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The genius of Wake Forest football the past several years has been the delayed run pass option mesh offense manipulative and guileful brain buster.
The quarterback would walk towards the line of scrimmage after the hike, the running back would walk next to him, the quarterback would read movements of the safeties, linebackers, and quarterbacks, and based on that either hand off or pass.
The brilliance of this never done before scheme elevated Wake to a top 10 national ranking and ACC Title.
Last year, however, the shrewd offense sputtered; this scheme never really clicked and defenses namely Clemon thwarted it by blitzing five-star linebacker and defensive lineman up the middle to blow up the point of attack. Muscle blew up brains. Empires all fall eventually.
So what do we do now?
Well, the definition of doing the same thing over and over when it doesn’t work is called insanity and none of us, I conjecture, are aroused by insanity so the offensive scheme is likely to reveal a few new wrinkles or altogether new concepts.
I haven’t seen anything in the preseason Wake Forest media coverage about what all this might entail – it’s all predictable standard mumbo jumbo rah rah Wake Forest rah. So I’m going to go with my intuition and speculate.
There is one possibility that, while far-fetched, not beyond all reality. There will be two receivers lined up in eye formation. The quarterback will purposely throw an interception to a cornerback or wide receiver screen.
Milliseconds after the pic one receiver will strip the ball out and one of them will pick it up and run for a solid gain, say, seven yards or more of the QB gets out in the secondary and pancakes a safety. This play will have an acronym that will be used as clickbait to watch YouTube coaching videos: ISRYAC. (interception, strip, recover, yards after catch).
There will be another new scheme in which the quarterback will take the shotgun snap and immediately run back 20 yards to open the field and avoid being sacked immediately or getting blown up running the delayed RPO.
The QB will then scramble and either toss a screen to a running back or hit a wideout for a skinny post, or run to daylight. This play will go by this acronym: (BUSSPSP) back up scramble screen pass skinny post.
A third innovation you may see, as I envision it, will be a quarterback quick kick punt on third down on 75 percent of possessions. Quick kicks will avoid the punt being returned for a touchdown because there won’t be a punt return specialist back deep. This will be a shrewd field possession strategy.
It will shorten the possessions and make the clock run faster, keep our offense rested for late fourth quarter executions of the big ISRYAC – pic force fumble recovery and get good YAC. Plus we’ll lead the nation in quick kicks and get talked about on College GameDay because of this which will increase our NIL collective war chest.
There will also be improvements to the concession stands which are already stocked with good fare. They will be offering new this year various breakfast stomach-ripping cereals such as Sugar Pops, Sugar Smacks, and Lucky Charms.
Fans will be able to buy 12-ounce recyclable bottles of skim or regular milk and pour it in Nacho trays mixing the cereal with the chips and cheese. The idea will be a copycat gambit blending sugar and salt like restaurants now do with chicken and waffle combos dishes.
The concession stands will also sell Butterscotch Krimpets, Zingers, Fiddle Faddle, and Screaming Yellow Zonkers.
So as you can see, this new football season is ripe with possibilities to see plays never before tried in football and eat food in new ways and of various sorts you can only find at someplace that sells in bulk like, say, Costco.
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