Billy Napier's only solution for Florida Football is to execute better on offense

Florida Football came into the offseason with wind at their sails after four straight wins, which gave the Gators some much-needed momentum. Plenty of way too early top 25 polls have the Gators cracking the top 15 in 2025, and there will be some sense of hope when the year begins.

But those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and the problem for Billy Napier is that he is hell-bent on repeating a process that has produced a record of 19-19 since arriving in Gainesville.

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Zach Goodall wrote a piece for Swamp247 yesterday where Napier essentially hinted he is content with the setup of his offensive staff and thinks in 2025, for Florida to achieve those top 15 rankings that, "We just need to do our stuff better."

We have highlighted before that Florida's offense was not an elite juggernaut in 2024. Florida averaged 28.3 points per game and was 64th in the country.

Now yes, if you want to get selective, Florida averaged 34.6 points per game in the six games that DJ Lagway started and finished. That's a clip that would be top 20 in the country, but it also highlights the flaw of Napier's offense.

He is so dependent on top-tier talent to make his offense work, and if he doesn't have a five-star quarterback blanketed by senior wide receivers, his offense falls apart in a heartbeat with no plan B.

This isn't even a critique of whether using two tight sets is good or bad because plenty of NFL teams, along with Ohio State, use two tight end sets. The difference between them and what Napier has done is that Florida hasn't recruited the position well enough to justify constantly having two on the field.

What winds up happening is that Florida's wide receivers wind up running routes in isolation, and when a play does work, it's because either Lagway made an elite throw or the wide receiver ran an elite route. But Napier seldom schemes things up to make things easy for his quarterbacks.

So when Napier trots out this belief that Florida just needs to "do stuff better," it's exhausting because it's all he has ever said since arriving.

After losing to Vanderbilt in 2022, Napier stated, "I think that it comes down to doing it when it counts, right? Put the ball down to go execute and go do your job."

After losing to FSU to close out the 2023 season, he said, "We need to play with better detail. We need to execute better, there's no question about that."

And if you go back to his infamous basement comment he made after getting blown out by Miami, his lead into that quote was, "One thing I can say is we have a group that's working hard. I do think that we have character. We got to go to work on the football part. I think we got to become a more consistent team and we have to execute better. "

There are other examples we can pull where Napier has this mindset that the only thing holding Florida back is execution. We are three years into the Billy Napier Era, and he has yet to produce an offense that finished in the top 60 for points per game.

So yes, Florida needs to do stuff better. Step one might be getting a Sharpie and playing around on the whiteboard.