Only I’d give it a cool nickname incorporating both Reid’s name and Seminoles somehow.

The kid needs touches. I doubt he will have many PR’s in the game. UF will either score or turn it over most possessions, and UF is smart enough to just punt it out of bounds. And if he’s getting a lot of touches on KRs then we are in trouble.

UF scores 7 touchdowns if they get 10 possessions.

This took more thought than our defense probably deserves. The one problem I see with comparing this game to UF’s games against Miss St or Georgia is that they seem to save an extra special effort for us most years. I agree that the Gators have looked subpar at many points this season, but you know Urban has a few things in mind just for us.

Greg Reid on punt returns (if there are any) will be interesting to watch since UF has had such excellent punting this season.

is if we win the turnover battle and that means zero for us, control the clock and win the rushing battle. Without those we are toast. Anything can happen, but our chance of winning is very slim.

Can FSU win this game yes but, there is suck a small chance. The biggest problem FSU will face will be UF def. This will be the best Def we have faced all year. We will have problems scoreing. I still think we score but we are not going to put up 28+ points. With the way our Def plays we cant keep up. Our Def would have to have an extra 2 players on the field to keep up and I still dont think it would matter. They are goiing to run the ball right down our throats and we are not going to stop them. They are going to keep the ball on Offense and kill the clock. They will score on almost every drive. We can not win kicking field goals but UF can.

If you think FSU can get to tebow I think thats wrong. We havent gotten to any QB this year that is not going to change for this game. We blitz 7 each play hes going to still be free to throw to almost anyone. the best thing about that is that hes WR are not as good as they were last year. The teams that hung in there this year with them Ark, USC, and LSU all did it by only allowing less than 200 yards rushing. That is the key. they are going to get 175+ rushing yards. If we can stop the rushing and force them to pass then we have a chance. But how do we do that. thats what every team has asked themselfs.

I dont know the size of Ark, USC, and LSU front 7 but I will bet its in that group of the biggest in the nation. That is a big thing some people might still forget. If you need more info just read the size does matter storys to understand.

As for Offense FSU has to match UF with rushing and passing. This might be harder with EJ back there. revers and running up the middle wont get anywhere because UF is bigger and faster they can keep the DE and CBs at home to stop the run. Running off T will be the big brakes. The also play screens and bubbles very well. FSU will have to have sucsess passing mid lvl passes and crossing routs. Slants and bubbles will get picked and/or stoped for losses. I just dont know if EJ’s playbook will have enough juice to out score UF.

Can this be done I have my doughts but yes. FSUn said it is a 7% win chance I think it will be less now with EJ with a 2 or 3%

Of their defense. Keep pounding it. JT must deliver. We should all have total confidence in JF to game plan. Any chance of an upset depends entirely on the D. Those are not comforting words.
Although, I would like to pose the question again:
If a blow out means a certain exit for BB right now… which would you prefer – a whuppin’ from the gaters or an FSU upset?

If we could somehow:
A) ruin Tebow’s last game
2) UF’s perfect season and shot at another MNC

And

D)not fall 0-6 to the Gators,

while
green) watching Meyer’s tears turn from Losing Tebow, to losing the game.

There’s too many perks to winning this game (even at our 2% chance), regardless of the implications.

Mixed in with a little wildcat as mentioned above? I don’t think UF has seen a true option attack all year. I think we have the horses to run it. I think we need to pull out all the stops to try to win this game. Straight up we cannot beat them. We can’t go in with our normal gameplan and expect to win, IMO. We’ll have to use gimmicks and trick plays…end arounds, reverses, flea-flickers, halfback-option passes, puntrooskies, etc. How would UF’s defense fare against an option attack?

And if an injury to EJ is a concern, who cares? Put Easterling or Bert back there and run the wildcat. This is our bowl game. I could care less how we do in the Poulan Weedeater Bowl. I would much rather ruin UF’s season.

:(

I’m not used to being the kool-aid guy.

Heather D has it predicted 31-21 UF, saying the the Gators offensed will continue to look pedestrian.

