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Yep. No win is ever guaranteed, but we ought to be able to at least get a 6th win as we'll likely be favored in 2 if not all of the remaining 3. AR came into the season with limited game reps, learing a new system, and needed time to develop chemistry with the team. Great to see him trending upwards. Toney- we'll see. Glad to see a good half, but still a small sample size. The curse was never a Jimbo curse at all, it was a Muschamp & McElwain curse from the other side.

I was actually wondering during that review, if you're Georgia wouldn't you almost rather make Tennessee try to punt from the back of their own endzone than take the 2 points and receive a full kickoff? Because in that situation, you'll probably already be in FG range when you catch the punt, and UT likely won't have time to get good coverage out there. And that's assuming they get it off cleanly at all.

whoops, my mistake

Pls wear masks under your helmets then, Aggies! Win or lose, the Gators have to travel to South Carolina next week. (Kidding, of course)

Came here to say the same; had no idea there was anything going on. I guess good for the program for keeping the dirty laundry in the house until there was actually something to announce.

Yeah I dunno, I found that showing to be reasonably encouraging. Gators played the #1 team and defending national champs, and got some stops, put together a couple good TD drives, and made it a game for a moment in the 2nd half. Add 3 really good players, say one real baller each at DE, TE, LB (although Burney did have a great game), another year of cultural buy-in, and I can see Florida taking this game to the final posessions and being able to compete with anybody.

Sure.. that's only one score different than what happened in real life where we beat Mizzou by 7.. but what does that have to do with Georgia? Just because both UGA and FL played Missouri close, this game will be close? I love the optimism but I'm not sure I'd put much stock in that.

Right? Hoping for average is probably conservative given the number of experienced starters / 4 star guys we have. But if average is too much to ask, could we even be, I dunno, 90th ?? At this rate we might as well onsides kick every time. Recovering 2 out of, say, 8 or 9 onsides kicks seems more likely than getting 2 stops

Yes, came here to say the same. I was watching in a sports bar and was apparently the only one who was miffed about that dive. You're down 3 touchdowns at home, and by many accounts have been fighting through various nagging injuries all season. How about a little maturity and professionalism from the team leader?

"Neither coach can afford a loss in this game" Huh? Why? Both teams are in transition years, and have each already gotten a decent win or two on their way towards 4-2 records for the first half of the season. Both teams would love to build momentum, but this game is more or less a tossup and in no way a must-win for either side. The "LSU didn't pursue Napier so will look terrible if they lose" narrative seems kind of silly; both first year coaches inhereted the prevoius regime's rosters and are doing their best. Neither team is doing really great, nor do they look in total disarray.

Good, last week was as close as we've seen yet to a solid showing on both sides of the ball. Hopefully the team continues to improve. A win on Saturday against LSU would be fantastic.

I hear you, there is certainly not as much separation at the top as there has been in years past. But if I had to predict, it's still going to come down to UGA vs Bama from the SEC. Let's not forget Ole Miss is 6-0 too, by the way. But who knows, I'll be very entertained if UT proves me wrong

The Napier one seems like an incredible nitpick. Why throw? Because it's 3rd and 14, and if you get the first down you put the game away- obviously. On the "20 yard head start" comment, I'd argue it the opposite way- the benefit of keeping the ball and ending the game on offense far outweighs the risk of 20 yards of field position, with MIZZ still solidly on their side of the field either way. Would there have been better plays starting with the 2nd and 19? Maybe, I dunno I'm not the one leading the team through practice every day. Also not sold on UT as a playoff contender. They've been hot and dropping 40 on LSU is impressive, but they kind of remind me of 2020 UF- dangerous offensively, but probably not quite deep and complete enough of a team to go all the way.

I think this is a pretty fair take. A team with a solid defense that likes to run the ball is not a good matchup for the Gators right now. A game with a final score in the 20s seems about right, and given the Gator's struggles against the run, UF's margin for error will be really small. They'll need to play a really clean game in terms of penalties and turnovers, and be really good in the red zone.

I'm nervous about this game for sure. The UF defense just doesn't seem good enough to win a low-scoring game, and the Mizz defense certainly does seem good enough to keep us in the 20s or lower. UF will need to be excellent in the red zone on both sides of the ball (force FGs, score TD's), and hopefully have a couple big turnovers and special teams plays go our way.

We're pulling for you Ventrell. Another 48hrs to hit the ice, stretching, and advil. It'd be great it we could even get him taped up and in for 25% of the snaps just for his leadership presence alone; first few plays, key 3rd downs, goal line.

Lol c'mon what's the kid supposed to say? It's not like he promised we'd shut him down, or we're gonna sack him 10 times, or some other nonsense.

Bigger game for UT than for Florida. UF was largely an unknown coming into the season, and somewhat still is. If we show some improvement over the last couple weeks and keep it competitive into the 4th quarter, that won't be too disappointing for the program. With Eastern Wash the following week, we'll have one more week to tune up and start out 3-2, and hopefully trend upward the rest of the way. For Tennessee on the other hand, it'd be a major momentum crush to lose at home to a struggling Florida team that got lucky not to lose to USF.

My take is these Gators have two weeks to really figure things out for the rest of the season. The way our defense has struggled compared to Tennessee's offense, next week in all likelihood is an L. Then we get a chance for a tune up (hopefully), putting us at 3-2. Going into the season, I don't think that would have shocked or disappointed any of us too much. However if the team doesn't make significant strides by the end of week 5, getting to 7 or 8 wins by the end of the season looks a lot tougher than we initially hoped.

It's great that he cares and isn't trying to make excuses, but IMO he's beating himself up too much. You could see it in his despondence on the sideline during the game too. QB's need to have a short memory and always belive that they will execute the next play. Hopefully this will be a learning experience both for football tangibles as well as mental self management.

that by far seems like the most reasonable explaination. With all his money from coaching (and getting bought out) in the SEC, taking a high school assistant job wouldn't make any sense unless there was some personal connection

Hopefully this means that our DLine in spring practice looks so good and so deep that he figured he had to leave to have a chance of playing.

EJ leaving means Richardson no longer has the incentive to try and get better? Please. How about his NFL aspirations, desire for respect from his teammates (who are also his classmates and friends - not like pro where they individually go home and lead separate lives), and simply the desire to not get embarassed and boo'ed in front of 90k people

Very nice. Going off the 24/7 site from earlier in the day as of now, it looks like haven't lost any previously committed players and have now added this WR Douglas. With or without getting Perkins later, a top 20 class, solid transfers coming in, and some talented guys returning should be enough to field a competitive team this season and a great foundation going into the Napier era.

*Riley

Sure, but the difference between Rily at USC vs OU probably ends up being what, an incremental 6 or 8 four and five star guys per year? The SEC will be fine

I wonder if EJ would do that. I hope he does- it would be exciting to watch and would help the team. I am no scouting expert, but based on his body of work so far I doubt he's an NFL prospect at QB. Tough call for him whether to transfer somewhere and try and put up big QB numbers, or switch positions. Seems like a good kid though, I hope whatever he decides works out how he wants.

But in all seriousness, Hopper looked great at the end of last season & it's a good win to have him come back

Here's how I envision this NIL deal unfolding: SDS: dude here's the link to the transfer portal we'll give you $200 to put your name in and you can just take yourself back out right away. Hopper: Huh? why? SDS: We'll get 2 articles out of it, worth a few thousand clicks each. C'mon man, easiest 200 bucks you ever make Hopper: Sure ok

Huh I had no idea a D1 football coaching staff was that large. I would have guessed half that. Learn something new every day