Can Franks hold on to the Number 1 QB spot?

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What pisses me off about franks, is his D-bag mentality.

After we got the lead, he was in front of the camera boasting and barking to the fans.

Sit your ass down with the o-line and skill position and figure out your next drive. Don’t strut around like a proud peacock b/c you took the lead over a crappy team.

For me, this photo is Franks, and he’s a tool who’s more in love with being the QB at UF instead of being the best he can be.


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nice picture.........
Spurrier ruined the HC position at UF with his swagger and daggers to the hearts of our rivals
And Timmy ruined the position of QB with his AA image, faith and badazzz toughness but gobs of humility............
 

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nice picture.........
Spurrier ruined the HC position at UF with his swagger and daggers to the hearts of our rivals
And Timmy ruined the position of QB with his AA image, faith and badazzz toughness but gobs of humility............
no one enjoys losing seasons and misses being middle of the pack at best like Corch.
 

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no one enjoys losing seasons and misses being middle of the pack at best like Corch.
last time I chckd we won 10 last year..........beat lsu fsu meatchkn badly and won Saturday.......... I love a winner like you but I have loved the gators longer and harder than you ever will..............I wore a Charles Casey jersey until it was rags back in the 60s. Ive seen the great ones come and go. Ive seen the average do the same. Ive seen almost so many times I finally figured out we will win or lose but they can depend on my support either way (all kinds of weather I guess)
now listen to this.
Anne Bancroft was 36 yrs when she seduced Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. on TCM right now.........he was 30 yrs old.........
 

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WOOOOOT WOOOOOOOOTTTT

Third in the SEC EAST!!!!!


Ole Coach is dancing and smoking bowls.

Life Champions!!!!
wasnt it his first year? The best part was we finished much better than we started. I think we all agreed killing fsu and mchggan was a nice ending to that season.
 

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last time I chckd we won 10 last year..........beat lsu fsu meatchkn badly and won Saturday.......... I love a winner like you but I have loved the gators longer and harder than you ever will..............I wore a Charles Casey jersey until it was rags back in the 60s. Ive seen the great ones come and go. Ive seen the average do the same. Ive seen almost so many times I finally figured out we will win or lose but they can depend on my support either way (all kinds of weather I guess)
now listen to this.
Anne Bancroft was 36 yrs when she seduced Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. on TCM right now.........he was 30 yrs old.........

Coach Roy Batty...

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
 

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@Alumni Guy I'm no Franks fan but is your point that you’re made because his girlfriend is hot? Odd.
No, he’s a duck faced social media driven douche.

Instead of focusing on the game, he was talking to the cameras and the people in rows 1-10. Could you imagine Tebow, Brady or Spur-dog behaving the way he did?

Nope.

Franks is so enamored with Franks, that he’s getting in his own way. As soon as he gets the lead on an unranked team, he wants to post it on social media. Since he didn’t have his phone on Saturday, he made a fool of himself by blabbing to ESPN’s cameras and bragging to rows 1-10.

After parading like a peacock, he threw a dumb-ass pick and almost cost us the game.

What a team leader.
 

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No, he’s a duck faced social media driven douche.

Instead of focusing on the game, he was talking to the cameras and the people in rows 1-10. Could you imagine Tebow, Brady or Spur-dog behaving the way he did?

Nope.

Franks is so enamored with Franks, that he’s getting in his own way. As soon as he gets the lead on an unranked team, he wants to post it on social media. Since he didn’t have his phone on Saturday, he made a fool of himself by blabbing to ESPN’s cameras and bragging to rows 1-10.

After parading like a peacock, he threw a dumb-ass pick and almost cost us the game.

What a team leader.
Agreed. He should’ve been studying Miami’s defense and what mistakes he was making with his teammates but chose to be immature. It’s one of his worst traits.
 

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The new college football paradigm. Your team leaders are made on social media.
 

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The new college football paradigm. Your team leaders are made on social media.
Is it also required to trash talk opposing fans after throwing interceptions? Or run your mouth to cameras?
 

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Is it also required to trash talk opposing fans after throwing interceptions? Or run your mouth to cameras?
Good question. Nobody wants to know what we old farts think. And yet we have social media clout. Better learn to deal with us, young-ins.
 

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The new college football paradigm. Your team leaders are made on social media.

