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Post by SoTxCaiman on Mar 7, 2024 13:10:44 GMT -5
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Post by tapsgator on Mar 7, 2024 13:45:11 GMT -5
Beat me to it. I was just about to post that. Here's my 2 favorites so far and I'm struggling to get through it.
1) "Even though Trevor Etienne left, Montrell Johnson is still a solid running back who actually blocks." Yeah not so much as his blocking score was pathetic and nobody remotely objective thinks that Etienne's blocking should matter because why the Hell would Etienne ever be asked to block? Seriously, what scheme could you possibly design where your best offensive player who is 5'8.5 and 205 lbs. is responsible for blocking rather than receiving?
2) The whole "flaws have been addressed" is fucking hilarious, but my favorite is "Florida had Craig Fitzgerald, and while he left his disciple Tyler Miles has taken over the program." Aside from the glorious 30 day stretch where Fitzgerald was in Gainesville where his "disciple" had been working for a year under Mark Hocke former strength coach now football operations specialist, Fitzgerald and Miles worked together in Knoxville for 6 months when Tyler was an intern. I wonder if they actually ever spoke. What an awesomely stupid thing to print without doing any research whatsoever.
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Post by g8rfan on Mar 7, 2024 15:53:07 GMT -5
I like 5. The guys that are here want to be here. It doesn’t matter how well they play football or anything. They want to be here. This shit is driving me crazy.
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Post by SoTxCaiman on Mar 7, 2024 16:33:17 GMT -5
I like 5. The guys that are here want to be here. It doesn’t matter how well they play football or anything. They want to be here. This shit is driving me crazy. Hell, Etienne wanted to be here. With his brother in Jacksonville it was the best fit for his family. He never didn't want to be here, he just realized to better his future he couldn't afford to stay. |
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Post by bimigator on Mar 7, 2024 16:44:48 GMT -5
I like 5. The guys that are here want to be here. It doesn’t matter how well they play football or anything. They want to be here. This shit is driving me crazy. Hell, Etienne wanted to be here. With his brother in Jacksonville it was the best fit for his family. He never didn't want to be here, he just realized to better his future he couldn't afford to stay. No, see, you're wrong. If Etienne had truly wanted to be here, he wouldn't have run out of bounds which stopped the clock which allowed Mizzou to (on the next series) call a timeout to convert 4th and 17 to set up the game winning field goal. IT'S ENTIRELY THAT UN-BOUGHT IN LOSER ETIENNE'S FAULT THAT WE LOST TO MIZZOU!!! |
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Post by bimigator on Mar 7, 2024 16:46:55 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing. My personal favorite was this one: Oh buddy, you just need to use your imagination a bit if you think the WORST case scenario is that those 7 games are "coin flip games". |
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Post by bimigator on Mar 7, 2024 16:51:17 GMT -5
More gems. Touting our great roster, he writes:
Heh. I see what you did there.
Eke out wins against Arkansas and Missouri and pull off a double reverse on FSU and I still think the headlines are the same.
But also...ya didn't.
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Post by g8rfan on Mar 7, 2024 16:59:55 GMT -5
Samford , UCF., and Kentucky are “coin flip” games for UF now. These are some heady times for sure..
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Post by bimigator on Mar 7, 2024 17:28:42 GMT -5
Samford , UCF., and Kentucky are “coin flip” games for UF now. These are some heady times for sure.. Everything about that article was straight out of Fantasy Land. |
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Post by SoTxCaiman on Mar 7, 2024 17:37:45 GMT -5
Like my Dad always say's..... could have, would have, should have, or as he really say's it .... coulda, woulda, shoulda.
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Post by tapsgator on Mar 8, 2024 11:37:09 GMT -5
The company lines with regard to Etienne:
1) Etienne was kind of like a starter here because he got almost as many touches as Montrell Johnson. He wasn't really second string despite what the depth chart says.
2) He can't block, we knew it all along.
3) He probably won't even play at UGA because of the blocking. I've watched UGA in person 6 times in the last 2 years and at least twice that on TV. I cannot think of one time where I saw a 1st or 2nd string running back stay in and block on a blitz pickup, so I'm gonna go way out on a limb and say that the 5'8 205 lbs. back won't be the one breaking that mold.
Etienne is at 50-1 to win the Heisman. That's a value play. Tough for a non-QB but when Kendall Milton and his 4.62 40 averaged 6.5 yards per carry and had a long of 51, what Etienne can do with a real offensive line and a real offense that gets him the ball in space could be scary good.
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Post by bimigator on Mar 8, 2024 14:58:12 GMT -5
Why do they have to hedge? Why not just say:
He was a good player for us
We're sorry he left
Hopefully we can make up his production with the guys who are still here
I thought Etienne was great and will be great at Georgia. I wish he'd stayed but, quite honestly, it's probably a confirmation of (a) his brains and (b) his talent that he left. The guys who are still on the Napier bus are lacking in one or both those areas or they are REALLY loyal to UF.
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Post by g8rfan on Mar 8, 2024 16:32:22 GMT -5
There’s really brain dead take on some other Gator boards I lurk on that somehow we're better without him. I’m not even going to waste energy arguing with that level of stupid.
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Post by tapsgator on Mar 12, 2024 11:09:10 GMT -5
I am so confused as to how this is "taking a shot" at the Gators. Kid was asked why he transferred:
“For me, it was like, does the good outweigh the bad? I’ve been with Florida for two years. I went through that whole process of rebuilding, it’s kind of still rebuilding. I felt like there was a lot of uncertainty, so like, a lot of questions were unanswered. There’s a lot of unknown going on. I felt like I can stay here and do what I’ve been doing for another year or two, or bet on myself and take a chance somewhere else.” Etienne continued, “So I said, I can stay Running Back 2 on a losing team or go somewhere and possibly be Running Back 1 and win a natty.”
That's not a shot, those are factual statements. What Spurrier said wasn't a shot. Again, factual statements. Hell, it would be a lot worse to pretend like we're not rebuilding. Which we really aren't by the way, this is not building to anything different. "How dare you say that we're still rebuilding after 3 straight losing seasons for the first time in 75 years?" If you're not rebuilding then you just fucking suck. If he didn't leave because he was the best player on a losing team and still second string 2 years into his career he left because the coaches are bad people. These ain't shots. They're consequences, and all the apologists are not Gator fans, they're Billy Napier fans.
A Gator fan is furious about the state of the program, if you think he's the guy to fix it, fine, say "he's learning and I feel like he will adjust," delusional and contrary to everything he's saying, but maybe you think he's just trying to manage the narrative for whatever reason, but don't make constant excuses if you're actually a Gator fan. If you're a Napier fan, and I really can't think of a reason from a professional standpoint maybe people like repetitive words of the day sprinkled illogically through double talk, that's fine, say so, but don't claim "I'm the real Gator fan because I don't want a bad coach fired." All kinds of weather means rooting for the team to perform at all times not complimenting Nero on being a straight shooting fiddle player with steady hair as Rome burns to the ground.
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Post by Mojave Gator on Mar 12, 2024 23:45:34 GMT -5
Having been around in the early days of FireRonZook.com, I know the mentality well. You're not a "real" Gator fan unless you're all in on whoever the head coach is. No negative comments allowed, even if they refer to obvious flaws and mistakes. The hypocrisy can be staggering after it's over. I was kicked off Gator Country for literally saying that Zook wasn't the best man for the job. After Zook was fired, boy, it was open season. I saw more negative comments on GC than I saw on FRZ, a board that was created to allow people to vent because boards like GC didn't allow it.
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