Chip Kelly Question

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EastboundJacket

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For anyone familiar, how would you describe his offense? I obviously know he runs the spread, but what more is there to it? Is it a lot of option from the shotgun, similar to Auburn? Lots of dink and dunk passes with speed to take it from there?

Not asking because I think he’d ever come to GT, I’m genuinely just curious because he’s been talked about in the CFB universe so much and I never watched his teams enough to get a good feel. Everyone talks about him having a very specific “system” and I just wondered how it varied from, say Urban’s teams or a team like Auburn.
 
the #1 thing that defines Kelly's offense is the up-tempo pace.

otherwise, it is a fairly conventional shotgun-based spread offense. definitely plenty of option concepts, not that unlike Urban Meyer's offenses.
 
Speed and tempo. I remember it as A cross of Briles’ Baylor and Malzahn’s Auburn. More speed and quickness than Auburn, but less size. Lots of vertical throws like Baylor.
 
Spread read-option concepts, with RPOs, run at a break neck pace. It was a unique thing when it was first introduced, but a ton of teams have gone to a similar style of offense minus the tempo.

If a team doesn’t have a sound plan against it, then they can lay 60 pts+ seemingly with ease. On occasion a team did have a sound plan and the players to back it up. Stanford always gave him trouble.
 
Thanks for the insight. Yeah, I remember him always struggling to put up points against Stanford and, at times, against talented USC teams. Wonder how he'd do in the SEC if he goes to UF.
 
He will bring instant credibility to whichever team he signs with. It will be a huge upgrade for the ones mentioned.
 
Chip Kelly pretty much began the HUSO era of college football. It can really be a pain in the ass to deal with and can put up some ridiculous offensive numbers when it's working but it also exposes your defense to a lot of short rest periods and long stretches of being on the field. It's pretty much hard to have a good defense and run this offense at the same time so expect a lot of Big 12 type games.
 
18in32 said:
I don't think that's been conclusively resolved yet.
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I think the biggest issue is that the NFL players didn’t like being told to work at that pace. Granted, that may be systemic of NFL players and schemes at large.
 
He wasn’t bad in Philly until they gave him GM duties. He gutted the OL and signed a bunch of RBs and did other weird things.
 
TampaBayJacket said:
Chip Kelly pretty much began the HUSO era of college football. It can really be a pain in the ass to deal with and can put up some ridiculous offensive numbers when it's working but it also exposes your defense to a lot of short rest periods and long stretches of being on the field. It's pretty much hard to have a good defense and run this offense at the same time so expect a lot of Big 12 type games.
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But does their defense have to practice against it? Likely means they wouldn't ever be able to defend any other style and all.
 
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