Talk About "Memories"!

Sitting here watching a rapid-fire cut replay of the 2007 Tennessee game in the Swamp showimg on YouTube...
Sigh. Don't recall exactly how this one turned out at the end (everything working for stretches, then sudden breakdowns letting the Vols back in it), but it WAS Tebow's Heisman year, and loaded as those early Meyer teams were with playmakers all over the field, gotta feel this was ("will be") a Gator win...
But the main thing that repeatedly strikes me is the utter confidence one feels/has in that offense when Tebow is running it. Geez, the young man really did spoil us. Yes, he does have people and places to go with the ball, Percy Harvin, Brandon James et al...but it is just so damn satisfying watching TT happily running this MACHINE.
BY now (in the time it took to write this piece--I told y'all it was "rapid fire cut") it is late in the 4th quarter, the Gators are up 52-20, and now Cam Newton comes in to run things--and gives us a nice peak at "what MIGHT have been" by "doin' a Tebow" all around in driving the 2nd team offense to ANOTHER score.
(By the way: NEXT up is that same season's FSU game...For some reason I more clearly recall this one--that we win it as #15 pretty well clinches his Heisman in this "sandwich year" between the two Meyer Nat'l Championship teams...Above all, I'll watch it just to enjoy more of TT: Running, throwing, just his overwhelming PRESENCE out there.
We will not see his like again.)

By the way: YouTube has apparently (finally!) RE-added something pretty close to its original style of offerings for obsessive sports junkies in particular:
It popped up on my Prime streaming-site the other day, a "new" "available app" there on my Prime "Home" page--an old-style "YouTube" icon labeled "ready for download": I clicked on it and indeed downloaded it, followed through immediately to use my phone to activate it on my "device" (5th gen Firestick, through which I stream multiple-source programming on my flat screen TV...))
And IMMEDIATELY found I had loaded, recommended and WAITING for me a whole lineup of games and highlights from events old and recent, the theme and subject matter of which are/were sharply targeted at my tastes, interests and viewing history.
As you can see above, I have already gotten quickly caught up in "CATCHING UP": Had to cut myself off for the moment after the 2007 FSU game, but wanted to take these few moments the next morning to alert y'all to this offering (though I may in fact be "the last to know", who KNOWS???): As August approaches, this and "ESPN +" and the like may or may NOT be something you wanna have access to--but for me at least the timing of its availability could not have been more welcome.
Now, it is all I can do already to avoid being another dufus with his or her nose buried in huddled consultation with their "smartphones" (more and more, their "DUMBASS phones")--so far, I am determined NOT to even CHECK on or monitor what is being noted and/or recommended for later, not until I get home later with time on my hands. THAT part is up to each and every one of US, as always. But I'd be lying if I didn't admit I'm looking FORWARD to that content later, whatever it turns out to be.

This team hasn't had a reliable quarterback since Tebow. Also, we were spoiled with Wuerffuel, Grossman, and Leak.

Leakfan12 said:

This team hasn't had a reliable quarterback since Tebow. Also, we were spoiled with Wuerffuel, Grossman, and Leak.

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This is absolutely true! Looking back, even the "bad" quarterbacks under Spurrier, Zook, and Meyer were better than the best under Muschamp and McDeathThreats. Generally speaking the Gator Standard for Quarterbacks is a passer rating higher than 145 (170 in championship seasons), which is a standard met only by Treon Harris (yeah...that surprised me as well), Will Grier, and Feleipe Franks. Franks' 2018 passer rating was better than Chris Leaks' ratings in 2003 and 2005, and was on par with those ratings in 2004 and 2006. Here are the numbers:

• Danny Wuerffel 1993 FR 159/273 58.2% 2230 YDS 22 10 146.1 RAT
• Danny Wuerffel 1994 SO 132/212 62.3% 1754 YDS 18 9 151.3 RAT
• Danny Wuerffel 1995 JR 210/325 64.6% 3266 YDS 35 10 178.4 RAT
• Danny Wuerffel 1996 SR 207/360 57.5% 3625 YDS 39 TD 13 INT 170.6 RAT
• Doug Johnson 1997 SO 148/269 55.0% 2023 YDS 21 TD 12 INT 135.0 RAT
• Doug Johnson 1998 JR 154 274/56.2 2346 YDS 19 TD 8 INT 145.2 RAT
• Jesse Palmer 1998 SO 73/123 59.3% 1246 YDS 14 TD 5 INT 173.9 RAT
• Doug Johnson 1999 SR 190/337 56.4% 2574 YDS 20 TD 13 INT 132.4 RAT
• Rex Grossman 2000 FR 131/212 61.8% 1866 YDS 21 TD 7 INT 161.8 RAT
• Jesse Palmer 2000 SR 116/223 52.0% 1653 YDS 11 TD 4 INT 127.0 RAT
• Rex Grossman 2001 SO 259/395 65.6% 3896 YDS 34 TD 12 INT 170.8 RAT
• Rex Grossman 2002 JR 287/503 57.1% 3402 YDS 22 TD 17 INT 121.5 RAT
• Chris Leak 2003 FR 190/320 59.4% 2435 YDS 16 TD 11 INT 132.9 RAT
• Chris Leak 2004 SO 238/399 59.6% 3197 YDS 29 TD 12 INT 144.9 RAT
• Chris Leak 2005 JR 235/374 62.8% 2639 YDS 20 TD 6 INT 136.5 RAT
• Chris Leak 2006 SR 232/365 63.6% 2942 YDS 23 TD 13 INT 144.9 RAT
• Tim Tebow 2007 SO 234/350 66.9% 3286 YDS 32 TD 6 INT 172.5 RAT
• Tim Tebow 2008 JR 192/298 64.4% 2746 YDS 30 TD 4 INT 172.4 RAT
• Tim Tebow 2009 SR 213/314 67.8% 2895 YDS 21 TD 5 INT 164.2 RAT
• John Brantley 2010 JR 200/329 60.8% 2061 YDS 9 TD 10 INT 116.4 RAT
• John Brantley 2011 SR 144/240 60.0% 2044 YDS 11 TD 7 INT 140.8 RAT
• Jeff Driskel 2012 SO 156/245 63.7% 1646 YDS 12 TD 5 INT 132.2 RAT
• Jeff Driskel 2013 JR QB 42/61 68.9% 477 YDS 2 TD 3 INT 135.5 RAT
• Jeff Driskel 2014 JR QB 114/212 53.8% 1140 YDS 9 TD 10 INT 103.5 RAT
• Treon Harris 2014 FR 55/111 49.5% 1019 YDS 9 TD 4 INT 146.2 RAT
• Treon Harris 2015 SO QB 119/235 50.6% 1676 YDS 9 TD 6 INT 118.1 RAT
• Will Grier 2015 FR QB 105/160 65.6% 1202 YDS 10 TD 3 INT 145.6 RAT
• Austin Appleby 2016 TR-SR 127/209 60.8% 1447 YDS 10 TD 7 INT 128.0 RAT
• Luke Del Rio 2016 TR-SO 114/201 56.7% 1358 YDS 8 TD 8 INT 118.6 RAT
• Luke Del Rio 2017 TR-JR 16/25 64.0% 138 YDS 1 TD 1 INT 115.6 RAT
• Feleipe Franks 2017 FR 125/229 54.6% 1438 YDS 9 TD 8 INT 113.3 RAT
• Feleipe Franks 2018 SO 175/299 58.5% 2284 YDS 7.6 23 TD 6 INT 144.5 RAT