Thanks, Bert...and, you're welcome. A. Leon Polhill FlaNative1845 330 NW 45th Street Gainesville, FL 32607 (352) 367-4642
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of BertThePiggieMan > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 3:54 PM > To: GatorTalk > Subject: [gatortalk] Re: My take > > > If it counts for anything coming from a non-Gator who had no horse in > the race, I'd like to chip in... > > Basically, what was said below matched what I felt... Sometimes fans > have a habit of saying they should have won a game, that they were the > better team, and just generally being homers or not wanting to admit > another team was better... > > My take was, if the Gators had taken care of business in the first > half, the Rebs would have gone away quietly... But the longer y'all > went on with stupid penalties and fumbles (in particular), the more > you game them hope and confidence and they hung around... Y'all should > never have lost that game... :-( > > And now y'all are gonna be pi$$ed headin' into Fayetteville :) Thanks > a lot, Houston :) > > - PiggieBert > > On Sep 29, 9:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have read a lot over the weekend about why we lost and what we need to > change, but this team and coaching staff is somewhat of an enigma. > Looking at this loss, it isn't surprising given what we have seen in the > first 3 weeks and I breakdown our issues into 3 categories:- Identity > > - Execution > > - Scheme and/or Playcalling > > Identity- While the first 3 games of the year were clearly against the > best first 3 opponents in many years and we won them in a somewhat > convincing fashion, did we emerge with any kind of identity? Florida's > high scoring offense? The incredible Florida D? No, we played well > enough in all areas to win, mistake free football, but ultimately we were > a team playing without a ton of emotion and just trying to execute > perfectly. What makes Tebow so great is his emotion, the arms pumping up > the crowd and his team, we haven't seen a lot of that this year. > > Execution - I am not talking about what we should do to Dan Mullen here > :) We have played pretty flawless ball the first 3 games, Saturday we saw > what happens when we don't. 3 fumbles lost, broken coverage on D cost us > this game. No amount of playcalling will overcome players not making > plays. Give Ol'Miss some credit, the 86 yard TD was a wonderfully > designed play and Snead executed to perfection. Meyer has said that over > 1/2 of the ol'Miss yards were on 4 plays, I believe it, just too many > lapses. The PAT was a mistake, they almost blocked the previous attempt > and we did nothing to change our protection scheme. Meyer can complain > all he wants about the player hurdling our line (he did and that is > against the rules), but if he is waiting for a ref to make a call, he will > lose a lot of games in this league. We could have adjusted and kicked the > extra point. > > Scheme and/or Playcalling - I think when I look at the scheme, it works > as we are able to make big plays and gain big chunks of yards in short > periods. That brings us to playcalling and this is where we have the > biggest debate. I won't criticize the 4th and 1 call, because we usually > win that one, I would have liked to see something different, but it is > hard to argue with a call that has worked 537 times in the past... > > Overall our playcalling is phenomenal when we start the game and when we > are behind. As soon as we get a lead, we go conservative, run sideline to > sideline, short little dink passes and include only two players in the > game. We need to play at all times like we are down by 7. > > That's my take, this was a team loss and I could make a strong argument > that playcalling, execution or emotion were the cause of this loss, but in > reality it was a perfect storm brewing for a few weeks and we got caught > by Ole Miss, thank God we weren't playing Bama this week or it would have > been real ugly. > > Ken K. > > MNGator > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
