"Most of the linemen on that 2006 team had experience in a pro set type of offense, so it was probably more natural to that group than the zone blocking schemes that were just being introduced - just the opposite of our current group."
This is the most confounding part for me. They SHOULD be better at the spread and zone blocking, but they are not! They are doing much better in man to man blocking schemes and knowing the QB is going to drop back and pass. It really seems that the whole offense is not on the same page, no cohesiveness. Everyone should be making the same reads, whether you are a QB, O-lineman, WR, or RB. They must all see the same and react similarly and in conjunction with each other. I don't think we have the conjunction part down. Some may be seeing it and reacting appopriately, others are not. This leads to problems like we are experiencing where unexplained defenders go untouched to our QB or routes are cutoff or passes thrown when they shouldn't be. What else explains the propensity of running a 3 yard route when we need 5 on a third or fourth down? Are we better with Burton? I don't think so! If you put him in, we are no different than the offense that MSU ran which many have said was horrible when you run 29 out of 30 times. Could we win? maybe... But we could win with Brantley if they allowed him and the offense to be what they do best. Also, how many passes has Burton thrown? TWO! He has run the ball 32 times. Talk about becoming one dimensional! ________________________________ From: Steve McKibben <augiega...@yahoo.com> To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, October 19, 2010 2:31:21 PM Subject: Re: [gatortalk] I DON'T miss Dan Mullen Most of the linemen on that 2006 team had experience in a pro set type of offense, so it was probably more natural to that group than the zone blocking schemes that were just being introduced - just the opposite of our current group. I think the fact that Brantley was so good coming out of high school, and a Gator legacy to boot, made it near impossible for Meyer not to recruit. I doubt very much that you'll see Meyer recruit QBs in the future that are pure passers only. I think all involved are sorry that they haven't been able to have a functional offense with Johnny at the helm. --- On Tue, 10/19/10, Shane Ford <goufgat...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >I think it's a shame that we can't tailor our offense to play to the strengths >of a passing QB. Oh, wait! We did that in 2005-2006, didn't we? Why are we >unable to do it now? Why can't we dust off the playbooks from 2006 and run >that >offense? > > >Ken, I have to agree with you on your thoughts for Brantley. It would be hard >to think he's not at least giving it serious thought. The worst part is if I >were the father of a passing QB son, I would NEVER let him play for Coach >Meyer >after how I've witnessed him nearly get Brantley killed trying to pretend like >he's a QB that he's not - JMHO. Jay, do you have room under that canoe? :-) > -- 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
