So you're saying Florida dialed it back or played down to their competition? They didn't hold back against Arkansas or LSU or Texas A&M or Ole Miss or Georgia offensively and had to score or showed they could score. They lost two games, so I don't see where the argument makes sense here.
He's wondering when the starters left the game.... and what the score was at that point.
In his defense - He caused the fumble that should have been recovered the play before....
I tend to agree with this... For whatever reason, they stuck with the same personnel (not saying it's not the right call, just saying they've stuck with that line up).
I just looked at the Play By Play of every Florida game this year and Trask played deep into the 4th quarter of every game except Arkansas, unlike Mac whom was out of probably half the games by the 4th quarter.
I think Saban said our game plan was to drop 8 in coverage a lot and try to funnel the WR/TE... but we didn't do a good job executing on a few plans and their players made some outstanding plays also.
That's why they grade the game film. I'm not sure you can fix the issues in the middle without either a) recruiting, which they are doing, or b) coaching them up and hoping they get better with experience (good example there is Wright this year). Bama is 1st in the SEC in scoring defense. Played every team but Vandy and South Carolina. 3rd in the league in YPG (behind UGA and A&M, but 2nd only to UGA in YPP, 5.0 to 4.9). That ain't bad. The Ole Miss game was certainly not good, but I just can't get too riled up about the UF game. Saban mentioned multiple times that we were going to have issues covering and dealing with Pitts and Toney. That wasn't a surprise especially when you throw in an elite QB. I totally get that it is frustrating watching teams complete 3rd and long, and giving up so many points. I don't like that things have changed that much over the years, but I also clearly remember folks irritated at Smart years ago and throwing around the phrase "3rd and Kirby" because they'd give up big 3rd and long plays.
And Kirby’s defense was having fits with the spread
CJ is the linebacker that could play in 2009 and 2020.
HAVE is a key word.
Remember him jumping around like he was getting stung by bees trying to change the calls while the QB was already in his cadence...
I happen to agree with you on funneling the quarterback inside to close the outside lanes to them. Makes complete sense and I actually like it as our nose is usually better than the center and can close that gap and therefor cause trouble. As far as having the correct guys in the middle at linebacker, we have already started creating a more lean athlete that can run and that started with the likes of Reuben Foster under Cochran. You could easily see the transformation from his Junior year to Senior year. Moses is the perfect size athlete for what we run. My concern is we are on the wrong end of too many mismatches, and that should not happen when we have two shut down corners and some VERY solid Freshmen playing Star. No other team out there has a #4 and #5 that should keep us mismatched. I also do not understand the whole "we knew we were gonna have problems matching up" from coach because deep down he knows their offense and should have had our guys ready. He has no way of knowing what plays will be ran, but making sure we aren't in a Harris vs Cook matchup like against Georgia should be at the forefront of his planning. The middle of our defense drops into zone and we just have major gaps and large patches of green that a one star player could settle in and make a catch. I wonder if we have our safeties way too deep? I trust our corners more times than not, so I'm not as worried about the safeties moving up to help the backers and our corners being one on one over the top. I understand giving up 17 points is asking way too much against a top offense, but giving up 46 is not my idea of a good night either. Like someone said earlier, I'll definitely take a one point victory any day over a loss, but I do not accept that it's the players not performing. We have the horses, I just question who is getting them in the correct spots.
Does it bother you that much?
you want an example...he was DC at Florida under Myer and 2 natties....aside from Saban...no anyone else that can say that? Seriously dude??? You had to ask that? Where you been???
Lol