In his postgame press conference Saturday night, Jon Sumrall might have said the one thing no Florida fan wanted to hear after the Gators have put up just 15 points in the last two games, that the offense has no identity and “feels a little bit lost.”
The Gators went 4-0 to open the season, posting more than 40+ points per game in each of those. The same offense that put up those kinds of numbers is the same one that's taken the field the last two weeks and put up eight points against Georgia and then just seven against Oklahoma, scoring one touchdown in each game and hardly crossing the 50-yard line against the Sooners.
They rushed for just 70 yards and passed for just 133 yards, accumulating just 203 yards of offense to Oklahoma’s 351 yards; and the offense was on the field for just 22:10 in comparison to Oklahoma’s offense spending 37:50 on the field, including a drive that lasted 12:45 in the second half.
When posed with the question of just what happened offensively and what the Gators need to do to fix it, Sumrall described the Gators as being unable to find a rhythm and a footing, and this comes after making a change at quarterback and putting Tramell Jones in the pocket to start instead of Aaron Philo.
“Earlier in the year there were some things that you could see were our identity. Right now we feel a little bit lost,” said Sumrall. “I don’t really know that I can pinpoint what I know that we’re good at day in, day out,” he said. He reiterated that teams are going to face adversity, they’re going to have tough stretches, but he quoted, “you have to be able to know, hey this is what we’re good at, and this is how we’re going to hang in the game. And right now we don’t have that identity clear enough offensively,” he said.
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Florida trying to regain spark on offense
That’s the one thing Florida fans don’t want to hear: a stretch of three games that should be winnable, but now there is doubt that Florida may not have enough confidence or “identity” to win another game and at least become bowl-eligible. They have three weeks to ultimately do what they should have done by now and “find themselves,” find what they’re “good at,” and be able to lean into that on the field.
It was only a matter of time before teams began to shut down Baugh, so beyond the run game, the Gators will need to find success in the passing game over this next three-game stretch and figure out how to be successful changing things up throughout the game.
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