re: New season prediction: 5-7 with no bowl game...

Our defense gets worse every game. Either we are too predictable in our schemes/formations or we have too many players who:

1. Have no business at Florida.
2. Have no business in the SEC.
3. Have no business in Division 1 as a whole.

Unfortunately, it’s a combination of all of it. We have the worst 3rd down defense in college football at any level; we have to, and you can’t convince me otherwise. How many times do we have to watch this defense give up 1st downs on 3rd and 6+??? And while I appreciate Miller’s leadership, it’s too late to decide to suck less in the 4th qtr. Billy is going to have to fire some of his friends and cut some of the dead weight at the end of this season if he intends to stay at Florida more than 2 years. And before anyone starts calling me a negaGator; yes I know, most of the piss poor defense is still on Mullen and Grantham’s sorry asses for not giving two shits about recruiting.

But…if the current staff was worth their salt, we wouldn’t be taking the shitty arse angles we take. Some of the angles are so bad it’s hard not to think it’s on purpose. None of our DBs are ever in position, they don’t get their heads around, we consistently give 8-10yd cushions, we don’t take away the middle of the field and make QBs go back shoulder or work the sidelines, we don’t tackle worth shite, we still have guys out of position which leads to broken plays, and some of these guys just flat out take plays off. Add to the mix that our zone coverage is too loose, we don’t try to get pressure on 3rd down, and the coaches are too scared to press and we are where we are. The film doesn’t lie.

Our offense is bipolar at best, and the playcalling is either good or head scratchingly dumb as shite - there is no in between. The screens don’t work and we have a hard on for running it up the middle for two yards. GET THE MF ATHLETES IN THE BACKFIELD TO THE EDGE AND LET THEM DO WHAT THEY DO. If nothing else you’ll wear the defense down and set yourself up. And how many times is AR going to miss a touch pass before he figures out you don’t have to throw it 90mph to a WR that’s 5 yds away?

It’s frustrating as hell to watch us be so mediocre week in and week out. It’s even more frustrating that our coaches are still doing the same shite every week and expecting a different result. We are the worst team in the East besides Vanderbilt, and if we play to our competition’s level like we do every damn game we may finish last.

There was too much mediocrity in the last regime and the new regime hasn’t moved the needle enough. I’m by no means calling for Napiers job and I’m more than willing to give him another year or two to get the right pieces in place and figure it out, but this staff better get it together in a hurry. If we look like this next year that seat will heat up quick.

To add insult to injury, this referee crew could not have been a bigger bunch of jackass idiots. I don’t know who in our athletic department didn’t donate to their GoFund Me or forgot to pay them pre-game, but LSU was getting an extra yard spot on quite a few close plays, and I lost count of the obvious holding/PI no-calls there were. In the end, it was irrelevant, but how long are SEC officiating crews going to suck arse before anything is done?

Bottom line tonight is we made a bad LSU look really good, we were undisciplined and shot ourselves in the foot multiple times, and worst of all Brian Kelly was a better coach than Napier tonight. And it pains me to say that because he is such a personalitiless whiny pandering bitch.