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Florida’s pass defense last year:

- Yards allowed: 81st
- Coverage grade per PFF as a unit: 111th
- Zero safeties in the top 300 for overall defense...for context, despite how much y’all hated Powell, he was 139th. So OOF.

Top two safeties were as follows:

- Trikweze Bridges (314th out of 912 safeties); more than half his snaps came at wide CB

- Bryce Thornton (356 out of 912 safeties); decent in coverage but nothing spectacular (67.5, 410th/912). Excellent rushing the passer numbers primarily in blitz packages, mostly played free safety.

Sharif Denson was S3; finished with a 56.5 coverage grade, bottom 150 in the country at his position.

Castell was S4; coverage grade of 58.9, 649th. Regressed considerably from his 2023 numbers.

Can someone explain to me why this is a good hire, other than “Mario stuffed Billy in a locker”? Genuinely asking, thanks in advance.
 
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WeBallinBoyz said:
Florida’s pass defense last year:

- Yards allowed: 81st
- Coverage grade per PFF as a unit: 111th
- Zero safeties in the top 300 for overall defense...for context, despite how much y’all hated Powell, he was 139th. So OOF.

Top two safeties were as follows:

- Trikweze Bridges (314th out of 912 safeties); more than half his snaps came at wide CB

- Bryce Thornton (356 out of 912 safeties); decent in coverage but nothing spectacular (67.5, 410th/912). Excellent rushing the passer numbers primarily in blitz packages, mostly played free safety.

Sharif Denson was S3; finished with a 56.5 coverage grade, bottom 150 in the country at his position.

Castell was S4; coverage grade of 58.9, 649th. Regressed considerably from his 2023 numbers.

Can someone explain to me why this is a good hire, other than “Mario stuffed Billy in a locker”? Genuinely asking, thanks in advance.
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Take a look at the schedule they of offenses they faced…Including the 2h of the season when they were without their top 2 corners.

Miami, Ole Miss, Tex, LSU passing offenses…GA takes a lot of flack, but that's still Carson Beck

Thornton missed time as well, they were kinda makeshift moving guys around all year. The consensus form their fanbase was he did very well holding it together especially after the injuries.
 
Not much wasted time spent on Coaches who are failing... they leave one way or another.

Mario keep building...
 
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WeBallinBoyz said:
Florida’s pass defense last year:

- Yards allowed: 81st
- Coverage grade per PFF as a unit: 111th
- Zero safeties in the top 300 for overall defense...for context, despite how much y’all hated Powell, he was 139th. So OOF.

Top two safeties were as follows:

- Trikweze Bridges (314th out of 912 safeties); more than half his snaps came at wide CB

- Bryce Thornton (356 out of 912 safeties); decent in coverage but nothing spectacular (67.5, 410th/912). Excellent rushing the passer numbers primarily in blitz packages, mostly played free safety.

Sharif Denson was S3; finished with a 56.5 coverage grade, bottom 150 in the country at his position.

Castell was S4; coverage grade of 58.9, 649th. Regressed considerably from his 2023 numbers.

Can someone explain to me why this is a good hire, other than “Mario stuffed Billy in a locker”? Genuinely asking, thanks in advance.
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I am not so sure using PFF grades to determine if an assistant coach hiring is good or not is a wise idea. It was clear as day the UF pass defense improved significantly as the year went on.

Nico 16-26 170 yards 1INT, Tennessee scored only 23 point in a game that went to OT

Kentucky Scored 20 and Vandagriff was 12/26 160 yards 1TD 2INTs

Carson Beck was 25/40 300 yards 2TDs 3INTs

Nussmier was 27/47 260 yards 1TD while LSU scored 16 points

Jaxon Dart 24/41 320 yards 2TDs 2INTs , Ole Miss only scored 17

Bowl Game against Tulane, Ty Thompson was 11/29 130 yards 1TD 3INTs
 
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