Practice and scrimmage info.

A relative of mine has been going to the open scrimmages, somehow sneaked into the 2 a days and went today's scrimmage. So I was going through some text messages and some emails he sent me and figured I would compile them for my Gator Brethren here.

So a lot of what I am about to type out here is from the aspect of this years squad compared to last years Gator squad at the same exact time (the first scrimmage).

So without further ado here is some 2015 Florida Gator Football Tidbits... 2 Bits... 4 Bits..... 6 Bits.... A Dollar!

Quarterback situation

Grier is gonna be the guy. Its not even a competition at this point. Grier is the only one that has been consistent every single day. Treon is up and down a little too much. He said to be honest the transfer from Vanderbilt Josh Grady had looked more competent moving the offense. Put it this way, Treon has struggled moving the ones against the 2's and Grady has done a better job at moving the 3's against the 2's. There are 2 things that stick out in the Grier vs Harris battle. Grier learns from his mistakes and doesn't repeat them while Treon does the opposite. Treon cant get over the mistake real fast like a QB should but he will just go back and do the same thing over again. The other thing is that Treon struggles mightily with throwing the out route which McElwain does a lot of drills on.

Running backs

We are good here. KT has gotten smarter which is making him run a lil bit more aggressive a lil more north and south and is making him look like he is a lil more faster. He said the biggest difference for KT this year is he sticks the foot and goes with it instead of all the dancing. Jordan Scarlett and Jordan Cronkite have been impressive. Scarlett is already the most complete back we have but don't sleep on Cronkite. Cronkite is the one guy in camp who consistently gets a bit better every time he goes out. Powell takes some snaps out of the backfield every know and then but its mainly to throw some curveballs at the defense. Powell will be the "X" factor in his opinion.

Wide Receivers

D-Rob is the only one who can consistently cause problems for our secondary on every play, every day and in every way. Powell has the explosiveness and moves to be a homerun threat at any time, his versatility is amazing. Chris Thompson looks to be the fastest wideout we have, they run alot of go routes with him to clear space underneath for the other guys. CJ Worton is injured but before that he showed good aggressiveness to go over the middle and grab the ball, the kid is not afraid to get hit and probably has the best hands of any of the wideouts and yes he is including D-Rob in there too. Fulwood will have a good play then bad play then disappear then a good play and rinse and repeat. He said he thinks its almost a mental thing with Fulwood at this point. Its like he lets bad momentum build on him but when he does something good he has that look of "that was a mistake nothing good ever happens to me kind of vibe". To his credit Fulwood can throw some blocks in the screen and run game tho. Antonio Callaway has been extremely solid. Gives great effort on every play, says he will only get better with more reps. Will probably be a starter by the South Carolina game. Other then that not really much else other then Alvin Bailey will make a spectacular grab every now and then.

Tight Ends

We are stacked at tightend. Jake McGee seems like he can find the open spot of the field every time. Goolsby is a great route runner, he makes cuts good and can be used as a hybrid "Jimmy Graham" type of TE. C'Yontai Lewis is an impressive athletic specimen and he may have the best hands of the 3 and is the best blocker. The kid just makes plays happen. Here is something interesting he told me about a 2 minute drill that Mac and Nuss ran. They put the 3 tightends on the field with Drob at the "X" and KT at RB and Grier at QB. They were yelling and calling it the "3 Magic Formation". Well anyways he said when they ran this drill they marched down the field like they frickin owned it and this was against the first string defense. He said that was the most in charge, complete, competent, fluid offensive drive (game or practice) since the Tebow years. The whole time they were in this formation Coach Mac had a big shite eating grin. They have also done some stuff were the tightends line up as fullbacks in the Triple I formation and when the defense gives them the "Run D" they motion out to recievers. Some interesting gamesmanship going on there. Alot of 2 TE formations with crossing patterns. Expect big things from the tightends.

Offensive Line

Not to get anyones hopes or to give false hopes but here is some positivity. First of all at this time last year the Oline was struggling heavily in camp and that group ended up giving the 2nd fewest number of sacks (albeit by offensive design but still pretty impressive) in the SEC and were pretty good run blockers. Long story short there is a reason Mike Summers was the only coach retained from the Muschamp regime. I say all that to get to this. At this point the line looks better then the line at this time last year. The freshmen are massive, they look like they have been in a college weight program for 2 years already. There struggles will all be mental/inexperience. Martez Ivey is everything that was advertised. Mason Halter the transfer from Fordham can play any position on the line. This is huge for this year! The line at this time is night and day from what we saw at the spring game. Then again things are different when the live bullets start flying but these guys are going up against of the best defense in the SEC every day. So I am putting on my Reel approved orange and blue glasses on and saying that these guys will get in their groove by the second half of the 4th game of the year. Having said all that our Dline is still looking better then them on a regular basis but they hold serve pretty well considering how good our DLine is.

Offensive philosophy

Judging from all the snaps, this offense seems to be based off of 3 concepts.

Mismatches, motions, and take what the defense gives you. Another way of putting it is like this "conservatively agressive". Our offense looks like a more creative and ballsy version of Arkansas. A big thing he noticed about the offense is that they run a lot of one read routes. For example they run all go's, all corners, all outs, all slants and the throw will go to the player whos defender is in the weakest position. However there seems like there will always be a nice safety valve type check down. Crossing patterns and the screen game also seemed to be a big staple. Interesting note, more draws have been run than play action passes.