"See" you all here round noon Saturday, April 13, for our first good "reveal", from The Swamp itself, of this year's team--and hopefully a full glimpse of what is more and more our "hard charging program" in 2019 under Dan Mullen and Co.
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Orange and Blue Game, Spring '19
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OK:
Things bout to get underway in G-ville; I (obviously) didn't make it there in person this time, so am all the more dependent on and concerned about ele tronic coverage access...So far, am still just getting a screen announcement PROMISING a pending start to proceedings (as in "Please Stand By...").
Will begin a wild flurry of outraged efforts in 1 minute, if no change...
Things bout to get underway in G-ville; I (obviously) didn't make it there in person this time, so am all the more dependent on and concerned about ele tronic coverage access...So far, am still just getting a screen announcement PROMISING a pending start to proceedings (as in "Please Stand By...").
Will begin a wild flurry of outraged efforts in 1 minute, if no change...
Here we are.
Followimg Franks in his "Gator Walk" thru a nice crowd outside stadium earlier...
and here's the live feed of the team running out on the field, ready to go.
I prob won't have much to say--more into actually focussing much as possible on the onfield action, once it gets going here.
Of course, obvious spotlight on the QB--incumbent Franks AND Jones.
Here we go: HA! Toney THROWS, Franks CATCHES nice long pass! Woulda been a more reassuring play if thrower and reciever were reversed there (LOL): Fun/exciting to see--but otherwise better to leave that maybe for "first play against Miami"? Aside from "give 'em something to think about", mostly for the fans, I think.
That throw to the endzone woulda been nice to see completed: But this one to Toney a nice consolation. Franks already sharper in these situations (and required throws, seemingly) than was too often the case last year. Its early, but if these patient throws, sharp and accurate, turn out to be tge new norm, the offense will MOVE (and barring injury to Fillipe, Emory Jones may not start 'til next year after all!). Just an early, VERY early observation and comment.
Followimg Franks in his "Gator Walk" thru a nice crowd outside stadium earlier...
and here's the live feed of the team running out on the field, ready to go.
I prob won't have much to say--more into actually focussing much as possible on the onfield action, once it gets going here.
Of course, obvious spotlight on the QB--incumbent Franks AND Jones.
Here we go: HA! Toney THROWS, Franks CATCHES nice long pass! Woulda been a more reassuring play if thrower and reciever were reversed there (LOL): Fun/exciting to see--but otherwise better to leave that maybe for "first play against Miami"? Aside from "give 'em something to think about", mostly for the fans, I think.
That throw to the endzone woulda been nice to see completed: But this one to Toney a nice consolation. Franks already sharper in these situations (and required throws, seemingly) than was too often the case last year. Its early, but if these patient throws, sharp and accurate, turn out to be tge new norm, the offense will MOVE (and barring injury to Fillipe, Emory Jones may not start 'til next year after all!). Just an early, VERY early observation and comment.
Hard to know how to feel about a pick-6 in this one: Trask late with that throw... Guess the "best" I can feel is "glad it was Trask, of all of 'em", I suppose. But really, that's not fair: Trask has otherwise mostly looked like a solid backup in his limited opportunities at appearing with the first team so far (bad luck and injury have limited THOSE, too).
Meanehile, Jones has looked VERY nice running the Blue-team offence (a mixture of backups AND first-teamers around him), driving them right down the field against the same Orange D that stifled the Trask-led Blue squad then humg that pick-6 on them last time.
And now Franks immediately hits another rising star, Grimes, first play from scrimmage for a quick 1-play, Go-route TD drive. So: along with the other steadily rising playmakers at reciever, so far we have seen explosive plays from both Toney and Grimes--BOTH due to be big time weapons this season, if healthy. "If healthy" is the key with this offense--though we ARE finally building in enough depth I think to rotate in enough GROUPS of different talents across-the-board to both avoid a lot of injury and weather the kind of inevitable attrition an SEC schedule exposes us to.
