For whatever its worth. I feel like most of this stuff is fixable but its concerning how many coaching errors were made. There were certainly positives, but this is my critique of the mistakes I saw.
OFFENSE:
Let me start by saying the first half playcalling on offense was about as good as ive seen. Our play actions and misdirections had Tennessee fooled every time.
I have to call BS on Mcelwain saying Tennessee took away the deep ball in the second half. On pretty much every first down in the third quarter, we ran the ball in a tight formation against a loaded box. No play action, no audibles to a pass once Tennessee showed they were loading the box, no spread formations, nothing to keep them off balance. We ran one fake jet sweep that was blown up due to being timed by Tennessee as the playclock expired and no one even attempted to block Derek Barnett
Asking Cyontai Lewis and Goolsby to run block is a joke. On multiple occasions they simply could not make a block or were asked to block Derek Barnett which is even more of a joke. I had high hopes for Lewis, but at this point asking him to be anything other than a somewhat vertical TE threat is unreasonable. Running plays with these
We ran the ball better with a more spread formation, where the box wasn't stacked and Scarlett had some room to operate. Scarlett ran like a beast, hopefully we continue to feed him the ball going forward.
Jawaan Taylor should ultimately have been blocking Barnett as Sharpe just doesn't have the feet to deal with an elite rusher. I get it though, Sharpe is the Vet and Taylor the true freshman.
Not qb sneaking on 3rd and inches in the 3rd quarter was a huge momentum shift.
No attempt to get Brandon Powell the ball in any capacity before his BS ejection.
Its amazing that an offense like Oregons can get lined up and call audibles, and we cant even get a regular play off without 5 seconds or less on the game clock. We made it very easy for their DL to time our snaps.
DEFENSE:
If you watch the 2nd half, the way we lined our safeties up was absolutely horrible. Maybe I'm more of a Tampa Cover 2 guy, but we made it way too easy for Dobbs to recognize mismatches. We didn't keep things infront of us at all and took too many unnecessary gambles with our safeties.
On the Tennessee TE touchdown over Jarrad Davis, Marcus maye is lined up by the corners covering absolutely no one as the middle of the field is wide open. Dobbs knew he had a one on one against Davis with no safety help in the middle and could just throw it up there. Davis isn't strong enough in pass coverage to be left 1 on 1 IMO and Tennessee exploited it.
On Tabors slip and fall, We show a single high with Harris way too early with Maye coming down in the box. Yeah I get that Tabor slipped, but having Marcel Harris as a single high safety makes zero sense. Besides the dreadlocks, his game is completely different than that of a Reggie Nelson. Hes an undersized WLB who somehow weve decided to turn into a Free Safety at times.
Duke Dawson probably had his worst night as a gator. Looks like he completely blew the Hurd wheel route assignment and whether it be due to poor technique or poor coaching, was on the outside shade of the receiver which Dobbs noticed for an easy pass over the middle and Maye isn't able to clean it up. Id much rather see Putu on the outside if Tabor or Wilson get hurt.
The DEs and LBs crashed inside too often, and it led to Dobbs have a couple big runs to the outside. Hopefully its harped on to stay in their lanes.
With that said Go Gators! IMO Collins needs to make teams like Tennessee go the length of the field against us which is very difficult if we are aligned correctly instead of leaving us vulnerable to the big play.
OFFENSE:
Let me start by saying the first half playcalling on offense was about as good as ive seen. Our play actions and misdirections had Tennessee fooled every time.
I have to call BS on Mcelwain saying Tennessee took away the deep ball in the second half. On pretty much every first down in the third quarter, we ran the ball in a tight formation against a loaded box. No play action, no audibles to a pass once Tennessee showed they were loading the box, no spread formations, nothing to keep them off balance. We ran one fake jet sweep that was blown up due to being timed by Tennessee as the playclock expired and no one even attempted to block Derek Barnett
Asking Cyontai Lewis and Goolsby to run block is a joke. On multiple occasions they simply could not make a block or were asked to block Derek Barnett which is even more of a joke. I had high hopes for Lewis, but at this point asking him to be anything other than a somewhat vertical TE threat is unreasonable. Running plays with these
We ran the ball better with a more spread formation, where the box wasn't stacked and Scarlett had some room to operate. Scarlett ran like a beast, hopefully we continue to feed him the ball going forward.
Jawaan Taylor should ultimately have been blocking Barnett as Sharpe just doesn't have the feet to deal with an elite rusher. I get it though, Sharpe is the Vet and Taylor the true freshman.
Not qb sneaking on 3rd and inches in the 3rd quarter was a huge momentum shift.
No attempt to get Brandon Powell the ball in any capacity before his BS ejection.
Its amazing that an offense like Oregons can get lined up and call audibles, and we cant even get a regular play off without 5 seconds or less on the game clock. We made it very easy for their DL to time our snaps.
DEFENSE:
If you watch the 2nd half, the way we lined our safeties up was absolutely horrible. Maybe I'm more of a Tampa Cover 2 guy, but we made it way too easy for Dobbs to recognize mismatches. We didn't keep things infront of us at all and took too many unnecessary gambles with our safeties.
On the Tennessee TE touchdown over Jarrad Davis, Marcus maye is lined up by the corners covering absolutely no one as the middle of the field is wide open. Dobbs knew he had a one on one against Davis with no safety help in the middle and could just throw it up there. Davis isn't strong enough in pass coverage to be left 1 on 1 IMO and Tennessee exploited it.
On Tabors slip and fall, We show a single high with Harris way too early with Maye coming down in the box. Yeah I get that Tabor slipped, but having Marcel Harris as a single high safety makes zero sense. Besides the dreadlocks, his game is completely different than that of a Reggie Nelson. Hes an undersized WLB who somehow weve decided to turn into a Free Safety at times.
Duke Dawson probably had his worst night as a gator. Looks like he completely blew the Hurd wheel route assignment and whether it be due to poor technique or poor coaching, was on the outside shade of the receiver which Dobbs noticed for an easy pass over the middle and Maye isn't able to clean it up. Id much rather see Putu on the outside if Tabor or Wilson get hurt.
The DEs and LBs crashed inside too often, and it led to Dobbs have a couple big runs to the outside. Hopefully its harped on to stay in their lanes.
With that said Go Gators! IMO Collins needs to make teams like Tennessee go the length of the field against us which is very difficult if we are aligned correctly instead of leaving us vulnerable to the big play.
