Mullen is always looking for a job. One that pays him a long term guaranteed deal where he doesnt have to recruit. I was just giving an example of someone who could far more with the offense than delay of game penalties in a 2 minute hurry up offense. Actually I could have put dog catcher as OC and the result would still be an improvement over the 3 yards and a cloud of dust archaic offense someone refuses to change.
Just for reference. If you take the points per game for the last 10 national championship teams, the average is almost exactly 40 points per game. Over the last three years, we averaged 29, 28, and 28 points per game. Our defense improved last year, which made the late season competitive. But our offense still needs work if we want to compete on the national stage. With DJ, we are capable of that, but we need to a system that can allow him to do that. Being complacent and holding pat would be such a waste of hist talents.
A lot of our offensive problems the past 2-1/2 seasons was a defense that couldn’t get off the field. Tallying numbers when 2/3 of those data points were 2022 and 2023 does not accurately represent what we have now. It’s a 3-year average alright, but it’s also misleading
Pretty sure I read on here a few weeks back that we beat our opponents averages. I think that’s a decent measure. We played a lot tougher schedule than most of the teams ranked above us, how did other teams do against the teams we played? Not as well? If we put up more yards and points against most of the teams we played than they allowed on average, I think that says something.
Skink...I hate to burst your bubble but best case scenario we got our defense together the last 4 games (including games against more makes this worse) of the year and won 4 in a row. Our defense got off the field and did substantially better and got the offense the ball with turnovers and 3 and outs far more often. The last 4 games were also the weakest part of our schedule. The infuriating part is even with the defense giving the offense a big damn assist we generated 115 points over those 4 games. Now when I divide 115 by 4 I get an interesting number...it's 28.75. To the decimal point exactly in line with 28, 28 and 29 the averages for Billys offense in the last 3 years. No matter how we slice it BN offenses are very consistent, predictable and unproductive...
Our eyes weren't lying. 28pts not setting the world on fire but not unproductive. Fair to say our Defense has to be "on" every game though. We would all prefer the cushion 35ppg delivers but that's probably wishful thinking.
Ole Miss and LSU and ref$u weren’t the weakest part of our schedule until we beat them. We were supposed to lose all 3 at the start of the season. Then when we pulled the back to back upsets they became the weakest part of our schedule. Kentucky was supposed to run the ball down our throats. They didn’t, so they immediately went from an expected loss to a shitty team we should have beaten. We were beating Ga until we lost our QB (2nd string at that). Tennessee was supposed to destroy us and we were a play away from upsetting them. If anyone suggested at the start of the season that we’d go 8-5 and win a bowl game with this schedule this group would have taken that and declared Billy a great coach. Yet we did, but now Billy sucks. I shake my head at all the rationalizing after the fact in an effort to cast our team in the worst possible light. “Endless excuses” has morphed into endless excuses for why we suck even though we won. Carry on man
You guys keep asking the same question, why would Billy not want an offensive coordinator. He said it live on the radio after the season -he thinks he does a good job as a coordinator calling his own plays. He said he sets the tone for the team calling plays. I 100% believe that Billy feels he is a good play caller and he just needs the pieces to make his offense run. We will all see for ourselves this fall if he’s right or wrong. Like someone already posted, he is set for life with his current contract so I don’t think he is under intense pressure
Does Napier need to hire an OC? No. He gets to do what he wants. Do the Gators need him to hire an OC? The answer is yes.
Agree- and OL- and RB - and REC. Championships have been won with a conservative offence( GA. - ALA etc. ). Great players create mismatches and make OC's look good and lesser players get beat and the play flops. I'm not saying it's all good but judging the play calling while the roster is still being rebuilt from zero makes little sense.
Did you really include LSU and Ole Miss as part of the "weakest part of the schedule"? That's an obscenely ignorant and ridiculous comment. Your agenda to biaych, bellyache and power whine is shameless. UFs performance against LSU and Ole Miss was ten times better than it was against UM and TAMU. For a “Gator fan” to qualify it any other way is very telling.
Rather than disagreeing with what is the weakest part of the schedule lets look at your premise that once the defense improved, and it certainly did, the offense was given the ball more often and things turned for the better on offense. It flat out didnt happen that way the team got better but we continued to be a 28 point team which is what weve been for 3 years per the stats. I could go back and include the prior two weeks where we scored 17 and 20 but thats worse and they were in fact a harder part of our schedule. I would also say referencing the Vols game as anything other than a complete coaching disaster is not accurate. It was a circus of bad coaching that eventually cost us that game. We got 24 and 27 on Kiffin and LSU which means our offense averaged less than 28 points and we fluffed it on 2 win FSU and Tulane to get back to 28. I honestly dont have any issue with BN the man, the coach or recruiter/talent evaluator but he is a bottom rung offensive coordinator who needs to recognize his own weaknesses which he has not done. DJ or not we arent going to be half the team we could be putting up 28ppg in the SEC.
In UF's last 3 games of the regular season there are some offensive stats that at the very least should raise some eyebrows. UF vs Ole Miss, 3 turnovers, third down conversions 7/15, out gained UF vs LSU, 342 yards, 18.17 minutes of offense, out gained UF vs fsu, we had 368 yards of offense but not a lot considering fsu had 5 turnovers, we were 6/13 in third down conversions. We won all three games but so much of that was due to improved defense. Now if we continue to have improved D then a good but not great offense could work.
