I used to play for head coach Clawson back in 2013 and the main thing for us was to go fast. The long mesh is newer to when he and his staff came to WF. Honestly it is proving affective and is showing how the game is evolving. Seems like the offensive line slides to a certain direction similar to a zone block but is limiting depth into the field in case it is a pass. This will allow seems to form but still have some pass protection all be it not as effective as a traditional 3 or 5 step kick slide. Just my thoughts.
I’m subbed!!! I noticed this offense too and I pay attention to all this. Been following Hartman since QB1. I was just talking about this. And I play NCAA 14 still.
So as a Wake fan I can kinda explain how this has come about and why it's no surprise to us that Wake is having the season that it is having. Dave Clawson took over as head coach in 2014 and brought his offensive coordinator Warren Raggeiro with him. After about the first 2 years of getting beat up because of lack of talent and recruitment they came up with the slow mesh to make up for the talent they were lacking and it worked! Since they implemented this style they have been to 5 straight bowl games which has never been done at wake. Which now brings me to why this year is looking different than just going 8-5 to a bowl. Wake forest may not recruit very well but they redshirt people like crazy. In doing that they have been able to develop players over time and really create the talent within the program itself. Kenneth walker from Michigan state. You know the Heisman favorite running back. Yeah he came from Wake Forest. And thats just one example. So now with that built up talent the slow mesh has gone from something to help our players compete to a big advantage with skilled players. Now after the covid debacle, all last year all players recieved an extra year of eligibility almost all of wakes seniors decided to stay and so now wake has an extremely veteran team that has been around. They know how hard it is to win and they know what can ruin the season they are having right now. What we are seeing now is the result of a very mature and developed football team that is seeing its prior investments of patients payoff. As a Wake fan this has been an awesome year to watch.
I think it's similar to Northwestern's spread offense they implemented in the early 2000s. No one took the spread offense seriously until they went to Michigan and beat the tar out of them. These less prominent football schools are much more innovative than the big schools are (because they HAVE to be). That was why we saw all those MAC QBs in the NFL...MAC offenses were more sophisticated than traditional college offenses and had quicker reads like NFL offenses did. I'm always rooting for innovation, so keep it up Deacs!
The slow mesh works best with WRs who can beat man coverage. Every Wake starting WR from the last four seasons has made at least an NFL preseason roster. This season WR Jaquarii Roberson was on several All-ACC and All-American teams.
This is so much fun as a Deacon fan to watch. As noted above, having a QB that can do these reads and a line that can execute the nuances of sealing and not getting too far downfield, etc., is needed. And with our redshirting, we can get that. The slow mesh freezes the linebackers and forces man on man coverage outside. Our running game is just good enough to make them honor it. And our receivers somehow are always good enough to beat man to man all the time. And Hartman can hit them. One problem is - this is not an offense that makes good use of a massively talented explosive back. Like Kenneth Walker III. I would love to have him this special year, but he obviously made a wise decision to go to MSU. And, such is this offense, we haven't really missed him too much. (I mean, he was our best RB, we knew that, but in this offense he wasn't way better than the next back, and the next two after that...) Our defense is not great, but with the tempo we run and scoring, we hardly take any time off the clock and so we are kicking off a lot and the defense is on the field a lot. Plus we aren't great. But if we weren't scoring 50 points, we wouldn't be giving up 30-40. We do take the ball away, and we don't give it up. I think we are in the top 15 teams in turnover margin... Anyway, love it!
@@jeffrichardson6764 Wake is #4 in turnover margin (+10) and #10 in turnovers gained (17). But the talking heads won’t mention that while they’re calling the D “atrocious.” Wake have and average D that’s good at generating turnovers. That’s fine for pair with an elite offense.
It awesome to see them perfecting it. Gives me big NCAA football 14 vibes
Once the new College Football game comes out you are forbidden from using RPOs...you have to learn Stick first 😉
You got Revamped?
@@TimothyC.84 yes indeed!
I used to play for head coach Clawson back in 2013 and the main thing for us was to go fast. The long mesh is newer to when he and his staff came to WF. Honestly it is proving affective and is showing how the game is evolving. Seems like the offensive line slides to a certain direction similar to a zone block but is limiting depth into the field in case it is a pass. This will allow seems to form but still have some pass protection all be it not as effective as a traditional 3 or 5 step kick slide. Just my thoughts.
I’m subbed!!!
I noticed this offense too and I pay attention to all this. Been following Hartman since QB1. I was just talking about this.
And I play NCAA 14 still.
So as a Wake fan I can kinda explain how this has come about and why it's no surprise to us that Wake is having the season that it is having. Dave Clawson took over as head coach in 2014 and brought his offensive coordinator Warren Raggeiro with him. After about the first 2 years of getting beat up because of lack of talent and recruitment they came up with the slow mesh to make up for the talent they were lacking and it worked! Since they implemented this style they have been to 5 straight bowl games which has never been done at wake. Which now brings me to why this year is looking different than just going 8-5 to a bowl. Wake forest may not recruit very well but they redshirt people like crazy. In doing that they have been able to develop players over time and really create the talent within the program itself. Kenneth walker from Michigan state. You know the Heisman favorite running back. Yeah he came from Wake Forest. And thats just one example. So now with that built up talent the slow mesh has gone from something to help our players compete to a big advantage with skilled players. Now after the covid debacle, all last year all players recieved an extra year of eligibility almost all of wakes seniors decided to stay and so now wake has an extremely veteran team that has been around. They know how hard it is to win and they know what can ruin the season they are having right now. What we are seeing now is the result of a very mature and developed football team that is seeing its prior investments of patients payoff. As a Wake fan this has been an awesome year to watch.
I think it's similar to Northwestern's spread offense they implemented in the early 2000s. No one took the spread offense seriously until they went to Michigan and beat the tar out of them.
These less prominent football schools are much more innovative than the big schools are (because they HAVE to be). That was why we saw all those MAC QBs in the NFL...MAC offenses were more sophisticated than traditional college offenses and had quicker reads like NFL offenses did.
I'm always rooting for innovation, so keep it up Deacs!
The slow mesh works best with WRs who can beat man coverage. Every Wake starting WR from the last four seasons has made at least an NFL preseason roster. This season WR Jaquarii Roberson was on several All-ACC and All-American teams.
This is so much fun as a Deacon fan to watch. As noted above, having a QB that can do these reads and a line that can execute the nuances of sealing and not getting too far downfield, etc., is needed. And with our redshirting, we can get that.
The slow mesh freezes the linebackers and forces man on man coverage outside. Our running game is just good enough to make them honor it. And our receivers somehow are always good enough to beat man to man all the time. And Hartman can hit them.
One problem is - this is not an offense that makes good use of a massively talented explosive back. Like Kenneth Walker III. I would love to have him this special year, but he obviously made a wise decision to go to MSU. And, such is this offense, we haven't really missed him too much. (I mean, he was our best RB, we knew that, but in this offense he wasn't way better than the next back, and the next two after that...)
Our defense is not great, but with the tempo we run and scoring, we hardly take any time off the clock and so we are kicking off a lot and the defense is on the field a lot. Plus we aren't great. But if we weren't scoring 50 points, we wouldn't be giving up 30-40. We do take the ball away, and we don't give it up. I think we are in the top 15 teams in turnover margin...
Anyway, love it!
@@jeffrichardson6764 Wake is #4 in turnover margin (+10) and #10 in turnovers gained (17). But the talking heads won’t mention that while they’re calling the D “atrocious.”
Wake have and average D that’s good at generating turnovers. That’s fine for pair with an elite offense.