Too many times last year people talked about knowing what was coming from the Jim McElwain/ Doug Nussmeier offense at Florida. In essence, that sometimes boiled down to the routes that the receivers were running as well. This season, with the Gators under new management in head coach Dan Mullen, that should change. How much it changes is going to be up to how well the receivers and quarterbacks develop together.

Florida’s co-offensive coordinator and receivers coach Billy Gonzales spoke to the media on Tuesday after practice and made it a point to talk about how important the offseason is / was in getting the work in necessary to make sure the signal callers and the guys that catch the ball are on the same page.

The players have iPads at their exposure so that they can watch film clips of how things should be done. The staff is figuring out early this fall how much time each receiver spent watching those clips and absorbing what they are supposed to do.

“I hope they did a lot in the summer time you know, that’s their responsibility,” Gonzales said. “To be a big time program, summertime is crucial to us and we’ve got to continue to teach our players that next year’s guys gotta learn the same thing. In the development process you always want to find leaders that can lead your team in the summertime and hopefully they can step up and lead. But for us as a coach, I’m showing tons of clips of former players that you know we’ve had here.”

Gonzales likes the talent he has on hand and thinks every receiver on campus can do some of the things that the best players he has coached could do. That includes changing up the routes a little to attack defenses better.

“I’ve got a whole library of different releases on different routes to show the guys and they’ve all got it—what we call blast—that they’ve sent to their iPad’s just to have that opportunity to learn,” Gonzales said.

Gonzales made it a point to stress that allowing the freedom to change routes on the fly is something that isn’t done in many places, but also something that he thinks will help set this offense apart in a good way if the quarterback and receivers are on the same wave length.

It is also not an easy task to accomplish.

“The unique thing in our offense is we give guys multiple ways to get open and we let them work and there’s not a lot of quarterback coaches in America or head coaches that give that freedom and opportunity,” Gonzales said. “Coach Mullen does a great job of letting the receivers work and telling the quarterbacks ‘listen if it’s a certain coverage, let him work, let him try to develop and get open’ but that’s something that comes over time; that’s summertime, that’s fall, there’s a lot of reps that go into that.”