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Can Florida beat LSU win a limited Percy Harvin?



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Ridley Meyers
2008-10-08 17:31:04 ET

On paper Florida should pound every team on their schedule if you are basing it on talent. However, we have other factors to consider such as "coaching"! I like Meyer but I have my doubts about his offensive scheme he is implenting into the SEC. The "spread offense" works effectively in the inferrior conferences like the WAC and other conferences because its premise is to spread the field and make quick, short, safe passes to your "playmakers"and let them take it to the house! Thus his infatuation with recruiting "speed" players! At Utah, you do recruit some occassional playmakers and they obviously will standout especially against the inferrior teams but when you have a whole conference with equal talent on every team and yes every team (Ole Miss, Vandy) is this the best suited offensive scheme to have. Yes they won a National Title with a scaled down version of the spread primarily because Meyer had a senior prolific passing QB and a freshman run oriented QB. Now that Meyer has his "playmakers" that he has personally recruited I can't help but wonder if now that the conference has seen the spread enough to be able to key on the formations? I can understand that it could be the "execution" of the plays or possibly the wrong play call against certain defenses. I just wonder as time goes on will teams be able to predict the "spread offense"? Don't get me wrong I can't stand to watch "Big Ten" football with there grind it out on the ground game and their predictable play calling! I used to love to watch the WAC with BYU vs. San Deigo St games......remember it could be 45-10 at the half and you fall asleep and wake up the next morning to find out that the final score was 72-68!!! So when Meyer showed up at Florida I was thinking "here is a Steve Spurrier offensive mind with a Charlie Strong defense, can you say Cha Ching?" Statistically speaking Florida had sick offensive numbers last year, points per game, yards per game etc... and that is impressive no doubt but......the win loss colum was not, based on Gator Nation standards. Running it up on the less talented teams can skew the statistics somewhat but what amazes me the most is on paper we should of killed Michigan last year in the Bowl game but it was us getting the shalacking! Bottom line is we shouldn't of lost to Ole Miss at home 2 weeks ago based on talent and home field advantage alone. So this week LSU rolls into G-ville for a night game against Tebow and the boys and on paper you have to give Florida the edge at several key positions offensively but even though we are improving on defense LSU appears to be loaded again. I am certainly no fan of Les Miles but some way some how he finds a way to win with lesser talent and a predictable offense.
My concern is not about Harvin or Demps or Rainey but about our defense. We will have to step up big time against LSU's ground game. With a suspect QB at the helm I feel we can contain the passing game to an extent but our d-line is fast but smaller than most SEC lines out there. So for Florida to win this weekend they will need to control the clock with long, time consuming drives for TD's not FG's and will need some big plays on special teams. This obviously will put LSU in a come from behind mode and will be forced to pass because of the time factor. This combined with points off of special team play should be good enough to pull out a victory for the Orange & Blue on Saturday night in the Swap!!!
Go Gators!


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