On Friday, Georgia and Coach Kirby Smart decided to turn the page on the last four decades for the University of Georgia Football.
With the hiring of Todd Monken as the next Georgia Offensive Coordinator, Kirby Smart is bringing to Athens one of the most experienced coaches in college football and the national football league. Monken is one of the most respected coaches in football today. As he has been successful everywhere, he has been. From LSU as passing game coordinator(2005-06) to Oklahoma State, and even to Southern Mississipi as head coach for a few seasons (2013-15). Not only has he been successful in the college ranks where he has overseen offenses that have set records for total offense, total offensive yards, passing yards, completion percentage, but points also scored and passing touchdowns. Monken has been a success in the professional ranks where he has coached the Jacksonville Jaguars (2007-10), Tampa Bay Buccaneers(2016-18), and in his latest stint with the Cleveland Browns (2019). Monken has worked with Oklahoma State’s Brandon Weeden (QB), and Justin Blackmon (WR) both went on to become NFL first-round draft picks. Not only that, but he has worked with Jamis Winston and Ryan Fitzpatrick in the professional ranks, where he coached explosive offenses with the Buccaneer. Coach Monken brings with him a proven track record for success, and an aggressive style and playcalling that resembles Mike Bobo’s offense for Georgia in the hay days of the Mark Richt coaching tenure in Athens. Monken has traditionally run offenses that rely on the air attack. Still, in his past few stops in the National Football League (NFL), he has proved to run a balanced offense that can involve an explosive running game. With the Cleveland Browns this past season, Todd Monken was the offensive coordinator and held all of those duties but wasn’t the play-caller, as head coach Freddie Kitchens held those duties. Monken oversaw the successful season of former Georgia running back Nick Chubb as he finished second in the NFL in rushing yards last season. A pass-first offense as it looks to the play action to open up the run. It is an offense that runs a lot of shotgun sets with three or four-receiver sets. Under Monken, Georgia will shy away from running under center, as he likes to have his teams run out of shotgun sets. While they still use under center for play action and some running plays to keep the defense off-balance. After a disappointing season offensively for Georgia, Kirby Smart decided to pull the trigger on a change at the offensive coordinator position. Todd Monken will bring the Georgia offense into the modern era of football.
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Ray Reno
1/26/2020 07:35:14 am
This was very well written. You should somehow get Dawg Nation to post it.
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