For most of Wayne Turner’s 25-season tenure as the Tyner head football coach, the Rams’ offense has been cookie-cutter simple and effective. The Rams year in and year out run the football and play defense. The seasons flow together like a suburban subdivision with one house looking very much like the next.
In the seasons the Rams have been great, however, the quarterback play has been stellar. This year’s version looks like it might be great.
The state’s third-ranked Class 2A squad opened its Region 3 schedule with a solid 49-0 beating of visiting Polk County Friday night to improve to 2-0 for only the second time in the last seven seasons. And those things flying through the air were precision passes that are sure to keep a few remaining foes up at night.
Tyner senior quarterback Emmanuel Moss passed for 180 yards and three scores when he wasn’t handing it off to his bevy of tailbacks, who rushed for 257 yards.
“We’ve always been known as a running team, but maybe this is the year other teams will think twice about loading up the box on us,” said Moss, who completed 5 of 11 tosses, including scores covering 36, 67 and 24 yards.