Anybody see the ESPN highlight of Jeff Driskel scoring the TD last night
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He scored 2 TD's, one rushing and one passing. The rushing one he made 2 Bucs players run into each other.
His stats:
Passing: 8 of 9 for 97 yards, 1 TD, 148.6 passer rating
Rushing: 5 for 34, 1 TD, with a long of 18 yards.
Not bad but it was pre-season.
Too bad he was terrible at UF.
His stats:
Passing: 8 of 9 for 97 yards, 1 TD, 148.6 passer rating
Rushing: 5 for 34, 1 TD, with a long of 18 yards.
Not bad but it was pre-season.
Too bad he was terrible at UF.
Good game for him. His ones at SF last year were pretty bad but Cincy saw something they liked. He is probably in good shape to make the team again if they still carry 3 active QBs this year.
They already have a guy inMcCarron that could be a legit starter of Dalton goes down or they finally get tired of him.
Just when you think the Driskel debate is dead... he pulls you back in.
Yep he is considered one of the best backups in the league supposedly and Cincy was supposedly trying to get a 2nd round pick for him but no takers as of now. I think they only have 3 QBs even in camp as the one undrafted free agent already left.
I'm looking into the future. Watch somebody that is a rival of the Raiders. Like the Broncos for example.. whom haven't a clear quality QB yet with the two young guys sign Del Rio as a FA when he is finished playing for UF. Watch Del Rio make some awesome preseason plays that make us drop our jaw.
Lol, I don't put anything past that considering our luck.
Lol, I don't put anything past that considering our luck.
Only difference is that when Driskel was at UF, there were people backing him. Seems like fans have been tired of Del Rio since he stepped on campus.
Both Driskel and Brissett are still in the league. I never said Driskel was great but I do believe he was misused and not coached well while at UF. Same goes for Brissett.
So was every other player that wore a Florida uniform from 2011 to 2014.
JD actually looked good out there, yes against what a 3rd team Bucs defense, but man it only shows that Muschump had BOTH his hands and legs in the offense and/or UFs OC didn't know what the crap he was doing...I was surprised to see JD play so well. This is why I like watching Bama play, yea I know, but they are the closest team to an NFL team as to scheme college as come. If many other colleges would get on board we would see more championship teams instead of the norm of Bama every year. Saban may be evil but that guy knows what he is doing. I wish Coach Mac would get onboard and quit trying to run the high school stuff.
What exactly are Mc and the rest of college football teams not getting on board with?
I mean shit every college team is trying to recruit the best players that sign with Alabama.
Alabama doesn't run a super special offense. A overly complex defense...nor a special teams full of trick plays.
I was referring to that you are like the one lone guy touting Del Rio...but it was more of a joke.
Pretty sure he was on the Bengals last year as their 3rd string QB behind McCarron and Dalton. Bengals are his 2nd team. Still pretty good to be collecting an NFL paycheck for how badly he struggled at UF.
Most teams only carry 2 QB's on the official roster, the third is almost always a practice squad guy. I mean good for him I guess but I'm not sure how this is supposed to be proof he'd be doing way more if not for his time at UF. He threw for 4K at Louisiana Tech which people place so much weight on, went to the combine and was BY FAR the most athletic QB there and he was still drafted in the 6th round. What does that tell you? Don't you think teams would love to have a 6'4, 240 lb guy that runs a 4.5? Yet there's no demand for his services despite all those great physical gifts. He's a fringe roster player. Why he keeps getting talked about I have no idea.
I think hell might freeze over before Driskel is a legit starting QB in the NFL. His physical traits are the only things that made someone add him to their roster last season.. That usually wont buy you anymore than 2 or so years on a roster usually.
Well, this is the debate: whether it was malpractice for the Muschamp regime to not be able to get some plays out of a kid as physically talented as Driskel. I thought that it was. Not that he should have been Tebow, but he was historically awful, as were his offenses. I used to say they should run read option every play, and people on here told me he was too slow mentally even to do that. And he did look bad running read plays for UF. But he looked pretty good running it on Sunday night.
He was no doubt incapable of reading a defense, but that was obvious from early on and they kept asking him to sit and the pocket and make reads.
I read an article on Kaepernick at San Francisco that Harbaugh brought in a qb coach to work on Kaepaernick's reads and they just basically gave up. He could not do it. So Harbaugh, who is as traditional a west-coast run-first coach as there is in the world, scrapped it, put his quarterback in the shotgun and made him a run-first threat. Broncos did something similar with Tebow.
That is true because La Tech simplified things some and had a system more suited to him and he did put up good numbers there. I guess the debate is whether he could have ever had decent results in the SEC or not if things were changed up some like you say.
We did that with Roper though...what were the results? Did he suffer from bad coaching? Absolutely, but so did everybody else on offense during that time. Each time another QB was inserted, the offense improved. It happened with Murphy before his arm fell off and it happened with a true freshman Treon. So at what point do we stop and say that Driskel was a huge part of the problem? Treon Harris was a similarly awful QB, yet the offense with him significantly outperformed the offense with Driskel. How do you guys square away things like us going scoreless for 3 1/2 quarters against a shitty UT defense, then in all of 4-5 mins Treon Harris is able to lead us to 10 points? Same offense, same surrounding players, etc.
