King808

An important consideration in the Hurts discussion is the Eagles QB coach is Brian Johnson. Brian Johnson was Mullen's OC and play caller at Florida and Miss St. In his time he coached up, Dak Prescott (Heisman candidate), Franks until he got hurt and Trask (Heisman candidate). Much of the credit goes to Mullen until you see what followed. In 2021 Johnson went to the Eagles, Mullen's offense tanked and was fired. Year without Johnson Mullen teams struggle. The Eagles and Hurts began showing improvement by the end of last year. This year the Eagles offense has soared. This history shows that Johnson has improved the QBs and offenses that he has been on. Johnson should be an NFL OC next season.

He didn't take his hand off the wheel, the coach that asst OC left for the NFL and there was nobody that could replace him.

That's what they said about Mullen in Gainesville, but he didn't fix the locker room. Miles and coach O we're both fired for off the field issues. So far, Kelly doesn't appear any different.

This is the the reality. As the playoffs expand it only becomes more true. Inevitably there may be changes to NIL that make contracts that limit these things from happening. But as a goofy coach said out loud what should be kept inside, these aren't the same teams as two weeks ago. There's no reason to evaluate them as such. With that said, I give credit to Napier for still taking ownership of coaching after the game even though he was playing 5 card monte with 3 cards.

I mean, sure hunt the good stuff. Beamer is a good coach. But Lloyd and Bell was the entire offense. Without Lloyd it was all left to Bell and the offense died.

Completely agree that Deion has elevated all HBCUs. If other HBCUs could pull equivalent coaches and recruits it could change the landscape of College football. However, I don't think there's enough money currently to keep him at an HBCU.

I love how everyone points to CBN or Wes as the problem with Richardson when AR 1) misses several wide open throws a game and 2) has opportunities to run and hands it off when he should pull or throws a bad pass with grass in front. Not to bang on AR. He has improved dramatically since week 1. Reality is you can see improvement and you can see where he needs to continue to work. He needs another year in Gainesville. That simple. Anywhere else and he fails himself.

Milton will start. But the offense will take a step backwards. Milton's issues always came when he got hit and pressured.

Somebody tell AR he can fire the ball at receivers full blast in 30° weather. Them receivers will all have broken fingers.

Sec doesn't have an orange bowl tie in. The orange takes the ACC plus next highest rank. Peach gets two based off playoff rank.

This is the key debate in my mind 49-3 week 1 loss basically on the road vs a 14 point loss in mid season to the same team. It's debatable. Think any PAC 12 team will be another blowout.

12 team playoff would have eliminated all pressure on the UT VS UGA this weekend. Loser would get a bye during conference championship week and potential home playoff game. Winner gets a bye first week and no home playoff game. Also add that BAMA would still be in 12 as well as LSU and possibly Ole Miss. 12 team playoff is bad for college football period.

No, but they have won 3 National titles since then. They have played road non-conference Top 5 teams. They have also scheduled home and home non-con games for the next 10 years that include Utah, Cal, Colorado, NC State as well as Miami and UCF (P5 next year)

Weigman missing time in practice would be a big deal. While there are alternatives to prep him apart from the team, on the practice field is where week 1 and 2 jumps.

I think Tennessee will outright win. They are going to score 40 to 50 and BAMA going to be able to score enough. May get a rematch in SEC Championship

LSU will be lucky to win 2 of the next 6. You've beaten an FCS, Bottom 10 and Miss St.

Good thing his special teams coordinator followed

Either A) they have similar enough skill sets that you don't have to change the play calling. If so, then there's no advantage in keeping it secret. Or, there is significant differences that create an advantage by keeping it secret. If so, then having a QB competition that lasts deep into camp is a detriment. As they love to say, having 2 QBs means you have no QB.

Not a big fan of Matthews on the broadcast. Stopped listening to his morning thing because he sounded like an old foggie.

Here's why I'd go UF over Kentucky and Tennessee. Kentucky: Game is in the Swamp. Main reason why UF lost last year was 17 penalties including 8 drive killing false starts. That won't be the case this year. Tennessee: Can't pick Tennessee to beat Florida until they do. It's gone from the 90s rivalry to they gotta beat Florida first.

Beating UGA and UF but losing to LSU and USCe is not realistic. UGA, BAMA and UF should at this point should be pencilled in as a loss until Tenn beats them. But if you claim they will win 2 outta 3 then you should be projecting they will be 11-1. If you think they are losing to LSU and USCe then you should project 7-5 or 8-4 pulling off an upset of either UGA or UF.

I like Kentucky and think they will be a solid team. Don't see them losing to Mizzou and Ole Miss should be a fun game. Every prediction that I struggle with is the Florida game. Every prediction that I see ignores the reality of how Florida has lost to Kentucky. Florida's talent has been and is greater than Kentucky. Florida has lost because of a lack of discipline, turnovers and poor decisions. However, this is the primary area that Napier has focused on. Florida still has the talent advantage. They have home field so there won't be 8 false starts killing drives. I also don't see AR throwing interceptions at the rate of Emory Jones, especially with more of a run focused offense. That's not to say I can't foresee a UK win, but I favor Florida and think those picking Kentucky is more about last year's Florida team than this year's Kentucky team.

Gators were checked out before that game. Defense didn't care even if they learned how to stop a counter. Emory had his normal 2 turnovers. plus it wasn't in the swamp.

For some reason USCe is like NC State to FSU back in the day. They should not lose to them but then they do. It's weird.

I was logging in make this exact point. The caveat is that there are a couple position groups that Mullen did not address well, DT and WRs. I believe that the top 4 Wrs will be fine and take the majority of reps. However DT is my concern due to Watson's weight. Wish he was down to 360. But he'll be fine inside the 20. What Utah has on Florida is continuity. Willing to bet if UF played in the PAC 12 the last 4 years they would have made the playoffs under Mullen as he would have had a talent edge over everyone but Oregon and been able to outscheme opponents as well.

Absolutely agree. Is Bennett the guy from the SEC or national championship game? Does Florida have enough depth to tread water? Is Kentucky peaking or continuing to build? Is Tennessee back? Again? Or do they bust again? Does Rattler impact USCe to a solid team? Can Kelly survive without his ND OC and DC? Has aTm peaked or are they rising still? What is Ole Miss post Matt Corral? How many upsets does Leach have in him?

There is a key difference between Tennessee and Florida during this time. Following a bad year/coaching change there is an immediate uptick in performance and wins. McElwain teams lacked scheme and Strength and conditioning, Mullen fixed that but then lost discipline and did improve recruiting. Led to NY6 bowl. To this point it appears Napier has made improvements on discipline and recruiting. If he has any maintains a schematic advantage and those improvements are true then there's reason for optimism for a 8+ win season.

What I always find interesting is that these articles fail to look at why Florida lost games last year. 1) discipline and 2) turnovers, primarily from Emory Jones. 3) special teams. These are issues that CBN will fix and is a difference of 3-4 games depending on level of improvement.

The recruits won't affect this year's team. Stop taking recruiting losses into this season. They come to campus next year. Also 6-6 is the base. I have us at 8-4. Every off-season Tennessee and UK supposedly jump us. Kentucky and Mizzou only win when we are undisciplined. Napier fixes that and we should be at 8.

Only way that happens is if AR exceeds his already high expectations.