It was just UCF, but there are some things to take away from it.

QB Nunez:
- His arm isn't as strong as I've read it was. He had open WR's down field and couldn't get the ball there. Pharoh and Dexter were both in position for long TD's and had to come back to the ball. Honestly, McIlwain has a bigger arm in HS.
- His placement wasn't terrible (except for his first throw,) but he had a chance to hit Heard on an inside shoulder for a TD, but threw it outside and resulted in a completion, but Heard went out of bounds.
- He is a legit running threat and he's not just big and fast, he has some elusiveness to him.
- He managed the offense ok against a middle of the pack total defense, with a good DL.

WR"s:
- We have Pharoh Cooper and he is awesome.
- I didn't notice a difference of having Deebo or Dexter in there.

RB's:
- Carson avg'd 5 ypc but we only gave him the ball 7 times.
- Williams avg'd a little over 2 ypc, and we gave it to him 14 times...the frick are we doing here?!?!

TE's:
- Adams took advantage of their weak DB's, he needs to start doing that more.
- August's TD was an easy pitch and catch on a slight roll out, he was wide open and made the play, so good for him.

OL:
- We allowed 1 Sack and 4 TFL's, not bad given that the UCF DL is probably a Top 1/3rd unit in Div I.
- Gave Nunez time to throw, rolled the pocket when needed, several good pulling plays that ended up in long runs.
- Their NT went after Bailey, several punches to the facemask right after the snap, but Bailey held his own against them.
- You could tell that UCF had watched film on us this season, their LB's and DL did a good job of stuffing the wholes on the plays we've been running a lot this year.

DL:
- BOOSIE WHITLOW SHOULD PLAY MORE! He gets out there, 2 TFL's, 1 Sack, 1 QBH and 1 Safety. He's just a better DL than D Johnson, Cooper or Dixon. He was disruptive out there, and what we've been looking for to complement Lewis.
- Sawyer had a Sack in garbage time, but that whole drive he was giving a lot o effort...that showed me attitude...I like it, keep him in there.
- UCF HAD 26 RUSHING YARDS...Total, the whole game...DL stepped up.
(UCF's offense sucks, but at least that's less than any other team has allowed against them this year.)
- Lewis got passed his blocker several times, but couldn't get to the QB before the pass, he still was pretty disruptive even though he didn't record a Sack, he forced that QB out of the pocket 4-5 times.

LB:
- Holloman had an amazing 1st start, 2 INT's. His 1st INT was a very nice play and he saved it from going incomplete. His 2nd INT was on a horrible throw from the QB, but he was in position and made the play. He also had a TFL and 2 QBH's. He played really well out there.
- Moore is an Elite LB, he did great as a WLB, 9 Tackles and 2 BrUp's.
- Bryant is fast, but he can't change direction well. It cost us the facemask penalty and he missed a sack on a blitz.

Spur:
Gurley did well, he's not big, but he drives his hits and plays with some swagger. He lead the team with 10 Tackles, we played a good amount of Nickel defense.

CB:
frick.
- frick their cushion, frick their inability to cover in man, frick their soft zone, frick their frickity frick frick. McWilliams played terrible, he looks slow out there. Here's 2 stat lines to look at: McWIlliams had 6 tackles and 0 BrUp's....that's b/c his receivers were catching the ball and he wasnt doing shite to stop them.
Harris is even worse, 1 Tackle and 1 BrUp. That's b/c his thin arms didn't even tackle the guys catching the ball.
- We need Lammons back with the quickness and hopefully we have a bluechip CB coming in this class.

S:
- It's almost comical watching Isaiah Johnson run into and tackle our own players...but I'm done laughing about it, he's got to stop. He also dropped the INT at the end of the game.
- DJ Smith had 1 great tackle to stop them on 4th down, but that's the only time you saw him in that game.
- Overall they did take away the deep ball threat for most of the game, except 1 play, so that's positive.

P:
Sean Kelly might be the best P in the SEC.

K and Spec Team:
Fry missed a 49'r, made a FG from 52, and then they botched a snap on a PAT to him. It was an up and down day for Spec Teams.
- KO Def was avg.
- KO Off was good, Carson avg'd 29 ypr, so that's even better than taking a knee/touchback.
- Pharoh stupidly tried to catch the punt inside the 5....why?!?! He should've cleared out and hoped for a touchback. That was a rookie move. Had he not done that, I don't know if UCF would have scored any points this game, that play zapped the team.

COACHING:
- Spurrier didn't call plays the first half...wtf?!?
- Moving Mangus to the booth was smart.
- Moving Bubba to the field was smart.
- Offense was balanced b/w run and pass.
- We allowed 26 Rushing yards, 204 passing yards, 2 INT's, forced another fumble (didn't recover it though,) stopped 2 4th Down Conv's, and only allowed 3 of 12 3rd Down Conv's....Hoke's plan worked, but again, this was against a terrible offense.


CONCLUSIONS:
- The more comfortable Nunez becomes with the playbook and timing with the WR's the better. We need to focus on more short-mid range passing with him as he doesn't have the arm to launch it 40+ yds deep. He can run, so that's good, if we can keep the pocket and roll with him, we'll have more success. The defense is getting better, we're finding the players who fit better. Sawyer, Boosie and Holloman are better additions than where we started. I don't think Blackshear played this game, but if Boosie can go like this every game, we'll be ok.

Our offense is going to really need to come together this week if we're going to have a shot at beating missouri. Their defense is much better than ucf's.





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