Hoo, boy. Matt Hayes shore do love him some Anthony Richardson. In a few short paragraphs, he manages to compare Florida’s backup QB favorably to Joe Burrow, Tim Tebow (“Make no mistake, this isn’t Tebow. Richardson throws a better ball now than Tebow did at the same point in their careers.”) and Cam Newton (“The only player who compares to his skill set is Cam Newton, who began his career at Florida before transferring to junior college and eventually leading Auburn to the 2010 national championship.”).
There’s plenty more drool where that came from. The sky’s the limit for Florida.
If Richardson is what the Florida staff believes he can be, the Gators can beat Georgia, LSU and Kentucky and win the SEC East Division.
Makes you wonder what the quarterback whisperer is waiting for.
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Handbag Staples was drooling over Richardson this morning as well. Sorry, but do it against a team with a pulse and we’ll start to listen.
We’ve already manhandled this year’s $Cam in DJ Ukulele. We’ll be ready.
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Matt Hayes is such a ‘turd. Most of the staff at SDS are ‘turds.
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Keep giving ’em hell over there, Corch. The war of intellect on that site isn’t a fair fight. You’re employing a belt-fed chain gun while the other commenters are muzzle loading Brown Bess smooth bores.
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Let’s see how much of Richardson is left after Bama gets through with him. Even if the Gators get better-than-expected QB play, they’ve given up 34 points to Florida Atlantic and South Florida. Bryce Young & Co. are gonna feast.
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Is he even going to play? I heard he got hurt at the end of the last game. That would be typical if Bama misses on him and then we get him healthy.
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He looked like he strained his hamstring at the end of a TD run, did the telltale straight-legged hop and hobbled his way out of the endzone. Didn’t look too bad, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Mullen sit him to do as you said. Mullen knows he’s going to be throttled this Saturday, no matter who’s in at QB.
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Mullen said his hamstring “tightened up” on him on that long TD run. I think that everyone in the Handbag Army is waiting to hear whether he is available this week.
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Great I think Mullen’s just getting his patented excuse ready for his beat down.
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Bama? I’m thinking Dick’sson might just fake that hamstring injury after he’s introduced to the Dawgs D line. Self preservation and all.
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Ok, 2 things:
1.) Tebow was not the reason those Florida teams dominated. Not even close. They would have been better with same. Once Percy was no longer around, Timmy was not even close to the same player.
2.) Cam’s NC team was the weakest team to win a national title since I started watching football in 1991. He won it, good for him, but they easily could/should have lost 4 games that year.
Richardson might be better than both of them, and still never win anything that matters.
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“Better off with Cam”
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2010 Iron Bowl biggest collapse for a Saban coached Bama team that I can recall. Up 24-7 at half and lost 28-27.
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He looked pretty good against OU backups in the Cotton Bowl, but fortunately we seem to have a generational defense this year. Mullen picked the wrong year to focus on running the ball.
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When ever you find someone drooling, they’re usually asleep with they’re head on the desk…let ‘em drool cause they be the fool who will fall off the stool when UGA football hangs 50 on that FU school…#FTMF
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Poems, everybody! The laddie reckons himself a poet!
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Mullen is probably doing the kid a big favor by bringing him along slowly.
And I am (unfortunately) impressed by the kids abilities as well. He’s big. He’s fast. He has a cannon. He throws a nice ball. What’s not to like?
It will be interesting to see how the platooning/performance go for them on Saturday.
Arky, Auburn, UF and UK are shaping up to be challenging outings. It isn’t the clemson, cake walk, seccg season we’d been hoping for.
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It will be interesting to see how well he throws it when he is running for his life. We will get a preview of that this weekend, but NOBODY has Jordan Davis in the middle or anything close. Double/Triple team him and there is no one to pick up the LB that will shoot the gap and is as fast if not faster the Richardson. Don’t double team him and run for your life from a physical freak that’s a 350lb sports car.
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Absolutely gotdam right.
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that big 99 man is fast
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With a qb like that, beating Bama Saturday should be no problem at all.
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I’ve already laid the 15.5. Easy money! And can’t wait for the 2nd half line!
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Richardson looks good, and I don’t know why he wouldn’t start him unless he’s waiting to get past Alabama so as not to break the kid in a game they won’t win anyway. He’ll make more mistakes over a larger sample size and against better competition, but Jones has already made those mistakes against two awful teams and doesn’t have youth as an excuse.
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Wouldn’t it take a bunch of pressure off of him to come off the bench and try and be the hero rather than carry the weight of starting all week?
Who knows how it’ll turn out but it seems pretty reminiscent of the hurts/Tua situation.
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It would. I don’t know if that’s Mullen’s reasoning, but being down 31-3 at the half and bringing Richardson in would definitely take away the pressure.
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I think it will be more competitive than that.
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I don’t. Alabama will take away the run, and Jones can’t beat them throwing. Florida’s defense could be better than I think it is, I suppose, which may keep it closer longer.
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Saban is trying to get this team’s attention. He knows they’re vulnerable. Florida winning would not shock me at all.
