AstroDin wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:13 pm
Jackal, correct me if I'm wrong here.
Let's go all the way back to Bobby Johnson or Bobby Lamb;
prior Furman offenses schemed a Wide Receiver and a Split End.
Based on the WR outlook - our guesses were right that Wayne Anderson will be a slot receiver.
I hadn't thought much about what this means and what Wayne brings to the new scheme. With Wayne being one of the fastest players on the team. I started thinking, what type of slot receiver will Anderson be?
https://www.footballoutsiders.com/proje ... archetypes
I'm going to ramble a minute.
Passing game-wise, I think we will see a mix.
During his tenure, Quarles frequently tried to use our base 21 offense (2 RBs, 2 WRs, 1 TE) to disguise our personnel groupings. To do this, he often relied on "utility players" that could line up at various spots to give the defense a different look without changing personnel. Most often, this was Devin Wynn, Wayne Anderson, and Ryan Miller.
Our base offense primarily consisted of one SE and one FLK. When we wanted a 3 WR look, we frequently used one of those utility guys at receiver. I don't know whether that was entirely by design, or was necessitated by lack of depth at receiver.
A lot of what Furman did in the passing game under Quarles was try to disguise Ryan Miller. We can quibble with a lot of Quarles' tenure, but he was admittedly pretty strong at finding ways to hide our best player in plain sight.
Initially I liked what Quarles was doing. It had a level of deception and forced defenses to deal with a variety of formations with the same personnel groupings.
Over the years, though, I liked it less. Over time, it looked like we were just trying to be too clever. We would frequently put good player out of position in the name of deception. Were we better on offense with Devin Wynn lined up at receiver?
Now, I do not believe we will see the same attempts at mystery under Coach Roper.
Honestly, I think added WR depth is going to open up a lot of possibilities. With Dean and Harris (and maybe Shiflett, Ethan Harris, etc), we now have several big, fast, physical receivers.
As for Anderson, he was listed as a RB last season, but played as a receiver a lot of the season.
Against WCU:
Against Mercer
So, it's a position change, but he's doing something he's been already asked to do a lot of.
