Chip Kelly not using warp-speed offense due to slow 49ers players

It appears Chip Kelly has learned to adjust to the system that brought him to the pros and coach like an NFLer.

The San Francisco 49ers were expecting to be worn down by Kelly's lighting-speed offense he used with the Philadelphia Eagles and at Oregon, but that hasn't been the case so far. Kelly has used a similar playbook minus his technique of running consecutive plays as fast as possible, because his players aren't suited for it.

"I think that's what fits with this group of guys we have on the offensive side of the ball," Kelly told Matt Maicco of CSNBayArea.com.

Kelly used his personnel control in Philly to try and create the ideal roster for his system, which ended with him being run out of town. On his new team, Kelly has recognized he doesn't have the speed to properly run his system, so he's adjusted.

"I don't think we're playing fast right now," Kelly said. "So if someone said, 'How are you playing offensively?' I don't think we're playing fast offensively. I think we're just not going back (to huddle). We're saving 7 yards of run time for our offensive line because they don't have to run back in the huddle, get a play called, and then do it."

The 49ers are still using a form of hurry-up offense, abstaining from huddling after each play. Instead of sprinting to the line, however, they're using other techniques to get more offensive plays in.

"We're just calling it at the line of scrimmage," said Kelly. "So I think it's a lot of what Denver used to do when Peyton (Manning) was there. But there's a lot of times that we’'re under 15 seconds when we're snapping the ball and getting the play off.

"So we're not playing fast and we're not calling tempo-type plays in those situations. We're just calling plays."