Trying not to be overconfident...

[killa1storm]

suprisingly, the game may become a defensive struggle.

its the 2nd game of the season and a 12:00 game, offenses are generally still finding their groove early in the season and are usually behind the defense. miami is breaking in a new coordinator and uf has multiple injuries on the offensive side, i don't see either offense doing much.

Speak for your own offense. We, The Canes, are not trying to improve a 100+ ranked offense, with a post surgery qb, a starting rb with Ebola, an offensive line that is hoping they will have 5 healthy scholarship players, and a receiving corps that doesn't have one person who would make our 2 deep.

Our offense is just fine. We will be putting up serious points on your defense. Can you match us?

i'm curious as to why you are so confident about your offense. against top 25 teams last year they were bad, they averaged less than 100 ypg on the ground and didn't score many points. now you've lost your coordinator and he's being replaced by a guy that will be calling plays for the first time in his career, he has no real experience calling plays as the coordinator. that same guy is also coming from an fsu team who needless to say is rather bland offensively. should your offense be good? yes, but to act like they have no concerns and are all set to roll a good defense in the 2nd week of the season is well, pretty ridiculous.

Not quite as confident as him but you do have to factor in that last year, vs. good teams, our defense got us behind quick so we had to throw it alot to play catchup. That explains the rushing yds. Then there were all kinds of other things like Seantrel being out most of camp and alot guys coming in out of shape or injured. I don't want to speak too soon on the injury front but we don't really have the off field bull**** and guys are all in shape and stronger.

Duke was a freshman as well and as good as he was, he had some bad games against the good teams. He dropped a wide open slant vs. KST that could've been a TD for instance. That was early in the game and could've changed momentum a little. Dorsett's drops vs. ND could've made it a different ballgame as well. That all is what it is but it doesn't show up in the stats. I think a year of maturity for those guys will make **** like that not happen in big moments. Or at least I hope so.


Y'alls DL and DB's are my main concern. Especially the DL. I am still a little concerned about our defense but I'm confident we will be better than last year.


Florida fans should be very concerned about their offense though. My brother is a Gate and he curses Driskell constantly about locking onto his primary. Says he literally stares at the primary pre snap and doesn't even look to the others. And any kind of pass rush makes him just tuck and run. Add to that losing Gillislee and some OL. Debose also and likely Matt Jones, doesn't bode well. He does rave about this freshman WR from GA named Robinson I think. But counting on a freshman to be the next Sammy Watkins is tough when Driskell is your QB. Even if you have a really good QB that's tough.

good post, i agree with most of this. neither fanbase should be feeling overconfident about anything, this is truly a toss up.

 

[Consigliere]

Just like Al, Will Muschamp is in his third year. Will and Al did not inherit the same team. So I think this is a telling year for Muschamp, he is now in his third season and like Al this is starting to become mostly his team (his recruits).

The reason I bring the above up is because I have no idea how good of a developer of talent is Muschamp.

Before this year, UF Lost the following to the draft/graduation

Defense

Bostic (MLB),
Jenkins (OLB),
McCray (OLB),
Elam (S),
Evans (S),
Hunter (NT/DT), and
Floyd (DT)

Offense

Gillisee (RB)
Nixon (OT),
Wilson (OL),
Reed (TE), and
Hammond (WR)

Now, since this year began, the following has happened:

Andre Debose (WR) out with an ACL Tear
Jon Halapio (OG) out until 8/18-8/21 with a torn pectoral muscle
Hunter Joyer (FB) out until 8/21 with a pulled hamey
Matt Rolin (LB) out with an ACL Tear
Jaylen Watkins (DB) out until 8/19 with a sprained foot
Damien Jacobs (DT) out until 8/19 with a knee sprain
Matt Jones (RB) out indefinitely with a virus/viral infection
*Driskel is back, no need to include him*

 

[bobbydigius]

suprisingly, the game may become a defensive struggle.

its the 2nd game of the season and a 12:00 game, offenses are generally still finding their groove early in the season and are usually behind the defense. miami is breaking in a new coordinator and uf has multiple injuries on the offensive side, i don't see either offense doing much.

