Took away the run? we had over 200 yards on the ground.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:52 PM, C.Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: > *Guy pretty much nails it IMO. > * > > *http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2013/what-happened-saturday-week-2/ > * > > * > 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. > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GatorTalk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GatorTalk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
