Willy Korn for OC

Yeah, like can’t call a play like a double reverse pitch back with your back up quarterback kind of limited…

 

Ouch

 

The problem is, the long ball takes good blocking to develop. Which is the main reason it didn’t work much last year.

 

I prefer to think of it this way...



Bless his heart!

 

Need to do something because the way we're going we'll have more six win seasons and that's not what we're used to. Come on BN , hire a play caller today!

 

Too Soon!
Remembering that slow motion train wreck of a play is painful.

 

Let it go, why do you keep this whining about the O-line?

What you said is NOT always true... and has nothing to do with Napier trust in Mertz.

 

I don’t have analytics on this but I’ve heard both Spurrier and Shane Matthews break down that this is a myth. 3 steps and letting one rip if you have any type of speed actually doesn’t take any more skill along the line

 

You better join in whining about the oline because until it improves tremendously, our offense won’t no matter who calls plays . You can’t oc a line.

 

Go routes sure.

 

There are ways to scheme around OL issues. Our OL with Trask wasn’t that good, yet the offense was excellent. You can make things easy for the OL, or make them harder. If your tackle struggles being on an island, then why is he consistently put on an island?

 

I don't remember a year with so many defenders running free at our QB. Our offense overachieved considering. Mertz deserves even more praise than he's getting.

 

So all we need is Trask Pitts and Toney. Genius

 

Another team ran that play after we did, forgot who. They did it better, got 10yd or so and almost broke it for a TD

 

Or to run that offense instead of our current mishmash offense with our current OL. It seems everyone is saying all we need is the entire OL to be made up of 5 star OL recruits and Napier’s offense will start to look much better. However, that is true of any offense.

Give me an offense that adapts to the personnel we have on hand, instead of the personnel we wish we had.

 

You watched it last year.

 

Literally nobody is saying we need the entire OL to be made up of five star OL recruits. Give me a post that addresses reality, instead of the situation you wish we had.

 

I think Gator fans who get mad at other Gator fans for being suggestive or critical act like those fans don’t know about college football or don’t watch ANY other teams. I watch a literal butt ton (actual measurement) of college football and there are teams who have less talent on offense and defense and are more productive and win more. So what are they doing? It’s called the law of positive deviancy. Find what someone else with moderately similar skills as me is doing and do that. There ARE things CBN could have done in year 1-2 to scheme is to an advantage but he has been married to process. Repeat the same things over and over til you get really good at it and throw in a lot of motion… that’s basically the offense.

 

If I am reading this correctly, Napier decided that process is much more important than some glitchy scheme that may pay dividends for that game but sets the program back in some way. There is nothing wrong with your take. I would just make some observations:

Year 1 was "meet and greet" with some players who said they were on-board but weren't in earnest. Then came the real purge of players. Year 2 was supposed to be, while limited in personnel, much more aligned with "the process" and the buy-in pretty much complete. But as the season progresses, the young players get less bad and are wiser and tougher. And yes, all teams get more mature as the season progresses and so the competition is tougher and maybe wiser also. But you expect to see bigger steps with young guys who are still learning versus upper-classmen who may already "know everything". And so, optimism abounds after the USCe win.

Question, how do we explain the losses to Arkansas and even FSU, where these were at home against middling (or even much worse) teams and a rabid, bought-in fan base? How do we explain that, when Napier demands discipline to "the process" that one player SPIT on another? How about the notion that coaches need to be remediated because of a lack of production...for two total seasons...and yet all we have seen is one coach replaced who was surprised to be removed in the first place? Spencer was like the O-line coaches, it just did not work. Yet...Napier and his "process" did not have the wherewithal to make sure the next guy was already agreeing to come onboard right after the firing? And now his "magical" recruiting class (linemen especially) may be dinged because of uncertainty.

This is the sign of a guy whose process is completely lined out and just needs time? Really? When a Georgia Southern beats a UF, it is absolutely about discipline and not Jesse's and Joe's. They had it and we plainly did not. I don't see it in Napier, Year 2. He is REALLY cutting things close.

 

Maybe they had linemen that could hold a block for more than 2 sec.