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Welcome back to A Peak Inside Gator Football. I'm Allie
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Peek and Saturday the Florida Gators and the Georgia Bulldogs
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renew one of college football's great rivalries. This time it's
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happening in Atlanta and while Georgia is favored, there is
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a fascinating chess match developing between two coaches.
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Who know each other extremely well.
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Florida Offensive Coordinator Buster Faulkner and Georgia Defensive Coordinator Glenn
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Schumann Joining me today is someone who has spent a
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tremendous amount of time breaking down both sides of this
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matchup on film, Brooks Austin. You guys know him as
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the film guy. Brooks, appreciate you joining me today.
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No doubt. I'm excited for this one. I'll be in attendance.
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First time watching Florida in person all year long, and
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I'm excited for this one. I'll be on the sidelines,
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so it should be a good one.
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I'm excited too.
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I will be watching at home, taking five children trick-or-treating
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and trying to watch the game at the same time.
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But I'm excited for it.
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I really enjoyed your recent breakdown of Buster Faulkner's previous
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matchups against Georgia. And I think something that really stood
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out to me was that you clearly have a ton
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of respect for what he does schematically.
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So I'll start here.
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Does Buster Faulkner give Florida a legitimate advantage in this
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game that maybe isn't reflected in the point spread?
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There's an advantage is tough to say, but will you have,
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do you feel confident going into this because you have
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a familiarity with your opponent? 100%. This is not a
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guy that just like spent time at Georgia. He spent
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time as a quality control analyst over there at Georgia
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and for years understood like, okay, well, this is what
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they do. This is how they do it. This is
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how this defensive brainstem, this is how they see football.
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All that being said, Will Muschamp was also on that
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defensive staff, and I just got done watching the first,
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I don't know, 50 clips of that Texas matchup. I
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don't think there's been a defensive coordinator prepared for Buster
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better than Muschamp was from an alignment standpoint. He made
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him in the second half really like basically chop up
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the entire game plan and start from anew at half. Now,
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to Buster's credit, he did exactly that, found the answers
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to what they were doing to him, and ended up
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putting up enough points to win the football game. But
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there's a ton of familiarity here. Now, what I have
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a tremendous amount of respect for Buster is what I
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just alluded to. He understands, A, what the defense is doing.
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But B, how to put that into conflict and put
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it into conflict right now. All that being said, in
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order for him to do that, he's still got to
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be in third and manageable situations anytime. And that's every offense.
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But it's really an offense that has young quarterback play.
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Or when he was at Georgia Tech, an offense that
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had a quarterback deficiency from a throwing standpoint. Like say
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what you want about Haynes King, he's just not the
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best pure passer in the world. So they had to
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be in third and five or better offensively. And right
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now with the way Florida's quarterback situation is, I would
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agree with that same sentiment being applied here. We've got
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to do everything we can on first and second down
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to not only be explosive, but also make sure we're
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putting ourselves in manageable counts on third down in this
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football game if I'm Buster.
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In your breakdown, you showed how Georgia kind of adapted
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from 2023 into 2025.
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Yeah.
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Particularly how they defended that quarterback run game that you
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just talked about and that they shifted between different coverages.
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And we saw Schumann have more success against Faulkner last year.
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Do you think that that's an evolution and now he's
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kind of figured out how to defend Buster Faulkner? Or
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was that more about Georgia Tech getting beat physically up front?
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Yeah, I was going to say a couple of it. Like,
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I'll just put it this way. I think the world
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of college football has defensively has gotten much better at
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fitting quarterback counter read. They've certainly got better at fitting
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counter in general because more and more teams are running this.
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Four or five years ago, everybody was an inside zone,
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wide zone football team. And nowadays you look up and
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almost everybody's running some form of counter. The add-on to
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that is to bring jet motion and then do it
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with our quarterback where we're running counter off of that
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jet action read. That's why we call it quarterback counter read.
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So I think the world of defensive football has gotten
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much better at fitting this. And certainly Georgia's defensive line
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got much better from 23 to 25. In 2023, Krista
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Miller is a very young football player. By 2025, he
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was a late second-round draft pick, right? In 2023, Elijah
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Griffin was a junior in high school. By 2025, he
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was one of the best freshman defensive linemen we had
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in college football last year. So certainly, Georgia's defensive line
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had gotten better. C.J. Allen was a true freshman in 2023,
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playing a lot of snaps. Raylon Wilson was still a
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young football player. by 2025, those guys had played, you know,
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30 some odd games of college football. So yes, Georgia
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had gotten better in the box, but I also think
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the defensive structures of football have gotten much better at
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fitting these counter aspects. So it's why I think you've
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seen Buster rely a little bit more on stretch and
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do things like that and get into more of a,
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of a stretch play action rollout type of offensive system.
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But even that I'm worried now has a I just
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tweeted out a video of Texas linebackers. Like every time
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they were in pistol with the ball on the near hash,
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Justin Cryer, the linebacker from Texas is turning around and
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he's pantomiming.
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I actually saw that live.
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Yeah. Yeah. Those things worry me, but I was also
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tipped off to that when Eli Drinkowitz gives you a
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thumping and then post games like, yeah, I mean the more,
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the more tape they put on, the more tendencies they have,
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the more things that we expect are coming. Those things
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scare me. We have to buck those trends. We have
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to do some self-scouting, and we have to get away
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from those things that defenses are tipped off on.
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So were those things that were also tendencies of his
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Georgia Tech offense that we either, A, didn't pick up on,
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or B, do you think maybe overlooked because it was
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Georgia Tech as opposed to Florida?
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Don't want to be demeaning to Georgia Tech, but certainly not.
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I mean, Georgia Tech was never maybe possibly not really
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compared to 2019 LSU, but that never happened with those guys.
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You know what I mean? So you were a bit
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more of a threat to the world of college football.
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You were certainly more of a threat to better defenses
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that have to play you and have you on the schedule.
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And I don't think I've ever seen Georgia players, if
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they knew– The tip, I don't think I've ever seen
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them on tape show that they knew the tip. They
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just reacted. And that would be the only team that
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I know year over year faced them every year other
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than Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh boxed them up pretty good a couple
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years ago. NC State got them pretty good a couple
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years ago. There are certain ACC teams that saw Buster
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time and time again. But again, I didn't see anything
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as absolutely, oh my God, he knows what's about to
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happen again. As I've seen on, on Texas tape and,
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and some of these coaches like you, I drink with
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post game. I haven't seen any of that yet.
