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HungaryGator
Doubletree Resident
(71.71.128.113) on 8/17/2018 - 4:26 p.m. says: ( 217 views
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Message Replied To ========== Back in 2010 and especially 2011, several of us were calling for Gillislee to carry the load, as he was clearly our hardest runner. The coaching staff nevertheless continued to run our much smaller backs into the line for no gain. Finally they graduated, and Gillislee had a big year in 2012, becoming the 1st 1000-yard rusher since 2004. Thankfully, I don't think we're going to face the same scenario this year. It's clear to everyone that Scarlett is the leader at RB. It's great that he has talented backups, though. Both to push him and to relieve him. Seasons are long, and RBs have the shortest lives of any position due to the beatings they take. I think Scarlett is set up for a big year. He had 912 yards and averaged 5.0 ypc in 2016, when we had very poor OL and QB play. The OL is deeper, more mature, and has better S&C this year. We'll just have to see how effective it is, but I have a really hard time believing it won't be significantly better than in 2016. Imo, they weren't that bad last year, even if they took a lot of the blame. We were without our lead RB, and the QB held onto the ball far too long numerous times. This year, the OL and RB combo is as good as we've had in many years. Plenty of bodies at both, and Scarlett is an NFLer for sure. We should be able to run very effectively against the weaker teams we play, and with just improved (not saying good) QB play, we should be able to run effectively against the mediocre teams. Against the good teams? Unless we have decent QB play to take the pressure off, we'll probably struggle. Teams will keep loading the box until we prove we can make them pay for it. ==============================it was OBVIOUS he was our best back. He showed he was a really good one in backup duty in 2009. Yet they kept refusing to use him. They'd put him in for a few plays, he'd look great and then they'd immediately yank him out so they could keep slamming our two scatbacks right up the gut where they would immediately get stuffed every single time. Then they made all kinds of excuses......Gillislee fumbles....Gillislee can't stay healthy.... Funny, once they were forced kicking and screaming all the way to finally use him since their precious scatbacks were gone, he did not fumble and he did not get injured and he looked great. Gee, whodda thunk it - I mean other than every last frikkin' Gator fan who had actually watched the team for the past few years? Morons.
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-- Starred by: KILLER GATOR ATTACK Beachmaster BurrGator gatorvette1012 GatorTrekE -- Beginning in late 1862, James Phelan, Joseph Bradford, and Reuben Davis wrote to Jefferson Davis to express concern that some opponents were claiming the war "was for the defense of the institution of slavery" (Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American, pp. 479-480, 765). They called those who were making this claim "demagogues." Cooper notes that when two Northerners visited Jefferson Davis during the war, Davis insisted "the Confederates were not battling for slavery" and that "slavery had never been the key issue" (Jefferson Davis, American, p. 524). Precious few textbooks mention the fact that by 1864 key Confederate leaders, including Jefferson Davis, were prepared to abolish slavery. As early as 1862 some Confederate leaders supported various forms of emancipation. In 1864 Jefferson Davis officially recommended that slaves who performed faithful service in non-combat positions in the Confederate army should be freed. Robert E. Lee and many other Confederate generals favored emancipating slaves who served in the Confederate army. In fact, Lee had long favored the abolition of slavery and had called the institution a "moral and political evil" years before the war (Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee, New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 2003, reprint, pp. 231-232). By late 1864, Davis was prepared to abolish slavery in order to gain European diplomatic recognition and thus save the Confederacy. Duncan Kenner, one of the biggest slaveholders in the South and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the Confederate House of Representatives, strongly supported this proposal. So did the Confederate Secretary of State, Judah Benjamin. Davis informed congressional leaders of his intentions, and then sent Kenner to Europe to make the proposal. Davis even made Kenner a minister plenipotentiary so as to ensure he could make the proposal to the British and French governments and that it would be taken seriously. |
that drove me absolutely insane HungaryGator 8/17/2018 - 4:26 p.m.
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