Dayne Young and Brent Rollins collaborate to discover the nuances of the Georgia Bulldogs and college football.

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Part 2 of this piece will center around LSU's 2019 offensive attack.

Brent: Each offseason, coaches do countless things to improve their roster and team. One of those involves scouting—both self and opponent. Recently, Kirby Smart presented at a conference and discussed how, last off-season, they focused on improving their red zone defense. As you can see from the tweet below, they identified their own weakness, while also identifying who did it best. This week’s Film Don’t Lie is going to do just that on the offensive side of the ball—scout who is doing it best. We're going to examine three offenses that Georgia, independent of the coordinator/quarterback combo, can copy from and easily implement schemes in 2020. In Part 1, we are going to examine pieces from the 2019 Minnesota Golden Gophers and Kansas City Chiefs' offense.

Dayne: How many times have you seen the "Philly Special" run since the Eagles scored a touchdown with it on a national stage in Super Bowl LII? That isn't a mistake. Coaching is a copy-cat business. Concepts tend to be more cyclical than they are innovative. Efficiency and reliability are what separates a good wrinkle from a failing play. New offensive coordinator Todd Monken brings a wealth of experience and a broad network of tacticians in his sphere to Athens.

Dayne: Patrick Mahomes and Russell Wilson have become the standard for throwing the ball on the run. It's a tactic to create space for the quarterback and lengthen a play. Minnesota used it as a way to get Auburn's star-studded defensive line moving one way while the quarterback went the other way. Jamie Newman is more than capable of doing this.

Brent: Play-action. If you've read any of our FDL pieces, you know just how much I believe in its value. Guess who did it as much and as well as anyone in college football this past season? That would be the Gophers. The Minnesota offense was 11th in the FBS in the percentage of pass plays off play-action (45.2 percent). Tanner Morgan torched Auburn in the bowl game to the tune of 14-20 for 226 yards and a touchdown on play-action. On the season, Morgan averaged 12.5 yards per attempt off play-action (second-highest in FBS) and his 125.4 passer rating was good for seventh-best. As an overall offense, the Gophers averaged 10.5 yards per play on play-action, good for fourth-best in the FBS. Numbers one and two in yards per play off play-action: LSU and Alabama.

By comparison, the Bulldog offense was 102nd in the FBS in play-action percentage (23.4 percent), and their 6.5 yards per play on those plays was 96th.

Dayne: The Gophers attacked every quadrant of the field to keep Auburn guessing. By putting athletes in space, it allows for one missed tackle to turn into a first down.

Brent: The other pet peeve I've long brought up in FDL is running the ball on second down and long (seven-plus yards to go), one of the least efficient plays in all of football. As opposed to frequently running on second and long—and Georgia did that to the tune of the eighth-highest rate in the FBS (55.9 percent)—use the short passing game to, as Dayne states above, put your athletes in space. In particular, use the running backs in the passing game. In 2013, Todd Gurley caught 37 passes out of the backfield for the Bulldogs, the most ever receptions by a Georgia running back. Now, let's look at the running backs in Monken's college offenses at Southern Miss and Oklahoma State.

2015 Southern Miss - Ito Smith, 49 receptions and Jalen Richard, 30 receptions

2012 Oklahoma State - Joseph Randle, 28 receptions

2011 Oklahoma State - Joseph Randle, 43 receptions

Hopefully the offense avoids second and long altogether, but if they don't, Monken has shown he will use the running backs as receivers to avoid the dreaded second-and-long running play.