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So, you know, we talk about offensive tendencies. Let's talk
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about defensive tendencies. If you're Buster and I know this
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Georgia defense is, is really good, but is there something
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that he's seen on film from Georgia that if you're Buster,
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You know, Keith Niebuhr actually asked me this earlier in
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the week, and I basically told him, like, Buster seems
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to attack individual matchups against Georgia in the three previous matchups. Like,
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it's very clear if you sit there and watch Georgia
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Tech football against Georgia the last three years, he was, like,
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circling one football player on critical downs and trying to
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hit explosives, right? In 2023, I felt like it was
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Tykee Smith In 2024, I felt like it was Dan Jackson.
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And then in 2025, they never really got an opportunity
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to hunt. They were constantly in tough situations, whether it
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be due to penalties or due to TFLs or due
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to sacks. They just weren't able to get into these
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counts to be able to be aggressive. And in this
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football season, the only guy in the defensive backfield that
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I would look at and I would say from Georgia,
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that's obviously the guy we need to go after. It's
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Jamello Jones. Um, number eight, the corner, I would, I
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would say that would be the guy that I'd be
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going after. Um, I don't think I would hunt after
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Ellis Robinson. He's bound to make some miraculous play. Um,
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I KJ Barnes, Khalil Barnes has been really good. Most
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of the year, I would argue he had his worst
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performance against Auburn, but that was from a tackling perspective. Um,
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and I don't know if you guys have anybody that
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is like Byron Brown. Now you do have a Jane ball.
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And that's great. I would get him the rock, and
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that's obvious. Everybody knows that. You don't have to be
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a ball knower to know that 13's got to get
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loose for Florida to win this football game. But you
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could possibly get on top of Khalil if Eric Singleton's healthy.
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I would use Dallas Wilson to attack DeMello, and then
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I would try to get the nickel with speed by
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doing that with Eric Singleton, assuming everybody's healthy. And obviously Trammell,
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if he's healthy. Or not Trammell, Vernell. If Vernell's healthy,
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like that, that adds a whole different.
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Type of x factor to this offense And we'll get
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to him being back in a minute. I do think
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Florida's going to be at full capacity for wide receiver,
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which is going to be the first time that's happened
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five plays into the FAU game.
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But one of the things.
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That stood out to me about your preview was that
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Florida's offensive line had looked like a potential Joe Moore
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award contender earlier.
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In the year.
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And then things really changed against Missouri and South Carolina.
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And I think when we talked over the summer at
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SEC Media Days, we spent a lot of time talking
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about this offensive line and talking about how kind of
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the ceiling of this offense depended on how well they
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came together. And you mentioned in your preview wanting to
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figure out what was behind the drop-off. And, you know,
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do you think the competition's figured out how to defend
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Florida's run game? Or did something fundamentally change with the
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offensive line?
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I wouldn't say there was fundamental changes. I would say
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level of competition has certainly changed. Like, it's just the
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reality of the situation is y'all played really good defenses
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as of late, too. Missouri, if anybody knows how to
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stop the stretch run game, it's Eli Drinkowitz. Reason being,
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they've ran it better than anybody else in this conference
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for four or five years. He knew what was going
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on there. Texas is just really freaking good. I know
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that's breaking news, but they're just a great defense.
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The Gators actually did better against them.
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They did. I think a lot of that had to
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do with finding new ways to run the football. I'm
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going to show some of that tomorrow. I just, like
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I said, just got done watching the first half of
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that football game, and we're going to be breaking that
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down on our channel tomorrow morning. But just newer run schemes,
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like you're still bad at running stretch. They still got
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the face off of that. So the 88 yards from
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ball had to be found somewhere else. I'll find them.
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I'll figure out where they were. And I think it
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was a lot, like I said, of newer run schemes.
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Like there's one where it looks like they're, They've inverted
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the responsibilities of read option. It looks like the quarterback's
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actually going to be running a zone to the boundary,
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and they're going to let the running back be like
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what would be a read option quarterback keep. It's funny.
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He's doing different things because he's got to now to
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establish the run and get back to being able to
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run the football. I think the reality is you face
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really good defenses, but there has been a level of
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you've been whipped. Like I felt like, like Missouri did
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some schematical stuff to give you problems, but bottom line,
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they brought the fight and punched you in the chin
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and you weren't ready. You weren't, you weren't ready for
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the punch and you definitely did not punch back. Um,
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so I think there's a, there's some realities there as well.
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It's like, we've got to match the energy. Which I
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think they got right.
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Last week, but just didn't get right the weeks before.
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So fixing it, moving forward, doing what you can do.
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I mean, obviously there's some pieces you're going to have
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to get into the portal or you're going to have
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to develop from high school.
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There's not a quick fix there.
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But is there a way to win some individual matchups
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or like scheme slightly differently to put a bandaid on
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it through the rest of the year? Yeah.
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I mean, I would go the route of like, give
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them a variety of fits. Basically what I'm alluding to,
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I think I'm going to find in the second half
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of that Texas game to find running success. Like I
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would imagine y'all just threw the kitchen sink at them.
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And if that's the case, instead of being like a
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like we're going to run stretch and we're going to
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run counter. Well, we're going to give them five different
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looks on a 12 play drive. And now they've got
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to fit all five correctly. And if they don't, we're
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going to spit one that that would be the approach
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that I would take. Like if we're not good enough
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to physically go out and just beat people man to man.
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then we need to be a little bit more diverse
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in our run schemes. And I think that's the thing
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that Buster is known for. When I study him, when
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I talk to people in the football world about like,
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what do you connote with Buster? And the number one
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word I hear the most is volume. Like the amount
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of things that we're going to give you, right? The
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amount of things that we're going to have to prepare for,
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the amount of things that we're going to have to fit.
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Because that's what stopping runs are. It's making sure we
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have a body in all the gaps. We have to
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fit it properly. and the more and more volume we
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throw at defenses, the more there's a likelihood that they
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will misfit a run. So that would be my immediate answer,
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but that's a lot easier said than done because then
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we become like the old master of none thing where
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we're not really good at anything, but we're doing a
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lot of it, and we're doing a lot of it poorly.
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That's not necessarily a great recipe for success, but I
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would go the volume route because Jaden is that individually excellent.
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Even if we don't block it up perfectly and we
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let somebody loose, it's okay. 13 is going to take
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care of us. What we can't do is have five
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guys get put in the backfield.
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Well, and, you know, Jaden Baugh is kind of where
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I want to go next on this. Against Georgia's front,
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is Florida capable of consistently running the football? I mean,
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I look at his game against Texas and Quietly, almost
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100 yards. Nothing that was so overly impressive.
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No explosives, truly.
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Nothing that stood out in the way that he stood
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out in some of his previous games. But it is
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what allowed the offense to move the chains and to
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put points on the board. Do you have to manufacture
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those rushing yards in unconventional ways?
