On To Jacksonville

by mlmintampa on Oct 25, 2009 7:30 AM EDT in Florida Football

There are a few things to note from the Gators' 29-19 win over Mississippi State. One of them is from the Orlando Sentinel's Jeremy Fowler;

Once Chris Rainey got his first touch in the red zone, he rushed for a 9-yard touchdown with 9:08 left in the fourth quarter. Gators running backs got two red-zone touches all game.

That's right, Florida's great backs touched the ball twice during UF's attempts to set offensive football back six decades. This combined with Tim Tebow being asked to throw a play action pass on his one-yard line in the final four minutes, is proof that the playcalling must end now. You can beat Mississippi State by using Tebow as a blunt object, but you will not beat Georgia.

Florida's focus was again missing as Tebow hit a wide open Miss State DB for a 100 yard touchdown and Dustin Doe's Leon Lett moment was saved by the worst conference officials in America. In game seven, can we finally say that Tebow is regressing? Or that too much of the load on his shoulders is breaking him down? As for Doe, I can pass that off as a one time thing and Caleb Sturgis' misses like a golfer missing the fairway. But I'm running out of excuses for Tebow.

Let's end on a happy note, however. Tebow is now tied with Herschel Walker for most SEC rushing touchdowns. The side effect of having an eight-year old calling our red zone plays is that after Tebow's score, he never got to the end zone again. And we know, Urban would love breaking that record in Jacksonville and rubbing it in the face of every Georgia fan. That is the only thing to be sure of in Jacksonville right now, and that's not very good for us.

Welcome To Hate Georgia Week.

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I think we can safely say at least that

WRs who aren’t very good at making reads combined with subpar pass protection has put more pressure on Tebow-the-pass-thrower than he can currently handle. Tebow needs to have a better sense of the pressure on him on that second pick, but he did have a receiver WIDE open and got no protection.

Also, I think Addazio finally turned to the second page of the playbook yesterday, but I don’t think he realizes that he’s still allowed to use page 1 as well. Did he forget about the option?

by Gator Cub on Oct 25, 2009 8:07 AM EDT reply actions

Wide receivers not named Cooper

have a combined 9 catches in 5 SEC games.

Sturgis’ XP miss was a result of a bad snap and hold. The FG miss….well, he bought himself some leeway last week. He’s missed three of 12 or so in his first season as the placekicker. He’ll be ok….I think.

by Giant Catfish on Oct 25, 2009 1:44 PM EDT reply actions

Also, the long-promised I-form

finally made an appearance, and we promptly score a red zone touchdown, something that was impossible before. Then the I-form never came back.

I’ll repeat what I said in the gameday thread at TSK: Addazio calls plays like I do when I sit on my Xbox controller.

by Giant Catfish on Oct 25, 2009 1:51 PM EDT reply actions

In his dreams

Addazio only dreams of calling a football game as well as you do on your Xbox. His thoughts on the I formation – ‘hmmm, that worked too well, must have been a mistake’

by 1974gator on Oct 26, 2009 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions