Gator Steven Harris - breaks down 3 plays, when the score was still 0-0

He is what he is. But hopefully our safeties improve. I miss the days of Keanu Neal putting the hurt on RBs and WRs.

 

How many more times are you going to weasel around with that saying? Keep on playing it, when you have nothing substantive to say, I guess?

 

Yeah. Obviously, there is a reason that the mutts parted ways with him. The fact that he is apparently the best we have at that position, of course, points out our woeful deficiencies in recruiting under Mullen.

But back to the point Harris was making: you have to make plays on the road. A few timely big plays and the whole momentum of the game shifts. We aren't making them.

 

According to Varnadore, UK surprised us with a bunch of gap runs and our defense wasn’t prepared for it. They’ve been showing zone runs all season up to this point.

 

This is garbage analysis, maybe it barely passes wrt play recognition but not as to alignment or gap responsibility. Furthermore individual technique that is drilled daily is independent of blocking schemes wrt to gap integrity. Having the physical ability and desire to execute at a high level are all controllable factors. Maintaining the mindset of performing my job and win my my gap is basic defensive football.

Last week was as bad as the LSu ‘counter game’ with respect to defensive effort not trickery

 

I saw the same analysis from Roman Harper on tv re Gap runs. He said we were prepared for zone blocking and we misplayed the fit on the gap blocking schemes. Bad angles by linemen and linebackers.

I think AA didn't react the way he should have. Their QB was way off, we should have stacked the box like they were doing to us.

 

Apparently Napier said Florida struggled with the counter last week in part because Kentucky executed it perfectly and they hadn't run the ball using the same technique a week earlier.

 

I agree with him. Just think how things could've changed if Omar Moreno runs over Brandon Spikes instead of getting stuffed by him. It didn't just energize the team, but I could feel an immediate change in the electricity in the Gators fans who were there as well, and that was, if I remember corectly, the first play of the game in 2008.

 

Absolutely agree we should have played the run with defensive numbers regardless of offensive formations being passing sets

 

That hit Neal put on that puppy, I could hear it in the cheap seats.

 

Set the attitude. Kentucky did a great job of that.

 

Imposing will is what it comes down to.

 

I didn't have that big a problem with AA and how he called the game. We had players in positions to make plays, they didn't make them. I know GNFP is taboo to some but he theorized we went to 2 high safeties to mitigate the damage, being aggressive we were getting absolutely creased. How to do you scheme a defense that doesn't want to be physical and tackle?

 

Commit more numbers to the the box. Two safeties is an invitation to run in college. Creating smaller lanes at the LOS to keep the RB from getting ‘downhill’. S James ‘filled’ on 1 run on our side of the LOS in reasonably good position and got trucked he did make the tackle but it was ugly. My point is our LB was smaller physically than the RB and this is true for most our skill players. We need more bulk/maturity to compete at the level people here expect. There is no smoke and mirrors for defense

 

Gameplanning. Imagine that!

 

Kimber is a terrible run defender.

 

From where i sit, IMO Varnadore is more accurate in his analysis than GNFP. Roman Harper detailed a couple of plays that demonstrated exactly what the problem was on D. He also stated KY went against tendencies going to gap blocking scheme vs KY usual zone blocking.

If anyone cares to see Harpers analysis scroll down to video after recap in espn using below link.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap/_/gameId/401520282

 

He’s spot on on the 1st play. After re-watching the 2nd play, i still don’t know what happened with that DB. I don’t think he had quite a clear shot at the RB like they are suggesting. Did he “close his eyes”. Who knows, but he obviously failed to make that play. Back to back bad plays by the same guy.

I don’t really agree with his assessment on the offensive play. I don’t think the RB was “cringing”, looks to me like he was thinking about cutting back inside, but the DB just had the angle and got him on the sideline. That one isn’t a big deal imo. The idea its a bad play because the RB doesn’t lower the boom on the sideline is a bit silly imo. Obviously our running game was weak, there had to be alot more issues and OL whiffing blocks.

 

The run is certainly not a bad play, though I do agree that the ideal move there was delivering contact to the defender. I think the overall point is valid though, team looked soft on both sides of the ball. Need the guys playing under control but with some more fire.

 

Nothing is definitive, like I said it was just a theory. Early in the game we were more aggressive with only 1 high and we were getting smoked. When a team is doing those power/gap runs with pullers the DL and LB's have to be physical, penetrate and meet OL in the hole to plug gaps. We pretty much didn't do either which was seemingly uncharacteristic of our D thus far this year.