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What do you do with Ba against Georgia?
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I'll say this. Georgia's a really good defense. To me,
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they're a top five, top ten defense in the sport
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right now. But it's not like they're the 85 bears
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in the run department exactly at the moment. I'm not
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a box score guy, but look at the box scores.
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They've given up over 100 yards rushing four out of
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their eight games this year. It's not like they're going
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out there and holding everybody. Allie, there was a stretch
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of Georgia football. where they went 24 games in a
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row without allowing 100 yards, not to a single rusher,
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to a team. Wow. From late 2018 when Jordan Davis
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got implemented at the nose tackle position all the way
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until he left, they did not allow 100 yards to
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a single football team. They're not that anymore, but they
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are still really tough to down-to-down beat. That being said,
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Alabama creased them. Once or twice, Treshawn Brown got loose
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for a 58-yarder. I think it was a busted assignment,
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but I'm not in the room. But let's say Alabama
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got him once with a 58-yard explosive. Byron Brown is
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individually excellent. That's what I think that is. I think
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Byron Brown, every once in a while, well, four out
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of his five SEC games this year, he's rushed for
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over 100 yards. He's getting everybody. So there's that. Western
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Kentucky got him, but I think Western Kentucky was just
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trying to run the ball. because they were trying to
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get the hell out of there and still gave up
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70 points. So there has been some success on the
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ground so far this year. So yeah, there is a
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recipe where we look up and Florida's got, they don't
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need to rush for 200, but if they get 140
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yards on the ground, they've now created balance offensively. It's
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also the reason why, and I think Philo is the
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much better thrower of the football. I think he elevates
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the offense from a play action passing standpoint. He's much
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better in the pocket under pressure. But from a variety
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of run game that we talked about earlier, the answer
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is undoubtedly Trammell. He provides a little bit more of
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an explosive metric there and it opens more doors for
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Buster to get a little bit more creative in his
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run packages than Philo does. Philo is a north and
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south runner. He is a three yards and cloud of
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dust runner. That's not exactly going to work. against a
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Georgia defense that that's what they want you to do.
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Georgia wants you, Georgia dares you to go 18 plays
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on drives. It's like, you're going to inevitably mess up
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or we're going to beat you at some point. That's
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been their defensive MO since day one under Kirby Smart.
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And we're a decade into this.
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This is a really interesting quarterback conversation, I think. And
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Florida fan base has been having it like ad nauseum on.
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Social media this week.
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And I think it it appears that the fan base
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does kind of side with you there. They favor Trammell Jones.
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And I don't know if that's because they actually think
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he's the better matchup or if they have the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately
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syndrome where they see 1-0 against Texas. And I do
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think it's important to note that Philo went 4-0 in
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his first four. But one of the things we've seen suggested,
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Steve Spurrier is actually who suggested it first, but could
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a two-quarterback approach actually– create problems for Georgia's defense or
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do you think that it's a bigger risk to disrupting
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Florida's offensive rhythm and that these guys maybe have too
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similar of a skill set to to rotate them I've I've.
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Never been a look Steve Spurrier has forgotten more football
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than I'll ever even venture to learn in my life
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so but I personally have never been a fan of
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the two quarterback system I've always believed that if you're
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playing two quarterbacks, you have no quarterback.
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Which he's also said at points in his career too.
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Yeah, so that's always been my adage on that. And
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having been a player myself, the idea of working myself
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into a flow of the football game is impossible, especially
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if I'm a quarterback. It's one thing if I'm a
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center or an offensive tackle and I'm in every other drive.
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I'm a quarterback and it's just like, well, he's had
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two good drives in a row, so he's going to
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get a third one. But if he sucks on the
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third one, don't worry, you're coming back in like that.
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That bothers me. I would I would have a problem
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getting into a flow. But from are they going to
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be prepared? Is it one more thing you have to
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throw into them? I think the the idea that you
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have a name to starter and that every time John
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gets in front of a microphone, he's like, well, they're
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both hurt and they're both going to play. But we're
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not going to play two quarterbacks. but we might have
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to play them both I think that alone has already
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done its job of making Georgia's defensive staff prepare for
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both yeah we've already done the job the job when
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we do that in my mind from a football's perspective
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is like we just want to soak up like 30
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hours of prep for them to make sure that they
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have to prepare for the other guy And if we
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just get that done, that's a win. We put that
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in the win column from a preparation and time management standpoint.
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We are probably going to see all of Florida's offensive
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weapons healthy and available for the first time since the
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first series in FAU.
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You have talked about.
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The combination of Singleton and Brown and Wilson and how
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much Faulkner uses the screen game to create explosive opportunities.
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How much does that offense change? when all three of
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those guys are available?
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And does it create a matchup where they could exploit
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something in Georgia's secondary?
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Yeah, I mean, certainly. Now, look, here's the deal. I
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think there are five NFL wide receivers in this football game.
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I think Georgia's got two of them, Talon Taylor and
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Craig Dangerous. I think you guys got three of them.
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So what breaks? What gets, right? The difference is I
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think Georgia's got three NFL defensive backs. Ellis Robinson, KJ Bolden,
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we'll see if he's fully healthy, and Kahlil Barnes. I
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don't know how many pro defensive backs Florida has. It
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looks to me performance-wise like they don't have too many.
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So something's going to give there. I think the ultimate
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thing is we've got to tackle. I think they're going
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to get theirs is what I'm saying. Who tackles in
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the open field will ultimately probably decide the overall output.
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of these wide receivers. There's no doubt. It's one thing
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we talked about last night on our preview is just like,
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I'm scared to death. I'm scared to death of these
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wide receivers on both sides of the football. They're all really,
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really freaking good. And this is the first time Georgia's
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been in this category in a very long time. I
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would say four or five years since they've had, you know,
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two really, really good wide receivers.
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We talked about you know, the positives and the negatives
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to Jones and to Philo. Do you think, because we
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were told that the reason that Philo won the starting
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job to begin with is in large part due to
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having a larger grasp on the offense, is there a
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chapter of the playbook that's never been opened because we
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haven't had all three top targets and Baugh available, and
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that makes you potentially lean Philo? Because if it's understanding
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the offense.
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No. No. No, I don't think they're going to magically
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reinvent the wheel offensively here now that they're healthy. Also
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because they were healthy during fall camp where we installed
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most of our work.
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Sure.