Speak for your own offense. We, The Canes, are not trying to improve a 100+ ranked offense, with a post surgery qb, a starting rb with Ebola, an offensive line that is hoping they will have 5 healthy scholarship players, and a receiving corps that doesn't have one person who would make our 2 deep.

Our offense is just fine. We will be putting up serious points on your defense. Can you match us?

i'm curious as to why you are so confident about your offense. against top 25 teams last year they were bad, they averaged less than 100 ypg on the ground and didn't score many points. now you've lost your coordinator and he's being replaced by a guy that will be calling plays for the first time in his career, he has no real experience calling plays as the coordinator. that same guy is also coming from an fsu team who needless to say is rather bland offensively. should your offense be good? yes, but to act like they have no concerns and are all set to roll a good defense in the 2nd week of the season is well, pretty ridiculous.

Not quite as confident as him but you do have to factor in that last year, vs. good teams, our defense got us behind quick so we had to throw it alot to play catchup. That explains the rushing yds. Then there were all kinds of other things like Seantrel being out most of camp and alot guys coming in out of shape or injured. I don't want to speak too soon on the injury front but we don't really have the off field bull**** and guys are all in shape and stronger.

Duke was a freshman as well and as good as he was, he had some bad games against the good teams. He dropped a wide open slant vs. KST that could've been a TD for instance. That was early in the game and could've changed momentum a little. Dorsett's drops vs. ND could've made it a different ballgame as well. That all is what it is but it doesn't show up in the stats. I think a year of maturity for those guys will make **** like that not happen in big moments. Or at least I hope so.


Y'alls DL and DB's are my main concern. Especially the DL. I am still a little concerned about our defense but I'm confident we will be better than last year.


Florida fans should be very concerned about their offense though. My brother is a Gate and he curses Driskell constantly about locking onto his primary. Says he literally stares at the primary pre snap and doesn't even look to the others. And any kind of pass rush makes him just tuck and run. Add to that losing Gillislee and some OL. Debose also and likely Matt Jones, doesn't bode well. He does rave about this freshman WR from GA named Robinson I think. But counting on a freshman to be the next Sammy Watkins is tough when Driskell is your QB. Even if you have a really good QB that's tough.

Against both ND and FSU our defense held at the beginning, it was our offense that sputtered. Against ND, yes Dorsett had 3 huge drops in the first 2 drives that should have put up 6 twice on the board but after that we were stifled on offense. The FSU game we came out and led but once their defense settled we got shut down. It was KSU where our defense had us playing from behind but not the other marquise games. Even against UNC we sputtered on offense. I think we improve but to just assume we are this juggernaut there is homerism.

Also to the poster that said how do we know if Florida's defense will be good? Well we don't know as a whole but their secondary will be one of the best in the nation and their DL is also nasty. People get all excited about a player like McCord who had flashes last year, I wonder what they would be saying if we had Fowler and Bullard on the squad. Their weakness is the LBs as it stands right now on paper. If we an attack them there we can we should be able to mess up their flow elsewhere and with our weapons hopefully that allows us to do some damage. Football is a game of inches it is said, and it will all hinge on what happens with Florida's LBs, if we can exploit that, then we might see a repeat of the Sugar Bowl this past January, if not it might be the ND game all over for us......

 

[rudebuddha]

suprisingly, the game may become a defensive struggle.

its the 2nd game of the season and a 12:00 game, offenses are generally still finding their groove early in the season and are usually behind the defense. miami is breaking in a new coordinator and uf has multiple injuries on the offensive side, i don't see either offense doing much.

Speak for your own offense. We, The Canes, are not trying to improve a 100+ ranked offense, with a post surgery qb, a starting rb with Ebola, an offensive line that is hoping they will have 5 healthy scholarship players, and a receiving corps that doesn't have one person who would make our 2 deep.

Our offense is just fine. We will be putting up serious points on your defense. Can you match us?

i'm curious as to why you are so confident about your offense. against top 25 teams last year they were bad, they averaged less than 100 ypg on the ground and didn't score many points. now you've lost your coordinator and he's being replaced by a guy that will be calling plays for the first time in his career, he has no real experience calling plays as the coordinator. that same guy is also coming from an fsu team who needless to say is rather bland offensively. should your offense be good? yes, but to act like they have no concerns and are all set to roll a good defense in the 2nd week of the season is well, pretty ridiculous.

