10:03 pm | August 8, 2018 | Go to Source | Author: Robbie Andreu
Billy Gonzales has been showing his wide receivers a lot of tape of former Florida wideouts catching passes and making plays to give them a better idea how their job is done in the offense.
He’s also shown them clips of guys like Percy Harvin, David Nelson, Riley Cooper and others doing the dirty work, making successful blocks downfield and on the edge.
Because, by now, everyone knows Gonzales’ stance on his wide receivers and blocking.
“These guys all know,” he said. “I’ve told every one of them, stressed to them, ‘If you can’t block, you’re not going to play, even as gifted as you are.’
“The great ones that we had here. I’ve showed them clip after clip after clip of great players making big-time blocks for us. And our value as a receiver on the perimeter.”
“You better be able to do a great job blocking, because if you can’t, you’re not going to fit in for us and you’re not going to fit into our program.”
This is the way it was under Urban Meyer and Gonzales. And it’s the way it is again with Gonzales and Dan Mullen.
Wide receivers have to be able to block to play. And to help with that aspect of their game, they have to play on special teams, Gonzales said.
“They have to understand they better be on the special teams,” Gonzales said. “If you’re not a contributor on special teams, I’m not going to go to the head coach and say, ‘Coach let’s work and try to get him the ball on this play.’
“If you’re giving great effort and you’re making it happen there for us, then it’s a little easier for me to walk into the coach’s office and say, ‘Let’s start utilizing him and work with him a little bit.’ But we’ve got a long way to go still.”
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