I WANT to trust our new Coach, am hoping we can count on he and his much-expanded staff to get us where we all wanna go.
It sure appears that he and they are determined to “Do things the right way”, to build this thing back, set it all on a firm foundation.
The only not-so-small question that has crept back into things of late is at QB, where Emory Jones (not so surprisingly perhaps not finding a crowd of top programs lining up to woo him through the transfer portal) has apparently backed away from leaving after all...
Now, I’ve always said that Emory would make a fine BACK UP QB for us, and he has been nothing but a friend and tight teammate to AR15; as long as things stay that way, and that there is a full and fair shakeout involving our array of talented QB alternatives (all FIVE of them, including the latest highly-rated transfer out of Ohio State), “the road back” might indeed still begin in 2022 (if somewhat modestly) after all. But if the seeds of further descent are still germinating in Gainesville, it is at the QB position I fear where that will openly manifest.
It’s gonna be a delicate situation, and I’ll say no more about it here now except to voice my concerns—my HOPE that our new Coach and staff have a solid vision and plan for fitting their offense to the talent and personalities of the players at hand.
For all his “quarterback whisperer” rep, as time went on I was less and less convinced that Coach Mullen really had so “cogent” a plan; it was his in-game play-calling skills that consistently came through for us, when things DID turn out well. And when they didn’t, well...there sure were some stomach-turning letdown performances from his chosen QB1 as the 2021 season wound down. I just can’t get those out of my mind.
Bringing Jones in to direct a mainly running-game offense when a better-rounded starting QB is banged up, or as a change-of-pace until someone like AR15 gets more experience running the first-string offense could be a big help, a real “fortunate option” if it could be managed with little in the way of resentment or controversy.
But that’s the most I tend to expect from Emory Jones on this team, off last year’s performance.
But who knows? I was wrong about so much else about Dan Mullen and the way he saw and ran things here, maybe I’m all wrong about this too.
Too much time on my hands now, maybe...So I vent my concerns, but hasten to add that hey, there are different ways of looking at all this, and probably the sooner we get to NEXT YEAR the better!
Tell me what you all think, how things are finally beginning to shape up now and what we need to look for in the weeks ahead. Me, I should probably just stay away from monitoring YouTube, etc...I’d be a more relaxed individual! (LOL)
It sure appears that he and they are determined to “Do things the right way”, to build this thing back, set it all on a firm foundation.
The only not-so-small question that has crept back into things of late is at QB, where Emory Jones (not so surprisingly perhaps not finding a crowd of top programs lining up to woo him through the transfer portal) has apparently backed away from leaving after all...
Now, I’ve always said that Emory would make a fine BACK UP QB for us, and he has been nothing but a friend and tight teammate to AR15; as long as things stay that way, and that there is a full and fair shakeout involving our array of talented QB alternatives (all FIVE of them, including the latest highly-rated transfer out of Ohio State), “the road back” might indeed still begin in 2022 (if somewhat modestly) after all. But if the seeds of further descent are still germinating in Gainesville, it is at the QB position I fear where that will openly manifest.
It’s gonna be a delicate situation, and I’ll say no more about it here now except to voice my concerns—my HOPE that our new Coach and staff have a solid vision and plan for fitting their offense to the talent and personalities of the players at hand.
For all his “quarterback whisperer” rep, as time went on I was less and less convinced that Coach Mullen really had so “cogent” a plan; it was his in-game play-calling skills that consistently came through for us, when things DID turn out well. And when they didn’t, well...there sure were some stomach-turning letdown performances from his chosen QB1 as the 2021 season wound down. I just can’t get those out of my mind.
Bringing Jones in to direct a mainly running-game offense when a better-rounded starting QB is banged up, or as a change-of-pace until someone like AR15 gets more experience running the first-string offense could be a big help, a real “fortunate option” if it could be managed with little in the way of resentment or controversy.
But that’s the most I tend to expect from Emory Jones on this team, off last year’s performance.
But who knows? I was wrong about so much else about Dan Mullen and the way he saw and ran things here, maybe I’m all wrong about this too.
Too much time on my hands now, maybe...So I vent my concerns, but hasten to add that hey, there are different ways of looking at all this, and probably the sooner we get to NEXT YEAR the better!
Tell me what you all think, how things are finally beginning to shape up now and what we need to look for in the weeks ahead. Me, I should probably just stay away from monitoring YouTube, etc...I’d be a more relaxed individual! (LOL)