Nick Chubb into the teeth of Bama’s defense FOR LESS THAN ONE YARD PER CARRY, playing not to lose and also ignoring Sony Michel) tells me I shouldn’t believe in Jim Chaney.
One very good year with an offense under his total control does not a good coordinator make.
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Corch Irvin has a point. The use of Sony, or the lack thereof, the last 15 minutes of the Natty was a crime. Our lack of predictability is what kept AL off-balance the entire night. At no point did we dominate the LOS to even suggest pounding Nick would work.
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“I don’t believe in Jim Chaney because his career (and the last 13 minutes of the title game in which he continuously slammed Nick Chubb into the teeth of Bama’s defense FOR LESS THAN ONE YARD PER CARRY, playing not to lose and also ignoring Sony Michel) tells me I shouldn’t believe in Jim Chaney.”
Agree for the most part, also thought part of the reason we lost was us going conservative…I said the same as it was happening. But did Chaney have complete say in that??…who knows. On the other hand, we got there with his playcalling when almost nobody thought we would have.
It sure made his job easier with a talented lineup, will be interesting to see if the offense continues this year….my guess is it will, especially with Fromm pulling the trigger. Don’t think I am ready to say I don’t believe in Chaney, but there are some certainly questions.
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The decision to go conservative was absolutely a huge mistake (Lincoln Riley had lost the prior week for the exact same reason.) Not sure if it was Kirby or Chaney, but it was premature, and kept our defense on the field too much in the final 2 quarters. Taking the ball out of Fromm and Michel’s hands was just stupid, they were the reason we built that lead. Throw in an overuse of the Wild Dawg when we needed yardage contributed as well. We would still have won the game even with those 3-4 atrocious blown calls. Chaney was better last season, and has an even better offense to work with this season. We will see, should be hard for this offense to screw this up.
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“Canecur”
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I’ll trust Kirby Smart’s opinion over yours.
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You must have been the guy who defended Mark Richt’s constant and idiotic support of Soft Willie using the same lack of logic. I have stats and facts to back up my point of view. You have the irrational hope that Kirby is infallible and never makes a mistake.
I’ll take the long view. You keep your head in the sand.
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Nope, Martinez was failing at UGA and I thought we hung on several seasons too long.
I am in the camp that Bobo was and really is unfairly maligned by our fanbase. I also believe criticizing OC’s is often lazy.
Chaney just took us to one play away from a national championship with a true freshman QB, an offensive line that was a work in progress, and a WR corps that was widely seen as a liability entering the season. The only position groups I felt remotely positive about going into the season were RB and TE and Chaney was masterful in his gameplans and play calling for every game except Auburn, but seeing how Auburn beat the two best teams in back to back weeks, I’m willing to give him the mulligan.
Nothing that happened 15 years ago is going to influence my opinion on that, so yes I think he has purchased quite a bit of good will on my part.
I also still believe Kirby Smart knows more about football than you or I, but he is not infallible. You were putting words in my mouth.
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You’re still basing your entire backing of Chaney on the only good year he’s ever had as an offensive coordinator and the hope that Kirby is not making a mistake.
Neither of which stand-up against the weight of Chaney’s entire mediocre career as an offensive coordinator.
You’re entitled to your opinion, but your condescending defense of Chaney as “Kirby knows more about football than you do,” is lazy, rote, and tired.
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Also you cherry picked your data, UT’s scoring went down 12 ppg when Chaney left…
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Now you’re cherry-picking your data as that occurred during a coaching change. When he left Arkansas and Pitt, there was no such coaching change. When their is entire staff turnover, the following year is generally going to be worse than the previous year. But nice try.
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*there
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I guess I would ask why Matt Canada failed at LSU, if he was such a wondercoach at Pitt.
You also have to use your brain and realize things are going on when you don’t see the teams play. Allen, for example, was getting better and better weekly the year he sucked and I would venture a lot of his improvement was not Chaney leaving but simply growth and maturity.
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Because Coach O wouldn’t let him run his offense. He didn’t like the constant shifting and subterfuge that goes with making Canada’s offense work.
Orgeron was basically forced to hire someone he didn’t want when what he wanted was to just make Ensminger the OC last year.
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As long as we never run a toss sweep to a 160-pound soaking wet wide receiver ever again, I can probably find a way to get past Chaney as our offensive coordinator.
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Don’t know how in the wide world of sports Torin Kirtsey survived those years…..he could not have weighed 150-160 lbs back then. But then again, he could be magical sometimes.
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Man, I agree with you, but, that LB for vandy was solid and he flat made a great play. I didn’t like it either, fwiw.
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Don’t forget that we ran the play back to back.
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Coley is co-OC now. I think that switch during the off season will have some effect on the offensive approach.
And I think we should be able to continue running well with the return of 4 OL starters, and some great backups. But I also expect Fromm to improve his mastery of the offense and reading defenses, and that probably means some big passing plays.
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F that BS Drew Brees Cheney hasbeen narrative. We dont “need” to pass just because Sony & Chubb left and the media says to. Guess what, its OK to still run the damn ball..pass to set up the run, or run until someone stops it- here’s to you Mike Bobo. F it….Fromm knows he can sell anything and is a team player and a leader and will do what he knows is best. Wth this O-Line & schedule, we just might be able to force our same will on every opponent this season, just like we did last season. And if that’s the case, and we win by 3 scores or more in every game, Fromm can average 15 passes per game (2 passes for 80 yards to Mecole/Ridley/Robertson) for all we shpuld care. Aint that Saban esque? Aint that the new Georgia Way? Hell, Grantham wants us to pass, so why not get ready to just run it down his throat. How bout that formula for success? How bout them Dawgs?!!!
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