Jim Chaney, staff make some changes while installing Georgia's new offense

When it came to installing Georgia offensive coordinator Jim Chaney's new offense, offensive line coach Sam Pittman got creative.

To help his unit learn the playbook, Pittman tells stories that players can associate with different plays. And it works.

"I loved it," junior guard Isaiah Wynn said. "That just makes it 10 times easier to remember things. Just the way he's going about teaching us plays is great."

The fact is, Chaney and his staff will have to get creative to help the Bulldogs' offense learn his playbook. Most players on the team are learning their second or third offensive schemes since arriving at Georgia, with Brian Schottenheimer following Mike Bobo with a one-year tenure.

While plenty of changes are coming with Chaney, head coach Kirby Smart insists that Georgia will continue to entrench its identity in establishing the run game.

"We want to be physical and we want to be explosive on offense. We've got to be able to run the ball. How do we do that?" Smart said. "The identity -- we've got to be able to run the ball, we've got to have explosive passes, we've got to be able to throw the ball down the field."

The first few weeks of spring practice are the most critical for offense installation, which Smart said is now finished. While sophomore tailback Sony Michel said that there were aspects of previous offenses that he can bring to Chaney's offense, he added that it's the most complex of the three offenses he has dealt with in his three-year career.

"It's almost like classwork," Michel said. "You've got to actually sit down and study (the playbook). Some of the past playbooks, it was kind of easier that you could kind of put things together, but this playbook, you've got to actually study it and dissect it a little bit."

In order to help the intake of Chaney's offense, coaches have had to approach it differently, like Pittman's story-telling strategy. They've also added a period to practice in which they walk through plays slowly to get everyone on the same page.

"The biggest thing is that we've got a whole period where we take the time as a teach period, we actually slow things down," Michel said. "We're just kind of walking through the whole period and learning the playbook, learning the actual plays, how we should block it and how it should be ran.

"It helped me catch on quicker, it helped me learn the blocking schemes, where my blocks are actually coming from, not just running the football, looking for holes. In that aspect, it kind of just helped me become a better running back."

While the installation process has been mentally rigorous, it has also given players a glimpse into what their new offensive mastermind has in store.

Quickly, players have realized that there's more to Chaney than the red-faced, vocal coaching strategy that is so apparent on the practice field.

"Going through these different installments, I just realized Coach Chaney, he's a very smart guy," Michel said. "I'm not as smart as him, so I try to keep up with him, I try to keep up with his terminology, just try to learn it as best as I can."

This story was originally published March 30, 2016 at 7:35 PM with the headline "Jim Chaney, staff make some changes while installing Georgia's new offense ."