Montrell Johnson has also made an assload of plays for UF. The play I celebrated the most this past season was that screen pass TD he had against UT to put their asses away.
Shart got a look at that pass protection film and is like
I put this in a thread on TOS. I think we had one of the worst strings of luck with an OL I’ve ever seen.
I was really looking forward to Carroll and seeing what he could do. Hoping he is able to make a good return. It's been a while since we've had a real bruiser back there. Just hoping the OL will shape up to allow him to punish defenders.
We did struggle many times last year on short yardage 3rd and 4th down situations where a bruiser like Carroll would have been a better option....of course when the offensive line allows 2 or 3 guys to be 3-4 yards deep into the backfield it may not matter.
It's my opinion that we need at least 2 more decent quality upperclassmen like the one we picked up from SDSU to have even an average oline next year.
I can't. Great player but flirting with georgia or fsu is unforgivable.
Florida should have paid Goodwin while he was off being with his mother, so maybe he will return.
What does luck have to do with it? Billy-boy failed to recruit his best players (well, most needed anyhow) back onto the team. They were already Gators, lived here, loved the Swamp, know the culture.... but Billy-Bob couldn't pay them enough to stay? That's not luck. That's failure. Our O-line is so thin, we're dooomed next season for sure. This keeps happening even though we have two OL coaches!?!?!?!?
Question- was our OL just that slow compared to SEC DLs? I'm having visions of LSU in the backfield immediately after the ball is in play, almost unblocked. How does that happen? Still remember Herbstreit commenting first game that we looked big, but slow.
If we were down to three RBs on roster with hopes of landing a fourth through the portal, I would say bring him back. But now? Aside from the Tenn game, where he was all world, what other games was he an exemplary and foundational RB? I understand our staff might not call plays in situations that bring out the best in a skill player and our OL had a bad year. I am disappointed in the state of the program, externally and probably internally, but now that things have settled, I don't know is losing ETN matters, other than it is/was a bad look and a gut punch after the other commit defections.
And yet ... the stats say there's not much difference. ETN made more flashy plays that stick in the mind, Johnson leans more towards consistently effective. Both playing with same OL. ENT a distinct liability on passing plays .. that's 50% of the plays, more or less. With a stronger OL, that would be less of a problem. But for the Gators in 2023, that could not be ignored.
Play design. Look up outside or split zone and see who blocks the backside DE (or any backside LBs), then guess what happens when you run this playaction about 80% of the passing plays and try to pass out of it (usually with slow developing receiver routes)... especially if you add a fake jet sweep to it to further slow down the the action.