On the flip side, what makes you think your defense will be good?
Seriously, you can't assume that. You have a whole bunch of inexperienced players. Your best player is also going to be getting thumped as a wr, because your receivers are that **** poor.
Your 2nd best player is coming off acl surgery.
You d line has to try to beat flowers and Seantrel on the edges, and Bunche/feliciano, McDermott, and Linder up the gut.
Your inexperienced safeties have to cover deep and also worry about monster tight ends running the seams.
And finally there's Duke.

I think the gators have the right to atleast feel confident in their D, they have Muschamp who as much as we rag on he is a proven guy when it comes to defense. Great coach who has coached many different places and has gotten results. Plus they have talent on Dline and in secondary, they have to shore up the middle with regards to LB and safety but everyone has question marks at this time. Doesnt mean they cant be scored on but their confidence in their D is justified

I can agree with that.
Can we also agree that our offensive line will be one of the best, if not the best line they will face?
Can we also agree that when a defense is questionable with their lb's and safeties they will have a very difficult time against a very good collection of skill players?

I'm not looking at this as a homer, although I am one.
I try to be objective.
If the gators just assume their front four will dominate our offensive line, which I objectively see as a future NFL line, then that is overconfidence.
Their secondary wont blanket our wide outs and tightends.
Morris will probably be the best qb they face all year.
Then there's Duke.
Throw in the fact we are playing them early, and with a mostly inexperienced defense that needs game experience to gel and find their identity, I see the o versus d comparison leaning heavily towards us.

 

[BALDYCHUTES]

Man, we had that same o last year and it flat out disappeared for entire games against anyone who played a whiff of D. That OL was s'posed to be super good last year.

Bigger, faster, stronger? Bla, bla, bla. We have heard that for years. Some of us just have to see results first. And that is understandable.

I hope you are right. I pray you are right, because if UM beats the Gates, its on baby!

Speak for your own offense. We, The Canes, are not trying to improve a 100+ ranked offense, with a post surgery qb, a starting rb with Ebola, an offensive line that is hoping they will have 5 healthy scholarship players, and a receiving corps that doesn't have one person who would make our 2 deep.

Our offense is just fine. We will be putting up serious points on your defense. Can you match us?

i'm curious as to why you are so confident about your offense. against top 25 teams last year they were bad, they averaged less than 100 ypg on the ground and didn't score many points. now you've lost your coordinator and he's being replaced by a guy that will be calling plays for the first time in his career, he has no real experience calling plays as the coordinator. that same guy is also coming from an fsu team who needless to say is rather bland offensively. should your offense be good? yes, but to act like they have no concerns and are all set to roll a good defense in the 2nd week of the season is well, pretty ridiculous.

On the flip side, what makes you think your defense will be good?
Seriously, you can't assume that. You have a whole bunch of inexperienced players. Your best player is also going to be getting thumped as a wr, because your receivers are that **** poor.
Your 2nd best player is coming off acl surgery.
You d line has to try to beat flowers and Seantrel on the edges, and Bunche/feliciano, McDermott, and Linder up the gut.
Your inexperienced safeties have to cover deep and also worry about monster tight ends running the seams.
And finally there's Duke.

I think the gators have the right to atleast feel confident in their D, they have Muschamp who as much as we rag on he is a proven guy when it comes to defense. Great coach who has coached many different places and has gotten results. Plus they have talent on Dline and in secondary, they have to shore up the middle with regards to LB and safety but everyone has question marks at this time. Doesnt mean they cant be scored on but their confidence in their D is justified

I can agree with that.
Can we also agree that our offensive line will be one of the best, if not the best line they will face?
Can we also agree that when a defense is questionable with their lb's and safeties they will have a very difficult time against a very good collection of skill players?

I'm not looking at this as a homer, although I am one.
I try to be objective.
If the gators just assume their front four will dominate our offensive line, which I objectively see as a future NFL line, then that is overconfidence.
Their secondary wont blanket our wide outs and tightends.
Morris will probably be the best qb they face all year.
Then there's Duke.
Throw in the fact we are playing them early, and with a mostly inexperienced defense that needs game experience to gel and find their identity, I see the o versus d comparison leaning heavily towards us.

