You would be bored watching defensive prep. Defense is all about fundamentals, automatic adjustments, and play recognition and enormous amount of film breakdown, followed by drilling these insights repeatedly into the players during practice that week. (Did i mention this changes week to week, rinse and repeat 12-13 a yr) There is no magic sauce for defending the offense like exists for offenses. You line up in a base alignment to defend the expected formation and play based on personnel groupings, D&D, field position time left in 1/2/game. Your defensive game plan has automatic adjustments/calls based on formation, motions, ball position on the field (hash marks). Keep in mind the best predictor of a coming play is what the offense tends to do in the current game bc it tips to their mindset for attacking your defense. If something occurs unexpectedly you may adjust with a technique not anticipated to be used this game but part of the “defensive package” but practiced since spring on a regular basis. (Auto check to a different front, slanting the front, auto blitz call, secondary coverage) Then you hope the X-Factor kicks in right call, right personnel, right place, and the player makes the play.
The nolies are 1/5 stating at 1-6, pretty tough for a 1-10 taking advantage disarray when they are in worse chaos
You may end up being right. While a win over the Noles is always welcome, are we really getting something out of saying we beat the 1-10 Seminoles? If we are 3-8 heading into that game and they are 1-10, I’m going out on a limb and saying that will be the least watched UF-FSU game in perhaps forever. I would love for us to win out, but we’re just never going anywhere with him as the HBC. The curtain has been pulled back and it’s going to get really rough the next few weeks. I’m simply adjusting my expectations to what will most likely occur so as to regulate my blood pressure as a fan. It’ll already be hard enough watching him on the sideline attempting to feign emotion during these upcoming losses.
If we are 3-8 and beating the noles, I am still enjoying that one! It means two things, we are about to get a new coach and we beat our rival as well.
Not advocating for any direction. Only pointing out that the nolies arent in any position to have or take advantage of anyone else’s potential disarray. They are currently a 6 alarm inferno with a 56m price tag on the fire extinguisher.
Any season with a win over your favorite team isn't all bad. Gators will always pay attention to that game, but, I'm sure your buddies in Tallahassee won't. They are definitely fair-weather fans.
I was amazed that Malzahn didn't up tempo every time he got an initial 1st down. I didn't think we could handle it. Still don't. Also, I thought he would treat this game like he used to for the Barn/Bama games. He would pull out all the trick plays.
I'm a math/ stats guy- let me say that first. And I THOUGHT Malzahn was too- the little bit I knew about him. But him bleeding clock while having the ball down 2 scores was one of the strangest things I've ever seen. May be someone else can explain his thinking. It was like he was just trying to get the game over with- like he was winning by 11 instead of losing.
It was very strange knowing how he usually has run his offense, but he said in the post game that they had to run to win. I think he knew KJ wasn't going to win it passing so they had to keep running to try to break off TD runs but we kept shutting them down.
Gladly I was (kinda) wrong. On another thread I said we would win by 2 TDs if the D figured out how to play disciplined ball or lose by 2 TDs if not. I will admit that I didn't think they would get it worked out