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If an offensive playbook is 100 pages long, by the
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time spring rolls around, summer installations happen, fall camp happens,
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we should have about 90 of those 100 pages ready
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to go. They should have been practiced, repped. like understood
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we've got full grasp of it the last 10 are
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in-season adjustments week-to-week tweaks that we have to like change
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pictures of hey maybe we like this match up a
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little bit more so here's how we're going to exploit
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this hey this is a covered three football team so
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we're going to do certain things to to create problems
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here the bulk of the work is already done from
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a this is what we do standpoint so I don't
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think much is going to change other than hopefully for
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Florida fans' sake, is the overall output of the offense, right?
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Eric has been in and out, and the performance and
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the output of him has been, I think, directly relative
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to how well he feels. Sure. But I think the offense,
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like this offense's inability to get back into third and
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four has been directly impacted by Vernell not being there.
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By the way, with my football brain, the Vernell-Tramel thing
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is throwing me into an absolute corkscrew. Tremel or Vernel
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said it again, Vernel's ability to catch the football and
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take off right now. Um, and not just go get
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seven yards, but maybe take it 70, um, has made
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deep when he's healthy, it's made defenses completely changed the pictures. Um,
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and that's opened up a lot of other things. So
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having him back, I think is the most important thing
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here for this offense.
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We've talked, you know, at nauseam about Faulkner and Schumann's
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relationship and their familiarity with each other. But there is
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a lot of familiarity between Mike Bobo and Brad White
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as well.
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And you mentioned that in your video.
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And you mentioned Bobo's ability to attack defenses that struggle
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passing off receivers in zone coverage. Knowing what you've seen
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from Florida's secondary this year and, you know, what we've
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talked about the last few minutes, how do you expect
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Bobo to attack the Gators? And is it just absolutely
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exploiting that secondary? And what could Brad White do differently
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to keep Georgia from finding explosive plays?
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I mean, to me, the answer or the Band-Aid for
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the back end against Texas was, well, we're just going
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to hit the shit out of the quarterback. That's what
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we're going to do. And if you watch the, and
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we did, if you watch the Florida film or the
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Texas film, Texas offense versus Florida's defense, it wasn't like
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dudes weren't still running open. The quarterback just wasn't hitting them.
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And while the quarterback was getting hit, it made him
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very uncomfortable. So you added in a lot of pressures
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you got after the quarterback. I don't know if that's
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going to be a recipe for success against Georgia. A,
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I think they're ninth in the country in sacks allowed.
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They've only allowed eight sacks all year. B, Gunner Stockton
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gets the ball out of his hands really well. C,
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they're a play-action rollout football team just like you are.
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So we call it manipulating the launch point. Where the
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quarterback is now ain't going to be where he's designed
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to throw the football from, so it's not like we
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can hone in the pressures on one spot. And C,
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I think I'm at C, maybe D, D, Gunnar Stockton
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is the lead against the Blitz. I mean, since the
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guy's been in the lineup, dating back to even the
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Texas matchup in the SEC championship game, the last thing
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you want to do to number 14 is Blitz him.
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He's way too smart. He's played way too much football
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at this point. He understands where the pressures are coming from,
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thus understands the defense that you're in and where you're
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vulnerable at then. So, yeah, I don't know what Gibbs
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there from Florida defensively. I guess just hope you get
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some turnovers and hope you can make them one-dimensional, get
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them behind the chains, get them in automatic passing downs.
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Those are the basic-ass analysis points that we have to
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give when we really don't know what the advantage is defensively. Oh, well,
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let's shut them down in the run game. Okay, easier
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said than done. Let's get them in third and long. Okay,
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easier said than done. You know what I'm saying? I
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don't know what I would do if I'm Florida's defense
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schematically to, quote, unquote, give Georgia problems.
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Yeah.
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And honestly, Allie, I don't think anybody has really given
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them problems. Yeah. I mean, if you really look at it,
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they've moved the ball up and down the field all
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season long. Um, they, they are the number one team
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in about, I think nine of 10 critical statistical categories
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in this, in this conference offensively, like they have been
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phenomenal on the offensive side of the football. The only
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thing Auburn did was get three turnovers. Sure.
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Well, and I, and that's, that's basically what I'm going
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to ask you before you get out of here is,
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is the path. And, and speaking of those statistical categories,
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that's something I've looked at a lot this week. And
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something I did find interesting is that Florida is actually
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a tick more effective in the red zone than Georgia is.
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but Florida scores more field goals than Georgia does. So
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I do think that's maybe part of this, is that
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when Florida gets in the red zone, walking away with
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seven instead of three.
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But what would a Florida upset actually look like?
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You have studied both programs extensively, and I don't think
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it's likely that Florida wins. But if they walk out
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on Saturday night, why?
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Why did that happen?
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Yeah, turnovers, another inexplicably bad game from Gunnar. Um, that would,
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that would be the first thing maybe, uh, obviously getting
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Jaden ball loose and having him run and have some
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explosives there. Um, Vernel being back, getting some explosives there.
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Like the old adage in football was if we win
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the rushing battle and we win the turnover margins, we'll
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win more football games than everybody else. That is not
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the case anymore. Um, the, the new statistic is if
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we win the explosives battle, we have a larger chance
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to win than any other metric in college football. So
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You are still an explosive football team, especially now that
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you're going to be back healthy. If you can win
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the explosives without giving up too many negatives and maybe
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steal a possession or two, we're looking at a fourth
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quarter football game. And I will say this, you've been
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far more outmatched in this matchup as a Florida fan
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in the last five years, and we have only had
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a couple of snoozers. Yeah, that's true. From a coaching
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and talent standpoint, you have been teeter-tottered quite a bit,
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way worse than this matchup. You guys are in a
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much better situation than I would say you've been in
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the last four years, maybe dating all the way back
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to 2020. And it ain't like Georgia's gone in there
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and boxed your eyes out for four straight years. It's
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a rivalry game. They're going to get up. It's going
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to be all right. I'm expecting a fourth quarter football game.
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Do you have a score prediction on it?
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Yeah, I gave it out last night on our show, 31-24.
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I think Georgia's up 31-17 going into the fourth quarter.
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And you guys punch a shot and then have the
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ball maybe with a chance.
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We are pretty close.
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Mine was the 30 or 31, 27.
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I also picked Georgia, but interesting.
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All right.
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Well, I appreciate you tell everybody where they can check
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out your work. And guys, if you're watching this, you
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have to watch both breakdowns that he's done on the
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offense and on the matchup.
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They're both really, really good.
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Yeah, absolutely. At Brooks Austin BA on all social media
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and just search the film guy on YouTube. Over 135,000 subscribers.
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Very blessed. The goal is to get to 200 as
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soon as possible. Don't know when we're going to get there.
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We'll get there when we get there. All right.
