Ask any Florida fan and they will tell you I vehemently disliked Franks, so I think it's best that I give you the breakdown.

1. He greatly overestimates his own ability, which makes him a lot more prone to making mistakes based on trusting his arm. This also leads to fights with his own fans and teammates, there are multiple reports of him getting into scuffles (caught on camera with fans) with both.

2. His vision limits his capacity to actually play the position. He has awful pre-snap awareness and that's with him basically having training wheels with Mullen.

3. This lack of vision and pre-snap awareness causes him to "drift" in the pocket and panic, which is why he gets sacked so often. Even when he has a clean pocket, he's trying to escape and often times runs straight into the arms of an awaiting defensive player. This also makes it very hard to see the center of the field.

4. He can't overcome previous failures. In the Georgia game he threw a pick right out the gate and never recovered. In 2018 he went 13/21 for 105 yards, 1 TD and 1 INT. The next game he played like absolute dogshit. He went 9/22 for 84 yards, his backup (Kyle Trask) in 1.5 quarters went 10/18 for 126 yards and one TD.

Finally: He is not built for the QB position. Trask came in and immediately blew out all of his records despite only starting 10 games. Kyle Trask out-threw Franks' career high (against Vanderbilt) 6 out of the 10 times he started including throwing for 310 in Death Valley at night for his first away game start.

tl;dr

Franks is hot, putrid, babyshit, dog.

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Posted by TrueLefty

St. Louis County

Member since Oct 2017

15152 posts

Posted on 8/18/20 at 5:38 am to StrawsDrawnAtRandom

quote:
Will Franks have a great season this year?

Ask any Florida fan and they will tell you I vehemently disliked Franks, so I think it's best that I give you the breakdown.

1. He greatly overestimates his own ability, which makes him a lot more prone to making mistakes based on trusting his arm. This also leads to fights with his own fans and teammates, there are multiple reports of him getting into scuffles (caught on camera with fans) with both.

2. His vision limits his capacity to actually play the position. He has awful pre-snap awareness and that's with him basically having training wheels with Mullen.

3. This lack of vision and pre-snap awareness causes him to "drift" in the pocket and panic, which is why he gets sacked so often. Even when he has a clean pocket, he's trying to escape and often times runs straight into the arms of an awaiting defensive player. This also makes it very hard to see the center of the field.

4. He can't overcome previous failures. In the Georgia game he threw a pick right out the gate and never recovered. In 2018 he went 13/21 for 105 yards, 1 TD and 1 INT. The next game he played like absolute dog shite. He went 9/22 for 84 yards, his backup (Kyle Trask) in 1.5 quarters went 10/18 for 126 yards and one TD.

Finally: He is not built for the QB position. Trask came in and immediately blew out all of his records despite only starting 10 games. Kyle Trask out-threw Franks' career high (against Vanderbilt) 6 out of the 10 times he started including throwing for 310 in Death Valley at night for his first away game start.

tl;dr