Georgia Football: Predicting How Georgia's Offensive Game Plan Will Look Under James Coley

Offensive Coordinator, James Coley, will have an abundance of weapons to use in 2019. Today, I'll explain what I think Georgia's plan will be on offense.

The Georgia Bulldogs will have the offensive plays called by James Coley this year because former UGA Offensive Coordinator, Jim Chaney, decided to take the same job at Tennessee, and that's not a bad thing for the Georgia Bulldogs at all. 

Coley came onto the scene at UGA in 2016 as a wide receiver coach. Last season, he served as the co-offensive coordinator. He's now the head man in charge of the offense like he has been during his time at other schools.

Coley served as Florida State's Offensive Coordinator from 2010-2012. In those three years, Florida State averaged 31.4, 30.6, and 39.3 points per game, in that order. In addition to that, he coached three first-round quarterbacks in Christian Ponder, E.J. Manuel, and Jameis Winston. He'll likely add to that list soon with junior quarterback, Jake Fromm, becoming draft-eligible after this season.

He also served as Miami's Offensive Coordinator from 2013-2015. In that time period, Miami led the nation in "explosive plays" each season. In 2014 specifically, Coley's offense averaged 430.3 yards per game. Seven offensive players that year earned All-ACC honors.

Impressive, right? Now, just imagine letting Coley loose with all of the weapons in Georgia's arsenal.

Georgia's offense will be led by juniors, Jake Fromm and D'Andre Swift in 2019. They'll be protected by Sam Pittman's offensive line, which might be the best in the business this year. After the loss of Jeremiah Holloman, Georgia will look to the former five-star receiver, Demetris Robertson and freshmen studs, George Pickens and Dominick Blaylock.

And Lawrence Cager spent three seasons down at Miami before becoming a graduate transfer and enrolling at Georgia this spring. Cager was recruiting by Coley and spent a year in his system at Miami. 

While the receiving corp contains tons of talent, they lack a lot of experience. Because of that, I reckon Georgia will be a predominate running team. That is, to start off. Towards mid-season, the Bulldogs could become more of a 50/50 team in terms of passing and running.

Expect the first three games of the year to be very vanilla. I'm talking hand-offs left, right, upside, and down. That's because Georgia won't really need much more to handle Vanderbilt, Murray State, and Arkansas State. We'll see the majority of the offense come from D'Andre Swift, Zamir White, and Brian Herrien while mixing in basic passes in between. In these games, the offense will be something like 70/30 in terms of running-passing ratio.

The running back depth will take the pressure off of the receivers early on, giving them time to adjust. Then, we can see Jake Fromm start to unleash during the meat of the season in games versus Notre Dame, Florida, Auburn, and Texas A&M. Fromm, ranking 12th in national completion percentage in 2018, is one of the most accurate passers returning to college football this season. His ball placement will give the receivers an additional edge that not a lot of teams have, an elite, accurate passer. The running game will stay consistent, but if the receivers do step up as expected, the offense could become a lot more balanced by this point in the season.

James Coley has plenty of tricks up his sleeve, but don't plan on him using all of them until Georgia plays the tougher opponents on the schedule. The offense might be very basic at first but could turn into a show of its own later on.