Florida defense flaw?

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I wash watching the UF UNT game and noticed something. Other than the Florida d pretty much exploding the UNT line each down, I noticed they blitz their linebackers every single play.

Now that is tough to handle from the QB perspective, gicen that the ends come in lightning fast, and if they don't get you the backer or the DT that sheds a block will. However, the center of the field is wide open about every down. We could cheat a bit and have a slot receiver ran a slant to the middle or a tight end leave his man and take the pass. Now I am certain their D can adjust to this. Perhaps they want that so they make the QB get comfortable and then make a dangerous pass. Still, might be able to keep the line honest this way and open up some run plays.

Did anyone else see this in that game or in other games? What is your perspective on this?
 
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jlindsa4 said:
I wash watching the UF UNT game and noticed something. Other than the Florida d pretty much exploding the UNT line each down, I noticed they blitz their linebackers every single play.

Now that is tough to handle from the QB perspective, gicen that the ends come in lightning fast, and if they don't get you the backer or the DT that sheds a block will. However, the center of the field is wide open about every down. We could cheat a bit and have a slot receiver ran a slant to the middle or a tight end leave his man and take the pass. Now I am certain their D can adjust to this. Perhaps they want that so they make the QB get comfortable and then make a dangerous pass. Still, might be able to keep the line honest this way and open up some run plays.

Did anyone else see this in that game or in other games? What is your perspective on this?
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App St game middle was wide open, but how often have you seen us run slants? :thud:
 
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They blitzed every play because UNT counldnt do a damn thing about it. That's all. UNT is a truly horrible football team
 
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Also you blitz a fast QB like Dobbs at your own peril. If you don't catch him in the backfield he is running for 15 or more yards.
 
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The game plan changes based on the opponent. I wouldn't look at UNT and say that's what they are going to do against Tennessee.

Personally, I don't know why you would blitz Tennessee.

The best way to go at the Florida defense is not something that is in Tennessee's arsenal.

Florida, as is the case most years, has a lot of speed. The best way to beat them is pound the snot out of them physically.....a la....LSU, Michigan, Alabama.

The problem is (1) Tennessee goes sideways a lot and (2) Tennessee isn't physical enough up front to pound the rock.
 
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99gator said:
The game plan changes based on the opponent. I wouldn't look at UNT and say that's what they are going to do against Tennessee.

Personally, I don't know why you would blitz Tennessee.

The best way to go at the Florida defense is not something that is in Tennessee's arsenal.

Florida, as is the case most years, has a lot of speed. The best way to beat them is pound the snot out of them physically.....a la....LSU, Michigan, Alabama.

The problem is (1) Tennessee goes sideways a lot and (2) Tennessee isn't physical enough up front to pound the rock.
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We pound the ball way too much. But I agree the line is not physical.
 
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I think they like to blitz because they have the best secondary in the country. Two All-American and two other players that would start for us, and 95% of other schools. They want teams to test their man coverage. I do think we will be able to run on them, but not good enough to be one dimensional so it'll be interesting how our passing game does against them.

I think we'll run more on 3rd and long then we've ever seen if they get pressure early.
 
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99gator said:
The game plan changes based on the opponent. I wouldn't look at UNT and say that's what they are going to do against Tennessee.

Personally, I don't know why you would blitz Tennessee.

The best way to go at the Florida defense is not something that is in Tennessee's arsenal.

Florida, as is the case most years, has a lot of speed. The best way to beat them is pound the snot out of them physically.....a la....LSU, Michigan, Alabama.

The problem is (1) Tennessee goes sideways a lot and (2) Tennessee isn't physical enough up front to pound the rock.
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I agree in theory, but it seems like we had success running the ball in our offense last year.

Also how has Florida's front 7 changed? I know Boullard and McCallier are gone but idk much about florida.
 
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Chance hall will change this line drastically. I promise. It will be a different line. They will work in unison. He been missing link
 
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If one lineman is off, the whole line is off. With hall back they will be solid. The guards won't worry about picking up the slack of the tackles and the center won't have to worry about picking up the slack from the guards...
 
