BigOrangeTrain
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Because trying to put any fault on Kelly is as dumb as putting blame on our kicker. Get freaking real OP. Kelly was basically our entire freaking offense. But whatever furthers your ignorant narrative.
26-24. Florida still won. Handoffs rarely are dropped BTW
Because it should have been a run play.
Let's throw the ball to our best running back, score on one play and be up by 4 with over a minute to go and the gators are at home with 2 timeouts.
OR
Run the ball with the best RB in the SEC. Score possibly (same scenario as above) but if not make them use their timeouts.
In the second scenario you can manage the game with the ball in your hands. In the first scenario you allow Florida at home to dictate the ending in regulation.
Not to mention if you run on first and they use a timeout 7 seconds off the clock. Run on second down they use a timeout and another 7 seconds are gone. Florida is now out of timeouts. Now you have a 40 second run off then use your own timeout. Set up the best play you have and if you don't get the ball in for 7 you run the clock down, take timeout if needed, and kick the field goal as the clock expires.
Now your in OT with all of the momentum and the Gators never touched the ball again in regulation.
Is this really rocket science?
We would have been up 24-20, meaning Florida would have needed a TD, and our coverage and defense would have been much different. Florida would have been under much greater pressure to score as well.
That said, hard to put any blame on Kelly after he was nearly our entire offense. A lapse in concentration, and it sucked, but his good far outweighed his bad. Few others can say that.
Why are we saying Butch called those plays. OC calls the plays. Anyone have proof that OC did not call those plays.
Assuming Butch called them is ridiculous. People used to blame Majors for running the ball, when Fulmer was the OC.
Head coaches call when to kick, etc. Nothing more.
But at the end of the Georgia game last year... oh, nevermind.
I'd like to think we'd have learned a lesson there, but unfortunately, I know better.
I do think it would have made a difference to know that Florida needed to score, and needed to score a TD. The way it played out and the way they wasted 30 seconds after the first play, it almost seemed like they were playing for OT. Their fans were even booing just before the final play at the thought that they weren't playing to get at least in FG range.
Dormady has potential to be good qb but needs to stop throwing off his damn back leg. Pass to Kelly that should have been a td was thrown short. Pass to Calloway that sailed high and went pick6 was same deal. He made some pretty throws, but also missed a bunch that could have been easy completions.