And there's a NICE throw to the endzone midfield by Trask. Breakdown in the secondary ahead of it freeing that up, though; all in all, offense in general looking smooth (look at TONEY just shred tacklers--oh, he's a keeper for SURE! Shifty, fast AND strong!).
Well, just gotta hope that, as in the years (and YEARS) when we had to hope that facing our known-quantity, superior DEFENSE would make our OFFENSE one that had a good and easier time against most other defenses than "folks out there" expected or realized, so far that has appeared to reverse somewhat now: From what we've seen thus far, I suppose we must hope that plans, circumstances and current point-in-development suggests that hopefully the DEFENSE is facing a "stacked deck" today, and has the talent, will and developing cohesion to eventually control and dominate less-advantaged offenses--as most are bound to in fact BE, relatively speaking. They have consistently jumped up, grabbed opportunities to reverse fortunes so far. This time it's Jones who throws it a hair late, a coupla inches off--and the athletic talent on defense has made them pay.
Followed almost immediately by another long, accurate completion, Franks to Grimes, and another TD--longest one yet. Man, they start lighting up this way on a weekly basis come the season and we will DEFINITELY improve on last year's record--and (long as we can hit our stride early), very possibly make the FFF (Football Final Four) this time around.
Trask hits a streaking Swain (ANOTHER talented underclassman on-the-come here, for SURE) for a long TD.
Clearly this whole game/"scrimmage" has been set UP to generate offense--entertain the fans, while CHALLENGING the defense to "do what they could"...So: with this Leto Shepard's fun little sudden appearance here for an entertaining "Pick-6 Outta-the-BLUE", "The Show" is definitely on now...
I'm gonna mainly just kick back and enjoy the rest of this one, comment only if and when it seems something is particularly "worth noting".
Meanehile, Jones has looked VERY nice running the Blue-team offence (a mixture of backups AND first-teamers around him), driving them right down the field against the same Orange D that stifled the Trask-led Blue squad then humg that pick-6 on them last time.
And now Franks immediately hits another rising star, Grimes, first play from scrimmage for a quick 1-play, Go-route TD drive. So: along with the other steadily rising playmakers at reciever, so far we have seen explosive plays from both Toney and Grimes--BOTH due to be big time weapons this season, if healthy. "If healthy" is the key with this offense--though we ARE finally building in enough depth I think to rotate in enough GROUPS of different talents across-the-board to both avoid a lot of injury and weather the kind of inevitable attrition an SEC schedule exposes us to.
And there's a NICE throw to the endzone midfield by Trask. Breakdown in the secondary ahead of it freeing that up, though; all in all, offense in general looking smooth (look at TONEY just shred tacklers--oh, he's a keeper for SURE! Shifty, fast AND strong!).
Well, just gotta hope that, as in the years (and YEARS) when we had to hope that facing our known-quantity, superior DEFENSE would make our OFFENSE one that had a good and easier time against most other defenses than "folks out there" expected or realized, so far that has appeared to reverse somewhat now: From what we've seen thus far, I suppose we must hope that plans, circumstances and current point-in-development suggests that hopefully the DEFENSE is facing a "stacked deck" today, and has the talent, will and developing cohesion to eventually control and dominate less-advantaged offenses--as most are bound to in fact BE, relatively speaking. They have consistently jumped up, grabbed opportunities to reverse fortunes so far. This time it's Jones who throws it a hair late, a coupla inches off--and the athletic talent on defense has made them pay.
Followed almost immediately by another long, accurate completion, Franks to Grimes, and another TD--longest one yet. Man, they start lighting up this way on a weekly basis come the season and we will DEFINITELY improve on last year's record--and (long as we can hit our stride early), very possibly make the FFF (Football Final Four) this time around.
Trask hits a streaking Swain (ANOTHER talented underclassman on-the-come here, for SURE) for a long TD.
Clearly this whole game/"scrimmage" has been set UP to generate offense--entertain the fans, while CHALLENGING the defense to "do what they could"...So: with this Leto Shepard's fun little sudden appearance here for an entertaining "Pick-6 Outta-the-BLUE", "The Show" is definitely on now...
