Shariff back at just the right time. Pressure is the key for the defense.. Pressure and picks. We've talked a lot so far about the offense, but our "D" leads the way going into SEC play, maybe the whole season (though at some point, either we FINALLY see some balance from the offense with Brantley at quarterback, that vertical passing game that we all know is missing, or we better hope that Driskell is ready to go at some point in October, latest).
Awww, F*CK the D*CK!!! Does life HAVE to be so ironic?!! In the middle of this text, just NOW, I get a text msg. from the Sun-Sentinel that "Dee Finley, LB for the Fla. Gators, was just arrested Mon. after being pulled over on Campus"...here we go: a distraction AND a possible loss in depth in our secondary right at the start of Tennessee week. GREAT. I don't know which is the bigger problem: selfish head-case kids or the jackbooted SS-officers of UF-UPD. I'm gonna go find out more.
(Later...looks like I'm more-or-less right on BOTH counts, head-case player AND over-zealous semi-cop, if I understand the police report--which is a little hazy, not-so-surprisingly, considering they obviously have inflated the charge to a 3rd-degree felony, FOR PULLING HIS WRIST AWAY when the cop himself says he grabbed it, that Finlay "yanked it out of my grasp, straightened up and rounded on me, straddling his scooter..." (and, according to the report, "only backed down when the officer produced his taser") . Driving with a suspended license--but the reasons behind that were fines he had just paid last Wed., it seems--like I said, "Hazy..." then this all STARTS with him going around a barricade ON HIS SCOOTER 'cause "I'm late"...Stupid, self-centered and self-destructive, but a felony for "Resisting Arrest"? Huntley will get THAT knocked down, most of this will end up consolidated into some mostly traffic-related misdemeanor charge-and-fine; Coach MAY sit him down for a game (maybe now, maybe once there is a legal resolution), and the biggest Q becomes how it affects preparation for Sat.--or even more, How to minimize it?)