- Jun 12, 2016
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As has been said before about this game, we can't lose perspective. I've got a different take on it than I've read so far. It was the first game of the season, against a cupcake, at home, with a lot of new faces and young players at positions in all three phases of the game. I AM HOPING that what we saw was tinkering and some experimentation by the coaches during the first real game-time situation with new and/or inexperienced personnel across the board. If they're ever going to do that this season, the UMass game was the game in which to do it. Using four running backs (including a true freshman), then getting away from the running game early when it appeared to be working, having Del Rio throw 44 passes to something like six or seven different receivers, playing two freshmen in the secondary, giving Pineiro opportunities to kick some long ones in his first real game, and scoring more points in the fourth quarter than the other three quarters combined to cement a win, together point to a real possibility that what we saw last Saturday was a college football lab session, not an actual, fully-developed, executed game plan. I'm withholding judgment until I see the Gators play Kentucky in our first SEC game of the year. That's the first game this season in which we need to come out fast, hard, and looking good.Like a Tennessee thread. But, but, but…delusions of grandeur.
I get that we don't want to go all nuts here, but to act like anything last night was less than a shyt show is ridiculous.
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