OGT 2024 Week 1: Florida Gators vs #19 Miami Hurricanes 8/31/24

[Escambia94]

The Canes have doubled the Gators in offensive production in this game. They have silenced the crowd of 90,000+, which bodes well for a Miami victory.

 

[DRU2012]

Crowd out of it now too.
So: Who do these bumbling fools behind the program go after to REALLY turn this around?
Better make it a BIG MOVE.
And speaking of "BIG MOVES":
Montrell Johnson gets us back in the game.
Sort of, anyway. A ray of hope, anyway.
Don't know that we have shown enough elsewhere to get TOO excited, but hey--it's something.

 

[DRU2012]

Crowd back. Need another big play now to tie it up.

 

[DRU2012]

We just cannot stop them when we need to.

 

[DRU2012]

If they get 6 here, I am gone for good.

 

[DRU2012]

OK. That'll do it.
Sorry, Billy. I like ya, but you just aren't an SEC-level Coach. Total breakdown in your secondary.
You yourself said you had the team you wanted. So wtf are you DOING with them?
This is a heartbreakingly bad performance.

 

[DRU2012]

I turned off Billy's silly calm analysis.
GET ANGRY, FOOL! YOU AND YOURS ARE BLOWING IT BIG TIME!!!
Or are you already sure you are gone soon ANYWAY? I thought we'd at least keep this one close.
We. Look. BAD.

 

[DRU2012]

Hot out there...Anyone gonna stick around to see a half-empty Swamp in the 4th quarter?
Sigh. How many more years of irrelevancy?
I apologize, my friends. I really DID expect much more than this, no matter what.

 

[Escambia94]

I will not be able to watch the rest of the game. I need to take care of my mother. She is still dealing with the loss of my father, so off I go to deal with real world stuff.

Go Gators.

 

[DRU2012]

No getting around it, so time to come right out and say it:
The problem here is mainly from the top down.
I KNOW what a MESS that leaves us in, how LONG it will take to "undo/REDO" AGAIN!!!
But this performance pretty wellseals the deal, Don't you think? Or am I wrong?
I WANT to be wrong. I don't care to write off the past (by the time THIS season is over) 3 years PLUS however long it will take even some absolute BRILLIANT HIRE to recover and retool, under the best of circumstances.
It is all just sinking in, even as it all collapses around us.

 

[DRU2012]

I will not be able to watch the rest of the game. I need to take care of my mother. She is still dealing with the loss of my father, so off I go to deal with real world stuff.

Go Gators.

She is lucky to have you, as you are lucky to still have each other (sorry for the obvious platitudes).

Never mind this silliness. We all know where this one is headed anyway.

I don't know how any of us will deal with where this whole season (and hence, the PROGRAM) is headed after this. I think we have been released still a mediocre team on BOTH sides of the ball--and it ISN'T for lack of talent.
Sound is off now for 2nd half after they scored AGAIN to start the 3rd. Blow out. Will turn it off soon. What a terribly disappointing performance. This one is BEYOND merely "embarrassing".
If there were an attractive enough alternative, given all leading up to it, and the season still ahead, this one is bad enough to fire and replace your head Coach after Game One!
OK OK. I will spare you further such whining; however, the only way to do that is to shut it down. Shut ME down.
All my heartfelt support to Escambia and his mom at this difficult time.
And it is STILL "great (if currently, painfully DIFFICULT) to be a Florida Gator"GATOR.
We will be back. Somehow. Someday.

 

[DRU2012]

ANOTHER TD. I couldn't even sign off in time to miss this one... abd they are chomping in OUR ENDZONE. Painful. Billy, what hath thou wrought???

 

[Escambia94]

I made the mistake of checking the score. Yeah. I am officially out of the Billy Napier fan club.

 

[Leakfan12]

I can't, I can't with this game

 

[Escambia94]

DJ Lagway looked pretty good in his second series. Ja’Kobi Jackson and Treyaun Webb gave us some hope.

• 1st & 10 at FLA 42​

  (11:07 - 4th) DJ Lagway pass complete to Eugene Wilson III for 11 yds to the MIA 47 for a 1ST down

• 1st & 10 at MIA 47​

  (10:11 - 4th) DJ Lagway pass complete to Eugene Wilson III for 16 yds to the MIA 31 for a 1ST down

• 1st & 10 at MIA 31​

  (10:03 - 4th) DJ Lagway run for 1 yd to the MIA 30

• 2nd & 9 at MIA 30​

  (9:09 - 4th) Ja'Kobi Jackson run for 11 yds to the MIA 19 for a 1ST down

• 1st & 10 at MIA 19​

  (8:51 - 4th) DJ Lagway pass incomplete

• 2nd & 10 at MIA 19​

  (8:40 - 4th) Ja'Kobi Jackson run for a loss of 2 yards to the MIA 21

• 3rd & 12 at MIA 21​

  (8:09 - 4th) DJ Lagway run for 16 yds to the MIA 5 for a 1ST down

• 1st & Goal at MIA 5​

  (8:05 - 4th) DJ Lagway pass complete to Arlis Boardingham for 4 yds to the MIA 1

• 2nd & Goal at MIA 1​

  (7:14 - 4th) Treyaun Webb run for 1 yd for a TD (Trey Smack KICK)

 

[Escambia94]

This is the ugliest box score I have ever had to share. To make matters worse, Graham Mertz suffered a concussion.

	Miami	Florida
Points	41	17
1st Downs	25	17
3rd down efficiency	5-10	1-9
4th down efficiency	0-0	1-2
Total Yards	529	261
Passing	385	122
Comp-Att	26-36	14-26
Yards per pass	10.7	4.7
Interceptions thrown	1	2
Rushing	144	139
Rushing Attempts	33	28
Yards per rush	4.4	5.0
Penalties	2-26	2-25
Turnovers	1	2
Fumbles lost	0	0
Interceptions thrown	1	2
Possession	34:30	25:30

 

[Escambia94]

On the bright side, the Gator defense had a decent performance up front.

LB Grayson “Pup” Howard - 80.8
LB Jaden Robinson - 76.8
F Tyreak Sapp - 76.0
CB Dijon Johnson - 73.3
NT Desmond Watson - 72.9