Earnest Graham was not “worn down” – his knee was twisted deliberately at the bottom of the pile after a play by the despicable thug Darnell Dockett of despicable thugs FSU. Dockett even boasted of it in the locker room after the game.

The clip is out there on the web somewhere and shows it clear as day. When Spurrier rightfully bitched about it, it was poo-poohed by the media and even FSU’s AD.

And I agree that was the only team that could have competed with UM that year. Absolutely sickening…

And the bayonet on the pistol is a fantastic description of our current state of affairs.

One thing I would say is that Gators should remember that much of this “we want 50 points a game” stuff should be kept in perspective considering the defensive competition you’ve faced in “big” (eg SEC) games. While part of the “spread” is deception, speed on defense is a great equalizer and most SEC defenses are loaded with it. TN game – you scored when it mattered. LSU was against the top ranked defense in the conference. Auburn always plays tough (unless your a pig) on defense. UGA – well that one’s hard to explain as they’d just given up 51 to the Vols and lost to Vandy – maybe the Gators should’ve scored more.

So all in all you’re 7-1 with a closer than the score indicates road loss to a top 10 team. You’re 99% likely to get to the SEC CG. If “name redacted” were coach you’d still be “getting better” every week but not be too excited about it. Leak’ll play out his string, probably win an SEC title, go to a BCS bowl game and then you can move on to “The Chosen One” with his buff bod and 3rd and 5 runs for first down and “strategery”.

But you get your choice of free topping!

But the topping is evil, which is bad.

I’m like the little girl in the Anderson video- A REALLY big fan of this blog….

So basically you have three disparate QB’s with three completely seperate styles:
(listed in chronological order not necessarily by greatness)

1) Danny- I could describe him as a synthesis of Leak and Grossman, I guess but he had by far the least physical talent of the three. His major plus was his ability to make the smart throw with the hit coming something both Rex and Chris struggled mightily to do.
I’d guess that if Spurrier coached all 3, Danny would have been his clear favorite, sure he’d argue some but he was usually right on his major deviations.
2) Rex- Man, I can still remeber the come out of nowhere force Berlin to transfer badassness (I realize this is not a word) of his Freshman year which considering Berlin’s mad pedigree should have told everyone right away that Rex had Balls. Hell I’m convinced that had 9/11 not occured we would have won a title in 2001 with him (rescheduling the Tennessee game since it occured the weekend following the attacks– the loss in that game, the 2nd and final we’d suffer was due in large part to the absence of a worn-down Earnest Grahmn, who only missed 1 other game, our other loss to Auburn) . Rex almost definitely should have won the Heisman that year (the 2001 Florida, the lost promise which doomed my first semseter of college) but instead it was hand to Crouch (which in retrospect is pretty hilarious considering Frazier, a legitmate manbeast who induces PTSD in me to this day never won it at NU). Probably my favorite Florida QB but also the one in this group who made me the most uncomfortable (to clarify, you know something bad is going to happen at times with Leak–obvious blitz downs–with Rex it felt like anything could happen at any point in time) Basically was in college what he and the city of Chicago hopes he is in the Pro’s the second-coming of Brett Favre, with all the good (fearlessness, fiery leadership, cannon arm, flair for the dramatic) and the bad (boneheaded mistakes, forced throws into dbl coverage, refusal to go with the call on the field) that entails. The Favreness peaked with the junior yr (under [Name Redacted] ) the coolest win ever in the rain at Neyland, and some losses that I can’t remeber but were ugly. Had a mind meld relationship with Jabar Gaffney unlike anything I’ve ever seen on the college level (no Doering-Danny was not the same, it just wasn’t) .

3) Chris Leak- honestly I’m not sure what to make of Leak, if he wins an SEC title this year against Auburn for payback this might be entirley different, but he seems to have been stifled by the offense (honestly wtf, why couldn’t we have held off on installing the Spread Option for next year, Meyer’s a defensive coach for gods sake). One of the geat what if’s in College Football (what if Leak had played under Spurrier), frankly I think he’s been screwed by circumstances (3 OC’s, complete system change after being the 2nd best qb in the SEC his sophmore year). Frankly, I’m convinced he’s some risk adverse precisely because of all the juggling thats gone around him, he just wants aeverything to remain steady. The thing about Leak is he wont lose the games (or at least wouldn’t in a proper “O”) he shouldn’t but probably wont win the wons he shouldn’t either (honestly I’m not sure you couldn’y have said the same for Wuerffel, I mean yes he handled the blitz far better, but he really wasn’t abou the mad comeback–uk excepted– either). Finally is it just me or did Leak run with less fear his Freshman and Sopmore yerars when his runs wer’re scrambles and not option stuff, I mean his first two seasons I was convinced I was seeing the hybrid of Charlie Ward and Peyton Manning.

But you get your choice of free topping!

it relies on its defense. All its points against Georgia were set up on turnovers. The jury is still out on UM and his offensive prowess in a major conference.

Wide.
Open.

Very frustrating but I’ll take a series of ugly wins vs. beautiful losses anyday.

Florida is a 2-headed QB team and both are good only for short range battle

I think you ought to have Sir Reggie the Son of Nel come play offense… I would love to see him catching a ball and then head-butting the defensive back

I’ll throw in our kicker. Who is good.

But, he goes to FSU, which is bad.

But, he comes with free frogurt, which is good.

But, the frogurt’s cursed, which is bad.