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There are a lot of positions of concern with the 2024 Florida team, but quarterback isn’t one of them.
In fact, watching Graham Mertz and DJ Lagway and how they interact might be the best reason to go to the spring game in April.
Many Gator fans have had visions of 2006 dancing in their heads ever since Lagway showed up on campus.
They see this two-quarterback rotation like they had that year when the Gators won the national championship.
Don’t get ahead of yourself. Try having a winning record first.
But we do remember some quarterback combos that did work for the Gators, so the Dooley’s Dozen will give you the 12 best that I can remember. You may want to know that Cam Newton does not make this list because he never really did anything at Florida other than throw a stolen laptop out of a window.
The obvious best one was…
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… Chris Leak and Tim Tebow. Leak is underrated in Florida memories despite being the all-time leading passer and was once booed because Tebow came out of a game. But this was a perfect combination of a guy who could really spin it and a guy who would run over his brother to get a first down.
It wasn’t always great because the offense sometimes sputtered, but the end result was Florida’s national title.
Doug and Noah, FSU
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Steve Spurrier had tried different combinations before in ’97 because the offense wasn’t quite as crisp as it was under Danny Wuerffel the previous year. But on a glorious night against the Seminoles. The alternating quarterbacks (Doug Johnson and Noah Brindise) got the job done.
When Johnson went down in the bowl game, he tried to keep it going against Penn State with Brindise and Palmer, but all they really did was hand the ball to Fred Taylor.
The soap opera of 1994
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Terry Dean and Spurrier had their…
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Publish date : 2024-01-28 12:00:23
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