This unfortunately. I don’t personally like it, but it’s our reality at this point. So many are looking forward to the next guy, and I’m not sure it’s going to be wildly different in that regard. I know. I have 2 young boys and spend about 90% of my life trying to cool their jets, especially the youngest. We’ve created this unwarranted cocky society and our players are going to be a product of that.

I still see signs that Franks can be really good. I don’t think Mullen did a particularly good job of making it easy on him, and Davis’ fumble should be viewed with as much angst as anything Franks did. He effectively fumbled twice on one play.
 

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Watching Franks play QB is beyond frustrating. Despite all of the sloppiness and shortcomings of the team as a whole last night, I can honestly say I feel like it could be an exciting, fun, and possibly even very high win season – if not for Franks.

There’s no doubting he is physically gifted. The arm strength, height, and (sometimes) even long ball accuracy. But for all of his physical skills, he lacks virtually every intangible gift imaginable…

Missing reads (all the time). Stringing out plays looking for the long ball (and then almost inevitably overthrowing, throwing OB, or taking a sack) – all while drive-sustaining cake under routes for 5-10 yard gains are wide open. Inexplicably throwing inaccurate ducks on easy passes in the flat. Randomly hanging WR’s out to dry with either inaccurate or unnecessarily high throws. Pointlessly “squatting” in the pocket (vs standing tall), negating some of that 6’6” height (and getting balls batted down in the process). His wild inconsistency from drive-to-drive and game-to-game (can look like a superstar for periods, then all of the sudden it’s like the clock strikes midnight and he’s back to being a pumpkin). Or the worst of all is how he has an aneurism, making the play a crap shoot, most any time he is under pressure.

And while I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate some great trash talk and cocky antics; unless you want to come off (as Franks often does) as a whinny entitled prat with major attitude and outlook problems, you have to back it up BEFORE you talk the trash. Although he often acts like it, he’s not some fresh-faced wide-eyed frosh. He’s nearly 22. Scholastically he’s a Senior. He’s older than a handful of dudes in the NFL. Point being, on his 4th go-around (2nd in this system), he should be more professional and light years ahead of where he is in a multitude of areas (both in footballing and maturity terms).

Despite the overwhelming evidence pointing to it being unlikely, I really do wish Franks could just flip a switch and reach his optimal potential tomorrow. I wish he could harness those intangibles, cut out the ‘derpity derp moments, and just run the offense, score a lot of points, and win us a lot of games. I sense CDM is trying to jump-start Franks into being a viable option. Like pushing an old stick shift down a hill, and throwing it into gear, hoping against hope if it just starts firing a couple times he can keep the engine running the rest of the season.

If he can’t do it soon, though, then logically it has to be time to cut bait and start to plan for the future. Maybe Franks is a great practice player, and just isn’t the same under the spotlight. Maybe everyone else behind him really is worse (scary if true). Maybe Franks really is well liked and respected by enough players that CDM thinks the morale boost of keeping him out there is worth having to constantly micro-manage his game manager.

If he has another performance like that in the next 3 weeks, though, it’s hard to imagine going through the rest of the season with him at QB.
 
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Franks is fine. 250+ yds, 3 tds with zero help in the run game and questionable play calling.

Only one of his passes was truly terrible (2nd int). This was a solid defense we faced in game 1, not surprised we had some sloppy play.

I’m more concerned with safety play and shaky tackling tbh
 

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If he plays well enough to get drafted, then he had a great season, as did the team. And if he played that well, why would we want him gone? :lol:
He signed a contract with the Red Sox back in June so theirs that option. I could be wrong but I believe his future is in MLB, not the NFL.
 

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Franks is fine. 250+ yds, 3 tds with zero help in the run game and questionable play calling.

Only one of his passes was truly terrible (2nd int). This was a solid defense we faced in game 1, not surprised we had some sloppy play.

I’m more concerned with safety play and shaky tackling tbh

I agree. We saw some of this Franks last year. It’s not ideal, but we always knew that with him. Even his passion, has good and bad. I don’t like much of his personality, but it also is what makes him the guy who gives it his all, diving for the sticks on the first 3rd down, running and diving instead of sliding on the second drive, etc. It’s who he is and we have to take the good with the bad, IMO.
 

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