Like I said, I do not care what kind of offense we have as long as we win. We did not win, so I now care what kind of offense we run. Step 1: protect the QB.
C'mon, E-: I KNOW you know better than that. It shouldn't have had to come to this for anyone, least of all YOU, to come around. The wheels have come off, even by those low-expectation-driven standards. I know you could see, like all of us, the inevitability of our losing to the better SEC teams based just ON those "wins" you refer to, ones against inferior teams we let hang around, and STILL barely outscored late. We're FLORIDA. We don't party blindly at sloppy, poorly called and played victories against teams we should blow out, our heads in the sand regarding all the things staring us in the face that will soon GET us beat! We're not here just to "win a few games, thank God!", not even "just to win our share"!!! We should have, COULD have gone undefeated last year--with practically no offense! That was both a promise and a warning--and somehow to this staff it was neither: I have seen little effort in either strategy OR tactics (as reflected in the playbook or on the field, respectively) to meaningfully change that offense in 2013. What improvements I've seen have been the result of changes in personnel--changes the result of chance and necessity, things like injury and the right guy ready to step in and step up. We can "discuss" what is best DONE about all that, but not whether something needs to be done--should have long since BEEN done, and for which by now there is little excuse: Or do we just go along with whatever they tell us, even if it amounts to swallowing "mediocrity-with-an-explanation/excuse"?
If I sound angry, it's because I AM--with good reason! We've been treated as outsiders, and our questions brushed off as if not worthy of even acknowledging, let alone explaining why we were somehow wrong. Now our worst fears are realized, and it's to be MOS--"more of the same"? No. I acknowledge, and re-affirm my support for Muschamp's overall Team Philosophy, and the fine defense he has built and brought to bear, capable of beating, punishing, anyone. However: That's only PART of what makes a juggernaut, a true Champion. To make good on the reason he came here, on his promise to us and himself to build just that kind of "winner", he must make good on his specific promise not just to build that great D, not just to make the whole team TOUGH (both of which he HAS to a great extent realized), but also to bring in "that guy", that premiere young "offensive mind" that will build for him AND us the kind of tough and dominant scoring machine that will properly complement everything else that is being accomplished in Gainesville. We don't have that person, and (no surprise) we don't have anything LIKE that kind of offense even beginning to manifest on our team. We're missing some pieces (one issue among many), yes, but there's enough talent here now to accomplish a WHOLE lot more than we've shown. When it comes to summing up that offense and the staff that is responsible for it, words like "bland", "waste", and "underachievement" come to mind.
