Why is Grantham still here?

The only reason is that I think Mullen is selling recruits on stability. I've noticed that the defensive players love the hell out of Grantham, and so hopefully he can figure it out this year, and I mean that sincerely. Not just for the team to get better, but because he legitimately seems like the best friend of the players.

Unfortunately buddy coaches rarely work out in the long run.

Mullen wants him here. The pitchfork and torches crowd forget what he had as defense in 2919 when we were leading the country in sacks until after midseason when key injuries hurt us.

As I have stated before in other replies...we played a lot of frosh DB/LBs and then redshirted most after they played 4 games to save their freshmen status

Almost all of you dont study the roster carefully (I do) You might learn why so & so player didnt do anything on the field. We had injuries to some frosh and this year we have guys who now have 2 yrs on campus..which is huge, can you remember your frosh year? It takes a year to learn where half the building are.

I expect to see improvement overall on defense. Moon is back from injury and provides another pass rusher as a senior...add in Ventrell Miller, Brenton Cox, Mohamed Diabate, Khris Bogle + players who have tore it in practice...Derek Wingo, Ty'Ron Hopper, Antwuan Powell and Diwun Black have the front seven looking good with DL:

Dexter Garvin, Zach Carter, Jalen Lee + another group showing off in practices, Antonio Shelton & Daquan Newkirk two senior transfers who have been shaving for fours, Desmond Watson...unmovable object true frosh, Lamar Goods, Jaelin Humphries, and several others who will get some rotation time.

Kiir Elam is an AA stand out who will be a first rounder, Trey Dean will be a safety/rover as a senior, Rashad Torrence is solid at safety and showed his skillset til injury bug hit, Tre Vez Johnson played a lot last year and is now a true soph at CB Jason Marshall is a true frosh that was sought by everybody and rated a top 3 CB in the country, Jordan Young was also sought after as CB + guys tearing up practice: Kamar Wilcoxson, Jahari Rogers, Mordecai McDaniel, Donovan McMillion to name guys who mostly redshirted last year.

So this is why I expect improvement on defense..We now depth and the coaches can let the bench be a motivator.

I’d recommend you read this.

Will Florida’s defensive futility continue in 2021?

Yep. Grantham is who he is, an average defensive coordinator who is wayyyyy overpaid. Didn’t like the hire to begin with and been calling for his head after his defenses had a 8-14 third down rate in the 2018 uga game (I think most if not all of uga’s touchdowns came on third down in that game) and a 12-17 third down rate in the 2019 game. “Third and Grantham” is sadly a very real thing. Now it unfortunately falls on Mullen if we see more of the same this year.

Or how about this play…



I seriously think Grantham’s an idiot. He tries to bring the SS into the box to fake a blitz and disguise the coverage, when in reality he just makes it hard for the SS to make a play on the ball when he’s busy busting his arse to get back in the other half of the 2 deep. And btw, if there’s one time you wanna heat up the qb with pressure I feel like it would’ve been in this exact situation, 3rd & 14 with a qb who is not very good. Instead Mathis is able to make the easiest read of his life on a skinny post right down the seam. I don’t claim to have anywhere close to the amount of knowledge Grantham has when it comes to defense but my goodness he does some of the dumbest shite I’ve ever seen. Anyway, that’s my take on Grantham for tonight. Let’s hope 2021 is a whole helluva lot better. Go Gators

Nah, press is easy. "Hey, go earn your scholarship, you got #x, make it work because we're going to blitz."

That's it.

His problem has been, all year, his inability to get his guys to understand the zone scheme he wants, and not bringing the heat when he ought to.

College ball has evolved to a level that you may need to literally go man to man and follow a guy rather than pass the player off.

Anyway, hopefully he gets his shite straight because we can't have another year like that.

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Meyer was a huge supporter of this kind of teamwork stuff. Like he was kind of an expert in it and it’s one of the reasons his teams were consistently strong. It didn’t always work out for him but it was always his last most important recipe he would talk about on championship teams.

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True. One of Meyer’s biggest failures here was giving Steve Addazio the reigns as OC in that 2009 season. That team was loaded and our offense was painfully vanilla. Sure we went undefeated in the regular season, but we barely squeaked by some average teams that year.

Thankfully we just got a CB transfer, too.

What about 2019? The defense was good but nothing special. Uf played two games that season against 10+ win teams and lost both games largely because of the defense. It was not ufs toughest schedule ever. Probably the best game all year was against auburn.