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Message Replied To ========== Progress and thoughts.... Good win yesterday. The Gators are averaging 32 points per game and it is obvious that they are markedly undeperforming on Offense. Lots of points being left on the field. On average double digit points left on the field. Yesterday was a great example of that. 500+ yds of total O and only two TDs. While very frustrating at times, it shows how close we are to having a dominating offense and completely dominating team. Just look at the two games of 40 or more, the other being UK, we should've scored 60. We all knew that the O-line was not where it needs to be going in to the season, and I think that it continues to improve. It better, the second half of the season will be tough. I really worry about our road games. Last night, we finally saw a nice distribution of passes to the wide out's and had multiple backs over 100 yds. There was obvious rust with Luke. His propensity to throw jump balls was disturbing last night, particularly when it went towards double coverage. One other thing that bothered me was that it was obvious that we could pound it last night, but kept throwing it while Luke struggled. Still, we should have scored 50-60 easily with 21 non-offensive points. Man we are close to being a great team. Now clean it up and hang half a hunnerd on those DAMN DAWG BUTT SNIFFERS!!!============================== we are obviously still a work in progress as we thought we'd be. The OL is improving but it is also still below average. We have some good young talent - particularly on Offense (Scarlett, Perine, Taylor, Cleveland, Hammond, Swain) but in addition to weak OL play, we are quite sloppy committing lots of penalties and still having too many blown assignments. LDR needs to work on his timing in the next two weeks and stop pressing so hard like he did yesterday - that led him into a few really bad decisions. While the Offense is not where we hoped it would be yet, I think its about what we should have expected at this point given the complete overhaul of that side of the ball. Although we struggle often, we are moving the ball vastly better than we did under Chump and although we have come close, the team has not lost any games we "should" have won ie to a clearly inferior opponent, in a year and a half under Coach Mac. That's no small thing as the Leghumpers could tell you today. I think the Offense will finish somewhere around the 60s in Total Offense which while totally unacceptable by the standards of the last 30+ years, is vastly improved over any Offense we've had since 2009. Next year we can reasonably expect to have a top 30 Offense which seemed like the impossible dream a few years ago. Beyond that, we are going to need talent upgrades at QB and OL to field a truly elite Offense but improvements of 50 places in the standings and even say 30 more places next year are nothing to turn up our noses at. We should be able to get more top shelf talent on Offense as we continue to show progress. |
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