 

[BALDYCHUTES]

suprisingly, the game may become a defensive struggle.

its the 2nd game of the season and a 12:00 game, offenses are generally still finding their groove early in the season and are usually behind the defense. miami is breaking in a new coordinator and uf has multiple injuries on the offensive side, i don't see either offense doing much.

Speak for your own offense. We, The Canes, are not trying to improve a 100+ ranked offense, with a post surgery qb, a starting rb with Ebola, an offensive line that is hoping they will have 5 healthy scholarship players, and a receiving corps that doesn't have one person who would make our 2 deep.

Our offense is just fine. We will be putting up serious points on your defense. Can you match us?

i'm curious as to why you are so confident about your offense. against top 25 teams last year they were bad, they averaged less than 100 ypg on the ground and didn't score many points. now you've lost your coordinator and he's being replaced by a guy that will be calling plays for the first time in his career, he has no real experience calling plays as the coordinator. that same guy is also coming from an fsu team who needless to say is rather bland offensively. should your offense be good? yes, but to act like they have no concerns and are all set to roll a good defense in the 2nd week of the season is well, pretty ridiculous.

Not quite as confident as him but you do have to factor in that last year, vs. good teams, our defense got us behind quick so we had to throw it alot to play catchup. That explains the rushing yds. Then there were all kinds of other things like Seantrel being out most of camp and alot guys coming in out of shape or injured. I don't want to speak too soon on the injury front but we don't really have the off field bull**** and guys are all in shape and stronger.

Duke was a freshman as well and as good as he was, he had some bad games against the good teams. He dropped a wide open slant vs. KST that could've been a TD for instance. That was early in the game and could've changed momentum a little. Dorsett's drops vs. ND could've made it a different ballgame as well. That all is what it is but it doesn't show up in the stats. I think a year of maturity for those guys will make **** like that not happen in big moments. Or at least I hope so.


Y'alls DL and DB's are my main concern. Especially the DL. I am still a little concerned about our defense but I'm confident we will be better than last year.


Florida fans should be very concerned about their offense though. My brother is a Gate and he curses Driskell constantly about locking onto his primary. Says he literally stares at the primary pre snap and doesn't even look to the others. And any kind of pass rush makes him just tuck and run. Add to that losing Gillislee and some OL. Debose also and likely Matt Jones, doesn't bode well. He does rave about this freshman WR from GA named Robinson I think. But counting on a freshman to be the next Sammy Watkins is tough when Driskell is your QB. Even if you have a really good QB that's tough.

Regarding the bolded portion above, We hung with ND and FSU for a half and .75 respectively. Our offense just sucked out loud. Period. It disappeared. UM could not get a freaking first down when we led FSU and could not sustain against either.

I just totally disagree with your excuses for giving up like 1000 rushing yards against KSU, ND ad FSU. Our D was mauled, from front to rear. And our O could not buy a first down and no, Seantrel's pussitis was not the reason the D was trucked.

 

[rudebuddha]

Man, we had that same o last year and it flat out disappeared for entire games against anyone who played a whiff of D. That OL was s'posed to be super good last year.

Bigger, faster, stronger? Bla, bla, bla. We have heard that for years. Some of us just have to see results first. And that is understandable.

I hope you are right. I pray you are right, because if UM beats the Gates, its on baby!

i'm curious as to why you are so confident about your offense. against top 25 teams last year they were bad, they averaged less than 100 ypg on the ground and didn't score many points. now you've lost your coordinator and he's being replaced by a guy that will be calling plays for the first time in his career, he has no real experience calling plays as the coordinator. that same guy is also coming from an fsu team who needless to say is rather bland offensively. should your offense be good? yes, but to act like they have no concerns and are all set to roll a good defense in the 2nd week of the season is well, pretty ridiculous.