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Well, I appreciate it. Thanks for joining me.
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No doubt. Be good, Allie.
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Welcome back to A Peak Inside Gator Football. I'm Allie
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Peek and Saturday the Florida Gators and the Georgia Bulldogs
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renew one of college football's great rivalries. This time it's
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happening in Atlanta and while Georgia is favored, there is
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a fascinating chess match developing between two coaches.
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Who know each other extremely well.
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Florida Offensive Coordinator Buster Faulkner and Georgia Defensive Coordinator Glenn
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Schumann Joining me today is someone who has spent a
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tremendous amount of time breaking down both sides of this
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matchup on film, Brooks Austin. You guys know him as
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the film guy. Brooks, appreciate you joining me today.
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No doubt. I'm excited for this one. I'll be in attendance.
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First time watching Florida in person all year long, and
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I'm excited for this one. I'll be on the sidelines,
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so it should be a good one.
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I'm excited too.
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I will be watching at home, taking five children trick-or-treating
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and trying to watch the game at the same time.
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But I'm excited for it.
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I really enjoyed your recent breakdown of Buster Faulkner's previous
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matchups against Georgia. And I think something that really stood
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out to me was that you clearly have a ton
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of respect for what he does schematically.
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So I'll start here.
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Does Buster Faulkner give Florida a legitimate advantage in this
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game that maybe isn't reflected in the point spread?
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There's an advantage is tough to say, but will you have,
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do you feel confident going into this because you have
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a familiarity with your opponent? 100%. This is not a
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guy that just like spent time at Georgia. He spent
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time as a quality control analyst over there at Georgia
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and for years understood like, okay, well, this is what
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they do. This is how they do it. This is
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how this defensive brainstem, this is how they see football.
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All that being said, Will Muschamp was also on that
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defensive staff, and I just got done watching the first,
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I don't know, 50 clips of that Texas matchup. I
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don't think there's been a defensive coordinator prepared for Buster
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better than Muschamp was from an alignment standpoint. He made
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him in the second half really like basically chop up
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the entire game plan and start from anew at half. Now,
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to Buster's credit, he did exactly that, found the answers
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to what they were doing to him, and ended up
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putting up enough points to win the football game. But
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there's a ton of familiarity here. Now, what I have
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a tremendous amount of respect for Buster is what I
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just alluded to. He understands, A, what the defense is doing.
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But B, how to put that into conflict and put
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it into conflict right now. All that being said, in
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order for him to do that, he's still got to
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be in third and manageable situations anytime. And that's every offense.
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But it's really an offense that has young quarterback play.
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Or when he was at Georgia Tech, an offense that
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had a quarterback deficiency from a throwing standpoint. Like say
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what you want about Haynes King, he's just not the
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best pure passer in the world. So they had to
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be in third and five or better offensively. And right
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now with the way Florida's quarterback situation is, I would
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agree with that same sentiment being applied here. We've got
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to do everything we can on first and second down
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to not only be explosive, but also make sure we're
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putting ourselves in manageable counts on third down in this
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football game if I'm Buster.
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In your breakdown, you showed how Georgia kind of adapted
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from 2023 into 2025.
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Yeah.
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Particularly how they defended that quarterback run game that you
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just talked about and that they shifted between different coverages.
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And we saw Schumann have more success against Faulkner last year.
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Do you think that that's an evolution and now he's
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kind of figured out how to defend Buster Faulkner? Or
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was that more about Georgia Tech getting beat physically up front?
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Yeah, I was going to say a couple of it. Like,
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I'll just put it this way. I think the world
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of college football has defensively has gotten much better at
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fitting quarterback counter read. They've certainly got better at fitting
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counter in general because more and more teams are running this.
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Four or five years ago, everybody was an inside zone,
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wide zone football team. And nowadays you look up and
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almost everybody's running some form of counter. The add-on to
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that is to bring jet motion and then do it
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with our quarterback where we're running counter off of that
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jet action read. That's why we call it quarterback counter read.
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So I think the world of defensive football has gotten
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much better at fitting this. And certainly Georgia's defensive line
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got much better from 23 to 25. In 2023, Krista
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Miller is a very young football player. By 2025, he
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was a late second-round draft pick, right? In 2023, Elijah
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Griffin was a junior in high school. By 2025, he
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was one of the best freshman defensive linemen we had
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in college football last year. So certainly, Georgia's defensive line
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had gotten better. C.J. Allen was a true freshman in 2023,
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playing a lot of snaps. Raylon Wilson was still a
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young football player. by 2025, those guys had played, you know,
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30 some odd games of college football. So yes, Georgia
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had gotten better in the box, but I also think
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the defensive structures of football have gotten much better at
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fitting these counter aspects. So it's why I think you've
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seen Buster rely a little bit more on stretch and
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do things like that and get into more of a,
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of a stretch play action rollout type of offensive system.
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But even that I'm worried now has a I just
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tweeted out a video of Texas linebackers. Like every time
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they were in pistol with the ball on the near hash,
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Justin Cryer, the linebacker from Texas is turning around and
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he's pantomiming.
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I actually saw that live.
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Yeah. Yeah. Those things worry me, but I was also
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tipped off to that when Eli Drinkowitz gives you a
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thumping and then post games like, yeah, I mean the more,
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the more tape they put on, the more tendencies they have,
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the more things that we expect are coming. Those things
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scare me. We have to buck those trends. We have
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to do some self-scouting, and we have to get away
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from those things that defenses are tipped off on.
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So were those things that were also tendencies of his
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Georgia Tech offense that we either, A, didn't pick up on,
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or B, do you think maybe overlooked because it was
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Georgia Tech as opposed to Florida?
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Don't want to be demeaning to Georgia Tech, but certainly not.
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I mean, Georgia Tech was never maybe possibly not really
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compared to 2019 LSU, but that never happened with those guys.
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You know what I mean? So you were a bit
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more of a threat to the world of college football.
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You were certainly more of a threat to better defenses
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that have to play you and have you on the schedule.
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they knew– The tip, I don't think I've ever seen
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them on tape show that they knew the tip. They
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just reacted. And that would be the only team that
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I know year over year faced them every year other
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than Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh boxed them up pretty good a couple
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years ago. NC State got them pretty good a couple
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years ago. There are certain ACC teams that saw Buster
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time and time again. But again, I didn't see anything
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as absolutely, oh my God, he knows what's about to
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happen again. As I've seen on, on Texas tape and,
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and some of these coaches like you, I drink with
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post game. I haven't seen any of that yet.
