Truth Takes: 2021 Season Preview

soflagator · Sep 2, 2021

YLGator said:
My expectations have never been lower. Dan lost me with last years LSU game. I’ve seen nothing from EJ to make me think he’ll be anything but one dimensional. The O-Line still looks like a liability. Grantham is still the DC. So, we have a head coach that doesn’t get his team prepared to play, an inexperienced, one dimensional QB playing behind a questionable O-line and a soft, unreliable D. I’m expecting the worst and hoping for the best.

For what it's worth, I know someone who interacts with the coaches pretty routinely. I won't mention the name, but one of the coaches said Richardson is "as ready as it gets". He(not the coach) told me that he expects him to be starting by week 3 based on conversations. If that's true, which again could be just talk, I think that could be a bright spot. This wouldn't be Treon beating out Driskel or even Trask replacing Franks. Jones is a competent starter who wouldn't have done anything to lose the job. It would simply be a matter of someone with a ton of potential growth still to come earning the nod. As much as I want EJ to succeed and get his time, I'll admit that would be a positive.

Swamp Donkey · Sep 2, 2021

soflagator said:
Jones is a competent starter who wouldn't have done anything to lose the job. It would simply be a matter of someone with a ton of potential growth still to come earning the nod. .

it would be a positive. but it's also absolutely positively contrary to everything that Dan Mullinz stands for. he plays the more senior players, period.

personally I will eat my shorts if AR starts and EJ is not hurt.

GatorJB · Sep 2, 2021

Bait'n Gator said:
I'm more excited this year than any of the muschamp and butters years. I know contrary to what donkey says Mullen has actually improved the offense drastically from the last 2 bums.

I don't think the offensive production is gonna fall off no where near as much as you guys think. Hell all of last off season the same fuchers was telling us it's going to shyt because we lost Perine and all the wide outs. 2020 only got better. The passing offense will decline some but I'm willing to bet we average more points per game this year vs. last because the easier overall schedule.

Have no idea what to expect from the defense, one for sure positive is there's no way possible it can be any worse than last year so that leaves a whole lotta room for improvement.

I think we lose to bama and one other, probably at LSU. The combination of uga's lack of healthy wideouts, losing 7 or 8 db's this offseason and muschamp now roaming the sidelines I see Mullen embarrassing them again. Last year uga fans were still all in on Kirby, it's completely different this year.

So you think we'll average at least 40 points per game (39.8 last year)? Actually, I think the number would have been in the low 40s if not for the Oklahoma game. It's going to be hard to top that kind of production now that the offense will most definitely run the ball a lot more. Even with an efficient offense, more runs mean longer drives and less time on the clock to score points.

soflagator · Sep 2, 2021

Swamp Donkey said:
it would be a positive. but it's also absolutely positively contrary to everything that Dan Mullinz stands for. he plays the more senior players, period.

personally I will eat my shorts if AR starts and EJ is not hurt.

Careful. That kind of talk got the last guy kicked form the board and banished like Zod to a world of gay porn gifs.

Bait'n Gator · Sep 2, 2021

GatorJB said:
So you think we'll average at least 40 points per game (39.8 last year)? Actually, I think the number would have been in the low 40s if not for the Oklahoma game. It's going to be hard to top that kind of production now that the offense will most definitely run the ball a lot more. Even with an efficient offense, more runs mean longer drives and less time on the clock to score points.

I don't think the offense will really be better but I wouldn't be surprised to see it average more points per game. Last year the teams we played outside our division were LSU, Ole Miss, A&M, Ark, Bama. This year we play FAU, USF, Samford, Bama, LSU and FSU outside our division. FAU probably has a better defense than Ole Miss and Bama and LSU are washes. Surely UF can average more points against USF, Samford and FSU opposed to A&M and Ark.

Bait'n Gator · Sep 2, 2021

Swamp Donkey said:
it would be a positive. but it's also absolutely positively contrary to everything that Dan Mullinz stands for. he plays the more senior players, period.

personally I will eat my shorts if AR starts and EJ is not hurt.