On the flip side, what makes you think your defense will be good?
Seriously, you can't assume that. You have a whole bunch of inexperienced players. Your best player is also going to be getting thumped as a wr, because your receivers are that **** poor.
Your 2nd best player is coming off acl surgery.
You d line has to try to beat flowers and Seantrel on the edges, and Bunche/feliciano, McDermott, and Linder up the gut.
Your inexperienced safeties have to cover deep and also worry about monster tight ends running the seams.
And finally there's Duke.

I think the gators have the right to atleast feel confident in their D, they have Muschamp who as much as we rag on he is a proven guy when it comes to defense. Great coach who has coached many different places and has gotten results. Plus they have talent on Dline and in secondary, they have to shore up the middle with regards to LB and safety but everyone has question marks at this time. Doesnt mean they cant be scored on but their confidence in their D is justified

I can agree with that.
Can we also agree that our offensive line will be one of the best, if not the best line they will face?
Can we also agree that when a defense is questionable with their lb's and safeties they will have a very difficult time against a very good collection of skill players?

I'm not looking at this as a homer, although I am one.
I try to be objective.
If the gators just assume their front four will dominate our offensive line, which I objectively see as a future NFL line, then that is overconfidence.
Their secondary wont blanket our wide outs and tightends.
Morris will probably be the best qb they face all year.
Then there's Duke.
Throw in the fact we are playing them early, and with a mostly inexperienced defense that needs game experience to gel and find their identity, I see the o versus d comparison leaning heavily towards us.

I can understand you hesitance to make the leap.
You do know it's not the same offense as last year? We played a lot of 1st year players last year.
I don't even think our top 6 wr's last year had more catches and starts than Dorsett ended up with combined.
Morris was really a first time starter at qb.
Duke was a true freshman. We were still searching for a tight end.

We shouldn't have been as good as we were on offense last year.

 

[rok]

suprisingly, the game may become a defensive struggle.

its the 2nd game of the season and a 12:00 game, offenses are generally still finding their groove early in the season and are usually behind the defense. miami is breaking in a new coordinator and uf has multiple injuries on the offensive side, i don't see either offense doing much.

Speak for your own offense. We, The Canes, are not trying to improve a 100+ ranked offense, with a post surgery qb, a starting rb with Ebola, an offensive line that is hoping they will have 5 healthy scholarship players, and a receiving corps that doesn't have one person who would make our 2 deep.

Our offense is just fine. We will be putting up serious points on your defense. Can you match us?

i'm curious as to why you are so confident about your offense. against top 25 teams last year they were bad, they averaged less than 100 ypg on the ground and didn't score many points. now you've lost your coordinator and he's being replaced by a guy that will be calling plays for the first time in his career, he has no real experience calling plays as the coordinator. that same guy is also coming from an fsu team who needless to say is rather bland offensively. should your offense be good? yes, but to act like they have no concerns and are all set to roll a good defense in the 2nd week of the season is well, pretty ridiculous.

Not quite as confident as him but you do have to factor in that last year, vs. good teams, our defense got us behind quick so we had to throw it alot to play catchup. That explains the rushing yds. Then there were all kinds of other things like Seantrel being out most of camp and alot guys coming in out of shape or injured. I don't want to speak too soon on the injury front but we don't really have the off field bull**** and guys are all in shape and stronger.

Duke was a freshman as well and as good as he was, he had some bad games against the good teams. He dropped a wide open slant vs. KST that could've been a TD for instance. That was early in the game and could've changed momentum a little. Dorsett's drops vs. ND could've made it a different ballgame as well. That all is what it is but it doesn't show up in the stats. I think a year of maturity for those guys will make **** like that not happen in big moments. Or at least I hope so.


Y'alls DL and DB's are my main concern. Especially the DL. I am still a little concerned about our defense but I'm confident we will be better than last year.


Florida fans should be very concerned about their offense though. My brother is a Gate and he curses Driskell constantly about locking onto his primary. Says he literally stares at the primary pre snap and doesn't even look to the others. And any kind of pass rush makes him just tuck and run. Add to that losing Gillislee and some OL. Debose also and likely Matt Jones, doesn't bode well. He does rave about this freshman WR from GA named Robinson I think. But counting on a freshman to be the next Sammy Watkins is tough when Driskell is your QB. Even if you have a really good QB that's tough.

