Comments on: Where are the playmakers on defense?

By: cattrick

cattrick — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:05:51 +0000

Robbie: Defense? Go look at the offense.
When did screen pass, bubble screen, pick play, and swing pass become dirty words for the Gator offense?

The swing pass to Harvin and others used to be a Dan Mullen staple. Androzio (sp?) has run one swing pass — to Demps against Arkansas–and he gained 25 yards before the tripping ended up knocking the ball out of his hand. Wonder why the flag wasn’t thrown for that one?
The bubble screen has disappeared. The flanker screen has been deleted from the play book, as has the regular screen.
Gators have a world class 100 meter relay team ( Demps, Rainey, James and Cooper). Is there some reason Androzio can’t get the ball in the hands of these playmakers?
The Gators have 3 plays: dive play, Tebow up the middle, and shovel pass to Hernandez. Check the tape of Arkansas. They put 8 and 9 guys in the box.
Meyer needs to take over the play calling or the Gators will be lucky to get to Atlanta, where Alabama’s defense will put the Gators in the Outback Bowl.
Please take a look at the offensive play calling.
cattrick

By: m bagley

m bagley — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:14:21 +0000

Yes Dave Exhausted clearly, which allowed the arky coaches the means to try and exploit the weakness. Too much time on the field eventually leads every defense into a crack or two. This falls on Addazio or whoever is behind running scat backs up the middle over and over again, lord! pull the guard or run off tackle if your not going to use Moody. Anything but running scat backs up the middle over and over again. Maybe Mullen was the Key…. Our defense is great!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:52:02 +0000

chicken and the egg here. Was not the reason for many of the turnovers the fact that the offense jumped to a lead forcing the opposition into obvious passing downs? With the games closer the turnovers shrink because the other team has not had its gameplan dictated to it. Consider the SEC and Nat’l Champ games where I think we had 1 turnover each, late in the game when Bama and OU had to throw.

By: John C

John C — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:39:02 +0000

If Jenkins had not been burned on the one pass play, one could argue that the defense played pretty well, except for some poor tackling. Overall, they play very well. A CB is going to be burned once in a while, it doesn’t matter how good he is. I think Jenkins is awsome and can overlook one bad play! As far as the pass rush – when your main interior linemen are injured the offense is going to shift toward the ends. You look at the games our DT’s have been full go and you see great games by Dunlap and Cunningham. That said, we still put a lot of pressure on the QB. We need to quit complaining so much and let our GREAT coaches do their jobs. There are many things that we do not know about and my coaching experience tells me to trust the UF staff. Let’s not run good coaches off by making them want to go elsewhere to avoid so many complainers! Look at where we were 15 years ago. Do any of you not realize that we are not going to dominate every game – especially in the S.E.C.! And that’s all I got to say about that!

By: Matt G

Matt G — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:17:15 +0000

Hey, I love this defense, and they saved our bacon in the first half against Arkansas. But in the 4th quarter they were not very good, point blank. I’m not buying the “they were tired” defense either, not when UF won the time of possession battle. It’s not like the UF offense was out there for only 15 minutes and the D was out there for 45 or something. My point is just that the defense CAN play even better than they have to this point. I realize they aren’t going to be perfect every game. But they can be better. The pass rush has been average at best. Most of our sacks seem to come after 4-5 seconds of great coverage or from a blitz. Few have come from one of our D-linemen beating their guy. Cunningham is about the only guy who does. Dunlap needs to put that immense talent to use and go eat some QBs! Let’s also not forget that Mallett is the first good QB we have really faced. Before that we had an LSU QB making his 8th start ever, Mike Hartline at UK, Crompton at UT, and a couple of scrub QBs at Troy and and Charleston Southern. Not exactly a murderer’s row of good offenses that we shut down.

By: Bob S.

Bob S. — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:28:20 +0000

You have got to be kidding me. A total of 52 points in 6 games, 17 of which directly resulted from offensive turnovers. With that performance you are complaining about playmakers. I am guesiing you never suited up and played the game. I am confident the UF coaching staff will take 8. 8 points pe game sasn turnovers and not be quite ac critical as you are Robby.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:05:43 +0000

Where are the playmakers on defense? I dunno where you’re lookin’, but I see 11 every time our defense is on the field!

The way people are talking, you’d think that we’re giving up 50 points a game…

Good grief!

By: PikeUF

PikeUF — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:15:26 +0000

The Defense is the reason we are still undefeated.

If our offense scored a lot more points, like we did in the second half
of last season, it would force the opposing team to have to pass more.
This is the only way to get an opportunity for an interception, right?

Fewer pass attempts by the opposing team= Fewer interceptions by our defense!!! That is why the numbers are down my fellow Gator Brothers.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:46:59 +0000

Mr bagley did you say “exploited”? i believe the word isn’t exploited i believe it’s more like exhausted! the defense was on the field more than they are used to. and had the offense not put so much on their shoulders by giving arky so many chances to win that game i believe this conversation wouldn’t be happening. i guess everyone is going to say “well,bama’s defense is better” BY 2 YARDS A GAME ! again this is what i consider an offensive lines INABILITY to block for tebow or the running backs. i heard so much about the “coaching staff” was going to protect tebow better but i guess they just don’t care to protect him as much as the talked about. 6 sacks tells me someone wasn’t protecting very well !! the defense played a good game i believe, even robbie said that arky was going to score 2 TD’s and he would have been wrong had they offense not been so sloppy! it isn’t the defenses fault that the offense couldn’t hang onto the ball and score! arky did their homework and knew when Uf was gonna blitz. our defense did a great job, made stops, gave the offense the ball back, i mean 2-13 on 3rd down isn’t bad i don’t believe! yet our leauge leading 3rd down efficiency was a mere 4-13 on 3rd down. yea they gave up 357 yards,133 on the ground, but everyone knows the joker package isn’t a run stopper! but to hold the leauges leading passer to 12-27 isn’t to bad either. 2 blown coverages and all of a sudden your down on the D! yet the D has said numerous times “give us 10 points and we’ll do the rest” well the O didn’t do that, instead they left the D out in the cold with their backs against the wall.oh and how about 13 1st downs,7 punts and 4 sacks? not bad in my book. playmakers are all over the field on the D, something the O can’t speak of. an O line that is supposed to be the best running offense in the country only gained a mere 136 yards on 46 carries. what does that say about the O line that can’t open the holes when they need to? i’m sorry fellow Gators but the issue isn’t with the D, Look to the O for our issues!!!!

By: Jack49

Jack49 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:38:04 +0000

I sometimes wonder if the Florida coaching staff drives the players too hard in practice. The Gator’s always seem to loose 1/3 of their team to injuries before the season even starts. This year’s defense does not have the same Defensive Tackles as it did last year and the middle linebacker is injured. Last year is was ACL’s. The year before it was high ankle sprains.