I'm gonna mainly just kick back and enjoy the rest of this one, comment only if and when it seems something is particularly "worth noting".
Ahh... THAT'S what was missing from this otherwise "vanilla defense" up til now: The Blitz! Pressure on the QB!
LOL
Like the announcers (longtime Gators themselves) are laughingly commenting on:
Guess Grantham got tired of his guys getting mostly picked apart and torn up playing a mostly straight, consistently formulaic D: "ENOUGH of THIS crap!"
They finally dial up some mixed rushes from different gaps and quarters--and not surprisingly, the "easy real estate" suddenly disappears: Formerly mostly "unstoppable" offenses are STOPPED--and the line of scrimmage begins moving the other way... I suppose you DON'T want your proud defense to begin wondering if they are really so good after all. REMINDER (to both team AND fans): "Over and over, WE kept us in POSITION to stay close, ready to come back and BEAT so many opponents in close ones..."
LOL
Like the announcers (longtime Gators themselves) are laughingly commenting on:
Guess Grantham got tired of his guys getting mostly picked apart and torn up playing a mostly straight, consistently formulaic D: "ENOUGH of THIS crap!"
They finally dial up some mixed rushes from different gaps and quarters--and not surprisingly, the "easy real estate" suddenly disappears: Formerly mostly "unstoppable" offenses are STOPPED--and the line of scrimmage begins moving the other way... I suppose you DON'T want your proud defense to begin wondering if they are really so good after all. REMINDER (to both team AND fans): "Over and over, WE kept us in POSITION to stay close, ready to come back and BEAT so many opponents in close ones..."
So: I THINK we accomplished what we needed and intended to here today...
That leaves conditioning, long hours in the weight room, attention to detail and weight and hitting the books--class AND PLAYbooks... Then Summer camp, sweating, suffering, learning, growing--and then, a week earlier than ANYONE else will come our nationwide exposure against Miami; then an immediate BY-week (in fact THREE of them the coming season--often a blessing LATER in the year, when healing-time tends to be welcome, but hard to know how much this first one will mean, nor how it'll affect us).
But this Miami game does stand out, an opener on a kind of "island" in time AND situation for BOTH teams--and one that will be hyped accordingly: A return of sorts to "How things USED to be", we'll hear a lot I'm sure...gotta figure that Coach Dan and Co. will have a plan well underway by then--one that ideally has us peaking in certain ways, with particular early goals in mind, come that "official kick-off", Day One of Season 2019.
See y'all then, if not sooner, right?
That leaves conditioning, long hours in the weight room, attention to detail and weight and hitting the books--class AND PLAYbooks... Then Summer camp, sweating, suffering, learning, growing--and then, a week earlier than ANYONE else will come our nationwide exposure against Miami; then an immediate BY-week (in fact THREE of them the coming season--often a blessing LATER in the year, when healing-time tends to be welcome, but hard to know how much this first one will mean, nor how it'll affect us).
But this Miami game does stand out, an opener on a kind of "island" in time AND situation for BOTH teams--and one that will be hyped accordingly: A return of sorts to "How things USED to be", we'll hear a lot I'm sure...gotta figure that Coach Dan and Co. will have a plan well underway by then--one that ideally has us peaking in certain ways, with particular early goals in mind, come that "official kick-off", Day One of Season 2019.
See y'all then, if not sooner, right?
Oh--and since it IS sort of staring us in the face... IF you ARE looking for an answer to the big question coming in, "How will the QBs look out there today?"...Taking into account that things were no doubt mainly set UP to GO this way, and notwithstanding mostly nice performances from ALL of them (AND the opportune running AND passing performances designed for Jones especially in the last coupla offensive drives), overall CLEARLY Fillipe emerged the leader in confidence, execution and sharp ACCURACY.