Driskel received bad coaching but he was also bad and a large part of the problem. The game moved too fast for him mentally at the SEC level, and you're not going to just outathlete defenses once they have tape on you, which is why he's a 3rd string, practice squad level QB in the NFL despite him being one of the more physically talented QB's in the league. There are no teams just running read option up and down the field without a legit passing threat.
Driskel received bad coaching but he was also bad and a large part of the problem. The game moved too fast for him mentally at the SEC level, and you're not going to just outathlete defenses once they have tape on you, which is why he's a 3rd string, practice squad level QB in the NFL despite him being one of the more physically talented QB's in the league. There are no teams just running read option up and down the field without a legit passing threat.
Supposedly Cincy is shopping their backup QB who has a decent reputation as far as backups go for a 2nd round pick. Driskel is the only other QB on the roster besides that backup right now. That would be something if a trade was made and Driskel ended up 2nd string for a while and had to start a game due to an injury or something. I would tune in to watch that.
Didn't Driskell come from a poor HS program where he was running for his life all the time? Then comes to a Muschamp coached team that showed no ability to develop a QB. His problems are obviously between the ears. Why is it so hard to fathom, that in the right hands, he could learn to be a serviceable QB?
Because when he is really under pressure he seems to spaz out. La Tech's offense kept that from being an issue for him in most of those games. In SF he seemed to revert right back to that when he got some heat put on him. I guess we might found out the next few years if he truly could be a serviceable QB when faced with NFL starter pressure.
So all these NFL teams are the 'wrong hands?' He's been in the league 3 years and he spent the first year on the practice squad and has already been cut once. At one point do you guys stop falling in love with physical gifts and realize there's more to playing QB? Like I said before he was BY FAR the most physically talented QB at the combine the year he came out AND coming off a 4k year season at LA Tech yet he was still a 6th round pick? What does that tell you? Are all these NFL teams just unwilling to take a chance to develop such great physical talent or is there more that goes into it?
I've said it before but Driskel is arguably the most physically talented QB to come through here, probably second only to Cam. But there's more that goes into it. Yes he received bad coaching but he was just as bad as the coaching he got. People don't want to believe that because they see the physical gifts and assume he's supposed to automatically be good. But physically superior players at other positions bust all the time, why is it so hard to believe he busted too? Look at somebody like Deonte Thompson...freaks for his position but did nothing (relatively) at UF. We gonna blame Urban for him? The QB position which is probably 90% mental, timing, and accuracy related. Being big, fast, and able to throw 70 yards doesn't mean you'll be good, those are probably the least important traits for a good QB.
The Bengals are looking at trading McCarron for a 2nd round pick. He was the starter at UF when healthy. I think those are good counter arguments.
Them trading McCarron has nothing to do with Driskel. Dalton is their franchise QB and signed long-term and McCarron is due for an extension and he's one of the most valued backup QB's in the league since many believe he can start. It makes no sense for them to commit big money to a backup QB when they're paying Dalton big money, that's why they're looking to trade McCarron before that extension comes due. And he lost his job to Treon in 2014 during the UT game, who as we all know isn't a great QB either. He only regained it because of Treon's suspension and then he lost it again vs. Mizzou.
Would seem to me if we're gonna wring our hands about a 'what could have been' we'd be better off doing it with Brissett. A guy who actually started in a BCS conference, put up ridiculous numbers against good competition, was a 3rd round pick and has actually started an NFL game. Or Grier who is gonna be a stud at WVU. Instead we keep getting hot takes about a guy who was barely drafted and is bouncing around practice squads or 3rd string jobs. Kinda insane.
It still boggles the mind how Driskell could not have been successful in such a constructive environment as Florida....
He was a good runner. Remember that run against Tennessee?
Unless he has gotten an intelligence implant, his problems will likely surface again
College like high school run the Pistol Offense, but yes Florida and SOME other colleges like Baka run a Pro Style offense. They said the pistol would never work in the NFL but I’m seeing more and more of it being used more often....
With Muschamp Florida was not running the Pro Style, if they were it looked liked crap and Baka under Saban has looked the closet to Pro Style than any other college team
It still boggles the mind how Driskell could not have been successful in such a constructive environment as Florida....
I like that the board is labeled "Defense" just in case everyone forgets what side of the ball they're talking about.
I think in 2012 Hunter Joyer played FB quite a bit leading for Gillislee - at least in some games he did like the Georgia game. We were in some unusual set ups at times it appeared and then Muschamp's jumbo package stuff was able to pound LSU and FSU into submission in the 2nd half of those games if I remember correctly. Especially FSU
Watching Driskel in that Georgia game brought back painful memories as he turned it over about 3 times himself I think.
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