OK I'm more nervous since they're more than likely starting their THIRD STRING QB. Anybody else nervous if that happens?
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Ga8or22, @
miltongator,
Remember who MADE him "3rd-string"...Pease's judgment, generally and specifically, is certainly open to question and criticism...
As I note above, the reason
I'VE been calling for this very change for sometime is two-fold: It began from a "prep for next season" POV, as in, "Let's get a good look at this kid and see what he's got before Grier even gets here..." (now THAT one, Grier, may really be "something very special"--but they'll almost certainly wanna red-shirt him if they possibly can) "...and meanwhile he (Mornigweg) gets a 1/2-season of real-world work in the SEC".
Then, another reason started to surface: By a number of accounts he began to master the playbook and really came-on in practice lately, by those accounts calling audibles and hitting his "3rd-reads" with laser-shots in-stride, pickin' apart our still-talented and normally stifling defense when both were allowed to "cut loose" in scrimmage. I talk about this elsewhere, giving this very change as a reason for my seeing a "ray-of-hope" possibly offsetting my
complete pessimism regarding this game, should the kid perform well and enliven the whole team accordingly--these are young (barely) "men", after all, they play as much on emotion as conditioning and discipline, after all, so such turn-arounds can and do happen. Again, though, in one
more example of complete and stubborn inflexibility, and inability to make any call-for-change, it only happened 'cause Murphy is just too banged up to go on--go on sinking back to his previous well-worn mediocre level-of-play that kept him at "Senior Walk-On who ran the scout-team offense", after all...As E- notes, it was and is a "valiant effort", he played "out-of-his-mind"--literally, probably--that first week or two--but that should never BEEN anything but a "bridge" 'til Mornigweg was "ready", ready to hold his own and not be "ruined" by being overwhelmingly "
NOT ready" in a game where Spurrier will certainly "send his dogs" after the young first-time-starter...If Skylar can keep his head, tho', he'll have a few chances early to not merely weather this onslaught but take advantage of it--and given a couple of early long-gainers/TD-passes, well, who knows?
Anyway, it's a reason for me to now watch at least the the first quarter or so with interest. We'll know where it's likely headed by then, I figure. It could still get ugly, change nothing. Yeah, OKAY, I'm just not very good at this "optimism" thing--'specially in a season like this one, with every other aspect/sign "headed south" for our Gators of late.
Been sittin' in bed (not my own--that's a plus) drinkin' cognac and coffee (and soon "late breakfast" from the sounds I'm hearing down below--I'm not even in Texas this weekend--in Manhattan of all places, big adult amusement park that it is), so all-in-all, things could be worse...That's as close to "positive, up beat" as I've got--not bad, 'til I look up and remember I've got the
Ivy League game on, rather than OSU or anything else that either reminds me of all the schools with something still to play for, or worse, that have some connect, current or former, direct or not, with us. So it goes, in a f*cked season, with a STUCK AD holding onto a STUBBORN Head Coach clutching a FLOUNDERING OC for all each is worth--and all of us in free-fall together, talking about "maybe next year"...I HATE IT!!!
