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I stopped reading once I saw Connor Weigman at 6. May as well rename this my favorite SEC QBs ranking. No legit power ranking has Weigman, Nico, Vandergriff, Nussmeir, and Arnold over Graham Mertz. One was hurt early in the season and the others have barely played meaningful snaps smh

There's a lot of context to Florida's defensive struggles this year, and it would explain how Armstrong is not the problem. Most of those upper classmen you touted were Mullen recruits. It's well known Mullen was an awful evaluator and regularly took low hanging fruit 4 stars just to make the class look better. Also, Shemar James was hurt for the season weeks ago. He did not play against Mizzou. Looking at the defense on game day, you can see upwards of 6 freshmen running around on the field..... at the same time on defense! The young guys are our best players and we're taking plenty of lumps getting them valuable snaps. We just have to continue to bring in talented young guys and hit the portal hard to shore up holes in the off season

This narrative that Florida fans won't give Napier enough time is just false and something drummed up by the media. MOST UF fans are realistic enough to know what type of rebuild we have on our hands. As long as Billy continues killing it in recruiting, the rest will fix itself. Gators fans aren't stupid. Muschamp had to go, McElwain had to go, Mullen had to go. Billy hasn't shown us anything yet that deserves us to come at him with pitchforks. I wish the media will stop insinuating that we run coaches out for no reason.

Curious to hear why you think someone with only 13 college starts can't be developed and ultimately improve enough to be an adequate NFL passer.

Yeah, I don't see how the program has been bleeding. Yeah we finished 6-6, but that was more or less expected if AR didn't give us a Heisman level season. These portal entries are expected and welcome. I think MOST Gator fans are happy with how things are going. Purge Mullen's roster and flip with better players.

Yeah honestly admitting he put us in this position

Came to the comments section to say the same thing. Norfolk, VA is almost 9 hours away from Connecticut sir lol

The Titans waived Jack Rabbit a while ago. Fulton is unquestionably our CB1 and a rising star in the league.

O'Cyrus Torrence isn't playing tackle. He's been working strictly at Right Guard since arriving.

May not be a star, per say, but Feleipe is hands down the 2nd best quarterback Florida has had since Tim Tebow. You could maybe make a case for Will Grier, but he only played 5 or 6 games. Feleipe, for better or worse, led Florida to a New Year's 6 bowl.

@Tidefan8x5 Florida was 9-3 the year Tebow won it. If I'm not mistaken, Louisville may have also been a 9 win team the year Lamar Jackson won it

Hate to say it, but I think Burney may be a portal casualty. Behind Miller, I think the Gators will go with a youth movement at middle linebacker and take our chances with talent over experience. Burney just hasn't shown the ability to be an effective SEC linebacker. Wish the previous staff stuck him at safety, as a freshman, and left him there.

If I'm not mistaken, Florida was actually one of the top rushing teams in the nation, outside of triple option schools. At least that was until the wheels fell off the Dan Mullen era and the team took a nose dive. I feel like this year has the potential to be a better, more explosive rushing attack. Not saying they'll lead the conference, but the run game is where Florida's bread will be buttered, until AR settles in as a passer

Emory Jones never entered the portal. He said he would after the season, but hasn't yet. He's likely just waiting to graduate and then enter in the spring with a UF degree.

Donovan McMillon wasn't a 2nd year. He was a true freshman

It's not that we're happy with the loss, but that the good things we were able to do in that game brought us a little more optimism for the rest of the season than we had before. The average florida fan did not see our o-line manhandling a Bama d-line, or Emory Jones playing as well as he did with no AR backup

Having a better front 7 should DEFINITELY help our DBs this year

SHOULD finish 2nd in the east? That's pretty strong wording. I'm curious to hear what about Florida makes you think that Kentucky SHOULD finish ahead of them.

How does this make him a dirtbag? If you've ever played organized sports, you'd know that trash talking and taunting have always been a part of it. Hell, even the GOAT Tom Brady trash talks on the field.

Playing devils advocate, Meyer and Saban joined a VERY different SEC than what it is today. One can argue that those two were instrumental in making it what it currently is. What coach has come from outside this conference, as it currently is, and had success. Mark Stoops is probably the only one to come to mind, and at least he had experience coaching in this region.

I guess Booches94 doesn't realize that names like Tim Tebow, Percy Harvin, Julio Jones, Mark Ingram, etc were in the SEC during those years. He must think SEC defenses were playing group of 5 offenses or something. Ask Heisman trophy winner Troy Smith how good SEC defenses were during those days lol

It's funny because playing the run is literally the biggest thing Brenton Cox needs to work on this offseason.

I think Florida has reason to be optimistic that the defense will improve greatly. The addition by subtraction of the Mcelwain players leaving the secondary to be replaced by much more talented young guys is huge. Plus the fact that the teams biggest issue was communication and knowing the play that was called. If they can't fix that with a full off-season then Grantham doesn't need to coach ever again

Treon Harris: "All he did was beat Georgia twice"

I think he means more of a Mullen spread offense. His ideal offense revolves around the run game and florida now has 5 legit options, at least on paper, at the running back spot. Not to mention the holes that will open up simply from teams respecting the QB run more

Doubt he gets that low for his playing weight. Considering Mullen says he needs to lose a 12 year old, I'm guessing he needs to get down to about 350. I mean he's going to be a Nose tackle after all

2 things. First, Christian Robinson is no longer leaving. Also, we got a transfer kicker from Mississippi State.

Doesn't the SEC have an all purpose player as an all conference position? If so, Kadarius Toney should most definitely be first team all SEC

Yeah I don't think people realize how often Trask throws against a defense that drops 8 defenders in coverage. It's a lot, because no one respects our run game

I hear you about Bama. I know it will be an extremely tall task, however, I feel there is a path to success. When Florida's offense is on, they're darn near unstoppable. I think if the defense plays to the best of their abilities, they can force a few key stops vs Bama and Florida can win a shoutout. Not saying it will happen, but it's possible