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So, you know, we talk about offensive tendencies. Let's talk
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about defensive tendencies. If you're Buster and I know this
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Georgia defense is, is really good, but is there something
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You know, Keith Niebuhr actually asked me this earlier in
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the week, and I basically told him, like, Buster seems
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to attack individual matchups against Georgia in the three previous matchups. Like,
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it's very clear if you sit there and watch Georgia
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Tech football against Georgia the last three years, he was, like,
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circling one football player on critical downs and trying to
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hit explosives, right? In 2023, I felt like it was
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Tykee Smith In 2024, I felt like it was Dan Jackson.
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And then in 2025, they never really got an opportunity
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to hunt. They were constantly in tough situations, whether it
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be due to penalties or due to TFLs or due
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to sacks. They just weren't able to get into these
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counts to be able to be aggressive. And in this
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football season, the only guy in the defensive backfield that
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I would look at and I would say from Georgia,
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that's obviously the guy we need to go after. It's
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Jamello Jones. Um, number eight, the corner, I would, I
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would say that would be the guy that I'd be
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going after. Um, I don't think I would hunt after
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Ellis Robinson. He's bound to make some miraculous play. Um,
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I KJ Barnes, Khalil Barnes has been really good. Most
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of the year, I would argue he had his worst
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performance against Auburn, but that was from a tackling perspective. Um,
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and I don't know if you guys have anybody that
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is like Byron Brown. Now you do have a Jane ball.
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And that's great. I would get him the rock, and
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that's obvious. Everybody knows that. You don't have to be
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a ball knower to know that 13's got to get
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loose for Florida to win this football game. But you
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could possibly get on top of Khalil if Eric Singleton's healthy.
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I would use Dallas Wilson to attack DeMello, and then
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I would try to get the nickel with speed by
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doing that with Eric Singleton, assuming everybody's healthy. And obviously Trammell,
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if he's healthy. Or not Trammell, Vernell. If Vernell's healthy,
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like that, that adds a whole different.
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Type of x factor to this offense And we'll get
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to him being back in a minute. I do think
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Florida's going to be at full capacity for wide receiver,
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which is going to be the first time that's happened
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five plays into the FAU game.
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But one of the things.
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That stood out to me about your preview was that
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Florida's offensive line had looked like a potential Joe Moore
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award contender earlier.
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In the year.
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And then things really changed against Missouri and South Carolina.
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And I think when we talked over the summer at
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SEC Media Days, we spent a lot of time talking
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about this offensive line and talking about how kind of
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the ceiling of this offense depended on how well they
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came together. And you mentioned in your preview wanting to
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figure out what was behind the drop-off. And, you know,
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do you think the competition's figured out how to defend
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Florida's run game? Or did something fundamentally change with the
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offensive line?
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I wouldn't say there was fundamental changes. I would say
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level of competition has certainly changed. Like, it's just the
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reality of the situation is y'all played really good defenses
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as of late, too. Missouri, if anybody knows how to
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stop the stretch run game, it's Eli Drinkowitz. Reason being,
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they've ran it better than anybody else in this conference
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for four or five years. He knew what was going
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on there. Texas is just really freaking good. I know
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that's breaking news, but they're just a great defense.
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The Gators actually did better against them.
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They did. I think a lot of that had to
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do with finding new ways to run the football. I'm
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going to show some of that tomorrow. I just, like
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I said, just got done watching the first half of
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that football game, and we're going to be breaking that
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down on our channel tomorrow morning. But just newer run schemes,
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like you're still bad at running stretch. They still got
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the face off of that. So the 88 yards from
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ball had to be found somewhere else. I'll find them.
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I'll figure out where they were. And I think it
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was a lot, like I said, of newer run schemes.
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the responsibilities of read option. It looks like the quarterback's
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actually going to be running a zone to the boundary,
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and they're going to let the running back be like
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what would be a read option quarterback keep. It's funny.
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He's doing different things because he's got to now to
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establish the run and get back to being able to
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run the football. I think the reality is you face
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really good defenses, but there has been a level of
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you've been whipped. Like I felt like, like Missouri did
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some schematical stuff to give you problems, but bottom line,
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they brought the fight and punched you in the chin
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and you weren't ready. You weren't, you weren't ready for
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the punch and you definitely did not punch back. Um,
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so I think there's a, there's some realities there as well.
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It's like, we've got to match the energy. Which I
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think they got right.
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Last week, but just didn't get right the weeks before.
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So fixing it, moving forward, doing what you can do.
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I mean, obviously there's some pieces you're going to have
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to get into the portal or you're going to have
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to develop from high school.
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There's not a quick fix there.
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But is there a way to win some individual matchups
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or like scheme slightly differently to put a bandaid on
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it through the rest of the year? Yeah.
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I mean, I would go the route of like, give
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them a variety of fits. Basically what I'm alluding to,
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I think I'm going to find in the second half
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of that Texas game to find running success. Like I
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would imagine y'all just threw the kitchen sink at them.
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And if that's the case, instead of being like a
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like we're going to run stretch and we're going to
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run counter. Well, we're going to give them five different
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looks on a 12 play drive. And now they've got
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to fit all five correctly. And if they don't, we're
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going to spit one that that would be the approach
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that I would take. Like if we're not good enough
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to physically go out and just beat people man to man.
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then we need to be a little bit more diverse
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in our run schemes. And I think that's the thing
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that Buster is known for. When I study him, when
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I talk to people in the football world about like,
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what do you connote with Buster? And the number one
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word I hear the most is volume. Like the amount
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of things that we're going to give you, right? The
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amount of things that we're going to have to prepare for,
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the amount of things that we're going to have to fit.
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Because that's what stopping runs are. It's making sure we
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have a body in all the gaps. We have to
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fit it properly. and the more and more volume we
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throw at defenses, the more there's a likelihood that they
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will misfit a run. So that would be my immediate answer,
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but that's a lot easier said than done because then
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we become like the old master of none thing where
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we're not really good at anything, but we're doing a
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lot of it, and we're doing a lot of it poorly.
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That's not necessarily a great recipe for success, but I
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would go the volume route because Jaden is that individually excellent.
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Even if we don't block it up perfectly and we
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let somebody loose, it's okay. 13 is going to take
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care of us. What we can't do is have five
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guys get put in the backfield.
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Well, and, you know, Jaden Baugh is kind of where
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I want to go next on this. Against Georgia's front,
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is Florida capable of consistently running the football? I mean,
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I look at his game against Texas and Quietly, almost
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100 yards. Nothing that was so overly impressive.
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No explosives, truly.
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Nothing that stood out in the way that he stood
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out in some of his previous games. But it is
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what allowed the offense to move the chains and to
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put points on the board. Do you have to manufacture
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those rushing yards in unconventional ways?
