Dan Werner’s offense at Ole Miss was 13th in YPG nationally

As y’all know, Werner was co-OC and qb coach at Ole Miss in 2015. The offense averaged 505 ypg and finished 13th in country. Also co-OC in 2016 and offense got 469 ypg even though the record was only 5-7.....but they did beat Georgia by the largest margin in series history, 45-14.

In our Spring Game there were two plays that looked nothing like our Roper offense of the past two years. One was a pass play to the right side and the receiver was running free and wide open - the LB’s looked frozen as the RPO play had them thinking run play and the receiver had just slipped behind the LB’s. The other was just a handoff to the RB off tackle but the DL and LB’s seemed to be on their heels/off balance with confusion and the hole on the right side was huge.

Those two plays were “chunk” yardage plays that went for 15-20 easy yards before the ball carrier was even touched. That was just a small sample of the kind of chunk yardage plays we’re gonna see this fall.

I expect this offense to be fun to watch and to be at least a top 50 offense. That will be a HUGE improvement over whatever it was Roper was doing.....and as I said in another thread, a Top 50 offense last year would have meant the UK and TAMU games were wins instead of losses and that would have been a 10 win regular season for Muschamp in only his second year. That’s amazing!