Timing of Changes to Staff

Yes, let us fire all the staff so there is no continuity. Let's have everyone learn new systems. Fire Rob Sale immediately and hire...Steve Spurrier Jr?? Do you all even read what you write sometimes? I am so fed up with this fanbase the past 2 months.

 

With this huge army of staff and coaches is there nobody among them that knows that if Des had been prescribed Mounjaro or Ozempic, he would have already been down to 350 lbs. this year and been an absolute terror on the field. I consider this as bad as Zook and Meyer losing 3 years of Jarvis Moss to his pelvic infection. For all this talk of being detail oriented and having a staff member for everything, some important details get overlooked.

 

March. Napier insists on calling plays and coaching QBs, the he needs to hire a head coach. This isn't the 90s and his name isn't Spurrier. It takes a SPECIAL coach to call plays in today's game and he ain't it. Saban is a defensive coach and he has a DC who calls the defense.

A head coach should be coaching his OC and DC on the weeks opponents, strategize on the game plan, agree on the ays on down, distance and tendencies, and roll with it.

Spurrier won a lot of games because he was an EXCEPTIONAL play caller. Napier isn't. He is a program manager. Not.a bad thing at all. We haven't had one since Meyer.

If he keeps on calling plays and coaching g qbs, he will wind up like the last 3 coaches.

 

The same analyst as last year . You kind of forget the common denominator are the players. Can’t make chicken salad out of chicken chit

 

You have no clue what you are talking about or the dynamics of the coaching team. This was a team based on a gifted running QB who decided he didn't want to run very often and happened to be a very mediocre pocket passer. I am going to reserve judgement until we see what the next season entails.

 

this narrative needs to end immediately - that the entire UF Football staff of 127 folks stand terrified of AR and can’t possibly convince him to run a play as it has been called. for an entire season.

if in fact this is the case, Billy Napier should have been fired after the Vandy game. everything about this theory is completely ridiculous.

first, it paints AR in a bad light as being totally uncoachable and uncooperative for the entire season. 2, it makes Billy and everyone else seem completely inept. as a coaching staff, if nobody among them can coach the QB, this all seems quite the futile venture.

are we taking this as Gospel Truth? that our QB personally refused to run the ball ALL SEASON, against the will of the entire coaching staff?

if so, this was easily the most mismanaged Gator team in UF history and is incredibly damning for all involved.

 

How do you explain what transpired after he became the #1 draft prospect after the Utah game? I obviously have no inside knowledge, but Napier even said himself he has the ability to keep it on every single read play. Which just happened to be the entire offense. So what do you think happened? Napier told him to eat it and not run when the plays were literal read options? Ha either AR was the worst ever at deciding when to pull the ball for a run, or he made business decisions.

I don't really even blame him for not wanting to run. If you are going to be a top 10 NFL pick, I kinda get it. But we didn't have someone to bench him for. Mullen left nothing behind AR in the QB room.

 

again, if this is indeed the case Billy needed to be fired six weeks ago.

the terrible charges against Kitna didn’t come until after the season. Kitna lit it up against a very bad team this year, but nonetheless is not incapable of playing the position. if indeed AR lost 6 games because he would not run the plays as they were called, this was the worst-coached UF team in the history of the program.

a coach who would not bench a QB who never got above .500 in his career is not a coach who needs to be coaching in the SEC.

 

AR was clearly the best QB on the roster. And no there was no one even close behind him or even close enough to push him in practice. Lying to yourself if you think otherwise. However, I do think a lot of the issues with playcalling resulted from AR's inability or reluctance to keep it on the read option.

Regardless of what people think about Mertz, he is going to compete with Rashada. He was a starter at a major university.

 

A huge number of big returns as well

 

Just stop it..

 

Ya realize he ran 103 times for 654 yards right?
That’s about 8-9/game on average. There were at least 2-3 games where he visibly came up and was limping during parts of the games.
This new tale of he was afraid to run is a joke.

I guess you missed the run he had late vs FSU where he ran over the dude for the first down.

Forget the fact that many teams put a spy on him to prevent him from taking off….

 

Rewatch the UK game sometime. Sure maybe he is hurt. I give this as an option. How is having to play a hurt QB on the OC either? If he's just playing in the pocket, he isn't very good. Did you miss that? The whining in this fan base is comical and toxic.

 

Many suggested he tweaked his ankle in the UK game and wasn’t 100%, plenty of QBs play when they aren’t 100%. Obviously we didn’t have much of an option after AR, and a tweaked ankle can affect the way a QB plants and throws the ball as well.
In the UK we somehow forgot how to run in the second half, guess that’s because AR decided to go to the NFL

He threw for like 2700 yards and 17 TD’s, yes he does throw some high and hard but there were plenty of easy balls dropped as well 4-5 a game. Did you miss that?
I never said AR not running was on the OC.

The narrative that AR sand bagged it because he was going to the NFL is a joke, and the group of fans who have tuned on players who declare or transfer out is disgusting IMHO. Most have never even played a down of football and are clueless what players do to get to this level.

 

I enjoyed AR and hope he does well in the NFL. But he was either too fragile for the SEC or he didn't want to run a lot or a combination of both. And we know what we saw in terms of accuracy from him. Time will tell on how the offense looks this season. But the fanbase wanting coaches fired after one season are a bit over the top. I'm in the camp that we should support the players and realize we are in a rebuild. Too many were singling out struggling players and blaming them. They can't help that Dan didn't develop them.

 

I don’t think anyone should be calling for Napier to be fired after one season.
I think he needs an OC
I think the DC needs sincere evaluation as well as special teams coaching.

I see your little jab a Mullen at the end about not developing players.

Who was better at the end of this year?
I see a team that regressed in pretty much every phase of the game, players I guess just forgot how to play a game most of them have played since they were little kids..

Question when does the blame on the prior guy stop and fall on the hew guy?
Someone said early there are only like 25 of Mullen’s guys left on the team, if that’s true how much is on him next year?

 

Next year and the year after.

This was a majority Mullen team and it played like the last one, with the same results (more difficult schedule).

I want to remind everyone that the last two failures had very good debut seasons.

 

Alright, we can probably use the AR excuse this year.

But in 2023-24, we are forbidden to use AR as an excuse when we manage to put together 5/6-win seasons again.

 

Good thing you've forbidden something that nobody was going to do anyway.