Post-Game Discussion: Missouri 17 at FLORIDA 24

How many tackles did Miller have?

 

Your MLB should be making a lot of tackles for you if DL are doing their jobs. I saw progress on DL. They collapsed the pocket pretty well while also maintaining their lanes better and improved contain. FAR from perfect, but a tad better.

I thought the secondary was pretty slow to react. Hill bailed them out as a unit. I'll defer to the film reviews as my initial perception could be way off.

 

I will say both fgs were very long, they were not chip shots.

 

Yes. He is a solid dude.

 

I guess the big takeaway for me so far this season is this team does not quit. We're obviously going to loose some more but this team doesn't give up unlike last year. I thought towards the end of last season Mullin had lost the team...

 

Three major concerns about the team. 1 - Third down defense. Not sure if the coaches don't trust the players to play tighter on the receivers or the coaches aren't calling that sort of defense. 2 - Not maximizing AR's talent by letting him run and get into a rhythm. He's not a cerebral - analytical player. He's an instinctual player. And 3 - field goal kicking. Tempted to offer to him the same advice Gary Danielson offered our kicker in 2006. Miss small. Aim for a fan in a bright jersey in the stands directly in the middle of the uprights.

 

There's this thing in football called a turnover.

 

Good points. Playing way off the receivers is a slow death.

 

We should be favorite in every remaining game with exception of GA. A&M is toss up, but we should win LSU, Vandy, fSU, and SC. We gifted UK 14 points with AR int. We just need to keep fighting, and build for future.

 

We all should have had enough of making evert freaking QB look all world.

 

Defense was really disruptive today at the line of scrimmage. 13 TFL, 4 sacks. LB's (Burney and Miller) probably had their best game all year IMO, considering the opponent. Curious to see if the film lines up with what I thought I saw live. Really curious to see that participation report too, because other than Miller with 11 tackles, 2 TFL, and Burney, 8 tackles, .5 TFL, only one other LB had any stats.

They blew some stuff on 3rd down in the secondary - which is really frustrating. Only bright spot in the secondary today was Hill - who was really big for us today.

Missouri was 9-17 on 3rd down - so that means for the year Florida is 43-85 on 3rd down defense, which keeps them as one of the 5 worst teams on 3rd down in ALL OF DIVISION 1. You HAVE to fix that.

Offense in the 2nd half reminded me of the worst of the Muschamp years. QB play is extremely limited, passing offense is uncreative, and the team lives and dies by the run. It's not sustainable. They have to figure out the QB position. They won't win many games with 66 passing yards, and 2 turnovers by the QB. For the season, Richardson now has 10 total TD and 9 total turnovers. That ratio needs to improve.

I think we are now 1-4 this year on FG's over 45 yards but need someone to check me on that. Might want to consider not kicking as many of those.

A hard fought win. Honestly thought Missouri would score a bunch more - but thankfully they might have even more problems on offense than Florida does. I have no idea how they scored 22 on Georgia.

But now UF is 4-2 at the midway point with a wounded LSU team coming into BHG next week. Gotta keep getting better, get back to work, and find a way to win again at home against another up and down team.

 

I hope you are correct. What occurs to me is, what will we do in those games to cripple ourselves? Who says we won't gift all a couple TDs?

 

I can say with 100% couch coach certainty that there is no defensive call in all of football that has a S stand on a hash 20 yards deep and never moves until a pass is thrown. Why ours do it is baffling. Both of them.

 

Encourage by:

• AR showed some resilience in the second half and made some runs when we needed them.
• The defense made some big plays with the INTs, TFLs (13) & sacks (4).

Discouraged by:

• AR had a horrendous first half, especially passing.
• The offense had three turnovers.
• The defense gave up big plays and third down conversions.

 

Miller finished with 11 tackles, 10 of them solos and two of them for loss, and had the QB pressure on Missouri's final play that helped clinched the win.

 

By my count we've also had 10 fumbles/ints. I don't think that's enough to explain our inability to get a stop on third downs...