Post-Game Discussion: FLORIDA vs Georgia

It was basic before it got or came here.

 

AR takes way too much heat from this board. Heck, Shane Mathews is rough on him. No turnovers yesterday. I thought he played pretty well. I love Bennett but he threw 2 interceptions yesterday.

 

Actually it sounds like he missed a game. I think we still play 12. 4+7 does still equal 11 doesn’t it, or did that also change while I was sleeping.

 

He did “ok”, guy was in some pain so you have to credit that.

But he did miss several wide open receivers (wrong reads) and his tendency to miss throws high continues to be an issue. 1st half was a disaster on all fronts (offense and defense), not just AR by any stretch, but whether in injury was bothering him it was a bad half.

 

I’d agree but say the team and AR really showed up in the second half. Gotta jump on AM early.

 

Lose next week and 1-5 in SEC.
Gotta hope they come out ready.

#7 McClellan needs more snaps. I don’t care if he’s a true freshman. Kid is good.

 

See line 1 of my post… Holding 2 thoughts in your head at once is taught at UGA.

UF didn’t lose yesterday b/c our players pulled all nighters studying Friday and the trope of academics harming athletics just gives a pass to our real issues (coaching, recruiting, etc). The sad part is presumably the folks spewing nonsense about top 5 academics hurting football would want to hire less committed/talented faculty, not solve big problems in medicine/engineering, and admit less academically gifted kids in favor of those who didn’t work as hard (take the 3.3 kid who partied over the 4.0 kid who worked in high school b/c the partier will go to all football games)! Insipid and misguided.

 

I like Billy. Seems like a great recruiter and program builder but I do NOT get this either/or theory that seems to be going around college football. You’re either a great play caller OR a great recruiter. Hearing a ton of “wait til his dudes get in here and it won’t matter what we run”…. But I don’t care who ya got… some of this stuff is just not good enough to beat Sec teams. They’re running 2 route combos, no man-beaters, no creativity in passing game… and the fall back answer to why is “well AR isn’t consistently accurate so no reason to worry about lack of creativity”. But we’re not scheming up easy throws often. There are things that are just head scratching. 3rd and long dive plays, 3rd and long WR screens, bad clock management, pearsall & whittemore and TE’s just disappear, following up huge gash plays with a run up the middle into the pile. The offense does mot attack, seems to lack identity or flow. And again, I know someone is gonna say “gotta get some players in here and then see…”. And I’m sure that’s right on offense and defense to a certain extent… but it feels like some of this is just endemic to the offensive calls. You can be a creative play caller AND a good recruiter. Ask Jimbo how getting a #1 class and then calling a boring game is working out? We better figure this out or it’s gonna be Muschamp 2.0- (who btw, said all the same stuff - detail oriented, toughness at point of attack, ball control, blue collar etc)

 

yep. Billy gets 3 years 4 tops. It’s just the way it is.

 

Again.

 

Not once yesterday, but twice, on crucial 4th down plays the QB just purposely chunked it out of bounds. Never seen that in all my years of watching football.

 

I need a time machine to go to 2025.

 

The offense got rolling there for a stretch in the 3rd qtr. Why? Because it was very different, AR stressed the defense with his wheels, imho. Very little straight pocket stuff, moved AR around, freed him up, that opened up the field more. Why not play a whole game like that?

 

One bright spot: Henderson seems to be finding his groove.

 

In the 3rd we came out and mixed things up a bit before reverting back. The bunch in tight formations do not make it easy for AR. Now throw in play action with a blitzer. Again. Coaching not helping him.
Now all the missed long throws….. accuracy or lack of follow through

 

I am sure BN did not tell him to do that

 

Saw one of our QB awhile back spike the ball for a time out..problem- it was 4th down

 

Couldn’t agree more. That mindset, scheme, or philosophy isn’t on a 20-21 year old kid. It’s on the coach.

We come out next week like we did this week offensively without any focus on moving AR and just no overall creativity and we lose again.

 

Is that you Max Headroom?

 

Seriously? How silly would it have looked to line up for a FG down by 22 with no time left?