re: Will Muschamp had a better year in total offense than Jim McElwain.

I don't understand why we went from one Saban guy to another much less why we decided to emulate their offense. Let Florida be Florida, we're not a smashmouth pro style program.

I don't get it either.

Both Florida and Georgia are tailor made for spread offenses. My estimate is you have three or four legit pass/run types coming out of the Atlanta area every year. More than that in Florida, but they are spread out.

Deshaun (Deshawn?) Watson types don't come along every year, but they are still pretty regular. You can just reload them every year.

Instead they seem to want to recruit guys like Eason and pray they have the traits to succeed as a pocket passer (positronic brain, rocket arm, etc).

It's a lot harder to find Andrew Luck or Matt Stafford types than Lamar Jackson. It's not just they physical traits (tall, strong arm, accurate). It's also that reads are harder for pocket passers (all the double coverage stuff is in full play with an immobile qb), they also have to go through all those checkdowns.

Whereas a running qb is almost guaranteed to see single coverage on the defenders (and if they do double one that is great for the offense), they don't have to go through all the reads since most of them are one or two at the most.

And if all else fails or the pocket breaks down they just run it themselves (along with the options and designed runs).