Honest question, do you ever get tired of just making shyt up? Just the other day someone named off a bunch of freshman who've started at UF the past few years. I believe it was 21 or 22 freshman and sophs listed in the 2 deep for week one. That must mean there's only 20 or so upperclassmen on the whole team this year? You shyt head. :lol:

Swamp Donkey · Sep 2, 2021

Bait'n Gator said:
Honest question, do you ever get tired of just making shyt up?

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is this a rhetorical question?

Kair Elam that was his answer. who of course isn't even offense. I guess you can pat yourself on the back for him being able to tell that CJ McWilliams was not a sec cornerback.

we aren't talking about defense and we aren't talking about red shirt sophomores, we're talking about whether dildo Dan is going to pay play a freshman quarterback the answer is no. even if the guy is a future all NFL quarterback or a future Heisman winner he's not going to play, period, play until the senior guy gets hurt.

kind of surprising to still see Baitn with dildo Dan's cock buried that deep but I guess it'll make for a fun year.

Durty South Swamp · Sep 2, 2021

They don't call him dildo Dan for nothing...

GatorJB · Sep 2, 2021

Bait'n Gator said:
I don't think the offense will really be better but I wouldn't be surprised to see it average more points per game. Last year the teams we played outside our division were LSU, Ole Miss, A&M, Ark, Bama. This year we play FAU, USF, Samford, Bama, LSU and FSU outside our division. FAU probably has a better defense than Ole Miss and Bama and LSU are washes. Surely UF can average more points against USF, Samford and FSU opposed to A&M and Ark.

I think what helped our offense's stats last year is that we were in lots of closer games and needed to score points. In the times when the game wasn't that close, Mullen took his foot off the gas to play ball control, hence us scoring less than 40 against USCe, Vandy, UK, and UT. I think we'll see more of that this year. I also don't think we'll score in the 40's against Bama and UGA again either.

I'm not saying this offense will be bad. It should be better than the 33 pts/game average of 2019. I just think it's unlikely that we'll be at 40 or more at season's end. The average his best year at MSU was 36pts/game. I think that number is about right.

TheDouglas78 · Sep 2, 2021

GatorJB said:
I think what helped our offense's stats last year is that we were in lots of closer games and needed to score points. In the times when the game wasn't that close, Mullen took his foot off the gas to play ball control, hence us scoring less than 40 against USCe, Vandy, UK, and UT. I think we'll see more of that this year. I also don't think we'll score in the 40's against Bama and UGA again either.

I'm not saying this offense will be bad. It should be better than the 33 pts/game average of 2019. I just think it's unlikely that we'll be at 40 or more at season's end. The average his best year at MSU was 36pts/game. I think that number is about right.

Exactly, more ball control offense, means less possessions, means less opportunity for scores. It's not a difficult rationale. Also with us controlling the clock more, means the opponent will have less opportunities to score, which also means less games were it's a race to score.

Bait'n Gator · Sep 2, 2021

is this a rhetorical question?

Kair Elam that was his answer. who of course isn't even offense. I guess you can pat yourself on the back for him being able to tell that CJ McWilliams was not a sec cornerback.

we aren't talking about defense and we aren't talking about red shirt sophomores, we're talking about whether dildo Dan is going to pay play a freshman quarterback the answer is no. even if the guy is a future all NFL quarterback or a future Heisman winner he's not going to play, period, play until the senior guy gets hurt.

kind of surprising to still see Baitn with dildo Dan's cock buried that deep but I guess it'll make for a fun year.[/QUOTE]

You still didn't answer my question fuch stick, do you ever get tired of just making shyt up? Also is it his dick or a dildo that's allegedly "buried that deep"?

Marine1 · Sep 2, 2021

So looking forward to Saturday. Can’t make it to Gville this week so it’s time to throw a party. Plenty of food….even more beer. The house will be rockin’.

