In the weeks since the 49ers hired Chip Kelly as their new head coach we've been diving deep into the composition of his offense to try and gain an understanding of what exactly Kelly does and what we might be able to expect in the 2016 season. And while we'll continue to have new Kelly content throughout the offseason, there are a bunch of excellent resources out there on his offense. Below is a collection of the best of those resources, including links to everything we've done here at NN.
Most of these resources are about Kelly's offense directly, from both his time at Oregon and Philadelphia. Others will provide more general information on different concepts Kelly happens to run, but won't cover his usage of the concepts specifically.
Feel free to drop additional links in the comments if you come across anything that we've missed here. And make sure to give this page a bookmark and check back from time to time, as we'll continue to update this throughout Kelly's tenure in San Francisco.
NN content
- Chip Kelly offense 101: Inside run game — Breaking down the inside zone and power plays, which serve as the foundation for Chip's offense
- Chip Kelly offense 101: Outside run game — Breaking down the outside zone and sweep, Chip's base outside runs
- Chip Kelly offense 101: Run game variants — A look at Chip's most commonly used variants to his base run plays
- Chip Kelly offense 101: Passing game, part 1 — Intro to Kelly's passing game, plus his horizontal stretch pass concepts (all curl, mesh, four verticals, double post)
- Chip Kelly offense 101: Passing game, part 2 — High-low read pass concepts (drive, levels, smash)
- Chip Kelly offense 101: Passing game, part 3 — Three-level vertical stretch pass concepts (Saints, boot, Noise)
- Chip Kelly offense 101: Passing game, part 4 — Triangle stretch pass concepts (snag, stick)
- Chip Kelly offense 101: Packaged plays and constraining the defense — Covers how Chip combines run and pass concepts into the same play to constrain the defense
- 49ers coach Chip Kelly and his fourth-down decision making
General offense
- Kellystrator video series on PhiladelphiaEagles.com — Kelly breaks down film of nearly every game he coached with the Eagles on a weekly Eagles Game Plan, covering many of his offensive concepts, as well as defense and special teams
- Kellystrator video series on YouTube — Same videos as above, but cut down to just Kelly's segments (including both links in case not all of the videos have been added to YouTube)
- Chris B. Brown, Grantland | The New Old School
- Chris B. Brown, Grantland | Same Old Chip: What We Learned About the Eagles Offense in Their New Coach's Preseason Debut
- Chris B. Brown, Grantland | The Influencer
- Brophy Football | All-22 Oregon cut-ups
- Dan Gonzalez | Studying Chip Kelly's Offense
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | All-22: Kelly's Principles At Work
- FishDuck | Oregon Spread Offense Tutorial #5: Chip Kelly's New Universal Formation
- FishDuck | Oregon Spread Offense Tutorial #6a: How Chip Kelly Game Plans for Opponents
- FishDuck | Oregon Spread Offense Tutorial #6b: How Chip Kelly Game Plans for Opponents II (Introducing Surprise)
- FishDuck | Oregon Spread Offense Tutorial #6c: Chip Kelly Game Plans of 2011 (Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!)
- FishDuck | Oregon Spread Offense Tutorial #12: How Oregon Uses Tempo to Drown a Defense
Run game
- Chris B. Brown, Smart Football | Oregon's zone read of the defensive tackle
- FishDuck | Coach Chip Kelly Explains the Oregon Spread Offense — Copy of Kelly's 2009 Nike Coach of the Year Clinic talk on his zone running game
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | Inside Zone: The Foundation of the Eagles' Offense
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | All-22: Eagles Add Zone-Read Wrinkle — Covers the "sift" block that Kelly uses on the split zone
- Chris B. Brown, Smart Football | Does anyone still use Vince Lombardi's "Packers' Sweep"? — Looks at the evolution of Lombardi's sweep, which Kelly has adapted for his spread offense
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | All-22: Kelly, Offense Turn To Sweep
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | All-22: New Wrinkle Sparks Eagles Run Game — Looks at the H-Reverse, a variant to Kelly's zone-run game in rare cases when the offense is under center or in the Pistol
- Chip Wagon | The Philosophy and Evolution of the Eagles Run Game Part 1 - Why Shotgun?