Regarding the bolded portion above, We hung with ND and FSU for a half and .75 respectively. Our offense just sucked out loud. Period. It disappeared. UM could not get a freaking first down when we led FSU and could not sustain against either.

I just totally disagree with your excuses for giving up like 1000 rushing yards against KSU, ND ad FSU. Our D was mauled, from front to rear. And our O could not buy a first down and no, Seantrel's pussitis was not the reason the D was trucked.

This man is not a homer

 

[BALDYCHUTES]

Oh yes, I do understand that this is a different UM team. I understand how young UM was last year.

And we heard the same thing after the promising 9-3 2009 campaign. And UM went 7-5, despite being bigger, faster, stronger, more mature. ****, first game of 2008, Randy fielded over 17 true freshmen who were s'posed to be monsters by 2010 . . . . 7-5.

Hence, I'll wait to see if UM is ready for prime time. Yes, much has changed. I'll wait to see the scoreboard change, because the rest is all just talk.

Man, we had that same o last year and it flat out disappeared for entire games against anyone who played a whiff of D. That OL was s'posed to be super good last year.

Bigger, faster, stronger? Bla, bla, bla. We have heard that for years. Some of us just have to see results first. And that is understandable.

I hope you are right. I pray you are right, because if UM beats the Gates, its on baby!

On the flip side, what makes you think your defense will be good?
Seriously, you can't assume that. You have a whole bunch of inexperienced players. Your best player is also going to be getting thumped as a wr, because your receivers are that **** poor.
Your 2nd best player is coming off acl surgery.
You d line has to try to beat flowers and Seantrel on the edges, and Bunche/feliciano, McDermott, and Linder up the gut.
Your inexperienced safeties have to cover deep and also worry about monster tight ends running the seams.
And finally there's Duke.

I think the gators have the right to atleast feel confident in their D, they have Muschamp who as much as we rag on he is a proven guy when it comes to defense. Great coach who has coached many different places and has gotten results. Plus they have talent on Dline and in secondary, they have to shore up the middle with regards to LB and safety but everyone has question marks at this time. Doesnt mean they cant be scored on but their confidence in their D is justified

I can agree with that.
Can we also agree that our offensive line will be one of the best, if not the best line they will face?
Can we also agree that when a defense is questionable with their lb's and safeties they will have a very difficult time against a very good collection of skill players?

I'm not looking at this as a homer, although I am one.
I try to be objective.
If the gators just assume their front four will dominate our offensive line, which I objectively see as a future NFL line, then that is overconfidence.
Their secondary wont blanket our wide outs and tightends.
Morris will probably be the best qb they face all year.
Then there's Duke.
Throw in the fact we are playing them early, and with a mostly inexperienced defense that needs game experience to gel and find their identity, I see the o versus d comparison leaning heavily towards us.

I can understand you hesitance to make the leap.
You do know it's not the same offense as last year? We played a lot of 1st year players last year.
I don't even think our top 6 wr's last year had more catches and starts than Dorsett ended up with combined.
Morris was really a first time starter at qb.
Duke was a true freshman. We were still searching for a tight end.

We shouldn't have been as good as we were on offense last year.

 

[561Cane]

Load the box. I put 8 men in there on 1st and 2nd downs and roll the dice if the Gator decides to throw on the early downs...

Trey Burton is a good player for them. However if we can stop their running game we'll put them in a tough situation on offense. Driskell running will be a big part of their offense also.

 

[zone3cane]

I went full Homer mode with my 1st prediction in this thread.... honestly I can see this game being a close back and forth game w/ moments where both teams could look like they are going to pull away but then the other team gets right back in it.

A lot of pressure and Intense.....

UFs defense is going to be nasty, I do think they have wholes at Safety, going to have to play a lot of young but talented guys back there.

UFs offense is going to get production somewhere.... they have talented young receivers and Q. Dunbard and L. Purifoy that are going to make plays. Trey Burton is a playmaker and they have a good stable of other RBs beside Matt Jones that Miami's defense is going to have to contain.

Force Driskell to have to step up and win the game and UMs offense has to be able to convert 3rd downs and score in the red zone.... game could easily be decided by a late FG or a turnover.

