I’ll never understand his decisions to not run when the field was wide open in front of him. No ‘reckless abandon’ necessary, just tuck it in and run for the 1st down
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I think his last year at uf he was already eyeing NFL draft and was protecting himself from possible injury. IMO he was a bit more concerned about his future than he was about doing everything he could to win.
Personally, I was surprised he got drafted as high as he did, most likely due to physical giftedness more than anything else. First, he is very injury prone and walla first year injured for the season. Secondly, he had major issue reading defenses so major inconsistencies. One moment he could wow you with an amazing pass and the next frustrate you by missing receivers or throwing interceptions. Even though he is a Gator, it would not surprise me if he's a bust.
Utah and fsu, Superman came out. We lost the fsu game but he did make a great effort. He tried his best Brady impression vs Kentucky but you know how that went.
CDM was a good role model for that type of behavior. CBN came in with AR and not much of anything else at quarterback. i think Anthony cared about our team, he just knew that he had to leave after his jr. year and the team didn't have much chance to go anywhere. His first year we had one of the worst D's in recent history.
He’s a good kid and had to think about his future. It seemed he put himself ahead of the team but who can really blame him. Not every guy is going to risk his health every game.
I remember him taking a dive rather than lowering his shoulder in the FSU game that cost us a first down and momentum. That was upsetting but then as they showed him getting up he was laughing with the FSU guys who he went down for....that was totally unacceptable. Its almost like they called him for it and he wasnt ashamed when he laughed with them. Im not sure that game was a Superman effort from him. The kid has so much freaking athletic talent but he needs to accept he needs to become much better at many aspects of the game to even scratch the surface of what he could become.
Every year some idiotic NFL team falls in love with a combine wunderkind. The team/ GM/ draft guys display every blind spot known to a freshman psych major such as confirmation bias, wishful/ magical thinking, projection, etc. And they draft Trey Lance at #3, or JaMarcus Russell at #1, or about a dozen other examples I could cite. They don't care about film, or what the QB did in college, etc, they just "see what they want to see and disregard the rest." I def support AR and hope he proves me wrong here, but if I'm an NFL GM I play AR's Kentucky game over and over. Play it for him. I ask him- what were you doing here? And if Kentucky can eat your lunch like this, how will you fare vs NFL teams. I mean it's KENTUCKY!! See what he says. But instead they just throw millions at him and hope. And at this point I hope with them- because AR is still a Gator and I want Gators to do well. I just honestly don't understand the willful blindness among NFL Gms.
I'm sure that CBN told him not to run with abandon as we had no viable backup. If CBN didn't tell him to only run when necessary he would have been derelict in his duty considering our QB room at that time. I believe we had 3 qb's in the room, none with experience.
Very likely. Still doesn’t explain the head-scratching decisions to launch the ball into double coverage when there’s 15 yards of open field right in front of him. But as you suggest, there were likely several factors in play with his questionable decision making
If you're not interested in playing team sports with the rest of your team, maybe you'd be better suited for javelin throwing or ping pong. I'm sure he'd figure out how to get injured in those sports too.
As fragile as he tended to be physically, I thought his mental was even worse. As soon as things started to go bad, it went as bad as it could go. It was feast or famine. I usually had a pretty good idea if it was going to be a bad day after the first drive or two.
I hope AR does well and makes all of us doubting Thomas's look like dummies because he's a Gator, just like me. That being said NFL GM's all think they are the smartest person in every room. I can see not taking a great QB on a great team because he lacks some physical quantity, but taking a great physical specimen who has some real obvious gaps in the mental part of the game tells me that the person drafting him believes they are smarter that the previous coaches that tried to instill that part of the game to the individual.
