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Recruiting 2020 Recruiting Thread: Gervon Dexter gets 5th Star on Rivals
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They only have one RB on scholarship. They lost 5 backs since the season ended. One for medical reasons and 4 transferred. Evans will probably start by default.
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Another good article by Zach Goodall breaking down a recruit. It is a long article, but well worth the read.
Five Play Prospect: Gators OL Gerald Mincey Scouting Report
Mincey, 6-5, 320 lbs., hails from Cardinal Gibbons (Ft. Lauderdale FL). While he is an early enrollee, Mincey, like Walker, would benefit from a redshirt year under their belt to fine-tune their game and compete to start in 2021, but both carry great size and display valuable traits on tape.
A) One thing that repeatedly stands out on Mincey's tape is his slap block. You don't see tackles do this often, unless they have very strong hands and have mastered the technique, but Mincey confidently uses the slap block in his play and it's pretty cool.
These blocks come in handy on draw run plays and in pass protection, allowing rushers to work outside and away from the quarterback and capitalizing by using his strong hands to club the rusher out of his rush lane, and sometimes into the turf. As Mincey continues to add strength in Florida's strength program, he should only get better with the slap block.
B) With his aforementioned strength in Mincey's hands, similar to former Gators offensive tackle Jawaan Taylor, he swipes through pass rusher's hands effectively to knock them off balance.
His technique will have to be adjusted in pass sets, as he bends his back forward to lean into blocks which isn't great form. Rather, Mincey will want to lower his center of gravity to win pad level battles while remaining upright.
But, once that stance is tweaked, Mincey's hand usage is going to be an incredible tool. On the rep above, Mincey swiped through the pass rusher's extension on first contact and quickly gets his hands back up for a second swipe - this one knocking the rusher off balance as the ball comes out.
Five Play Prospect: Gators OL Gerald Mincey Scouting Report
Mincey, 6-5, 320 lbs., hails from Cardinal Gibbons (Ft. Lauderdale FL). While he is an early enrollee, Mincey, like Walker, would benefit from a redshirt year under their belt to fine-tune their game and compete to start in 2021, but both carry great size and display valuable traits on tape.
A) One thing that repeatedly stands out on Mincey's tape is his slap block. You don't see tackles do this often, unless they have very strong hands and have mastered the technique, but Mincey confidently uses the slap block in his play and it's pretty cool.
These blocks come in handy on draw run plays and in pass protection, allowing rushers to work outside and away from the quarterback and capitalizing by using his strong hands to club the rusher out of his rush lane, and sometimes into the turf. As Mincey continues to add strength in Florida's strength program, he should only get better with the slap block.
B) With his aforementioned strength in Mincey's hands, similar to former Gators offensive tackle Jawaan Taylor, he swipes through pass rusher's hands effectively to knock them off balance.
His technique will have to be adjusted in pass sets, as he bends his back forward to lean into blocks which isn't great form. Rather, Mincey will want to lower his center of gravity to win pad level battles while remaining upright.
But, once that stance is tweaked, Mincey's hand usage is going to be an incredible tool. On the rep above, Mincey swiped through the pass rusher's extension on first contact and quickly gets his hands back up for a second swipe - this one knocking the rusher off balance as the ball comes out.
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Except that he wasn’t and played in the game. I know this originally started with Wiltfong but the guy that runs this twitter account is a hack
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yeah, i dont know the back story. thought it was post worthy though
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It was the word from Wiltfong...not sure why he was told that because he certainly played
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I agree completely. The political crap from both extremes is totally out of hand, just like Mullen's pants.
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Look, the kid is from Texas and knows nothing of the Uga hate that courses their our veins.I'm all for taking risk on these kinda elite talent high ceiling kids but if he's truly that dumb then maybe we don't want him after all.
Can you think of any reason why a flock of 5 star RBs would be attracted to a team that runs power offense featuring the tailbacks instead of goofy options in which the QB is the primary or at least 2nd leading rusher and in which the tailback has about a 50% chance of getting hit in the backfield by an unblocked defensive end?
He has had how many 1000 yard rushers since he took the reigns of our offense the first time? There is a reason why Dorky Dan has never been able to get top backs interested, even during the CUM years.
We are going to attract certain players, namely running QBs and scat backs hopefully who can block and catch.
That isn't changing anytime soon.
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Curious how you were able to type that while you were cradling Kirby's balls in your hands?
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Anyone remember Meyer calling our RBs "trash" ?
There's a possibility that Mullen will change his O to utilize traditional RBs a little more but the Leg Humpers have traditionally featured and relied on their RBs. Mullens O has never been that. (Except when there is a Percy type talent with a Tebow type talent next to him)
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RB was the one area we didn’t seem to hit on in the Meyer days. Well, RB’s with size, we got the scat backs that were utilized well, but he couldn’t land a good size one. Unless you count that transfer Moody. The big misses I remember were Spiller and Richardson. There may have been others, but those 2 stick out.
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urbs got zeek eliott to sign with osu, plus he had some other quality RBs there. Maybe DM can figure out how to do the same at UF. Holding my breath...
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