- Chip Wagon | The Philosophy and Evolution of the Eagles Run Game Part 2 - The Need for Speed
- Chip Wagon | The Philosophy and Evolution of the Eagles Run Game Part 5 - Inside Zone Execution
- Chip Wagon | The Philosophy and Evolution of the Eagles Run Game Part 6 - Inside Zone Miscues
- Chip Wagon | The Philosophy and Evolution of the Eagles Run Game Part 7 - Stopping the Inside Zone
- Chip Wagon | The Philosophy and Evolution of the Eagles Run Game Part 8 - Adjusting to the Adjustments
- Chip Wagon | The Philosophy and Evolution of the Eagles Run Game Part 9 - Counters and Crackbacks
- Chip Wagon | The Philosophy and Evolution of the Eagles Run Game Part 10 - The Split Zone
- Chip Wagon | The Philosophy and Evolution of the Eagles Run Game Part 11 - Foles vs. Bradford; Same Old Scheme, Same Old Compromises
- Chip Wagon | The Philosophy and Evolution of the Eagles Run Game Part 12 - The Outside Zone
- Chip Wagon | The Philosophy and Evolution of the Eagles Run Game Part 13 - The Sweep
- FishDuck | Oregon Spread Offense Tutorial #1: The Inside Zone Read
- FishDuck | Oregon Spread Offense Tutorial #2: The Outside Zone Read
- FishDuck | Oregon Spread Offense Tutorial #3: The Power Play
- FishDuck | Oregon Spread Offense Tutorial #4: The Straddled Triple Option
- FishDuck | Oregon Spread Offense Tutorial #4B: The Sweep Read
Pass game
- Chris B. Brown, Smart Football | Getting Vertical with Dan Gonzalez — Not specifically about Kelly's offense, but a great look at four verticals, which is one of Kelly's base passing concepts
- Chris B. Brown, Smart Football | Snag, stick, and the importance of triangles (yes, triangles) in the passing game— Again, not specifically on Kelly's offense, but covers a few of the concepts he uses
- Chris B. Brown, Smart Football | The Air Raid Offense: History, Evolution, Weirdness - From Mumme to Leach to Franklin to Holgorsen and Beyond — A few of Kelly's passing concepts have Air Raid origins, most notably Y-Cross, which he calls "Saints," and this is an excellent look at the Air Raid offense
- Tim McManus, PhillyMag.com | The Art of the Screen Play
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | All-22: Close-Up on Kelly's Use of the Mesh
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | All-22: The Eagles and Four Verticals
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | All-22: Y-Cross, a Staple of the Eagles' Offense
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | All-22: Snag, Tempo and the Eagles
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | All-22: Double Posts in the Red Zone
Packaged plays
- Chris B. Brown, Grantland | The Total Package — General info on packaged plays
- Chris B. Brown, Grantland | Packaged Plays and the Newest Form of Option Football — More general info on packaged plays
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | How the Eagles Package the Zone Read and Bubble Screen
- Sheil Kapaida, PhillyMag.com | No-22: The Eagles' New-School Triple Option
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | All-22: Eagles Use Same Play Five Times in First Quarter — Inside zone/Bubble/Pop pass
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | How the Eagles Scored Two TDs on the Same Play — Inside zone/Quick screen
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | All-22: How Foles, Celek Iced the Game — Inside zone/TE release
- Sheil Kapadia, PhillyMag.com | All-22: Kelly Unveils New Packaged Play — Inside zone/Four verticals
- Chip Wagon | The Philosophy and Evolution of the Eagles Run Game Part 3 - Bubbles and Constraint
- Chip Wagon | The Philosophy and Evolution of the Eagles Run Game Part 4 - Packaged Plays
- FishDuck | Oregon Spread Offense Tutorial #10: Take and Give: Oregon's Bubble Zone Read Philosophy
- FishDuck | Oregon Spread Offense Tutorial #11: Ducks Add The Long Ball: The Power of the Bubble Zone Read