Strength and Conditioning questions.....

You see ? We went from the beaten to the beater in mere weeks. It’s not like we got bigger and stronger in that little time.

 

100% that Spurrier finally adopting the shotgun radically changed the offense's ability to negate the pass rush and made all the difference against Bama and in the FSU rematch. But part of the problem with needed to negate the pass rush was that we were down a couple of starting lineman in Tally. Zach Pillar went down against Vandy I think, and Jeff Mitchell may have been hobbled or out too. Regardless of my fuzzy memory, we were relying on backups more than we wanted and getting them back for the Sugar Bowl helped seal the deal.

 

You are spot on, my good brother. We were not playing at our oline's best in Tallahassee that day due to injuries and backups.

 

Yes, Jim Watson was one of my favorites. Wat.

 

Which kind of begs the question why our most athletic OL out of high school has played almost none while someone who can hardly move is in a starting role number of snaps. I haven't heard anything about injury, and Kearney was being reported as a potential 6th man for the season.

 

A lot of questions here, which were answered on Saturday against LSU.

LSU had twice as many snaps, twice the time of possession. In spite of that, our defense wrecked them right up to the final minute.

Poorly conditioned players can't do that. Looks like our players on D are lean and mean, and can run.

 

My guess when Shivers gets here our S&C coaches will have to raise the bar quite a bit higher for the rest....

 

I had a feeling of dread watching that game that our defense was going to collapse with all the time they played. Somehow it seemed like the LSU offense was wearing down instead of our defense.

Both lines of scrimmage are actually good at UF - I don't know how it happened but I'll take it. I'm also not too afraid that we will follow this optimism with a stinker like we have in previous years. I probably just jinxed it.

 

At least the confidence and desire will be there.

 

We were noticing that at the game. Despite the crazy lopsided time of possession, we weren't seeing a lot of guys sucking wind with hands-on-hips.

 

Yep. I haven't kept up with this thread but grayg8rsteveo is a good guy and I believe what he says . . . like with Desmond.

 

That and a phantom holding call on our OL which negated a Gator TD.