I hope ESPN keeps feeding him the idea he's a top ten draft pick and he leaves. That erratic garbage where he opens the game with a 51yd TD pass, goes silent for 3 quarters, then rips off an 81yd rushing TD only to go silent again is way too inconsistent. AR has issues, Napier can't fix them. And people can miss me with that garbage about "AR hasn't had to be a starter before....he's nervous." That's garbage. Ewers has zero experience and he's managing Texas just fine.
I hear ya, shouldn't have used that as my criteria but really mentioned Kitna cause he is available! Go Gators!
To clarify, 9 tackled the QB right after he got the pass off. He fell to the ground with the QB and the refs called a penalty because tackling the QB is no longer allowed in football.
Or were the DL instructed keep running qb in the pocket and avoid giving him running lanes? That didn't work either but we really don't know what they were instructed to do as in maybe just read and react.
How much of this is play calling? Certainly we have good backs but there is plenty of criticism about the run up the middle, run off tackle and then throw it on 3rd and long.
Post some actual reports with names of people inside the program who actually were part of the program…..
I've had to rely on medications to watch this team. All I wanted to see was week over week improvement and wasn't concerned about W/L record. Not sure I've seen improvement in the team thus far. Maybe they turn the corner or stay the same. Either way it's not a fun product to watch.
I just really hope CBN and Toney are having a extremely heated one sided conversation today and the one with the T at the beginning of his name walks out with shredded pants and blood streaming down the backside of his legs and when CBN walks out the veins in his neck are 4 times their normal size and deep dark purple in color. I also hope some very storied boosters are a part of the conversation.
I'm 98% done with Napier. Using his daddy's 1991 offensive playbook might be sentimental, but it's gonna cost him his job. His only saving grace is a freshman on next year's squad steps up to get some decent results and I'm interested if some higher star souls can help. Like the NFL, college is an offense-heavy game now. QBs who throw 400yds a game, WRs catching 150yds a game, defense that can go three and out in a single series are what's hot. I see ZERO, and I mean ZERO offensive strategy or improvement. We're dazzled by improv AR runs because we're all slow to realize he simply can't pass the ball. Billy is using that old school, tough, grind 'em down scheme and it's not working with this crew at all.
I also think a lot of fan angst comes from unrealistic expectations. If you expected 10-2 or 9-3 in the pre-season I could see why you'd be disappointed right now. And honestly, if AR had been the QB we all thought he was, we'd probably be on our way to that record even with the poor defense. But we have legit personnel issues. A big one is QB - and even with the bad QB we are scoring over 30 PPG which is fine. On defense we knew DT was going to be a problem all year, and guess what, it has been. At DE we knew we didn't have anyone but Cox, and guess what, that has also been true. We knew coming in we didn't have more than one true LB in Miller, and that unless a young player stepped up in a major way, we were going to be very limited at the LB position. And guess what? That has also played out as expected. We knew coming in that we had some guys at safety and nickel that were limited. We have also seen that play out. The guy we were hoping to count on back there who has had a disappointing year is Torrance, who was a 3 star player, just FYI. About the only thing we can attribute to this staff right now as truly disappointing is corner play. I would hope they would play better in cover 3 than they are, but outside of that, everything else on this list I just gave you was a personnel issue, and even with that issue, the defense has played well enough in spots for UF to have won at least 5 games at this point. So while I am not defending the staff per se, I would just suggest all gator fans move away from the cliff and just manage those expectations.
That's one way to interpret it. Here's the rule: A defensive player cannot make overly forceful moves against the passer, such as lifting the QB in the air or driving him into the ground.
