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What needs to be fixed
- Thread starter GainesvillebornNraised
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For those of us viewing this on a mobile device, here is that article with key points quoted and more of my obvious commentary:
Yeah. We beat that dead horse. One last poke--John Eugene Francis Brantley IV sucks. He's broken. He is scared to death of getting sacked, hit, bumped, or sneezed on. Thank you, offensive line. Thank you, offensive line coach. (I would like to point out that in 2009, our very own offensive lineman knocked out Superman, not the Kentucky defensive linemen. Perhaps Addazio should switch the OL and the DL.
Give these guys the ball: Dunkley - 0 rec/0 yds. Clark - 6/68. Debose - 10/96. Patton - 4/27. Dunbar - 0/0.
Decide what you want to do with this clown: Thompson - 36/548 plus 5,327 drops.
Stop texting women: Rainey - 22/198.
Make up your mind if you want to be a playmaker: Hines - 18/254.
What a waste of a senior year: Carl Moore - 27/349.
'Nuff said. Statistics: too painful to copy and paste. Pretend that they are all zeroes. In 2011, our Florida pass rush may get fixed by a pair of kids from California.
Flip a coin. Heads = dive. Tails = swing pass. If the coin lands on its edge, then we get a deep strike. FACT: Addazio is not going anywhere in 2011. What should Meyer do? Urban Meyer could either hire Urban Meyer as the OC, or promote someone to offensive co-coordinator.
Yep. Pick one. Fans are screaming for Brantley to be a traditional drop-back passer. Meyer built this team for the spread-option. He cannot do both offenses. Pick one. Stick with it. Yes, I think the boring spread-option can work and that Brantley can run it. He just needs a DeShawn Wynn-like running back, like Chris Leak had.
1. Take care of the ball. 2. Score in the Red Zone. 3. Play great defense. 4. Win the field position game with the kicking game. We did not do any of that. (Beating the dead horse, I know, but there is the Plan to Win just in case you forgot. I sure did.)
Solution:
I actually think THIS would have fixed the 2010 season a few weeks ago. THIS might be the best thing to fix for 2011.
Yeah. We beat that dead horse. One last poke--John Eugene Francis Brantley IV sucks. He's broken. He is scared to death of getting sacked, hit, bumped, or sneezed on. Thank you, offensive line. Thank you, offensive line coach. (I would like to point out that in 2009, our very own offensive lineman knocked out Superman, not the Kentucky defensive linemen. Perhaps Addazio should switch the OL and the DL.
Give these guys the ball: Dunkley - 0 rec/0 yds. Clark - 6/68. Debose - 10/96. Patton - 4/27. Dunbar - 0/0.
Decide what you want to do with this clown: Thompson - 36/548 plus 5,327 drops.
Stop texting women: Rainey - 22/198.
Make up your mind if you want to be a playmaker: Hines - 18/254.
What a waste of a senior year: Carl Moore - 27/349.
'Nuff said. Statistics: too painful to copy and paste. Pretend that they are all zeroes. In 2011, our Florida pass rush may get fixed by a pair of kids from California.
Flip a coin. Heads = dive. Tails = swing pass. If the coin lands on its edge, then we get a deep strike. FACT: Addazio is not going anywhere in 2011. What should Meyer do? Urban Meyer could either hire Urban Meyer as the OC, or promote someone to offensive co-coordinator.
Yep. Pick one. Fans are screaming for Brantley to be a traditional drop-back passer. Meyer built this team for the spread-option. He cannot do both offenses. Pick one. Stick with it. Yes, I think the boring spread-option can work and that Brantley can run it. He just needs a DeShawn Wynn-like running back, like Chris Leak had.
1. Take care of the ball. 2. Score in the Red Zone. 3. Play great defense. 4. Win the field position game with the kicking game. We did not do any of that. (Beating the dead horse, I know, but there is the Plan to Win just in case you forgot. I sure did.)
Solution:
I actually think THIS would have fixed the 2010 season a few weeks ago. THIS might be the best thing to fix for 2011.
That horse has long since been beaten into chopped meat, formed into patties and sold at Mexican McDonalds
(I'm one of the worst offenders). It's all true of course. I would add only one thing here:
The coaches I think are guilty of their OWN "sense of entitlement"--who among them has been held responsible for the breakdowns in every facet of play throughout the season, least of all the Offensive Coordinator (who failed even to have his unit prepared to play each week, from Game 1 on!)? Our Head Coach has continued to put it on "injuries" and "the players" right through to the bitter end (an apt name for it).