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Vulnerable based on what? A flat performance against Mercer after dismantling Miami?
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“Wouldn’t shock me” doesn’t mean I expect Florida to win. I don’t.
But we are way underselling Florida this year.
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I doubt we are. I think they’re a 9-3 team who could go 8-4 or 10-2 depending on how the breaks shake out against the teams on their schedule who aren’t Alabama and Georgia. And I think Alabama will beat them something like 45-20.
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Florida beating Alabama would shock the hell out of me.
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Watch the FU hc attempt to pull some ass whispering and scare little nicky, being tricky won’t be a winning formula against the bammers, can’t wait for a 3rd and long vs towelboy…#FTMF
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Florida does not have the defense to stop Alabama. If the Gators can make it a shootout then more power to them. But I don’t believe that they’re going to be able to keep Alabama off the scoreboard much.
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Mercer stopped bama on their first two possessions.
Bama is good. They ain’t unbeatable. Youth a qb can always be an issue. This is young’s first real test in a hostile environment.
No one knows exactly how that will go.
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I think Jones has 4 picks against 2 TD’s not the stuff of legend considering his time with the creepy whisperer.
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He better run that crap before his school plays a team with a pulse. This too shall not age well.
This reminds me of ole Beno Cook claiming a true freshman QB at ND would win 3 Heisman awards before he left to the league.
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Poor ole Ron Powlus. Beano’s comment (plus saying ND would win two national championships with him) made his otherwise decent four year college career as a starter seem like a massive underachieving career.
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Thanks MD I couldn’t remember the guys name. Totally agree with you.
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After plenty of mocking Mullen and Trask prior to last year, I’ll refrain from similar mistakes this year.
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I think Mullen plays both against Bama and Richardson does enough in a blowout loss to become the starter moving forward. Jones is a great athlete and is one of the teams’ leaders. That being said I don’t think Richardson is enough for them to beat us this year.
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Maybe he’s saving him for end of October. He knows 1) they won’t beat Alabama so why put more film out there and 2) back-up quarterbacks are Georgia’s kryptonite. He has us all right where he wants us! Never doubt the Portal Master!!
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You ever plays QB for FU will get plenty of chances to shine Saturday.
Coach Grantham will make sure that the FU offense gets lots of kick offs to work with.
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Ouch!
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You guys need to be careful. Watch this kids snaps. He is scary talented.
I hate Dan Mullen as a human being and as a coach but I think he is doing the right thing here by offering up Emory Jones as sacrifice to the Bama D. He is showing loyalty to Jones, knows the Richardson kid is far more talented but doesn’t want his confidence shot by a Bama beat down, and also will have a reason to switch to Richardson after the loss. Loss will be on Emory Jones and Mullen will indirectly implicate that but switching QBs.
I fear this Richardson kid as it stands. Maybe that fear will dissipate after he gets more minutes against better defenses. But we shall see. Kid has a big, accurate arm with a beautiful release plus he can move very well for his size.
With that said, FUCK THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS.
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I’m with you. I DVR’d the Florida game and watched the parts with Richardson after seeing on Twitter that he looked good. I realize that USF is dreadful, but Richardson looked very good. The fact that Vegas has Bama as only a 14 point favorite (up to 15.5 depending on where you look) tells me that this could be a game deep into the second half.
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Bama was only -19.5 against Miami. If someone gave me Alabama at -14, I’d take it all day long.
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Bama is going to beat the Handbags senseless. I don’t gamble on sports unless I happen to be in Vegas and place a bet (usually $20 on a 8-team college football parlay) on a lark but Bama -14 seems like easy money (just like Bama -19.5 was).
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I did the same thing to watch him play. He’s super talented with seemingly unlimited up. It’ll be interesting to see what he does against real competition.
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Talk to me after he plays Alabama. Hell, that’s probably not even fair, talk to me after he plays Tennessee the week after. Beating Florida Atlantic and South Florida doesn’t impress me.
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Unless Richardson transfers to South Carolina today, I have no interest. Gator fans are still trying to explain how Cam got away, its amusing.
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PS
Richardson does have a laptop, right?
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May he always enjoy an unobstructed view of the Jacksonville sky.
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Wait! I thought Sideshow Dan was the QB whisperer.
How can it be that Emory Jones is not as good as Trask?
he’s had enough years of QB Ninja training. I don’t understand.
I was told…
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If Richardson is what the Florida staff believes he can be, the Gators can beat Georgia, LSU and Kentucky and win the SEC East Division.”
Sounds like “IF” is doing an ass’ of heavy lifting there.
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UF fans are always excited about the “next QB” because the current one has generally sucked for the last decade
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Really? #FTMF
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Haven’t watched him yet, so right now he doesn’t scare me. I will form my opinion this weekend.
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Funny, I don’t remember Nancy being a potty-mouth. 😎
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Bess Marvin was the real live wire. She and Ned Nickerson (Knickers On – see what they did there?) would routinely kick back, day drink, and generally be delinquent while Nancy fronted for them. I’m sure it’s a quote from one of them.
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Damn near spit my beer out, RD. Well done!
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