They don’t ask how, they ask who!
October 17, 2009 by Mat Houchens
Filed under Football
If you are a Florida Gator fan, the game earlier today was not only painful but stressful. I found myself nearing a record breaking 4 heart attacks in a span of 4 hours. I have my legal team filing suit against UF for my newly developed case of tourettes after watching the game today. I had to switch from my big flat screen to my little box TV as preventive measure to not break my good tv. But they don’t ask how, they ask who!
4 fumbles had Florida fans in a state of anxiety
As a fan stated on our live game feed discussion on Facebook: What’s a Gator’s favorite snack? Butterfingers. This was the recurring theme in todays game. Fumble after fumble after fumble after fumble. That’s right 4 fumbles. The mere fact that Florida was always within 1 score was a miracle in and of itself. All the fumbles at crucial times during the drive that halted the Gator offense in their tracks.
Thank God that the defense came to play. Even with Spikes re-aggrevating his groin injury that happened earlier this week and being out of the game after the first drive, the defense was here to play (for the most part). They prevented Arkansas from capatalizing off these fumbles and keeping it within striking distance.
Until the near end of the game, Arkansas simply could not convert on 3rd downs and Florida won the field position game. However, 3rd downs weren’t Florida’s best friend either. Florida came into the game only allowing 7 sacks all season and gave up 6 sacks with 4 coming on big 3rd down plays for Florida.
The offensive line simply could not give enough protection to allow the WR’s to run their routes. The one time we did get Tim the protection he needed, he found Deonte Thompson wide open for a touchdown. There were several times that the WR’s were wide open down the field but Tebow couldn’t hit them because he was busy scrambling from unblocked blitzes.
In the end though, Florida was able to drive down the field after a wide left FG by Arkansas and put together a winning drive for a FG by Sturgis leaving just 9 seconds left to go in the game. The resulting Hook ‘n Lateral play after the squib kick from Arkansas failed and the Gators went on to win the game.
It was sloppy. It was painful. It was stressful. But dag gummit we won. Final score 23 – 20 Gators.
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