 

[ucrew02]

IIRC the o-line did very well in pass pro against ND. We couldn't run the ball but we protected Morris and had receivers running open but had a ton of missed opportunities.

 

[cowboycane]

Load the box. I put 8 men in there on 1st and 2nd downs and roll the dice if the Gator decides to throw on the early downs...

Trey Burton is a good player for them. However if we can stop their running game we'll put them in a tough situation on offense. Driskell running will be a big part of their offense also.

Go with the Bill Young gameplan. Make them make tough plays to beat us.

 

[rok]

If our offense plays on 9/7 like it did against ND we're going to get blown out

 

[UMprodigy]

9/7
Morris throws for 3 TD's and 1 INT
Duke runs for 1 TD
Mo or Edwards for 1 TD

That's all.

 

[marshallrc13]

If our offense plays on 9/7 like it did against ND we're going to get blown out

This is so true!!! Please no wide open drops of for sure TDs... When we have opportunities to do things, we must take advantage, otherwise our already questioned defense will be in even worse position.

 

[UMcanesfan420]

suprisingly, the game may become a defensive struggle.

its the 2nd game of the season and a 12:00 game, offenses are generally still finding their groove early in the season and are usually behind the defense. miami is breaking in a new coordinator and uf has multiple injuries on the offensive side, i don't see either offense doing much.

Speak for your own offense. We, The Canes, are not trying to improve a 100+ ranked offense, with a post surgery qb, a starting rb with Ebola, an offensive line that is hoping they will have 5 healthy scholarship players, and a receiving corps that doesn't have one person who would make our 2 deep.

Our offense is just fine. We will be putting up serious points on your defense. Can you match us?

i'm curious as to why you are so confident about your offense. against top 25 teams last year they were bad, they averaged less than 100 ypg on the ground and didn't score many points. now you've lost your coordinator and he's being replaced by a guy that will be calling plays for the first time in his career, he has no real experience calling plays as the coordinator. that same guy is also coming from an fsu team who needless to say is rather bland offensively. should your offense be good? yes, but to act like they have no concerns and are all set to roll a good defense in the 2nd week of the season is well, pretty ridiculous.

Not quite as confident as him but you do have to factor in that last year, vs. good teams, our defense got us behind quick so we had to throw it alot to play catchup. That explains the rushing yds. Then there were all kinds of other things like Seantrel being out most of camp and alot guys coming in out of shape or injured. I don't want to speak too soon on the injury front but we don't really have the off field bull**** and guys are all in shape and stronger.

Duke was a freshman as well and as good as he was, he had some bad games against the good teams. He dropped a wide open slant vs. KST that could've been a TD for instance. That was early in the game and could've changed momentum a little. Dorsett's drops vs. ND could've made it a different ballgame as well. That all is what it is but it doesn't show up in the stats. I think a year of maturity for those guys will make **** like that not happen in big moments. Or at least I hope so.


Y'alls DL and DB's are my main concern. Especially the DL. I am still a little concerned about our defense but I'm confident we will be better than last year.


Florida fans should be very concerned about their offense though. My brother is a Gate and he curses Driskell constantly about locking onto his primary. Says he literally stares at the primary pre snap and doesn't even look to the others. And any kind of pass rush makes him just tuck and run. Add to that losing Gillislee and some OL. Debose also and likely Matt Jones, doesn't bode well. He does rave about this freshman WR from GA named Robinson I think. But counting on a freshman to be the next Sammy Watkins is tough when Driskell is your QB. Even if you have a really good QB that's tough.

Regarding the bolded portion above, We hung with ND and FSU for a half and .75 respectively. Our offense just sucked out loud. Period. It disappeared. UM could not get a freaking first down when we led FSU and could not sustain against either.

I just totally disagree with your excuses for giving up like 1000 rushing yards against KSU, ND ad FSU. Our D was mauled, from front to rear. And our O could not buy a first down and no, Seantrel's pussitis was not the reason the D was trucked.

Jeez. Did I say that? Some people will see what they want to see I guess.

 

[kendallcanes]

Outside factors: weather and the temperature.

If it is a hot day, I look to depth as being a factor that should not be understated.

My concern would be stopping Driskell on 3rd down plays where he runs. That's when I want my Wisconsin DE in.