*Guy pretty much nails it IMO.
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*http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2013/what-happened-saturday-week-2/
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Coach Boom Ball Exposed, Again*
What happened to the University of Florida on Saturday in Miami could be
called a philosophical loss. Miami didn't do much, but that's the
problem with Will Muschamp's style of football -- it doesn't take much
to lose.
Last season we watched Florida win ugly... a lot. The ugly wins against
good teams like Texas A&M, LSU and Florida State made it easier to
overlook the ugly wins against terrible teams like Bowling Green,
Louisiana-Lafayette, and Missouri. The wins allowed us to give the
Gators a pass for their miserable offensive performance against Georgia
and their humiliating bowl loss against Louisville. Saturday's loss to
Miami exposed the Florida Gators for what they really are: A Great
Defense with a terrible offense and questionable coaching.
Want to beat Florida? Take some chances. Run some trick plays. Go for it
on fourth down. Air it out, a lot. They might not always work out, but
even if they don't, Florida doesn't have the offense to make you pay
consistently.
That is what Miami did on Saturday. They executed their choreographed
first drive and then, later in the quarter, took a chance on the deep
ball and connected. 14 first quarter points. That's it. That was all The
U needed to beat Florida. Sure the Gators might also get to 14, but
their offense is so lame and unimaginative and their execution of said
plays will be so poor that they will inadvertently give up seven points
in their efforts to score 14.
Miami's plan was to make Quarterback Jeff Driskel beat them. They took
away the run and decided to take their chances with Driskel; They chose
wisely. Driskel rewarded the Hurricanes with two redzone interceptions,
a fumble and a terrible effort on fourth and short. Often he had plays
in which he had more time than any quarterback should ever conceivably
have and produced nothing. The big question mark coming into this season
was, "Could Jeff Driskel take the next step and become the quarterback
he was expected to be as the #1 quarterback recruit in the country?" The
answer is no. He did not take that step. He will never be that guy.
Driskel doesn't get all the blame or even a majority of the blame for
this loss. That falls on Head Coach Will Muschamp. He broke from
protocol. Florida failed on a baffling first quarter two-point
conversion and the team never recovered. It sounds insane that one point
in the first quarter could determine the game but it did for the Gators.
Muschamp can't have it both ways. He can't be the team that clearly
despises offense, running the kind of offense that would be described as
cripplingly conservative in 1980, and also be the team that goes for two
in the first quarter and passes on an easy field goal inside the twenty.
The irony is: had Muschamp stuck with his system of being the most
miserably boring offense in the history of football, the Gators would
have won the game. They would have turned turnovers into field goals and
the defense would have held on. They would have forced Miami's average
QB to make the kind of plays that often turn into turnovers. Will
Muschamp didn't believe in his own system, which as we've now seen too
many times, leaves zero room for error, be it offensive, defensive or
coaching errors.
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