re: 2018 Off-Season Updates and Previews

DL and LB on Orange is head and shoulders better than Blue. Blue got Cece and Conliffe, Orange got Zuniga, Polite, Clayton, and Slaton. Orange got the better OL, Blue has the better skill players. Unless Franks throws a pick every series, they should "win" comfortably.

Franks threw the ball out of bounds! We goin' to the ship baws!

never mind

i got the feeling it was all about making gator football fun again

Emory Jones' pass to Raymond for the TD is the best Gator QB pass thrown since Will Grier to Antonio Callaway.

I'm sold.

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i got the feeling it was all about making gator football fun again

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I'll allow it.

He would be okay in one of those offenses like at Texas Tech where he doesn't have to think at all before the snap, just look at the coverage and let the HC do all the thinking for you. But in a league where defenses want to kill you and where they mask their coverages, there's just no way.

And even in a pass happy offense where he doesn't have to think, I don't think he has the accuracy. He needs to just switch to TE and get it over with.

I feel like I'm going crazy, man. There is such a strong lobby among Gators fans but I mean -- we gave up on Driskel but at least he had potential to be a good QB. You could see that his problems were scheme rather than he just was a bad quarterback.

With Franks, it's just so obvious he can't make NFL type throws, he can't even make College throws. ALL of his throws are to the outside because he can't see the fricking field.

So many people hyping him but all I saw was a guy who hasn't changed. At all.

There's a weird cult of Franks supporters in the Gator fanbase that really, really wants him to succeed and start. However, any person who really follows quarterbacks understands that he has some major, crippling limitations. I've said in the past it's like teaching someone who isn't a Quarterback to be a Quarterback.

His flaws severely limit the playbook because he can't keep himself from looking away from the pass rush -- his eyes come back to his line when he's trying to throw over the middle which means he can't see or make longer developing passes down the middle of the field.

He doesn't have pre-snap awareness, our Center has to call out protections for him which causes us to lose a ton of time getting up to the line, and of course leads us to his next major flaw:

He doesn't understand the protection of the pocket, and when rattled (it doesn't take much) and he moves himself right out of protection and gets sacked.

Those are his major problems, but he has minor problems in footwork -- his motor is slow moving and his strides are like a mentally challenged giraffe. He stares down his receivers so bad, and after two and a half years in the system, if he can't help himself from staring, he will never help himself from doing so.

I just don't understand why we can't be honest with ourselves over Franks. Sorry to rant at you, but it's been a very frustrating time watching him go out there and do everything opposite of what you ask of a Quarterback and then have fans protect him.

Unfortunately all of our current QBs have flaws.

Danny or Timmy aren't on the team this year.

I am confident that the coaching staff will develop the the current QBs to the best of their ability and the best one will play. My money, if I was to bet is on Trask but the Summer workouts and pre-season practice will determine who the 2018 QB will be. If Franks is under center at the season opener it will because he is the best we have and I will support him like I would any other player. Go Gators!