Brooks · Sep 3, 2021

Mullen does have a pretty obvious record of playing older players over younger, some times more talented younger players. I think it becomes a problem for a couple reasons. One is you find out too late some times that you should have been playing the younger, more talented guy all along. Another problem comes up in recruiting. You have opposing coaches telling 5 star kids that they will definitely ride the bench when they get here. Which is the case a lot of times. Maybe there's a problem with the RB coach if he can't teach a kid to block and he rides the bench even though if you maybe gave him more opportunities to actually carry the football, you find out he's a baller potentially. Maybe there's a problem with the system if you won't play a 5 star talent at RB because he can't block in your system.
There's other times he stubbornly plays an older player thats proven over time that he can't get the job done. Its one of Mullen's biggest flaws in my opinion.

Gator By Marriage · Sep 3, 2021

Brooks said:
Another problem comes up in recruiting. You have opposing coaches telling 5 star kids that they will definitely ride the bench when they get here.

For this approach to be successful, opposing coaches would have to be able to point to a bunch of five stars siting on our bench. We don’t have a bunch of five stars on our bench. Or on the field.

oxrageous · Sep 3, 2021

Even if this Gator team goes 7-5 as I predict, they will not fire Mullen. Get that possibility out of your head. Why do you think he was hellbent on keeping Grantham? Now he can just fire him and buy another year.

This is not your father’s administration. These guys could not possibly care less whether or not UF wins titles.

MissouriGator · Sep 3, 2021

oxrageous said:
Even if this Gator team goes 7-5 as I predict, they will not fire Mullen. Get that possibility out of your head. Why do you think he was hellbent on keeping Grantham? Now he can just fire him and buy another year.

This is not your father’s administration. These guys could not possibly care less whether or not UF wins titles.

Sad but true.

Gator By Marriage · Sep 3, 2021

Swonk, who are the five stars I’m missing?

On the roster the only five stars (rivals or 247) are Dexter, Cox, Shorter, Lingard, Wingo, Bowman, Collier, and Marshall.

Dexter, Cox, and Shorter (and 2 of those were transfers) all got significant playing time last year. Lingard had limited playing time, but I suspect that was a case of him not being fully recovered from his injury. Given the amount of playing time Wright got, I cannot believe that limited time was a product of what year he was. Bowman, Collier, and Marshall have not been here for a game yet, which just leaves Wingo. So yes, one five star on our roster did not get much playing time his freshman year. So, unless you have some inside information that he was killing it in practice, but CDM refused to play him, how about you give it a rest - it’s gotten boring.

I never really thought about it before, but I’m starting to agree with the folks here who say you just make stuff up.

Swamp Donkey · Sep 3, 2021

Gator By Marriage said:
Swonk, who are the five stars I’m missing?

On the roster the only five stars (rivals or 247) are
Dexter- didnt start.. If he didnt redshirt he barely missed it.

Cox- wasnt a freshman here. Arguably played more than he should have . :)

Shorter- 3rd string.... but arguably played too much. allegedly Starting this year.

Lingard- didn t start and probably wont play

Bowman - dutto

Wingo- start and wont play

Collier- who knows

Marshall- who knows

X Henderson- still stuck behind oess taoented seniors.

Dak- didnt play and only began starting because less talented senior player was hurt

Trash- ditto

Pitts- didnt even start until last year. Generational player spent first two years splitting reps with garbage TEs.

Kadarius- ditto

We could go on forever with Douchebags fuchsed up decisions and lack of insight into which players are more talented.

Apparently Mullinz got passed up by a freshman when he was in college and can't get over it.

Swamp Donkey · Sep 3, 2021

oxrageous said:
This is not your father’s administration. These guys could not possibly care less whether or not UF wins titles.

my father's administration didn't want to fire their shttty hires either.

1-3 vs Ugly will have his ass nuclear this year. Next year the Fire Mullen chants will be out.

RiverRat · Sep 3, 2021

Florida hangs half a hundred on Ol Willie tomorrow night which will result in the begging of the latest Fl. QB controversy.

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