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Considering he’s a friend of the new UF president, Marco might just be able to score a couple of seats in his box on those occasions, don’t you think?

Remember the great kick returner that played with Tebow, Brandon James? He was 5’-7” on his tip-toes and weighed 167 soaking wet.

No, it’ll be a Mertz-narchy! Graham The Mertznificent will be crowned Gator King by Gator Nation once he begins to decimate hapless SEC opponents in the fall.

Not so fast! It’s hard to pick against LSU for a Louisiana kid… But, this one’s had a very peculiar ending to his recruiting cycle. He only visited LSU once, unofficially back in October. The Gators offered him in very late December and he immediately visited in mid January. He also visited Colorado and Texas in January. The guy recruiting him at Colorado was his recruiter at LSU prior to joining Coach Prime’s staff in December. The guy recruiting him at Florida is Corey Raymond, of LSU DBU fame. My guess is that the battle for this kid’s commitment is now between Florida and Colorado, but I won’t fully eliminate LSU until he chooses a hat on Saturday.

You’ve definitely touched on one of the failings of our post modern culture Neal. When an individual needs to lead with insults in a forum made up of equal strangers, it speaks badly for the society that trained that individual to believe that’s acceptable behavior. Yet, here we are.

Any chance Corch and TDOW might be related Cojones? They sound equally moronic to me. Has anyone ever seen them in the same room at the same time?

Any chance we can dress TDOW up as a turkey and turn him loose in whatever field you’ll be hunting in this spring Tailwhip? He already sounds like a turkey!

Not sure he’ll get that Cojones. Too many FUs directed at him.

Can’t get enough cowbell!

These mere mortals are totally ignorant of the complete devastation headed to their college towns in the form of Graham The Mertznificent Mertzinator. The O&B Game will begin to reveal the extent of the devastation to come in the fall. Hopefully, they’ll heed THAT warning and begin to hide their women and children, while they still have time.

What? No mention of Graham the Mertzinator in your list of “transformative” 2023 QBs? You will rue the day you ignored his Mertznificence oh mere mortal TAMU fan!

All harken to The Oracle of Truth and heed its dire warnings, before Graham the Mertznificent is enraged by the ignorant indifference of college football fandom and, as The Oracle forecasted, transforms into Graham the Mertziless Mertzinator who will char whole cities with the heat of his laser guided passes, or crush them with the force of his powerful legs and feet. Be afraid! Be very afraid!

Time will tell.

You mean to tell us that powerhouses like Duke, BC and UVA don’t scare you? Is it any wonder that Notre Dame loosely allied themselves with THAT particular P5 conference, when the B1G would’ve welcomed them with open arms.

Soccer, “the beautiful game,” will be laid to waste, as Graham the Mertziless’ campaign of football terror sweeps the world! So sayeth the Oracle of MrTruth. So it shall be!

Wuerffel, Grossman and Tebow were YOUR daddies at one time, but just like Bennett, they’re gone. At least, they didn’t miss their gigs so much they felt the need to drown their sorrows in booze.

Behold the wonder that is Graham (Mertzilla) The Mertziless and know true fear!

“Level 4, Disaster avoidance,” indeed. Matt Hayes will rue the day he included the Mighty Gators in that ugly QB situation. For in September, there will arise out of the dark depths of The Swamp a mighty and pitiless warrior, Graham the Mertziless, who will decimate the college football landscape! Stupefied by three years of boredom in the northern nether regions of Cheeseland, the Mertziless Metzinator will arise and reveal his fearsome awesomeness on a Thursday night national telecast at the end of August, in the unlikeliest of venues, Salt Lake City, Utah. All will witness his fury and destruction in wonder and fear. Even the might Dawg king, Kirby the Smart of Athens, will squirm in his seat, knowing the Mertziless and his hoard will be coming for him in October!

Point made GFA, but the improvement I’m suggesting is a modest two wins better than last year. I’m basing it on the fact that three of last year’s six losses, UK, Vandy and FSU, were the result of the Gators beating themselves. Reduce that tendency and they can pick up a couple of more wins next season, as their talent level also rises.. More disciplined play, particularly at QB and on defense, is what the huge roster turnover was meant to achieve. Not achieving more disciplined play next season would be considered a huge coaching failure for CBN and there’d be no sugar coating that!

Neal, to show some realistic improvement, the 2023 Gators must beat Vandy, Mizzou, Kentucky, SCAR and Arkansas. That’s not a heavy lift IF they can play disciplined defense for a full season and find an consistent QB, which is something they failed to do in 2022. Those five teams are middle to bottom SEC feeders they must beat just to be taken seriously. Coupling those five wins with the two cupcakes will get the Gators to seven wins. Then, all they’ll need is one upset from among the five games they’ll be underdogs in to end the season at 8-4, which still won’t satisfy Lakelife, but will definitely show improvement over 2022. The 2024 team should be even better, but still not good enough to make a NC run.

The land of Mertzillian domination, where other SEC programs go to die!

You nailed it Truth. This is the guy that will unleash the Mertzinator on the SEC!

All kidding aside, there are a couple of thing I read about Mertzilla that make him intriguing. Everyone knows the kid has all the physical tools because he was a 4-star dual-threat QB in HS. Wlhat most don’t know is Mertz was excellent at WI when play action passing, which he didn’t get to do often enough in that O. In Napier’s O he’ll get lots opportunities to do that. Also, not much has been discussed about his struggles adjusting to playing from under center and turning his back to his receivers when stepping back into the pocket. In Napier’s O he won’t have to go under center, except in very short yardage situations that call for an optional QB sneak.

“You will be absorbed!”

In other words, if the $13 million deal was real, why didn’t Lagway make an issue of it in his NIL negotiation.

Negan, nobody outside some folks in the Gator collective and the folks in Rashada’s camp KNOW what was agreed to and who reneged on his NIL deal. The $13 million story is just that, a story. I find it silly, that DJ Lagway, who’s a clearly better QB prospect than Rashada, has stuck around after the circus left town. Now, this high 4-star recruit commits to UF and NOBODY in the media shows the least bit of interest in either of their NIL deals.

People like that deserve occasional responses grounded in reality Neal. Clearly, he doesn’t live there, since he appears not to be enjoying his team’s back-to-back NCs.

Graham the Mertziless will lead the Fighting Gators on a rampage of SEC destruction that will make Sherman’s march to the sea seem like the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade!

And Mertzilla may just surprise us all.

Time will tell Negan and Napier will get the time to build it right.