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Ok, heres my two cents. Ive dropped a good number of hints here and there.
Basically, it boils down to the following. I am not sold on Tennessee being a good football team, yet. However, I am sold on them not being a bad football team. I am also sold on the fact that Florida is a bad football team.
Where each team is weak, Florida is weaker. Tennessees offensive line may not be good, but they dont have three true freshman starting/getting a heavy amount of snaps. Josh Dobbs may not be a Heisman QB, but hes not a 1st year starter whos job isnt totally secure. And if the QB and offensive line actually do its job from time to time, which group of skill position guys would you bet on to make a play given the opportunity . Taylor, Callaway, Robinson, Powell (I know a lot of you are thinking who?) or Hurd, Pig, North, Pearson, etc.
I think this game is absolutely critical for Butch Jones because I believe every sunshine pumper on this board is 100% correct. If Butch Jones is the man to lead Tennessee to where you all want them to go, Tennessee wins this game. IMO, if Tennessee loses, he will never get the fan base back. In addition, God help Tennessee when Florida actually fields a football team that isnt cut off at the knees. Its put up or shut up time. Floridas bad. We all know they are bad. If you cant win this game, then you need to find a new bricklayer.
I dont think it will be a cake walk. I think Florida will come to play and play hard. I think being at home will help. I think the fact that Tennessee still finds ways to lose instead of win will also help to keep the game fairly close. Florida has athletes who will make the occasional play. But, they just dont have enough bullets in the gun. Tennessee is going to have around 16 possessions to score 3 or 4 times. Some of them may come with good field position. They should be able to do that. While Florida is good defensively, they are not the 85 Bears. They can be had and plenty of teams in recent years have managed to have enough offensive success to beat the Gators.
The only thing I would be concerned about is making mistakes early that get Florida going with the adrenaline of playing at home. Tennessee being stuck on stupid is where I pin most of my hopes and sadly, for you all, thats not out of the realm of possibility. Tennessee has a host of WR who should be playing on Sundays soon. Find ways to get them the ball. Florida will play a lot of man on man coverage. Throw a few balls up and let those guy try and go get it. Some may end up incomplete. A couple may get picked. But, they should also be able to hit a few.
I think Tennessee this year is where Florida may be next season when some of these freshman have the opportunity to drink milk and eat their Flintstones vitamins.
Tennessee 20
Florida 16
Basically, it boils down to the following. I am not sold on Tennessee being a good football team, yet. However, I am sold on them not being a bad football team. I am also sold on the fact that Florida is a bad football team.
Where each team is weak, Florida is weaker. Tennessees offensive line may not be good, but they dont have three true freshman starting/getting a heavy amount of snaps. Josh Dobbs may not be a Heisman QB, but hes not a 1st year starter whos job isnt totally secure. And if the QB and offensive line actually do its job from time to time, which group of skill position guys would you bet on to make a play given the opportunity . Taylor, Callaway, Robinson, Powell (I know a lot of you are thinking who?) or Hurd, Pig, North, Pearson, etc.
I think this game is absolutely critical for Butch Jones because I believe every sunshine pumper on this board is 100% correct. If Butch Jones is the man to lead Tennessee to where you all want them to go, Tennessee wins this game. IMO, if Tennessee loses, he will never get the fan base back. In addition, God help Tennessee when Florida actually fields a football team that isnt cut off at the knees. Its put up or shut up time. Floridas bad. We all know they are bad. If you cant win this game, then you need to find a new bricklayer.
I dont think it will be a cake walk. I think Florida will come to play and play hard. I think being at home will help. I think the fact that Tennessee still finds ways to lose instead of win will also help to keep the game fairly close. Florida has athletes who will make the occasional play. But, they just dont have enough bullets in the gun. Tennessee is going to have around 16 possessions to score 3 or 4 times. Some of them may come with good field position. They should be able to do that. While Florida is good defensively, they are not the 85 Bears. They can be had and plenty of teams in recent years have managed to have enough offensive success to beat the Gators.
The only thing I would be concerned about is making mistakes early that get Florida going with the adrenaline of playing at home. Tennessee being stuck on stupid is where I pin most of my hopes and sadly, for you all, thats not out of the realm of possibility. Tennessee has a host of WR who should be playing on Sundays soon. Find ways to get them the ball. Florida will play a lot of man on man coverage. Throw a few balls up and let those guy try and go get it. Some may end up incomplete. A couple may get picked. But, they should also be able to hit a few.
I think Tennessee this year is where Florida may be next season when some of these freshman have the opportunity to drink milk and eat their Flintstones vitamins.
Tennessee 20
Florida 16
