re: Florida - Defense Play Charting - Full Game (cliffs - DL not dominated, the ILB were)

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The worst play, one that made me throw my remote, was Hellams missed tackle on third and ten on their own goal line. That play was such a big momentum shift. We could have put the game out of reach had he just broken down and made the tackle.

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That wasn't even really a missed tackle. I don't know what the frick he saw on that play, but he broke on the route like he thought he had a chance at an INT and then realized halfway there that he didn't and tried to recover.

I guess you just have to hope that they got in a bad rut and it snowballed on the.....but yea having 2 veteran ILBs look that bad is not great.

Branch is such a play maker. He needs to be on the field as often as possible. So versatile. I also want to see what Kool Aid can do if Jobe keeps getting PI penalties. The opposing team will keep throwing at him. I also liked what I saw from Marcus Banks when he played.

Thanks man appreciate it. I just like trying to figure out what's going on and it's fun to talk about here.

Yep and that's why I don't feel as bad after that win. Still isn't going to stop the chicken Littles from freaking out once Georgia puts on a good showing against them when they play though

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the ILB were

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There’s a shocker.

Hey, who coaches ILBs? Anybody know?

Saban teams have usually been known for strength up the middle. Nose-DT/MLB/Safeties. Yesterday that is where the gators ate our lunch.

#2 was a mess - bad read 1st step then could never get back in position. When he should force an outside release he kept allowing a quick release to the inside and got toasted.

#8 - about mid 2nd qtr UF started creating a false read 1st step by Harris then he was getting caught in the wash or out of position.

#10 - the false read issue that hammered Harris was also an issue for HT. his reaction was not as bad but it caused him to respond a little more slowly than normal and he would have to step back 2 or 3 steps to go around the OT attempting to seal block him. The result was and extra 3 plus yards beyond his normal reaction time to the ball carrier.

#50 was playing too high and got pushed or washed out of the play too often. This created quick hit holes for short yardage or a cut-back lane for bigger gains #94 did better at anchoring but never got much penetration.

All of these issues were generated intentionally by Mullen. Dan gave OM/AU/UGA a diagram to follow.

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Tw1st3d

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Great stuff

As noted, Florida only ran 5 speed/read option run plays in the 1st half. They ran 13 in the 2nd half.

Mullen either saw something in the 1st half or gameplanned multiple things to see how we reacted and then zeroed in on the read/speed play in the 2nd to effect our eyes and open the rest up.

The good news is - we won and we got great tape for veterans to review and work through. The bad news, what if it isn't fixable during the season for those 2 and their quick decision making?

Kiffin will absolutely test it early in 2 weeks. But with the added slant attached to it.

I don't understand the mental errors. Defending the option is merely assignment football. You do YOUR job, and let everyone else do theirs and you stop it dead in it's tracks. The interior DL has the dive back, tackle him every time. The DE/OLB has the QB, and your job is make the QB pitch the ball, then kill him anyway. The CB has pitch responsibility, turn it back inside where your help is, keep outside leverage and tackle him. The ILB is supposed to be scraping along the line following the QB until he picks his poison and either leaves it with the dive back, keeps it, or pitches it and you clean up the play. Our ILB were out of position and the OLB's kept turning their shoulders in to the QB.

IMHO, all our offensive problems come back to the poor offensive line play. Bryce didn't get knocked around a lot, but he was constantly hurried and never was very comfortable back there after the 1st quarter. And the running game couldn't get in on 1st and goal from the 1. We're all bitching about lack of explosive plays and playmakers, but folks, you can't run long, slow developing patterns if your OL can't keep the defense out of the backfield and if you can't run the ball, they don't have to respect that either. So they can tee off on your QB all day if all you can do is run short and intermediate routes and they don't respect the run. Some people up front better grow up and grow up fast, because they are getting manhandled up there and it's disrupting the whole offense. We need alphas on O to step up and get people pulling together.