1) Your Defense is great and easily the best Defense we played all season. Clemson's and Boston College's defense were close but no doubt Florida is the best we've played. You aren't #1 in the country in scoring defense for no reason.
2) I wonder what the game may have been like with Will Grier and Demarcus Robinson. My hunch tells me it would have gone down to the wire. Literally might have been a 20-17 type of game. Grier wouldn't have put up 40 points on our defense or anything but he would have at least gotten some things going. You just needed a competent offense to make the game competitive and Treon Harris just wasn't able to provide it.
3) What are Harris's shortcomings? a) He is a little short and gets a lot of passes batted down. Russell Wilson is short too but a short QB has to find passing lanes between the linemen and that requires a feel that Harris just doesn't have. b) He isn't quick on his reads and able to drill the ball into tight coverage like he needs to do against a secondary like ours. Grier would have given you guys a better chance.
On to next week and the Bama game. One, Florida's best chance is to have Bama do the kind of things they did against Ole Miss and turn it over 5 times. Second, Florida needs to play a clean game offensively and limit turnovers themselves. Three, they are going to need to play well in the Special Teams and make something happen like a blocked kick or punt or a big punt return. They are going to have to get points in unconventional ways. Not having much of a Field Goal kicker makes that even more problematic.
Last, good game last night and I look forward to you guys continuing to get better and make this rivalry what it used to be with both teams perennially Top 5 and Top 10 teams.
2) I wonder what the game may have been like with Will Grier and Demarcus Robinson. My hunch tells me it would have gone down to the wire. Literally might have been a 20-17 type of game. Grier wouldn't have put up 40 points on our defense or anything but he would have at least gotten some things going. You just needed a competent offense to make the game competitive and Treon Harris just wasn't able to provide it.
3) What are Harris's shortcomings? a) He is a little short and gets a lot of passes batted down. Russell Wilson is short too but a short QB has to find passing lanes between the linemen and that requires a feel that Harris just doesn't have. b) He isn't quick on his reads and able to drill the ball into tight coverage like he needs to do against a secondary like ours. Grier would have given you guys a better chance.
On to next week and the Bama game. One, Florida's best chance is to have Bama do the kind of things they did against Ole Miss and turn it over 5 times. Second, Florida needs to play a clean game offensively and limit turnovers themselves. Three, they are going to need to play well in the Special Teams and make something happen like a blocked kick or punt or a big punt return. They are going to have to get points in unconventional ways. Not having much of a Field Goal kicker makes that even more problematic.
Last, good game last night and I look forward to you guys continuing to get better and make this rivalry what it used to be with both teams perennially Top 5 and Top 10 teams.
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