CONCLUSION: "So far, so good". Everything good we saw in Fillipe the last 4 games of '18 has continued to develop, has seemed to become more "confidently automatic", even "routine", today--exactly what we'd have hoped, ideally. Things shaping up well.
CONCLUSION: "So far, so good". Everything good we saw in Fillipe the last 4 games of '18 has continued to develop, has seemed to become more "confidently automatic", even "routine", today--exactly what we'd have hoped, ideally. Things shaping up well.
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"Fun"! Yes, was just thinking exactly that--the whole thing was "good, clean," (at times even corny) "FUN" all around--pre- to post and everything in between. No one seriously hurt or embarassed... even the aforementioned "corny" parts entertaining and somewhat original little surprises--the sudden Leto Shephard appearance an especially unexpected "blast from the past". The whole thing was a good-natured, entertainingly inclusive nod to Gator togetherness, past, present and future. Pervading it was a certain mood of confidence built upon depth of talent and faith--in the program and each other.
Mike Hicks
Gator Fan
given the inexperience of our Oline and our excellent receiving corps, I think we may see more passes than runs early next season. Quick passes could help us move the ball. We have the arms and the hands to make it happen.
The questions at O-line are DEFINITELY the ones that most need answering--hopefully by opening game day. I believe only ONE of last year's starters (on a line that JUST that year had finally found some consistent stability) is back now.
No real way to finding answers to THOSE Qs in a Spring game--and no surprise, aside from the "get the ball to your playmakers, in space, to let them MAKE PLAYS", quickly and creatively moving that "point-of-attack" around WAS the one thing we could expect from Coach and Co.--and DID see--yesterday...
I'm watching the game replay now, and though I doubt I'll watch ALL of this one a 2nd time (prob just into the 2nd qrtr or so), I AM seeing the various pluses, expected and otherwise, that were my general impressions drawn from all this first time through. I AM struck once more at the definite upbeat vibe overall and AROUND the team, program and med-sized, VERY enthusiastic crowd out for it: I can only imagine how excited and happy a thrill this kind of ALL-AROUND SHOW would be, so clearly AIMED at young fans--maybe out here with a particular family-member, boys and girls like we were as adolescents, proudly wearing our "new" game-jerseys (purchased with the latest--or next-- sudden growth-spurt in mind, or handed down from an older-sibling, and so on)...
There's that Toney tough run-after-catch that likewise impressed me so much yesterday--the dazzling "Y.A.K." turning routine mid-range pass into bigtime play for a few more inspiring yards.
This much was DEFINITELY demo'd yesterday: We've now got some young guys JUST coming into their own, a SLEW of 'em capable of inspiring those around them, taking them on their backs for a play or series at some crucial point in a big game--in so doing perhaps galvinizing the squad around them to reach for higher heights. As we saw mid/late season LAST year, EVERYTHING can turn on that kind of performance and resulting CHANGE in team-attitude--all he product of one player's rededication and "climb on my back, I GOT this!"-stepping up and OUT.
Y'all recall: Things started looking BLEAK late in the 4th in Jacksonville's Gator Bowl against UGA... We were still within a touchdown, EVERYTHING was still possible, in our own hands--and then it was gone: We stumbled, bumbled, FUMBLED it away! And it didn't stop there--we proceeded into an extended and unnecessary, do-it-yourself-destructive slide culminating with our embarrassing, unforced-error-filled loss AT HOME against Missouri... We were poised right at the brink of losing-OUT, snatching mediocrity from what HAD seemed a "first-step/season of eventual destiny"...But then a few guys shone thru, those around them seemed to recognize, catch the fire--and we pulled OUT of it instead! After that Missouri loss, the very next week against S Carolina, we came back TWICE from 17 points down: Did it in the 4th Quarter. Then won OUT from there. Four in a row, including a dominant Peach Bowl win against Michigan, who'd been our "Big Ten Nemesis" over the previous several seasons.
By the few "signs" we are able to discern in a "Show" like this "game"/scrimmage is mostly designed to be, our team, offense AND defense, continues its proud rise to eventual dominance.