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white65 said:
I agree in theory, but it seems like we had success running the ball in our offense last year.

Also how has Florida's front 7 changed? I know Boullard and McCallier are gone but idk much about florida.
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I know we all have our biases, but imo, dobbs and hurd went PlayStation on several occasions and made people miss tackles. There werent a lot of runs where there was a nice hole where the runner was designed to go.

I cant tell you how many times they had both of them dead to rights and didnt get them on the ground.

Some of that is going to happen because those guys are good runners, but it happened A LOT in last season's game
 
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The players are being over confident from Florida, that will work against them in this game. This means they are gonna be overly jumpy to cause turnovers, which in turn will cause blown coverage for gators. Adrenaline is a gift and a curse. Right now they are using it as a curse
 
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99gator said:
I know we all have our biases, but imo, dobbs and hurd went PlayStation on several occasions and made people miss tackles. There werent a lot of runs where there was a nice hole where the runner was designed to go.

I cant tell you how many times they had both of them dead to rights and didnt get them on the ground.

Some of that is going to happen because those guys are good runners, but it happened A LOT in last season's game
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If Hurd and Dobbs run wild like that again, we lose.
 
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If memory serves several years back ESPN analysts looked close at the Gator D and showed pretty clear that the area of biggest weakness was the area just behind the linebackers in front of the safety in zone defense WR slants and TE deep posts hurt them. If they are in a man defense runs between the tackles and rollout bootleg run/throw option passes to the TE and WR crossing patterns looked best. Just a thought.
 
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VFL34 said:
The players are being over confident from Florida, that will work against them in this game. This means they are gonna be overly jumpy to cause turnovers, which in turn will cause blown coverage for gators. Adrenaline is a gift and a curse. Right now they are using it as a curse
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I agree.

What point is there to trash talk a team you've beaten the past 11 years? They know that they've gotten extremely fortunate we allowed them to somehow win the last two games. If they really felt superior to us, they'd probably just shut their mouths and do their talking on the field. We will see
 
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99gator said:
The game plan changes based on the opponent. I wouldn't look at UNT and say that's what they are going to do against Tennessee.

Personally, I don't know why you would blitz Tennessee.

The best way to go at the Florida defense is not something that is in Tennessee's arsenal.

Florida, as is the case most years, has a lot of speed. The best way to beat them is pound the snot out of them physically.....a la....LSU, Michigan, Alabama.

The problem is (1) Tennessee goes sideways a lot and (2) Tennessee isn't physical enough up front to pound the rock.
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The vast majority of Tennessee's runs are inside zone or a power run with a pulling guard. That's why we got 256 yards on the ground against you last year -- more than LSU did with Fournette.
 
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UTK said:
I agree.

What point is there to trash talk a team you've beaten the past 11 years? They know that they've gotten extremely fortunate we allowed them to somehow win the last two games. If they really felt superior to us, they'd probably just shut their mouths and do their talking on the field. We will see
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to mind ****k Tennessee. plain and simple
 
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99gator said:
I know we all have our biases, but imo, dobbs and hurd went PlayStation on several occasions and made people miss tackles. There werent a lot of runs where there was a nice hole where the runner was designed to go.

I cant tell you how many times they had both of them dead to rights and didnt get them on the ground.

Some of that is going to happen because those guys are good runners, but it happened A LOT in last season's game
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Our median gain last year was 3 yards/carry. Our average was just north of 5 yards per carry. There were 10 carries that went 10 yards or better, 18 carries that went 5 yards or better, 23 carries that went 4 yards or better, and 27 carries that went 3 yards or better. One of my old coaches use to say if we can get 3 yards every carry, we got a first down. I figured that was the magic number. We rushed 51 times last year, including 3 times for no gain, 7 times for a TFL and 3 more for sacks. Our longest run was 62 yards which we will probably average against you guys this year and still rush 51 times so we'll have I guess 3,162 yards rushing against you guys Saturday. We get 0.164 points for every yard we gain on the ground so the final score will be something like 518 to what every you guys can manage. :hi:
 
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