AM 680 The Fan Sports Radio in Atlanta is reporting the The Bow is to start against UGA this Saturday. Radio in Ocala and Orlando continue back this report. Alligator Sports has posted the following article:

Coach Urban Meyer is spearheading a movement to bring back educational television. After plopping in his favorite armchair with a sack of cheeseburgers (Thanks fat and stupid Charlie Weis) and watching an entire Saturday of college football for the first time all season, Meyer had another Oh Shit! Ron Zook Moment. In Chris Leak-esque fashion Meyer sharted for the first time.

“I was (seeing) guys making three people miss, running over people and going, going, going,” Meyer said. “It’s not like this is earth-shattering news, but playmakers win games. Get the ball in the hands of your playmakers (The Bow) and out of the hands of our non-playmaker (Leak).”

Inspired by what he saw, Meyer arrived at his office extra early Sunday and Monday to scheme how to get the ball to his own playmakers against Georgia. Saturday, you will see the significant transition to a quarterback that can run the true spread offense schemes that made the coach so successful at Bowling Green and Utah. Some of the more relevant changes include:

* Getting backup quarterback Tim Tebow all of the snaps. Last week, Meyer said he regretted not using his dynamic weapon more often against Auburn. An emotional Meyer touched on his frustration with Auburn’s lack of class on running up the score on the fumble recovery Touchdown in the last seconds, “Tommy better get those pistol grip ears ready for some action the SEC Championship game”.

*Chris Leak is just not getting it done. His failure to take a hit for the team is just shameful. Leak basically handed the Auburn game with his fumbles and fraidy-cat play. Leak will chart plays for the remainder of the season. Meyer also said the CBS columnist Mike Freeman, a Leak for Heisman advocate, could “Just kiss my ass”.

* Using more true spread runs (reverses, end arounds, option plays, etc.) than up-the-gut traditional running plays. Relying heavily on the former, wide receivers Andre Caldwell and Percy Harvin rushed for a combined 119 yards on eight carries against Auburn. Harvin, Florida’s version of former NBA player Dennis Rodman, Harvin’s personality might have been a better fit at Miami or Virginia Tech, but he has excelled under Urban’s “special brand of discipline”.

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“(Meyer is) just ready to open up the offense, give us the damn ball and let us go run, now that Leak is outta the damn way, we can do as we damn well please” Harvin said. And it just might be Harvin’s increased involvement in the game plan that factors as the biggest change.

Before every game, Meyer sits down and scripts how many times he wants playmakers to touch the ball.

This week, Harvin should have at least a couple of tallies by his name. “He’ll touch the ballsack in a variety of places,” Meyer said. “Every time he touches it, it’s like 15 yards a carry.”

The Gators did not have such options in 2005 and to this point in 2006 with Chris Leak running the offense. “It was, ‘Who do we get the ball to?’” Meyer said. “We have an issue this year where we want to make sure the playmakers are touching it. Well to heck with Curtis Leak, I got Bob “Blumpkin” Tebow who fills my void nicely.”

(The Bow pictured with Mom and “Robert” Tebow)

The irony here is the following: The Gators used their bye week before last season’s Georgia game to simplify their offense by adding a tight end and fullback.

However, the changes this year will be opposite ones, aimed at diversifying the attack. “(My) confidence is at an all-time high. I feel un-fucking-stoppable,” Caldwell said. “The only person that can stop me is butterfingers Chris Leak, and I’m not going to let that happen.”

Added Meyer: “He’s a much more passive player than he’s ever been. He wasn’t like that earlier in the year, and it was because he had the tough injury. But Bubba’s not a tough guy, and he’s playing the best football he’s ever played here. He’s back.” As for Harvin? “In my mind, when I get the ball, I think I’m taking it to the distance every time, I make believe I am running from the popo” he said. “You member in the that movie Waterboy? Fonzie told that goofy white kid to pretend he was making plays in his head. Well, Coach just gives me a “nickel” and tells me to do the same thing in my head. I know he got my back, jus’ like he did with Marcus, “Just give me the ball and let me go.”