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Spring ball: Spring Scrimmage on Saturday
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Alright I held back until I could actually see the replay with my own eyes and I have only one question to ask....
WTF were some of you in the box yesterday so excited about?
That looked like
Maybe some of the players get better than last year but that offense and play calling smells like the same old turd.
I don't think talent is the problem here....maybe at a few positions but overall the players won't be this staffs undoing.....hopefully no one jumps on Urban before mid October.
WTF were some of you in the box yesterday so excited about?
That looked like
Maybe some of the players get better than last year but that offense and play calling smells like the same old turd.
I don't think talent is the problem here....maybe at a few positions but overall the players won't be this staffs undoing.....hopefully no one jumps on Urban before mid October.
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It's a Spring Game..... The line looked ok, but honestly we don't know what we really have there with the rules in place. We don't know if we were seeing good on good, bad on bad, or just a handcuffed DL playing vanilla. Both quarterbacks looked decent, there would have been a couple more sacks if Napier didn't allow the play to continue (he was inconsistent in the calling of sacks, like last year). Lagway had some NFL throws and some that against a better backfield would have picked/deflected... but played well for a Freshman with a month of practice. Mertz started slow, was behind to begin with but in the second quarter he got crisper. The pass at the end of the second quarter to Wilson was his best ball of the day, and even if the coverage was good (which it was garbage) would have been a long completion. The defensive backfield was the only part that I came away with thinking needed some real work. Bad positioning (pre/post snap).
The play calling is what it is. It really had a feel like the 2010 Spring game in that regard. I hope that isn't the case. But the way they ground to a halt in the second half, is worrisome, but we are only a month into getting to the product we will see in the fall.
The play calling is what it is. It really had a feel like the 2010 Spring game in that regard. I hope that isn't the case. But the way they ground to a halt in the second half, is worrisome, but we are only a month into getting to the product we will see in the fall.
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To be fair, handcuffed DL is the norm for a spring game. Last year we let the defense blitz a lot and it really hurt the offense. I guess it depends on whose confidence you are trying to build.
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The O&B is a sells job more than anything to get people to purchase tickets and merch.... The commercials for Gator Victorious, Season tickets for multiple sports, etc... were more than any Gator sporting event I've been to all year. It wants people to get excited for the coming season, so the DL being handcuffed is needed to get people excited about the offense.
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48 looks like a good run stopping end. Something we haven’t really had since Jon Bullard. Imagine how much bigger some of these guys would be if they actually had a competent strength coach stick around .
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I thought there for a second he was going to say, "and if they don;t start this Muther ****kkker, they are the dumbest Muther ****kkkers in college football."
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Some people are just naturally drawn to trainwrecks....But seriously who can get enough of watching Mertz run for his life from the moment he takes the snap just to complete a 2 yard pass on 3rd & 9 or watch special teams trot 10 guys unto the field for the 12th time in the last 3 years....
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Using slomo, you can see how baffled the defense is when we motion the WR from one side of the field to the other. You can see the indecision and terror in their eyes.
Or it could just be them blinking. Once.
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My final spring take is this...
We undoubtedly have a better top to bottom roster than last year and probably the year before that although WR looks a little thin(pardon the pun).
We also undoubtedly have a coach who can take a team consisting of personnel capable of winning 8 or perhaps 9 games and fail to get above 5 wins with them...
My favorite term for Dan Mullen was "Ham and Egger"....meaning he was the proverbial 8-4 kind of coach....average with an occasional lucky 9 or 10 win season...
Karl is simply nothing more than "Potted Meat"....just not very good most of the time and something usually found on the "dented can discount display" ....yet we paid a premium price for it.
We undoubtedly have a better top to bottom roster than last year and probably the year before that although WR looks a little thin(pardon the pun).
We also undoubtedly have a coach who can take a team consisting of personnel capable of winning 8 or perhaps 9 games and fail to get above 5 wins with them...
My favorite term for Dan Mullen was "Ham and Egger"....meaning he was the proverbial 8-4 kind of coach....average with an occasional lucky 9 or 10 win season...
Karl is simply nothing more than "Potted Meat"....just not very good most of the time and something usually found on the "dented can discount display" ....yet we paid a premium price for it.
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