BR Article-Florida Football: 6 Reasons Why Gators Shouldn't Give Up on Jeff Driskel

[SavageGator]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...n-jeff-driskel

[gatordee]

I have to agree. Better line with better receivers will be huge. The biggest improvement will be the game slowing down for him.

[g8rboy]

reason #7. no other option

[geauxgator1]

I don't think anyone has given up on him except for maybe a few malcontents.
It was his first year for crying out loud as a starter. His potential is really limitless if he can continue to learn. He may have taken a step back in the Sugar Bowl, but that happens with a young Qb's learning the position.

[orangeblueorangeblue]

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[UFreak]

Originally Posted by orangeblueorangeblue

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[swampsupreme]

i can give 20 reasons why we should give up.

[ItzRegardie]

Originally Posted by g8rboy

reason #7. no other option

lololol.

[TWGator]

Originally Posted by swampsupreme

i can give 20 reasons why we should give up.

Such as?

[dawny]

Football Starts in the trenches,ask ND,OSU,LSU, when they played Bama, we should be much better also the WRs will have a large improvment ,with the Joker teaching them,how to get open and coming back to there QB when he is in trouble, I thnk most important is LT, we had a big hole there last year,Go Gators,if we are not in the top 30 in offense by the 4th game this year something is wrong.

[GatorJeff]

Originally Posted by swampsupreme

i can give 20 reasons why we should give up.

Why don't you do that for us. I'm sure other posters will be happy to opine on each of your "reasons".

[Swampmaster]

Alabama's QB, Mccarron is going for his third straight national title in 2013. He won his first as a sophomore and made huge plays in the title game against lsu and again last year. Big difference with alabama--maybe the best Oline in college football in 10 years, NFL first round RBs every year and very good wide receivers.

[AFCyberGator]

I would not give up on JD, but I would expect him to grow, improve upon the all-too-mentioned habits, and take advantage of the new offense (now featuring athletic WRs and an OL not at all recruited for the Meyer offense).

[GatorAvatar]

Gonna be a long off-season.

[samit23]

Who has given up on him? 11-2 as a true soph w/o a WR? JD is going to be one of the bet QBs in CFB next year.

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[gator34654]

Silly to even talk about dumping JD when you consider all the factors involved last year, pourous OL esp. LT, average wr's, new oc, and first time starter against sec calibre defenses. Lest some of you forgot, the team lost one game. To lay the blame for the sugar bowl fiasco on JD is absurd. The entire team/coaches laid a huge stinking egg.

JD is a mobile qb, when given time he was more accurate than not. Now, he does need to improve on reading defenses, getting rid of the ball sooner and be able to audible. If JD doesn't show remarkable improvement this year than yes I'll agree we need to find someone who can throw downfield.

[nawlinsgator]

Originally Posted by swampsupreme

i can give 20 reasons why we should give up.

So you're saying you lost 20 bucks on the Louisville game?

[sec1]

i think Jeff will improve thru spring ball and over the summer , he will be ready for next season .... Go Gators

[whitelakegator]

Another thread totally absolving JD.

It was everyone but him missing wide open receivers. It was the o line holding onto the ball too long. It was the running backs throwing at opposing defenders. It was the staff not reading defenses.

Then we'll get people asking "why are you picking on our qb" while not saying a word while people blow up wide swaths of the rest of our team.

I don't get the attacking other positions to make our qb appear better than he actually is...I'd try to relate it to something else but I know all I will get is people blaming everything under the sun except JD. Good or great QBs overcome a lot of this non-sense. If you are one of "those" Qbs...I won't go there...but how come you never hear these excuses with GREAT qbs?????

[GatorLaw]

I can't imagine that anyone would seriously think we should give up on Driskel at this point. He took his lumps as a first year/sophomore starter but he gained valuable experience and did enough things right to show that the potential is there. Why would a coach want to throw that experience and potential away and start all over again with another first-year starter, especially when we don't have some super-duper backup QB waiting in the wings.