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Originally Posted by Gatorubet
Do you think the spread was responsible revealing the weaknesses, as you had great stats going into the game. I mean, I defer to what you say of course, but that same crew seemed to achieve great success along the season. So I'm wondering, do you think it was the spread system that put the pressure on them that they had not seen, or what?
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I don't know. Obviously, there were a huge number of issues in the NC game on the O-Line, with the special teams coverage, with losing Ginn on the first play allowing UF to concentrate on erasing Gonzo, all of which contributed to the problem by repeatedly putting the defense in a bad spot from UF's first play of every series, over and over again. The crew that finished the year was not the crew that stoned Texas or Iowa, though. Anderson Russell in particular, the starting safety, was lost in the Iowa game, and his absence had a ripple effect through the back seven in terms of what schemes could be run, and how the players responded to their assignments in those schemes through the rest of the year. Juice damn near beat us, as did Michigan. As everybody saw, that team wasn't equipped at that point to defend UF, or Michigan for that matter, in November and January as they would have been in September and October.