That didn’t take long.

One day into Florida’s preseason camp, new coach Jim McElwain already sounds livid about the team’s passing game.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, the Gators participated in a quarterback-receiver drill “with no defenders present,” a typical early-practice occurrence. It’s a slightly more organized version of backyard pitch and catch.

Receivers Chris Thompson and Latroy Pittman dropped passes, while receiver Demarcus Robinson ran the wrong route.

Said McElwain, according to the Sentinel:

“If you can’t throw a completion against air, you’re sure as heck not going to throw one when there’s a bunch of people out there. … The hard thing for guys to understand is the attention to detail and how important that route on air is. Sometimes guys do it thinking it’s a warm up. No. You have to understand that you’ve got to be critically detailed in that particular period.

“That’s one thing we continuously have to work on with those two groups. It’s not something we take lightly.”

Much of the offseason consternation has focused on an inexperienced offensive line. But it may not matter who blocks if the receivers can’t run routes or catch passes and if quarterbacks Treon Harris and Will Grier can’t throw on target.

McElwain’s prowess in the passing game is a big reason why Florida hired him. Colorado State boasted the nation’s No. 8 passing offense in 2014, and McElwain coached Alabama quarterbacks Greg McElroy and AJ McCarron to national titles as the Tide’s coordinator.

Considering his close-to-the-vest persona thus far during his Florida tenure, these are some of the strongest comments that McElwain has made thus far. He’s either attempting to set a high standard for the offensive execution publicly and privately, or he just wasn’t able to mask genuine frustration. Or perhaps both.

The Gators get almost an entire month to prepare for New Mexico State, which the team can leverage as even more preparation for the start of the SEC season two weeks later. But it seems apparent that this team is months away from peaking offensively, if not even longer.