Florida QB Jeff Driskel explains success in terms of brisket?
Jeff Driskel is coping with a lot of stress. The Florida Gators are bad. Their 4-8 record was worse than they’ve been since 1979 when they went 0-10-1. Now, he’s their guy. So how does he contextualize dealing with that stress? It’s hard to know for sure, but when he told SI.com’s Andy Staples about his summer job, it seemed there was some underlying meaning.
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It’s all about the brisket!
"“It’s got to be thin cut,” said the Florida quarterback, who brandished a knife for the Gainesville branch of 4 Rivers Smokehouse for six glorious weeks earlier this summer. “You’ve got to separate the fatty and the lean cuts.”And when someone orders mostly lean, you’ve got to attempt to show them the error of their ways.“Are you sure you don’t want to taste it?” Driskel would ask before offering a more marbled hunk to sample."
So maybe he was talking about football and maybe he wasn’t. But Driskel barely got a taste of NCAA Football action before getting injured. And he’s most certainly going to have separate himself from the rest of the NCAA. He’s got big plans for the upcoming season. His coach Will Muschamp has a plan for his young quarterback’s success.
“We’ve had long discussions about how to use his legs in certain games,” Muschamp said, via SI.com. “We need to protect him. We can do that in the run game with the zone read. You can block the edge. You can slam the edge. You can do a lot of different things to keep an end off of him. Those are things we are going to have to be able to do.”