Bits & Pieces: Florida vs. Miami

[G8trwood]

Dammit, I was that close

 

[Gator By Marriage]

Here's a nice little breakdown of some good and bad from Franks,

Seeing Perine’s block at the 5:42 mark was all by itself worth watching this. I did not see that during the game and can’t believe it wasn’t show in a replay. Great hit. This was an interesting take. The host is lot more optimistic about FF than I and I take comfort that he’s a lot more knowledgeable than I so hopefully he’s right about FF and I’m wrong.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

*Im going to share a pet peave. In my opinion, a lot of football nowadays on the defensive side relies way too much on speed and not enough on proper technique (esp. tackling, pursuit, and body position/control). I know the rules (penalties and coach/player contact time) makes it difficult, but a lot of what I see today is just hot garbage, especially our tackling. Though all position groups were guilty, our secondary looked a lot more like Matador U than DBU tonight. Combined with a distinct lack of "want to," you get what we all saw. We played like the Fightin' Camel C0cks in terms of pad level when tackling.

cover2, your full summary was fantastic (as usual). Touching specifically on what I quoted above, the tackling...I griped about this in the game thread. Some of us saw the poor tackling clear as can be yet stunningly some posters defended and were apologists for the players in the Matador U position group. It’s refreshing to see a guy with your coaching experience discuss this issue, if for no other reason than to let us critics know that we aren’t crazy and that the tackling by the DBs really did suck. Keep up the great work.

 

[Ancient Reptile]

Yes, I’m speaking in percentage recovered. Like everyone else in the world who looks at this stat. We currently sit at 20% recovered. In your scenario, we get back to the high 40s. Quite literally regressing to the mean.

Turnovers matter, not percentages. If we split evenly the remaining turnovers in our games, then we will be (presumably) better off with a worse percentage (i.e., fewer total turnovers) since we will be favored in most games and turnovers lead to upsets.
Two things about turnovers:
1) we did well to win while negative 3 in turnovers, as your reference pointed out;
2) and, thanks for the reference. I always suspected that they were random and it's nice to have proof.

 

[SeabeeGator]

Turnovers matter, not percentages. If we split evenly the remaining turnovers in our games, then we will be (presumably) better off with a worse percentage (i.e., fewer total turnovers) since we will be favored in most games and turnovers lead to upsets.
Two things about turnovers:
1) we did well to win while negative 3 in turnovers, as your reference pointed out;
2) and, thanks for the reference. I always suspected that they were random and it's nice to have proof.

No problem. Hopefully, we just survived our worst turnover performance of the year. 1:4 ratio isn’t that common and winning with that ratio even less so, especially against a P5 team.

I ran across another article that breaks down the randomness. Some fumbles are less random than others. Something like 70% of defense caused fumbles past the LOS are recovered by the defense. I’ll look for it and post if I find it again.

Edit: Here you go. Interesting statistical analysis by MGoBlog.
Maximizing Your Fumble Luck | mgoblog

 

[Musclepug]

Some good takes here

Gators Breakdown with will miles

 

[Homer J]

Tackling was mind-numbingly bad.

for a second, I thought Muschamp was coaching again

 

[TLB]

Here's a nice little breakdown of some good and bad from Franks,

He highlighted well how FF doesn't stare down the receiver in that first clip....then I watched him make no comment later as FF stares down his receiver in later clips.

 

[Musclepug]

More good stuff before we move on

GC VIP Thoughts of the Week — 8/28/19 Edition | GatorCountry.com

 

[stephenPE]

Gator unity.

UF coach Steve Spurrier posted a photo of Shelley Meyer, left, Megan Mullen, center, and Jerri Spurrier, right, standing with arms linked during the Gators’ win over Miami on Saturday at Camping World Stadium. (Courtesy of Steve Spurrier )

 

[Homer J]

I am rewatching the game (on the SEC Network) and I believe we dodged a bullet when Franks got hurt (against KY). Our offense looks terrible. I cannot believe that Franks was that much better in practice that he held the job for as long as he did.

I have no faith that CDM would have pulled Franks for Trask, last season. We were headed for an 8-4 season.