Well, we sure did "find a way" to pull that one out, and didn't look a lick better than last week before the 3rd qrtr., either, before we finally woke up and showed some portion of what this team and its coaching staff had supposedly been working towards the whole spring and summer. However, between that "continues-to-scare-no-one-but-its-fans"-offense, that "this-is-the-great-defense-we-were-promised?"-defense, that supposed "strong-and-deep"-O-line, and "ALL THOSE INJURIES ALL OVER THE FIELD" (including the loss of our best defender and running back on defense and offense, respectively), this Gator team appears to have farther to go than ever, now has even more work than they had entering the season BEFORE all the injuries, until they'll even have all the parts, let alone finally get them working properly and TOGETHER, to really begin to challenge the top SEC programs for supremacy.
I can't quite get over yet how inept we have mainly seemed, how far we still have to go and how embarrassing our lack-of-progress, both in the areas we knew we had weakness in, and the ones we thought were our STRENGTHS, has been. Our "highly-rated QBs" continue make little progress, even regress over the months while much lesser-known or well-regarded prospects come on strong for other, less well-positioned-in-recruiting-potential teams. Meanwhile, our "last-year's near-top-rated-defense" didn't look any good at ALL 'til the 2nd half of the 2nd game, and even THEN had inconsistencies all over the place, endless missed tackles and confused play--and our much-heralded for its "talent, toughness, depth and experience" O-line pretty well stunk up the joint (AGAIN like last week repeatedly failing to gain ANY yards on 3rd-and-short--we continue to fail at improving ANY of the things that were supposedly priorities coming out of 2011 and into the 2012 season).
