Franks to the NFL?

oxrageous · Feb 11, 2019

Swamp Donkey said:
He is coming soon to a Bass Pro shop near you. Bungles have apparently seen enough. Rumors are the Bungles are drafting a QB, maybe even first round... bc Bungles.

He can sign your Gator Gear as "The Dude Who Made Treon Look Like a Clearly Better Option" or "The Guy with Less Yards in a Year than Treon or Appleby in Six Games". Something like that.

You evidently have never looked at the list of backup and 3rd string QB's in the NFL. Even if Driskel is cut, he'll be signed by someone else. Like it or not, he's going to make 7 figures in an NFL career.

neteng · Feb 11, 2019

Who knows ... he could be ready for NFL at the end of the next season. I am not going to say it is absurd and outrageous because he really played great in a new system with quality coaching compared to the crap system and coaching of his previous seasons. He has a tendency to overthrow but he definitely progressed in a good way all season. I really dont think people give enough credit to him because of the previous two seasons in the dumpster fire of a program under butters. If he continues his trend upward based on last season's trajectory ...

GatorJB · Feb 11, 2019

jdh5484 said:
I think Frank's will lose his starting role by the 3rd game (if not sooner). The O line will not give him the time he needs to see the field (RPO).

Assuming one of the other QBs offers less risk and more upside.

Several people said the exact same thing about Franks last year. Only way he loses his starting job is if he is injured or significantly digresses. Personally I think he'll show a little more improvement from last year simply because he will be more familiar with the offense. He'll be really good if he can improve the accuracy of his deep throws.

GR8 2B · Feb 11, 2019

GatorJB said:
Several people said the exact same thing about Franks last year. Only way he loses his starting job is if he is injured or significantly digresses. Personally I think he'll show a little more improvement from last year simply because he will be more familiar with the offense. He'll be really good if he can improve the accuracy of his deep throws.

I think his confidence will be up compared to the beginning of last season, too. I'm pulling for the guy.

ThreatMatrix · Feb 11, 2019

maheo30 said:
I agree with this. The word is, Emory is looking great. The job isn’t automatically Franks’ next season. He’ll have to earn and keep it. If he wins the job, it’ll prove he’s legit as he wouldn’t have beaten a Trask. He’ll have won the job over Emory who I think will be a quality starter by next season. To keep his job, Franks will have to continue the play we saw at the end of the year.

Looking great where? The weight room?

Zambo · Feb 11, 2019

Man, go back and watch any game from this season. FF's accuracy is terrible. Yes, he throws a perfect dime once in a while. He also completely airmails the ball or throws it in the dirt in front of the receiver on literally every other pass. Hopefully he gets it together a little more next year or we get somebody back there who can get it together. Not saying he didn't improve a lot this past season, but he had nowhere to go but up.

GatorRaed · Feb 11, 2019

Can Franks leave as a grad transfer after next season even though he'd be a Redshirt junior? Assuming, of course, that he graduates and gets his degree?

alcoholica · Feb 11, 2019

Just my two cents on Franks. You can take his 2018 campaign and split it into two seasons. USCe and after is completely different. We all have talked about it. He was a different player due to running the offense as intended. If he plays at the same level for the whole year, he’s probably gone. If he improves at all over how he ended, he’s gone and probably taken in the first 4 rounds.

These are ‘ifs”, but he will have the most “potential” of any QB. The jump he made from being a recruit in the AA game to his final two games was transformative. Not saying he’s a good QB or that I think he’s our best QB, but of the 32 teams drafting, someone will bite on the potential.

maheo30 · Feb 11, 2019

ThreatMatrix said:
Looking great where? The weight room?

Actually, yes. Word is he’s gaining weight. But, every report from writers to Mullen himself is that EJ is doing very well and is on target. By the end of last season, I’m convinced he could’ve run that offense as well as Franks.

AnObfuscator · Feb 11, 2019

I hope he does well next year and leaves early. That's the best possible scenario for us.

AnObfuscator · Feb 11, 2019

oxrageous said:
You evidently have never looked at the list of backup and 3rd string QB's in the NFL. Even if Driskel is cut, he'll be signed by someone else. Like it or not, he's going to make 7 figures in an NFL career.

Good for Driskel. He could have been a good QB if Muschamp hadn't broken him.

oxrageous · Feb 11, 2019

Zambo said:
Man, go back and watch any game from this season. FF's accuracy is terrible. Yes, he throws a perfect dime once in a while. He also completely airmails the ball or throws it in the dirt in front of the receiver on literally every other pass. Hopefully he gets it together a little more next year or we get somebody back there who can get it together. Not saying he didn't improve a lot this past season, but he had nowhere to go but up.

You are going to take a beating for that take, no matter how true it is. Franks still has serious accuracy issues, even in his better games. Rarely do you see really inaccurate QB's suddenly become accurate, so I expect it to not only remain an issue, the NFL is going to be seriously concerned.

rogdochar · Feb 11, 2019

Based on last season, if Emory had failed on every play, there still wouldn't be enough to judge him awful and not a threat to dethrone Franks. For the competition for starting QB next year, Emory should have an even chance. Will he outshine Franks? IMO he will not.

EJ hasn't performed the most risky acts of throwing passes longer than 20 yards. He hasn't done any numerous pass plays where the likelihood of interceptions skyrocket. Of course, the 1st string QB spot will be open for the taking come spring practices.... then there is JJ, yet to benefit from the Mullen/Johnson wisdom. As a team, our QB status is good. I hope backups get lots of learning experience in real games next year.

Marine1 · Feb 11, 2019

FF will be better this season than last. DM himself believes so. That bodes well. If EJ has developed beyond that....that bodes even better.

rogdochar · Feb 11, 2019

Wait? How does the new Alliance Football League figure in the minds of sub-NFL players - i.e. players thinking, "Do I want to play the same ole same ole college football or go make $100K and face better training with a mind uncluttered with textbooks? Will players graduating from the Alliance to NFL command salaries of straight from college draftees?
Any opinions appreciated, 'cause I don't have any idea i.e. how's the thing integrated with the NFL draft, what's the timing, is there TV coverage?

RiverRat · Feb 11, 2019

No doubt Franks has an NFL arm, which will probably give him a shot to come out next year in 2nd or 3rd round. I think the NFL defenses will eat his lunch right now but he would make an interesting project for a team looking to develop a QB for the future.

Captain Sasquatch · Feb 11, 2019

If he has a really good season, I think he will. Because if he goes from an absolute dumpster fire in '17, to serviceable but flawed in '18 to, say, All-SEC in '19, AND he's graduated, I think he's gone. In all honesty, I hope he does leave, because that'll mean we had a great season and we've got plenty of young talent waiting behind him.

deuce · Feb 11, 2019

Captain Sasquatch said:
If he has a really good season, I think he will. Because if he goes from an absolute dumpster fire in '17, to serviceable but flawed in '18 to, say, All-SEC in '19, AND he's graduated, I think he's gone. In all honesty, I hope he does leave, because that'll mean we had a great season and we've got plenty of young talent waiting behind him.

This!

Swamp Donkey · Feb 11, 2019

ThreatMatrix said:
Looking great where? The weight room?

I suspect they're out running routes and 7 on 7. I know I used to watch Danny, kresser and the boys running routes and working on timing 50 weeks of the year at the practice field.

78 · Feb 11, 2019

Franks viewed himself ready for the NFL after last season. Give me a phucking break. He's barely ready to lead Florida.

As usual, the NFL overinflating the value of measurables.

Does he get the ball off early? How quick is the release? How well does he process the field?

Arm is overrated. Do the rest. This kid has a long way to go.

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