Chomping At Bits: John Brantley, Florida's Wounded "Warrior"
by Andy Hutchins on Oct 30, 2011 3:00 PM EDT
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John Brantley, warrior: Man, this is going to turn into hagiography before long. Note to anyone who wants to praise Brantley as a warrior for sheer toughness: He came back a little earlier than he might have from an injury, failed to win a game despite chance after chance to do so, forced his offensive coordinator to essentially customize his playbook for his very limited capabilities, and made his share of mistakes and bad throws. He proved he's a little tougher than some knew on Saturday, but not much else. Cool it with the beatification. (Scott Carter, GatorZone)
Muschamp on Brantley: "A gutsy performance," despite Florida's new low. (Tom Green, The Independent Florida Alligator)
Florida's problems aren't all its quarterbacks: You think, doctor? (Edward Aschoff, ESPN)
Postgame notes and quotes: Ctrl + F Aaron Murray's name to be especially mad. (GatorZone PDF)
Georgia coaches win with inimitable class: Which is to say very little. (Lyle Fitzsimmons, RapidReports/CBS Sports)
Jarvis Jones, time and again: He's good at football. (Jon, Saturday Down South)
Bright side No. 1: Florida isn't Tennessee. (Will Shelton, Rocky Top Talk)
Bright side No. 2: Brad Beal, the No. 8 shooting guard in America! #BasketballSchool (Steve Megargee, Rivals)
After the jump, the Gators video of the day.
Via Gator Envy, this video's of Class of 2012 commits Matt Jones and Mike Davis. You can probably just watch it on mute.
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How far away are we from Tennessee?
Let’s break down the Vols situation:
- Can’t run the ball. At all. Not even a little bit.
- No decent, healthy quarterback.
- Best case scenario is 6-6.
- Saban disciple at head coach.
- An abject lack of talent all over the place.
Sound familiar? The biggest difference is that they’re in year two of Dooley, and this is Muschamp’s first go around.
Oh, come on. Don't leave your uncle T-bag hangin'.
There is a big difference in a year. But, were in the same “depth issues” that Tennessee had last year. Could get interesting…
Our top talent is better though.
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I agree
Our talent is above Tennessee’s, but our numbers problems are similar. I think both Tennessee and Florida will be back, but I’m more optimistic about Florida’s future, despite the setbacks.
by CanWeBeMature on Oct 30, 2011 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed.
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I'm not sure I agree on the offensive side of the ball.
They’re hurt right now, but Bray is better than any of our QBs. Hunter and Rodgers are both better than any of our receiving options. They don’t have any decent RBs, but neither do we apparently.
Our defensive talent far surpasses theirs, however.
Oh, come on. Don't leave your uncle T-bag hangin'.
I was thinking defense when I wrote that.
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Why does everyone think that saban is amazing
what you are seeing now is a seasoned veteran. He was all-world at LSU before. He was good, but not worship me good. He was coming to them from Michigan State, where he had good seasons and bad seasons. Saban at Bama is the benefit of waking the Bama monster and his experience over the years.
Give Will some time. Not everyone is great from the get go. I mean even Meyer had a head coaching gig before he made it big at Utah and then here.
Perfect (pur-fec-t): the only person on earth, besides Tim Tebow, in the 21st century to be without fault is gatorhippy.
LSU
he wasn’t all world. TYPO
Perfect (pur-fec-t): the only person on earth, besides Tim Tebow, in the 21st century to be without fault is gatorhippy.
Yeah
but you look at the entire body of work, and back then no one was singing praises to Saban until he finally pulled that off. Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s a superb coach and a good talent evaluator, I’m just using his early career to highlight that he wasn’t always putting the fear of God into opposing fan bases.
We shouldn’t expect his proteges to be as successful as he now currently is from the get go.
Perfect (pur-fec-t): the only person on earth, besides Tim Tebow, in the 21st century to be without fault is gatorhippy.
I think Brantley deserves a lot of respect for going out there.
I know of many current and former Gators who would pull themselves out. I think you all can think of some too.
His dedication to the team doesn’t change the fact that he was utterly and completely ineffective in the second half, in large part due to his injury. My contention that he should not have been playing is not about Brantley, it’s about the coaching staff being stubborn and not having a back up plan.
Would Driskel/Brissett have done better? I have no idea, but I do know three things:
1) It would have been hard to be worse, statistically.
2) Both of them could have avoided some of those killer sacks that Brantley had to take because of his immobility.
3) Both of them could have gone under center, which would have greatly helped the running game and play action passing.
Oh, come on. Don't leave your uncle T-bag hangin'.
brilliant post.
Exactly what i was attempting to convey Saturday. Besides the numerous plays that had open receivers that he could’ve thrown to instead of getting rid of it, I honestly saw Brantley doing the best he could with his immobility. Regardless him still being in the game in the second half was a horrible horrible call on the coaches part.
If the thing about the coaches is true
then I’ll be disappointed in our booth coaching staff. But I’m gonna wait for some confirmation first. Although I’m sure that Ray Goof feels its justified.
by Mark Mandingo on Oct 30, 2011 4:21 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
This is true…
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More than one Florida media member made note of it.
I would guess it’s probably more true than not.
by Andy Hutchins on Nov 1, 2011 1:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Georgia Coaches
All this talk about the Georgia coaches showing all this class crack my shit up. The guys over at Dawg Sports were talking about how Mark Richt showed so much class by not tacking on a TD at the end and that our coaches would have ran up the score at the end. Okay, why would Mark Richt try to get a TD there at the end? With as bad as luck as he has had in the rivalry there is probably about a 90% chance Georgia would have fumbled or got pick 6’d. I still don’t know how Georgia coaches are classy. Their DC is crazier then our HC…and that is saying something.
Coach Muschamp: Laying the Boom down on your a.....
by Gators1 on Oct 30, 2011 5:42 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
the big question is how are these recruits feeling about what they are seeing...
As far as some of these ridiculous decisions that the coaches have made in these games this season. With kent taylor recently commiting and no reported decommits it seems like it hasn’t had much of an impact. But one can only wonder considering the level of experience all these coaches have at the highest level and their lack of success and with what kids DON’T say.
Most of them have said that they’re sticking with the Gators through thick and thin. But with 18-year olds, you just never know. I worry about it as well.
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interesting year
As a Nole fan with great respect for the game, I am excited to see the NOLES and gators battle this year. Should be a great game!
by ChiefOceola on Oct 30, 2011 11:03 PM EDT via iPhone app reply actions
Hopefully.
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Two disappointing teams going at it when they got nothing to lose except another game always makes for some damn good football can’t wait to be sittin in the swamp for that one.
by gatorempire127 on Oct 31, 2011 12:19 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
My only wish left unshattered for the year is beating FSU
I can live with a down season. I don’t want to hear FSU taunts for a year though. I think the seminoles in my friends/family circle have a lot of pent up frustration and would love to let me hear it for a year.
Yeah, that’s the one game for me as well … to save the season.
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