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What do you do with Ba against Georgia?
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I'll say this. Georgia's a really good defense. To me,
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they're a top five, top ten defense in the sport
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right now. But it's not like they're the 85 bears
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in the run department exactly at the moment. I'm not
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a box score guy, but look at the box scores.
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They've given up over 100 yards rushing four out of
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their eight games this year. It's not like they're going
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out there and holding everybody. Allie, there was a stretch
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of Georgia football. where they went 24 games in a
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row without allowing 100 yards, not to a single rusher,
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to a team. Wow. From late 2018 when Jordan Davis
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got implemented at the nose tackle position all the way
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until he left, they did not allow 100 yards to
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a single football team. They're not that anymore, but they
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are still really tough to down-to-down beat. That being said,
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Alabama creased them. Once or twice, Treshawn Brown got loose
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for a 58-yarder. I think it was a busted assignment,
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but I'm not in the room. But let's say Alabama
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got him once with a 58-yard explosive. Byron Brown is
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individually excellent. That's what I think that is. I think
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Byron Brown, every once in a while, well, four out
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of his five SEC games this year, he's rushed for
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over 100 yards. He's getting everybody. So there's that. Western
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Kentucky got him, but I think Western Kentucky was just
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trying to run the ball. because they were trying to
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get the hell out of there and still gave up
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70 points. So there has been some success on the
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ground so far this year. So yeah, there is a
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recipe where we look up and Florida's got, they don't
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need to rush for 200, but if they get 140
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yards on the ground, they've now created balance offensively. It's
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also the reason why, and I think Philo is the
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much better thrower of the football. I think he elevates
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the offense from a play action passing standpoint. He's much
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better in the pocket under pressure. But from a variety
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of run game that we talked about earlier, the answer
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is undoubtedly Trammell. He provides a little bit more of
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an explosive metric there and it opens more doors for
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Buster to get a little bit more creative in his
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run packages than Philo does. Philo is a north and
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south runner. He is a three yards and cloud of
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dust runner. That's not exactly going to work. against a
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Georgia defense that that's what they want you to do.
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Georgia wants you, Georgia dares you to go 18 plays
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on drives. It's like, you're going to inevitably mess up
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or we're going to beat you at some point. That's
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been their defensive MO since day one under Kirby Smart.
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And we're a decade into this.
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This is a really interesting quarterback conversation, I think. And
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Florida fan base has been having it like ad nauseum on.
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Social media this week.
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And I think it it appears that the fan base
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does kind of side with you there. They favor Trammell Jones.
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And I don't know if that's because they actually think
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he's the better matchup or if they have the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately
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syndrome where they see 1-0 against Texas. And I do
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think it's important to note that Philo went 4-0 in
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his first four. But one of the things we've seen suggested,
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Steve Spurrier is actually who suggested it first, but could
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a two-quarterback approach actually– create problems for Georgia's defense or
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do you think that it's a bigger risk to disrupting
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Florida's offensive rhythm and that these guys maybe have too
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similar of a skill set to to rotate them I've I've.
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Never been a look Steve Spurrier has forgotten more football
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than I'll ever even venture to learn in my life
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so but I personally have never been a fan of
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the two quarterback system I've always believed that if you're
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playing two quarterbacks, you have no quarterback.
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Which he's also said at points in his career too.
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Yeah, so that's always been my adage on that. And
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having been a player myself, the idea of working myself
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into a flow of the football game is impossible, especially
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if I'm a quarterback. It's one thing if I'm a
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center or an offensive tackle and I'm in every other drive.
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I'm a quarterback and it's just like, well, he's had
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two good drives in a row, so he's going to
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get a third one. But if he sucks on the
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third one, don't worry, you're coming back in like that.
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That bothers me. I would I would have a problem
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getting into a flow. But from are they going to
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be prepared? Is it one more thing you have to
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throw into them? I think the the idea that you
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have a name to starter and that every time John
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gets in front of a microphone, he's like, well, they're
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both hurt and they're both going to play. But we're
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not going to play two quarterbacks. but we might have
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to play them both I think that alone has already
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done its job of making Georgia's defensive staff prepare for
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both yeah we've already done the job the job when
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we do that in my mind from a football's perspective
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is like we just want to soak up like 30
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hours of prep for them to make sure that they
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have to prepare for the other guy And if we
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just get that done, that's a win. We put that
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in the win column from a preparation and time management standpoint.
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We are probably going to see all of Florida's offensive
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weapons healthy and available for the first time since the
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first series in FAU.
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You have talked about.
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The combination of Singleton and Brown and Wilson and how
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much Faulkner uses the screen game to create explosive opportunities.
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How much does that offense change? when all three of
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those guys are available?
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And does it create a matchup where they could exploit
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something in Georgia's secondary?
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Yeah, I mean, certainly. Now, look, here's the deal. I
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think there are five NFL wide receivers in this football game.
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I think Georgia's got two of them, Talon Taylor and
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Craig Dangerous. I think you guys got three of them.
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So what breaks? What gets, right? The difference is I
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think Georgia's got three NFL defensive backs. Ellis Robinson, KJ Bolden,
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we'll see if he's fully healthy, and Kahlil Barnes. I
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don't know how many pro defensive backs Florida has. It
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looks to me performance-wise like they don't have too many.
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So something's going to give there. I think the ultimate
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thing is we've got to tackle. I think they're going
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to get theirs is what I'm saying. Who tackles in
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the open field will ultimately probably decide the overall output.
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of these wide receivers. There's no doubt. It's one thing
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we talked about last night on our preview is just like,
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I'm scared to death. I'm scared to death of these
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wide receivers on both sides of the football. They're all really,
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really freaking good. And this is the first time Georgia's
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been in this category in a very long time. I
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would say four or five years since they've had, you know,
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two really, really good wide receivers.
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We talked about you know, the positives and the negatives
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to Jones and to Philo. Do you think, because we
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were told that the reason that Philo won the starting
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job to begin with is in large part due to
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having a larger grasp on the offense, is there a
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chapter of the playbook that's never been opened because we
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haven't had all three top targets and Baugh available, and
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that makes you potentially lean Philo? Because if it's understanding
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the offense.
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No. No. No, I don't think they're going to magically
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reinvent the wheel offensively here now that they're healthy. Also
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because they were healthy during fall camp where we installed
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most of our work.
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Sure.