I've read a NUMBER of these articles, all thorough and thoughtful in their way, and though I've recommended several here, I'm more or less waiting now to see what, if anything, changes...for you know as well as I, either something large happens regarding who is in charge of the offense (and at this point, I'd TAKE Urban's eeeeeeasing Addazio aside by brining in a "Co-Co", transparent and asinine as that would be), or he won't--in which case it will be COMPLETELY on the defense to make and keep us competitive in 2011.
(I'm one of the worst offenders). It's all true of course. I would add only one thing here:
The coaches I think are guilty of their OWN "sense of entitlement"--who among them has been held responsible for the breakdowns in every facet of play throughout the season, least of all the Offensive Coordinator (who failed even to have his unit prepared to play each week, from Game 1 on!)? Our Head Coach has continued to put it on "injuries" and "the players" right through to the bitter end (an apt name for it).
I've read a NUMBER of these articles, all thorough and thoughtful in their way, and though I've recommended several here, I'm more or less waiting now to see what, if anything, changes...for you know as well as I, either something large happens regarding who is in charge of the offense (and at this point, I'd TAKE Urban's eeeeeeasing Addazio aside by brining in a "Co-Co", transparent and asinine as that would be), or he won't--in which case it will be COMPLETELY on the defense to make and keep us competitive in 2011.
BTW, the piece originally referenced at the start of this thread, Robbie Andreau's "What needs to be fixed" (an otherwise fair and thorough-going read) included a point that Pat Dooley (also at gainesvillesun.com) has basically expanded into a whole column, "Maybe Florida not as talented as you think", the idea being that just because ratings-services give classes a high rating (Dooley specifically singles out our 2008 and 2009 recruiting classes for mention in this context) doesn't mean they turn out to be good players--and he goes further to make this the main reason for our fall.
Now, while there is OF COURSE truth to the general underlying point here, what I don't like is the way this in effect supports and ratifies Coach Meyers' continuing to put much of the blame for the problems and failures of the past season on the players (in his post-game presser and on his show, he said he didn't want to make excuses, then proceeded to mention "injuries" and "the players" REPEATEDLY in explaining what went wrong, in the game AND in the season).
No mention of other very large and very real problems elsewhere, especially on offense, with game-planning, play-calling, LEADERSHIP issues on AND off the field. Y'all know where I'm going here--I don't have to belabor it. I just think we've got talent over there on that team, talent that has been mis- and/or under-used in the most inept and irresponsible manner I have ever witnessed. It tears me apart to see it done to an otherwise promising group of Florida Gators. More fine players with enormous potential are on the way, including an amazingly promising QB-of-the-future, and I HATE the idea of that idiot and the meat-grinding man-breaker of an offense he is running over there getting ahold of them.
On a related but darkly humorous note, Spencer Hall over at EDSBS (Every Day Should Be Saturday) refers to Addazio at one point as "the lupus of offense". Gave me a laugh...
Now, while there is OF COURSE truth to the general underlying point here, what I don't like is the way this in effect supports and ratifies Coach Meyers' continuing to put much of the blame for the problems and failures of the past season on the players (in his post-game presser and on his show, he said he didn't want to make excuses, then proceeded to mention "injuries" and "the players" REPEATEDLY in explaining what went wrong, in the game AND in the season).
No mention of other very large and very real problems elsewhere, especially on offense, with game-planning, play-calling, LEADERSHIP issues on AND off the field. Y'all know where I'm going here--I don't have to belabor it. I just think we've got talent over there on that team, talent that has been mis- and/or under-used in the most inept and irresponsible manner I have ever witnessed. It tears me apart to see it done to an otherwise promising group of Florida Gators. More fine players with enormous potential are on the way, including an amazingly promising QB-of-the-future, and I HATE the idea of that idiot and the meat-grinding man-breaker of an offense he is running over there getting ahold of them.
On a related but darkly humorous note, Spencer Hall over at EDSBS (Every Day Should Be Saturday) refers to Addazio at one point as "the lupus of offense". Gave me a laugh...
GainesvillebornNraised
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we got talent forget that i think he just wanted to write something different especially at WR but nobody would know it, i think d-line could be alot better too if urb played the right players or atleast we could be getting our young guys the exp
one thing i read the other day was since we're getting all this great talent we gotta have great coaches to be fair to these kids
hopefully urban sees that
one thing i read the other day was since we're getting all this great talent we gotta have great coaches to be fair to these kids
hopefully urban sees that
Yup--Again, from Andreau's piece:
"Five star players deserve five star coaches..."
"Five star players deserve five star coaches..."
