re: 2018 Off-Season Updates and Previews

It’s amazing how much better Franks is playing according to sauces. Everyone is saying he’s been outstanding in the spring thus far. That’s a lot different than was being reported a year ago.

Being outstanding in the spring doesn't translate to that in the fall.

It is only spring but it's good to see the competitiveness of the quarterbacks hopefully that will get these guys better because I believe the talent is there

When you look at UF from 2005-08 Mullen used a lot of screens and jailhouse breaks usually during second or third and longs to keep defenses from blitzing. Those kinda plays can create long yardage if blocked well and the OL doesn't give away the intent early.

Remember that we have talent on defense and a slight improvement on offense and special teams can mean a big difference in Ws & Ls.

I've never been confident in Franks' capacity to connect in short passing situations because I think he gets ''deer in the headlights'' at the line. You can kind of see it in one of the plays last year where he had an extremely wide open checkdown directly in front of him but elected to throw it out the field for...apparently no reason.

If we want a guy who can make short passes and move it down the field, Trask looks way more comfortable than Franks (at least in practice) and the thing is:

How long do we have to coach Franks up to be average, or even above average? Why is it okay to say Treon Harris (who had better numbers than Franks) is a Wide Receiver playing QB, or that Tim Tebow, an amazing College Quarterback should go to TE?

Honestly, the two of them looked more comfortable with Tebow excelling in every single thing other than maybe arm strength (big maybe). I think we're setting ourselves and Franks up for failure by putting more belief in him last year, and I don't think he has it, and I don't think we have the time to coach him up to average and hope to God he's above average in a few years without at least trying Trask.

He may very well be the best that we have right now, but we need a guy who can be consistent and that is not what Franks brings to the table. I'm glad he can throw it far, but it means dick if you throw it to a guy in double coverage while another play streaks uncovered down the field.

But he's going to be the starter by virtue of us just having no one in the QB House.

we'll see. i think mullen will give everyone a fair shake. will probably see at least franks and trask play this year. not sure if mullen wants jones to rshirt or not.

Humbled? He said Tom Brady throws interceptions, too, practically the last thing you want to see from a Quarterback who had 3 INTs and a strip-six, 24 points to the other team attributed to him.

As for Freshmen who eventually turned out alright -- Driskel had better numbers as a Sophomore. Jake Bentley crushed Franks' numbers as a True Freshman.

Treon Harris had better numbers as a True Freshman regarding turnovers.

For every success story you have, every Drew Lock or Wuerffel, I have ten players who started, sucked and changed their position. I can give several players at Florida who were terrible quarterbacks but had better years than Franks last year.

It's not about being negative, it's about nutting up and accepting that Franks looked exactly the same from game 1 to game 11.

Also, when you talk about other players like Driskel, you can see that they have skills, tools, physical capacity. You don't see that with Franks. His mechanics are bad, his vision is bad, his presence in the pocket is weak, his pocket navigation is worse, he doesn't seem to understand the defense at all, he misses wide open players, he fumbles without contact, he can't keep his focus under pressure, he doesn't know when to throw the ball away, he runs very awkwardly and is apt to fumble while on the run.

I'd give him a chance if he did one good thing at QB outside of his arm power. He doesn't have touch passes, he just...damn, guys, I'm not trying to be a debbie downer here, but we have got to get ahold of our expectations for Franks. He's a minimum two year fix to be a quarterback. Unless you guys can give me something he does fundamentally well.

I just want to hear someone, somewhere, tell me something he does well as a quarterback. I have no doubt that we can teach any man to be at least serviceable at QB, but it takes time.

People always talk about how Franks never had a real QB coach, and it just makes me wonder why we're so ready to crown him so early. He has more to prove than anyone else because we've literally seen him be a TE playing a QB for an entire year while other QBs in arguably worse systems destroy his numbers (hello, South Carolina).

I'm ready for a clean hard drive, and I think it's gonna be Trask one way or the other.

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just want to hear someone, somewhere, tell me something he does well as a quarterback.

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I’d say his best attributes are that he is a leader, seems to be coachable, and he has a fricking rocket for an arm.

The other stuff- knowing where to go with the ball in this offense, footwork, accuracy, not turning the ball over, etc. is stuff hopefully Mullen can correct and mask as much as possible.

There’s a reason Franks was highly regarded out of high school, it was because he had the attributes and potential to develop into a big time college quarterback. Whatever Mullen makes of him, I think it’ll be the best QB Franks can be. And the rumors of him looking leaps and bounds better are true from what I saw, but just to a certain extent. He wasn’t close to where he needs to end up being, he has a lot of work to do at just not tightening up when there’s pressure on him. Maybe that’ll come with comfort in the offense.

Straw Straw Straw PLEASE tell me what the mudda f'ing thing Trask has done for you to be on his ability as a savior of our program. His record? (whoops no record of anything, TDs thrown in college, well...no?) We are all waiting dude.

We can argue til the cows come home...neither one of knows the answers.