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33-0 at the end of the third, good guys leading and on the verge of not only halting the skid (and maybe gaining some confidence for our annual post-Thanksgiving match-up with the Nole$), but also achieving a shut-out! And then...Boom! UAB gets behind the secondary and scores to kill the shut-out! My bad, I jinxed us! But I'm saying the S not sinking quickly enough and the being slow to flip his hips and get on the streaking receiver had a little something to do with it. Hell, in reality, it's UAB, for crying out loud! But we're Florida Lite...just keeping it in perspective. Unless I further jinx us, we'll get a much-needed win today, but we still aren't good. Alright, let's talk about some game specifics...
*We had success running the ball today. At times, Mark Thompson looked like that back we were hoping he'd be, running over people and showing a burst of speed. Lemons had some good effort runs and Perine got into the end zone. But it was UAB. If we can have similar success next week, we've got something heading into the off-season.
*Why we can't nice things...Exhibit A. First half, we get a hard-earned first down on a two-yard run and Fred Johnson, who had just got rag-dolled by the guy he was attempting to block, gets up and in an attempt to save face, gets flagged for Unsportsmanlike Conduct. Next to the last game of a pretty dismal season and we still make stupid mistakes like this?
*Why plays work/don't work...UAB lines up in an old Split (4-4) look. We run play action left and boot away. The inside backers step with the fake and can't recover to get to the receiver in the flats, who is Franks' target and the result is a good gain. Didn't see the coverage (and SEC Network is stingy with replays), but eight up usually spells Cover 3. Play was hard to defend. On the other side of the coin, we lined up offset I and motion the FB to the right flats and no LB either runs with him or bumps a gap with the motion. We then run HB dive into A-Gap for no gain. It is this kind of offensive inconsistency that has driven us mad.
*Cleveland is our best receiver, but I've got to get on him about the catch (that ultimately wasn't). I thought he was looking to go down after the reception instead of running through the ball. True that the ball could've used a little bit more air under it, but it wasn't behind him by any means. It's little things like this that happen over and over that make me ask, can't we have some attention to detail and consistency where positional coaching is concerned? Maybe he was still gimpy and was trying to secure the ball and not get hurt, which he did on the play. Irony in a season filled with quite a bit of it?
*Pot Shots...Eddy, five field goals; Lemons has two significant runs late negated by penalties (say it ain't so); TEs account for two scores (we're getting them involved); we dominated TOP; about every short KO resulted in UAB starting beyond the 30; we created turnovers today like we haven't been able to; Franks was ok, but I noticed (finally, late in the season) that he tends to throw behind receivers frequently on horizontal routes...poor Trig student
; effort was pretty decent for the second consecutive game IMO; Shannon > McElwain.
*Didnt listen to the radio broadcast (probably should have), but in my mind, it should have sounded something like this: "Just north of the wind-swept plains of Payne's Prairie, the wounded juggernaut pillaged their visitors from the southern steel city. The Florida version of Revelation's "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" ('Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death') led the way, only their names were Powell, Lemons, Piniero, and Reece!" Unfortunately, Grantland Rice wasn't scripting the play-by-play, we aren't a NC contender, and our "Four Horsemen" are really Nussmeier ('Proceveration'), Nord ('Incompetence'), McElwain ('Hubris'), and Foley ('Arrogance'). And this latter group, arguably, caused more biblical disasters than the historic bunch.
On to F$U with a little 'Mo,' perhaps? Defense was better but what does that mean as we take the field with pride to play for along with the possibility of keeping them from becoming bowl eligible? I'd like to think that I'll be proven wrong (Shannon alludes to receivers dropping balls, for example), but we still make the same mistakes we've been making. F$U also killed their lesser opponent today. Not trying to rain on the parade (a win is still good), but calling it like is and has been. Prove me wrong.
Go Gators!
*We had success running the ball today. At times, Mark Thompson looked like that back we were hoping he'd be, running over people and showing a burst of speed. Lemons had some good effort runs and Perine got into the end zone. But it was UAB. If we can have similar success next week, we've got something heading into the off-season.
*Why we can't nice things...Exhibit A. First half, we get a hard-earned first down on a two-yard run and Fred Johnson, who had just got rag-dolled by the guy he was attempting to block, gets up and in an attempt to save face, gets flagged for Unsportsmanlike Conduct. Next to the last game of a pretty dismal season and we still make stupid mistakes like this?
*Why plays work/don't work...UAB lines up in an old Split (4-4) look. We run play action left and boot away. The inside backers step with the fake and can't recover to get to the receiver in the flats, who is Franks' target and the result is a good gain. Didn't see the coverage (and SEC Network is stingy with replays), but eight up usually spells Cover 3. Play was hard to defend. On the other side of the coin, we lined up offset I and motion the FB to the right flats and no LB either runs with him or bumps a gap with the motion. We then run HB dive into A-Gap for no gain. It is this kind of offensive inconsistency that has driven us mad.
*Cleveland is our best receiver, but I've got to get on him about the catch (that ultimately wasn't). I thought he was looking to go down after the reception instead of running through the ball. True that the ball could've used a little bit more air under it, but it wasn't behind him by any means. It's little things like this that happen over and over that make me ask, can't we have some attention to detail and consistency where positional coaching is concerned? Maybe he was still gimpy and was trying to secure the ball and not get hurt, which he did on the play. Irony in a season filled with quite a bit of it?
*Pot Shots...Eddy, five field goals; Lemons has two significant runs late negated by penalties (say it ain't so); TEs account for two scores (we're getting them involved); we dominated TOP; about every short KO resulted in UAB starting beyond the 30; we created turnovers today like we haven't been able to; Franks was ok, but I noticed (finally, late in the season) that he tends to throw behind receivers frequently on horizontal routes...poor Trig student
; effort was pretty decent for the second consecutive game IMO; Shannon > McElwain.*Didnt listen to the radio broadcast (probably should have), but in my mind, it should have sounded something like this: "Just north of the wind-swept plains of Payne's Prairie, the wounded juggernaut pillaged their visitors from the southern steel city. The Florida version of Revelation's "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" ('Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death') led the way, only their names were Powell, Lemons, Piniero, and Reece!" Unfortunately, Grantland Rice wasn't scripting the play-by-play, we aren't a NC contender, and our "Four Horsemen" are really Nussmeier ('Proceveration'), Nord ('Incompetence'), McElwain ('Hubris'), and Foley ('Arrogance'). And this latter group, arguably, caused more biblical disasters than the historic bunch.
On to F$U with a little 'Mo,' perhaps? Defense was better but what does that mean as we take the field with pride to play for along with the possibility of keeping them from becoming bowl eligible? I'd like to think that I'll be proven wrong (Shannon alludes to receivers dropping balls, for example), but we still make the same mistakes we've been making. F$U also killed their lesser opponent today. Not trying to rain on the parade (a win is still good), but calling it like is and has been. Prove me wrong.
Go Gators!
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Shannon appears to have gotten them over their post Mac pity party... let's end this season on a good note, Go Gators.
...Three Faces of Eve or something like that :)
