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The Florida Gators not only picked the most inopportune time to revert to their offensively challenged, mistake-prone ways of last year, but in doing so went back even further in time. This was Vince Dooley-like devastation.

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[GatorNation]

This is what I feared: the one-dimensional offense runs, literally, into a hot defensive front, and we don't have the necessary development and/or preparation to adjust our game plan and execute.  I thought it would happen; it just arrived one or two games later than I expected.  Whether we're playing with "house money" or not is irrelevant; this was not a game we should have lost, even if UGA was better motivated and far more aggressive.  Credit them for that; they played an inspired football game.  

The turnovers and penalties were awful and exasperating; more so was the decision to run into nine-man fronts on first and second down for most of the afternoon, a strategy which allowed UGA to blitz the hell out of us (what a surprise!) on what has become an all-too-familiar third-and-long situation.  For a team with an anemic passing game, that is offensive suicide.  It looked like Driskel didn't even know how to spell the word "blitz," let alone recognize one, which has been the case, it seems, for most of the season.  Very disappointing in that regard.

Also disappointing is the fact that we don't seem to have even the basic passing machinery upon which to call.  The UGA DBs were playing 10+ yards off our FLs, especially to the short hash, yet we never checked to a hot read, a FL screen, a quick slant, quick curl, or the under routes as a way of countering the soft coverage, staying on down-and-distance schedule, and, perhaps, giving our play-action a bit more of a threat.  We had another huge gain on the screen pass and only went back to it one more time before abandoning it completely.  If this is the Boise State offense, I hope we kept the receipt because I want a refund.  I'm not expecting Kellen Moore productivity, but I am expecting us to look better than Duke.

We were sloppy and couldn't convert the opportunities when we did get some chances with the INTs, but it is completely unacceptable, no matter what your perspective, that we couldn't score a freaking TD against a defense that has been gashed this season.

It was a team loss, to be sure, but the offense is basically non-existent if we're not running it down their throats, and it will continue to cost us games we should win, especially with the defense and special teams we're fielding.  The defense did all it could, and they've been keeping us in every game despite the offensive woes.  Pease and Co. hung them out to dry today, imo.

Let's hope UGA loses and Pease reads a book on in-game adjustments.  The QB read/bootleg isn't going to save us every time.

Edited by GatorNation, 27 October 2012 - 09:55 PM.