terdferguson
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Lu or anyone else who dissected or analyzed the game a 2nd time:
How would you grade Flowers? I caught the replay last night starting late in the 2nd quarter and while I was doing several things and watching the NFL games, it seemed that he fared poorly each offensive play I watched.
On one play, UF's end used him like a sled and drove him back easily and Morris, sensing pressure, had to release ball much quicker than he wanted resulting in errant pass.
Next play - from shotgun - he whiffed on block and Duke had to chip that rusher inside leaving a second blitzer (had Flowers not whiffed on his guy, Duke would have likely chipped) with a free lane to Morris again resulting in incomplete pass.
Then, on the long Clements run that was called back, he was flagged for holding.
In the few plays I saw, he did not look good. Looked overmatched physically.
That wasn't holding on the Clements run.
In any case, he's struggled in space moreso than I thought he would. Doing more leaning that I had seen from his last year. I'm not an OLine guy, but some of the other guys (GoGeta, Courcy, etc.) would probably tell you he was off balance on Saturday. He actually looks a lot like a RT playing LT right now, but I think he still has time. I keyed on the OL in my second watch. It was an ugly day, obviously, but it was scary how often those 1 on 1 battles were lost. Your observations are a microcosm of the entire day. What caught me off guard was Feliciano. He had a rougher day than I thought he would.
that was an awful awful call. There was nothing there and it was a crippling call for our offense. We desperately needed a big play and that put us inside the UF 30.