SEC power in mix for juco QB McEvoy

[irish2u2]

Tanner McEvoy simply has more experience which is why the Gators are pursuing him. It has very little to do with Mornhinweg who is still young and untested or Max Staver who is a true freshman or Grier who won't be a Gator till next year. McEvoy has played JC ball giving him a leg up as a backup to Driskel. That's the short term plan. A very athletic 6'6 the future plan may be to play Tanner at TE. He's got the height and a lot of the skills.

Now on to Jeff Driskel.

Florida was awful passing the ball and certainly Driskel was part of that problem. He locked in on receivers. He held the ball too long. He was not a very accurate passer often taking his receiver out of situations where YAC was available but could not be attained because the receiver didn't get the ball in the right position to get additional yardage after the catch.

But... the offensive line had some issues as did the wideouts. As in most anything football related everything is symbiotic and a lot of moving pieces have to mesh correctly for the passing game to work. Jeff Driskel has some work to do but whenever I doubt a player I am reminded that our coaches decided Jeff was the man and I don't know didly next to them.

That said Driskel has to make better and quicker decisions, he has to locate second, third and safety valve options and he has to get them the ball in stride so they can make plays with their feet. I believe Jeff can do those things. I believe the OL will be better and the wideouts are improved. I believe Brent Pease forgot more football today than I ever knew and if he likes Jeff so do I.

[SmootyGator]

Originally Posted by irish2u2

Tanner McEvoy simply has more experience which is why the Gators are pursuing him. It has very little to do with Mornhinweg who is still young and untested or Max Staver who is a true freshman or Grier who won't be a Gator till next year. McEvoy has played JC ball giving him a leg up as a backup to Driskel. That's the short term plan. A very athletic 6'6 the future plan may be to play Tanner at TE. He's got the height and a lot of the skills.

Now on to Jeff Driskel.

Florida was awful passing the ball and certainly Driskel was part of that problem. He locked in on receivers. He held the ball too long. He was not a very accurate passer often taking his receiver out of situations where YAC was available but could not be attained because the receiver didn't get the ball in the right position to get additional yardage after the catch.

But... the offensive line had some issues as did the wideouts. As in most anything football related everything is symbiotic and a lot of moving pieces have to mesh correctly for the passing game to work. Jeff Driskel has some work to do but whenever I doubt a player I am reminded that our coaches decided Jeff was the man and I don't know didly next to them.

That said Driskel has to make better and quicker decisions, he has to locate second, third and safety valve options and he has to get them the ball in stride so they can make plays with their feet. I believe Jeff can do those things. I believe the OL will be better and the wideouts are improved. I believe Brent Pease forgot more football today than I ever knew and if he likes Jeff so do I.

Couldn't agree more. I don't know why so many people are polarized about Driskel. How in the hell could anyone *know* that he isn't the right QB for the job? Also, how could anyone *know* that he's the perfect guy for the job and everything will be better next year? There's pretty much a grey area in this matter and only time will tell.

[gymgator]

Wonder if Murphy might not stick around for the fall and they see this as a trade of one JR QB for another. If he is not needed, he could RS and give us some separation between the QBs. I like his pocket awareness.

[atlantagator86]

Interesting. This kid originally committed to South Carolina as a 3-star. He's 6'5" and 215 so he has good size. And his current offers are Oregon, WVU, Wisconsin, Texas and Arkansas.

[GATORAZ]

McEvoy is Mornhinweg 2.0 a very good athlete with some mechanical problems playing QB. He would be fighting for the back up spot with Murphy and Mornhinweg no real threat to Driskel

[ArtDeco]

Brent Schaeffer! (say in OTT Cajun accent)

[DieAGator]

Originally Posted by nflgator

Do you wonder why we only sold 7000 tickets to the Sugar Bowl?

Team goes 11 - 2 and we have this foolishness.

Yep, yet most realistic fans thought four tough losses was possible just because our schedule was so difficult. Great great job coaching overall.

Originally Posted by lurkingator1

I really think that Driskell will improve and be much better in 2013 but I am not sure he will some of the things he does poorly are a real concern locking in on his primary receiver and not going through his progressions, granted he has not always had much time to do that, He holds the ball too long and is hesitant to make tight throws. My point is I can’t say if Driskell is going to be the man or not but I would be a good idea to go after another guy at QB to give us more options, that I am sure of, and I will be pulling for Driskell to get the job done.

Agreed. I don't really care if staff recruits a JUCO backup, that's their call. I just hope Driskel gets better and that in case he does not they scheme around his weaknesses. From my perspective one of the things staff did wrong(very wrong) was expecting a poor OL to show up and protect JD in key games like georgia. They should never have known, or expected, georgia was going to attack and that the OL wouldn't deal well with it. Roll the guy out, move him around, whatever. But that one still stings.

Originally Posted by gatormoe1

Driskel only looked bad at times because he held onto the ball. Don't forget that our offensive line wasn't good and even then, was unhealthy for much of the year. He ended the year with pretty decent stats including 12-5 td/int ratio (remember he wasn't asked to throw much since our running game was very good) and had 63% completion rating as well as a not too bad passer rating of 133. All that and we still must remember that he is basically a FR starting QB.

Driskel needs to learn to get rid of it and our Oline needs to block A LOT better, but I think he will be fine and anyone implying what the OP is trying to imply, it just trolling and/or related to gatoravatar.

He played well and would have appeared to be a lot better if staff would have put him in the right position. He has those weaknesses so don't know why he was expected to be a pocket passer. After the georgia game they started using his athleticism more. But then, probably hoping they had coached out some of the OL's problems, got away from that.

[gatorsallday]

I'm a fan of both driskel and brisset, and both had the potential to start. Of course the main reason driskel was chosen was because of our pathetic o-line. I think brisset has better decision making capabilities. And I don't understand y some people said browsers arm was stronger than driskels. He threw a 70 yard bomb on the run during the UA game. I think we have a capable qb. Lets just how he does with an enhanced o-line and better wide receivers. If he still struggles, then we can start debating on whether its time to make a change

[OaktownGator]

My perception is that JD's single biggest issue is pre-snap reads. If he gets those down, he'll go thru his progressions more effectively and won't take sacks he shouldn't be taking (like corners off the edge who walk up before the snap). Of course to the extent we're expecting receivers to make adjustments, they need to get their reads down reliably too.

But this should be something that these players can really work on, study and rep.

We'll see.