Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Re: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Muschamp: No plan to play 2 QBs

Preach it!

Jerry

From: Rob <gator@autumnwood.us>
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Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at 8:29 AM
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Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Muschamp: No plan to play 2 QBs

This isn't stupid because I think Muschamp should play Harris. It is stupid because he said himself, in August, that it was a real mistake last year not to have given any playing time to his #2 QB early in the season, so no one was ready when Driskel was injured. He said he wasn't going to make that mistake again, and that he was going to be sure his backup had significant game experience. Now he is doing the exact same thing, saying Harris isn't ready, but not getting him ready. Isn't getting players ready to play a coach's job? Forget, for a moment, whether Driskel is performing well or not. He has a tendency to get injured, and it's even more likely if they run him more. Does Muschamp really have that short a memory, or is he so stubborn that he will refuse to play two QBs just because the fans are clambering for it?

Rob

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On Sep 29, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Shane Ford <goufgators@bellsouth.net> wrote:


Muschamp: No plan to play 2 QBs


 
Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel is expected to play the whole game at Tennessee.
The Tuscaloosa News
By Robbie Andreu
GAINESVILLE SUN Staff writer
Published: Monday, September 29, 2014 at 12:55 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, September 29, 2014 at 3:01 p.m.
 
 
Jeff Driskel apparently has mastered one aspect of playing quarterback at the University of Florida. The beleaguered junior is standing strong and composed in the face of a heavy rush of criticism.
"There's a lot out there, so you can't really shield yourself from all of it,” Driskel said Monday. “That's just part of playing quarterback here. I've never been one where that stuff gets to me, whether people saying you're the best or people saying you're the worst.
“So, you've just got to be even-keeled and keep moving forward. But there's a lot out there, so you can't really shield yourself from all of it. I'm grown, I can handle it."
Ever since his poor performance in the Gators’ 42-21 loss to Alabama, a steady barrage of criticism has been directed at Driskel and his coach, Will Muschamp, for sticking with him.
Driskel hasn’t flinched, Muschamp said.
“Part of the deal. Be careful what you ask when you want to be the quarterback at Florida,” Muschamp said. “That's part of it. He understands that. I don't know if physically or mentally there's any tougher kid that I've been around. He takes the heat and understands that it comes with the territory.
“(He’s) about all the right things, and I think again, will continue to move forward this season and he'll make the Gator Nation proud he's their quarterback. I know the majority are — that's the frustrating part, that you've got to listen to the negativity of a small few. But that's part of it."
The negativity actually started swirling around Driskel even before the end of the Alabama loss, when one of the highest profile Gators of all, Emmitt Smith, tweeted in the second half that he was tired of watching Driskel and he hoped he would be benched.
Smith apologized to Driskel and the entire team during a phone call with Muschamp early last week.
Driskel said he understands Smith’s frustration, and the frustration among UF fans who have come down on him so hard on message boards, Twitter and other forms of social media.
"It's something that was said. You know (Smith) was upset, obviously,” Driskel said. “There were a lot of Gator fans upset, but I have a lot of respect for him and he's a great player here, so it's just something he said in the heat of the moment. It's no big deal.”
Driskel was asked what Smith said to him last week.
“That's something that's going to stay private, but obviously it's not something he's proud of,” Driskel said. “You know, it happens and it's no big deal. It's this age where anything you say is going to be blown up and it happened to happen in the heat of the moment and obviously he has a lot of followers and people caught it, but no big deal."
Driskel was even criticized last Saturday, on the Gators’ open date, after a picture popped up on social media showing him tailgating (with what appears to be a beer in hand) before a Florida Atlantic game in Boca Raton, where his brother, Jason, is a quarterback for the Owls.
“I mean that’s not a big deal. I was there supporting my brother with my family,” Driskel said. “People can try to make a big deal about anything. That’s not one.”
More criticism figures to be coming Driskel’s way (and Muschamp’s way) after Muschamp reiterated Monday that Driskel is his guy and there is no plan to play two quarterbacks against Tennessee on Saturday in Knoxville.
“Not at this time,” Muschamp said.
Muschamp said No. 2 quarterback Treon Harris has a package of plays each week, but whether he gets to use the package depends on the flow and circumstances of the game.
“Well, we go into every game considering some situational things to put him in the game,” Muschamp said. “If that opportunity presents itself — in the Kentucky game and the Alabama game it never did — we would do that.”
Muschamp said Harris is not getting reps with the No. 1 offense.
“Just Jeff,” he said. “(Harris) gets some reps with them. But for the most part we need to work on the timing with Jeff and the receivers."
Driskel said there were no significant changes made in the offense during the bye week.
“We really didn’t do too much differently, trying to hone in on some route concepts, make sure we know what we’re doing, make sure we are getting our eyes to the right spots and we’re looking at signals,” Driskel said. “But it really was just business as usual. There was not really too much change that we had.”
There is no plan to make a change at quarterback, either. That certainly will not please some UF fans. But Driskel is OK with that. He gets it.
“People are passionate about the Gators either way,” he said. “I don't think there's any panic in this building. Obviously, we'd like to play better, but we didn't. At the end of the day, it's an SEC game and it's a big deal, but we have a lot more of those and our goals are still attainable.
“Fans have the right to overreact, but we're not panicking here."
 

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