Forget all the Bowden stuff for a week, it really won’t matter, he’s gonna do whatever the hell he wants to do, maybe a win is what he needs to “go out on top a winner” or he’ll use it as leverage for another year, who knows…

If we had Ponder I’d say this was our best chance to win in the Urban Meyer era, the upside with EJ is that, IMO he’s even more mobile than CP7 so maybe that will help us out in the red zone, the last couple years, we have been terrible in the red zone in this game in particular.

Also, I agree the Gayturds don’t look unbeatable this year, but just remember in those games you mentioned, besides the Arkansas game, they were in control the whole way.

Strategically, if I was Mickey, all I would be doing this week is red zone defense, they are gonna move the ball on us, but Tebow has sucked in the red zone this year, so tighten up the red zone D and try and give him some different looks down there. Drop a lineman, blitz a corner.

The sad reality is this D staff has nothing left in the tank. I don’t expect them to throw in any new wrinkles or even have the players in a position to slow UF down one bit. Once again I expect the absolute worst case scenario and hoping for the best. I really hate saying that…..

As far as our stellar O goes. Jimbo must be masterful this day and they must have a mistake free game to even have a chance. Consume the clock and methodically move the ball down field and score freaking touchdowns. Sounds too easy.

We have little shot at winning this game, but a few plays here, Mangum busting his knee up in practice, and FSUn’s boy Reid takes one to the house, and I think Jimbo will try to make a game of it. I love the ideas given. I also agree that staying away from trick plays that try to stretch the field horizontally before going downfield is a bad idea. Flea flickers, direct snaps, and hook and laterals are more the ticket. I also wonder, how is UF’s stop rate on 3 and 2 and 4th and 2 or less? I would think their defense would be ill equipped to stop those.

Over/under on if he catches a TD?
Over/under on if he catches a TD, was it a jump pass?

But, what happens when Addazio calls dive, dive, dive, trap, dive?

Good work.

and I like that you’ve maintained an optimistic outlook for us.

A couple of points though:

Or maybe the ACC refs give us some calls (like 2003).

Since that game, it has been ACC refs for the games at FSU and SEC refs for the games at UF. As much as ACC refs hate us, SEC refs love UF more. Expect no breaks to go our way come Saturday via the zebras both on the field and in the booth.

Idea #2: Bradham should be on Tebow every play. If Florida throws Bradham should be spying the QB. Should UF run the zone read Bradham should take Tebow. Same with the option. If FSU does this Tebow’s running ability will not be much of a factor. I’m also hoping Nigel can give him a few big hits to rattle Tebow early.

Love this idea. It worked really well for us in 2006 when Timmons and Buster hit him on one play. It worked so well that Tebow didn’t return to the game. Let’s hope we get the opportunity to repeat the feat in this game.

Offense… the offense we’ve been running will work as is (schematically) they play a lot of man 4-3 an 4-3 over. They really don’t do that much they just throw in the occasional zone in 4-3over. and switch the saftey deep at the snap of the ball in man cover 1. they mostly don’t blitz or send one guy in cover 1. Fairly simple and not difficult to read the thing is they time the zone or the rober stuff perfectly….“vanilla, vanilla, vanilla, ZONE=INT”

In theory our zone read, option and naked stuff with EJ, then hit them deep should work. Mentally he won’t be as challenged as he was against Maryland. PHYSICALLY this will be the best LB and secondary we’ve faced, but I think UNC and Clemson is actually better in the front 4.

IF we are patient we should be able to move the ball.

Defense: I would be agressive. they don’t throw all that much so I would really take away the middle of the field running stuff. (if we are physically able) and then don’t get beat deep on pass. the problem is we have to tackle and everyone has to be in position… oddly enough as our D line is starting to get healthier, we are getting slightly better on zone read with each snap… still not good enough to keep the Gators from having a great day on the ground, but if we can force a few punts and the offense comes to play anything is possible.

KEYS: Deffense Force 4 punts, some how some way.
Offense good play calling and no turnovers.