Powell beginning to blossom as slot receiver

[heversle]

https://florida.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1796721

This article is pretty good. Seems to indicate the receivers are receiving better coaching now and there may be reason for optimism in the future. The Wide Receiver coach appears to be instilling more accountability among the receivers to catch the ball and make plays for the quarterback. Powell also alludes to the fact that the new system is a superior scheme and that the receivers ran a limited route tree last year, further indicting the ineptitude of the previous regime. Sounds promising.

 

[bradgator2]

Good read, thanks. I wish Powell all the best and hope he is right!

 

[TN G8tr]

Nice.....hope the that the extra work is going to pay benefits.

 

[Turk182]

How do you coach drops?

 

[ATXGator]

Chris Leak was not ready to be a receivers coach. He got put into a position he wasn't ready for by Joker Phillips and Muschamp. Joker made a bad decision and Muschamp made another bad coaching move by putting somebody like Chris into a position he shouldn't be in. He should have gone out and hired a receivers coach. One of the many things that led to his welcomed downfall.

 

[Theologator]

I beat a Dwayne Dixon drum on this. Really miss him. I hope this guy has a similar ability to coach them up in all phases of their position and they become fearsome instead of fearful.

 

[CaribGator]

Chris Leak was not ready to be a receivers coach. He got put into a position he wasn't ready for by Joker Phillips and Muschamp. Joker made a bad decision and Muschamp made another bad coaching move by putting somebody like Chris into a position he shouldn't be in. He should have gone out and hired a receivers coach. One of the many things that led to his welcomed downfall.

That would of been the case had the dawg been interested in doing something other than running the ball and winning the TOP. it fit his vision just fine... Why do you think Harris got sat down after the opening game? He comes in and his throws a TD, next series another TD, that put the D back on the field, can't have that.

 

[VulcanAlex]

Everybody assumes that Chris was the problem, but I bet that the concepts that were desired restrained him. After all he understood the offense that he ran and somehow that won a lot of games. Not to mention none of these things are secretes, even our posters could learn about them. Now what makes a coach great is that the players actually are motivated to do as they are coached.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Chris Leak was not ready to be a receivers coach. He got put into a position he wasn't ready for by Joker Phillips and Muschamp. Joker made a bad decision and Muschamp made another bad coaching move by putting somebody like Chris into a position he shouldn't be in. He should have gone out and hired a receivers coach. One of the many things that led to his welcomed downfall.

But, we didn't hire a receivers coach this time either. After very publicly striking out on WR coaches we hired a RB coach from football powerhouse FIU to be part of the best coaching staff in the history of forever. What makes you think this guy is ready to be a WR coach?

Besides, it wasn't Leak's fault. Think he doesn't know the route tree? Think Roper didn't? They purposefully dumbed down everything for the Big Dummy trying to find something he could do well. We took away the read from the read option because he couldn't do it. He admitted it in several interviews. We simplified the passing game trying to make it easy for Big Dummy. It's as simple as that.

As for smurfy slot receivers, I'm not a fan. They get blasted by LBs and knocked out for the month or season. I much prefer hybrid TE types in the slot.

 

[TN G8tr]

Several things stand out about the WR position. Love Leak to death but there has been no consistency as that position the last 4 years. So what to do we have now.....a new coach and the stability will come from Mac and keeping a coach that will be in the position for some time. Now yeah was the guy from FIU, yeah. But what the heck did we have the last four years. So already we have an upgrade. How much of one, remains to be seen. If this guy is teaching discipline, connects with his players, and instills some continuity we are far better off than we've been. Sure it would help if he had coached WR in the past. Are we bad off since Tim Skipper coached LB's and now the RB coach? Part of being a coach is knowing how to coach. This is where WM failed miserably. So as it remains unseen how Dixon will do, one aspect we can look at is that he's there, he's coaching, and Mac will have a hand in what's going on. From that point, UF is far better off than what Asschamp had us in.

 

[Concrete Helmet]

But, we didn't hire a receivers coach this time either. After very publicly striking out on WR coaches we hired a RB coach from football powerhouse FIU to be part of the best coaching staff in the history of forever. What makes you think this guy is ready to be a WR coach?

While I agree with the coaching selection part of your post I do see the accountability factor pointing towards better overall coaching. The fact that we had multiple offensive players stay on the field despite displaying ineptitude throughout the past few seasons, Pittman, Driskel, Dunbar, Westbrook and Burton to name a few, the coaches would just trot them back out there series after series. Nobody knows for sure how a kid is going to perform when the lights come on, it's seeing that and making the needed changes that will define our new coaching staff....As far as their background goes, well maybe being around other good position coaches, Shannon, Rumph and Summers, as well as being under a offensive minded HC will rub off on them.....

 

[rogdochar]

What amalgam of traits (styles) define a good coach? He is a teacher first. He gets the correcting message across
to his position player. What gets transferred when an older man gets right in your face with his beet-red rage-face
and spews insanity at you? No learning, just ridiculed embarrassment, hate, etc.-- Chump's whole philosophy of
"you're a flop, always".

I'm wishing for a troop of receivers (that includes tight-ends) who respect talent of their responsibility-position and
go get it through constructive practice, practice, practice set to the right mindset. Let's have a troop like Hilliard,
Anthony, Jaq Green or Cornelius, etc. -- ones that go get the ball, so our QB can throw to an empty, open spot
where no DB recognizes as a target for the incoming pass. ?? = Gator WRs of old helping to create a Danny,
a Grossman, a Leak, a Tebow, who's next ?

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Jaq Green? Never heard that. Everyone called him 'Quez or 'Quezzy.

 

[t-gator]

Chris leak was more qualified to coach the receivers than fiu's running back coach and he's a gator. I definitely don't get that move.

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

I'm going to spend the first couple games trying to figure out who the f*ck #4 is on the field because he cut his hair.

 

[TheBigClaw]

Chris leak was more qualified to coach the receivers than fiu's running back coach and he's a gator. I definitely don't get that move.

I'll trust Mcelwains judgement. I think he's put together a hell of a staff for the most part.

 

[PatDooleySucks]

But, we didn't hire a receivers coach this time either. After very publicly striking out on WR coaches we hired a RB coach from football powerhouse FIU to be part of the best coaching staff in the history of forever. What makes you think this guy is ready to be a WR coach?

Besides, it wasn't Leak's fault. Think he doesn't know the route tree? Think Roper didn't? They purposefully dumbed down everything for the Big Dummy trying to find something he could do well. We took away the read from the read option because he couldn't do it. He admitted it in several interviews. We simplified the passing game trying to make it easy for Big Dummy. It's as simple as that.

As for smurfy slot receivers, I'm not a fan. They get blasted by LBs and knocked out for the month or season. I much prefer hybrid TE types in the slot.

Who would like this post?! Oh.... t

 

[Swamp Donkey]

I'm going to spend the first couple games trying to figure out who the f*ck #4 is on the field because he cut his hair.

I don't think we should allow a receiver to wear #4 for a while. Too soon.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Who would like this post?! Oh.... t

 

[PatDooleySucks]