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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
