Debose had been training for the slot receiver but has been moved to "X" receiver, so he's learning new routes and blocking schemes. ----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Baldwin To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 1:17 PM Subject: RE: [gatortalk] FW: [gatornews] [Foxsportsflorida.com] Gator offense finds its identity
<<With Tebow being replaced by Brantley as starting QB and, with Azzanni replacing Gonzalez as WR coach, that a lot of things, such as route trees, etc. may have changed?>> He has nine months to study the changes to the offense since Tebow and Gonzalez left. I doubt the routes have changed completely. Don't you think anyone that wants to learn the plays and routes - anyone whose job it is to learn the plays and routes - would pick it up in nine months? How did Thompson, Moore, Hines, and all the other WRs do it? How did Burton do it? << And don't you think that he'd need to prove that he's ready in practice before he's given a chance to possibly hurt the team by messing up badly in a game?>> I definitely think that. I'm not saying put him in the game before he is ready. My question is - why isn't he ready? Why are so many of these guys on offense - not ready? I don't think that Debose is the answer to our problems. Maybe one day he will be. From what little bit I have read - I think he has mental problems getting back into the game after being injured. I also think he has reservations about getting hit. From what I have seen - I would have Hines start at slot, Hammond and Moore start out wide. Moore has very few yards after the catch - but grabs most everything thrown near him. I love watching Hines run with the ball. I think Hammond is a playmaker and our third best receiver. The problem is - we wasted three games - getting these guys ready to play this fall. We could have better used those games for trying new things, working out kinks, etc. Seems like our offense was not ready to play till the Kentucky game. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve McKibben Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 12:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [gatortalk] FW: [gatornews] [Foxsportsflorida.com] Gator offense finds its identity Keith - let's suppose that he (Debose) did sit around and learn the playbook while he was injured. Don't you think that; With Tebow being replaced by Brantley as starting QB and, with Azzanni replacing Gonzalez as WR coach, that a lot of things, such as route trees, etc. may have changed? Do you think book and film study can negate the need for real life application of what one has learned? And don't you think that he'd need to prove that he's ready in practice before he's given a chance to possibly hurt the team by messing up badly in a game? Debose was the target for several passes on our first couple of drives. Did you notice that they were very simple patterns where the ball was delivered very quickly to him? I believe that was a reward for him having, according to Meyer, his best week of practice ever. I don't think they could continue throwing the ball to him in the same way all night long because the element of surprise was gone, and UK was probably defending him in a way that would neccessitate him reading the defenses and making the proper route tree adjustments - something he's said to not have a firm grasp on yet, therefore he seemed to disappear again. --- Keith Baldwin wrote: With all that sitting around - Debose can't study the playbook, watch a ton of film, practices - and learn the plays? Seems to me like - that is what you do if you are injured? If you're injured - don't you spend more time studying - not less time? -- 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 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- 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 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- 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 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