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If an offensive playbook is 100 pages long, by the
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time spring rolls around, summer installations happen, fall camp happens,
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we should have about 90 of those 100 pages ready
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to go. They should have been practiced, repped. like understood
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we've got full grasp of it the last 10 are
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in-season adjustments week-to-week tweaks that we have to like change
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pictures of hey maybe we like this match up a
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little bit more so here's how we're going to exploit
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this hey this is a covered three football team so
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we're going to do certain things to to create problems
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here the bulk of the work is already done from
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a this is what we do standpoint so I don't
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think much is going to change other than hopefully for
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Florida fans' sake, is the overall output of the offense, right?
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Eric has been in and out, and the performance and
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the output of him has been, I think, directly relative
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to how well he feels. Sure. But I think the offense,
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like this offense's inability to get back into third and
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four has been directly impacted by Vernell not being there.
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By the way, with my football brain, the Vernell-Tramel thing
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is throwing me into an absolute corkscrew. Tremel or Vernel
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said it again, Vernel's ability to catch the football and
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take off right now. Um, and not just go get
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seven yards, but maybe take it 70, um, has made
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deep when he's healthy, it's made defenses completely changed the pictures. Um,
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and that's opened up a lot of other things. So
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having him back, I think is the most important thing
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here for this offense.
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We've talked, you know, at nauseam about Faulkner and Schumann's
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relationship and their familiarity with each other. But there is
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a lot of familiarity between Mike Bobo and Brad White
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as well.
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And you mentioned that in your video.
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And you mentioned Bobo's ability to attack defenses that struggle
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passing off receivers in zone coverage. Knowing what you've seen
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from Florida's secondary this year and, you know, what we've
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talked about the last few minutes, how do you expect
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Bobo to attack the Gators? And is it just absolutely
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exploiting that secondary? And what could Brad White do differently
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to keep Georgia from finding explosive plays?
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I mean, to me, the answer or the Band-Aid for
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the back end against Texas was, well, we're just going
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to hit the shit out of the quarterback. That's what
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we're going to do. And if you watch the, and
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we did, if you watch the Florida film or the
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Texas film, Texas offense versus Florida's defense, it wasn't like
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dudes weren't still running open. The quarterback just wasn't hitting them.
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And while the quarterback was getting hit, it made him
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very uncomfortable. So you added in a lot of pressures
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you got after the quarterback. I don't know if that's
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going to be a recipe for success against Georgia. A,
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I think they're ninth in the country in sacks allowed.
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They've only allowed eight sacks all year. B, Gunner Stockton
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gets the ball out of his hands really well. C,
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they're a play-action rollout football team just like you are.
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So we call it manipulating the launch point. Where the
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quarterback is now ain't going to be where he's designed
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to throw the football from, so it's not like we
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can hone in the pressures on one spot. And C,
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I think I'm at C, maybe D, D, Gunnar Stockton
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is the lead against the Blitz. I mean, since the
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guy's been in the lineup, dating back to even the
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Texas matchup in the SEC championship game, the last thing
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you want to do to number 14 is Blitz him.
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He's way too smart. He's played way too much football
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at this point. He understands where the pressures are coming from,
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thus understands the defense that you're in and where you're
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vulnerable at then. So, yeah, I don't know what Gibbs
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there from Florida defensively. I guess just hope you get
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some turnovers and hope you can make them one-dimensional, get
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them behind the chains, get them in automatic passing downs.
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Those are the basic-ass analysis points that we have to
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give when we really don't know what the advantage is defensively. Oh, well,
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let's shut them down in the run game. Okay, easier
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said than done. Let's get them in third and long. Okay,
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easier said than done. You know what I'm saying? I
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don't know what I would do if I'm Florida's defense
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schematically to, quote, unquote, give Georgia problems.
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Yeah.
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And honestly, Allie, I don't think anybody has really given
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them problems. Yeah. I mean, if you really look at it,
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they've moved the ball up and down the field all
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season long. Um, they, they are the number one team
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in about, I think nine of 10 critical statistical categories
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in this, in this conference offensively, like they have been
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phenomenal on the offensive side of the football. The only
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thing Auburn did was get three turnovers. Sure.
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Well, and I, and that's, that's basically what I'm going
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to ask you before you get out of here is,
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is the path. And, and speaking of those statistical categories,
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that's something I've looked at a lot this week. And
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something I did find interesting is that Florida is actually
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a tick more effective in the red zone than Georgia is.
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but Florida scores more field goals than Georgia does. So
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I do think that's maybe part of this, is that
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when Florida gets in the red zone, walking away with
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seven instead of three.
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But what would a Florida upset actually look like?
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You have studied both programs extensively, and I don't think
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it's likely that Florida wins. But if they walk out
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on Saturday night, why?
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Why did that happen?
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Yeah, turnovers, another inexplicably bad game from Gunnar. Um, that would,
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that would be the first thing maybe, uh, obviously getting
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Jaden ball loose and having him run and have some
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explosives there. Um, Vernel being back, getting some explosives there.
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Like the old adage in football was if we win
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the rushing battle and we win the turnover margins, we'll
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win more football games than everybody else. That is not
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the case anymore. Um, the, the new statistic is if
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we win the explosives battle, we have a larger chance
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to win than any other metric in college football. So
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You are still an explosive football team, especially now that
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you're going to be back healthy. If you can win
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the explosives without giving up too many negatives and maybe
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steal a possession or two, we're looking at a fourth
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quarter football game. And I will say this, you've been
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far more outmatched in this matchup as a Florida fan
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in the last five years, and we have only had
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a couple of snoozers. Yeah, that's true. From a coaching
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and talent standpoint, you have been teeter-tottered quite a bit,
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way worse than this matchup. You guys are in a
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much better situation than I would say you've been in
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the last four years, maybe dating all the way back
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to 2020. And it ain't like Georgia's gone in there
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and boxed your eyes out for four straight years. It's
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a rivalry game. They're going to get up. It's going
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to be all right. I'm expecting a fourth quarter football game.
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Do you have a score prediction on it?
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Yeah, I gave it out last night on our show, 31-24.
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I think Georgia's up 31-17 going into the fourth quarter.
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And you guys punch a shot and then have the
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ball maybe with a chance.
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We are pretty close.
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Mine was the 30 or 31, 27.
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I also picked Georgia, but interesting.
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All right.
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Well, I appreciate you tell everybody where they can check
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out your work. And guys, if you're watching this, you
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have to watch both breakdowns that he's done on the
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offense and on the matchup.
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They're both really, really good.
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Yeah, absolutely. At Brooks Austin BA on all social media
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and just search the film guy on YouTube. Over 135,000 subscribers.
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Very blessed. The goal is to get to 200 as
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soon as possible. Don't know when we're going to get there.
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We'll get there when we get there. All right.
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Well, I appreciate it. Thanks for joining me.
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No doubt. Be good, Allie.
