Helen and others,
I am not going to pretend that I know what is in Urban Meyers' head. However I can guess. My guess that a successful jump pass there does two things: 1. It demoralizes Alabama and putts them on notice that we can even make Hollywood plays on them. 2. It makes them think, "Oh, no.another Tebow!" It was a good gamble. He should not have thrown the pass unless the guy was wide open. By the way, if we scored TDs on all of our red zone visits, we run away with the game. Jerry From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Helen Huntley Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gatortalk] for what it is worth... I dont' think the jump pass is stupid, but I do think that the person throwing it needs to know what to do if the intended receiver is not open. The inability to score when we're right on the goal line was the most disappointing thing to me in this game. If we'd punched it in a couple of those times, the end result would have at least looked respectable. The defense wasn't great, but it did better than the offense. I confess that I went to bed after Brantley's pass was picked off and returned for a TD to make it 31-6. I was shocked when I got up and saw the final score was still 31-6. I was really expecting something more like 46-9. Hopefully we'll play a lot better and look a lot better against LSU. Helen On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Rob Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: I must admit that, while I didn't think we had much chance of winning this game, this was worse than anything I had imagined. I wish that Meyer had never brought up the Bad News Bears before the season started; it keeps coming back to haunt us. We needed to have the coaches call a great game and they didn't. We needed for our kids to step up and play with focus and intensity and they didn't. I am particularly irritated that this veteran offensive line cannot seem to give enough of a push for us to get half a yard when we need it. I suspect that's why we try stupid trick plays like the jump pass. because Addazio has no confidence in his O-line. Given their size, strength and experience, we should have been able to score that touchdown straight up the middle in one try. But it is what it is (a disastrous night), and I'm happy to put it behind us and think about the future. So the real question in my mind is the last one Scott asked. Can we close this gap, even if we manage to get back to the SECCG (not at all a sure thing)? I'll take these positive points from this contest. - We DID get in the red zone five times in this game. In fact, we showed we can consistently move the ball against this excellent Alabama defense. That's no small achievement. Our offense gained more yards than theirs, so we do have the ability to get the job done. - Our defense did an excellent job. We held their Heisman Trophy winning running back to 28 yards! We held Richardson to 62 yards. We held McElroy to 86 yards passing. Seriously, if I had told you before the game that those would be the stats, would you have thought we could do that and not win? - What the score reflects is the number and magnitude of our mistakes, not our fundamental ability to play the game. Helen Huntley (727) 823-3801 www.helenhuntley.com <http://www.helenhuntley.com/> -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
