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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to A Peek Inside Gator Football. Allie Peek here,
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  Speaker 1: joined today by Jerry Hamilton of On Texas Football. Really
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  Speaker 1: excited to get into this Florida-Texas matchup. This video is
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  Speaker 1: we have a lot to talk about. It's been since
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  Speaker 1: the summer, and let's start a little bit big picture.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys were sitting... at number one in the country,
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  Speaker 1: really gritty win against Ohio State, and now you've lost
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  Speaker 1: to Oklahoma, last-second field goal.
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  Speaker 2: That was a heartbreaker.
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  Speaker 1: And I know anything can happen in rivalry games, so
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  Speaker 1: I think when we were looking at that matchup and
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  Speaker 1: we were saying Texas is so much better than Oklahoma–
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that that matters as much in that
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  Speaker 1: matchup as it does when you're playing somebody else who
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  Speaker 1: you are better than. But when you look at this
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  Speaker 1: Longhorns team right now, how different is it from the
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  Speaker 1: team that everybody expected to see coming into the season?
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  Speaker 2: Or do you.
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  Speaker 1: Really chalk up last week truly to it being a
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  Speaker 1: longstanding rivalry?
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  Speaker 2: Are people concerned in Austin? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, people are concerned.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Texas is only playing well in one of three
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  Speaker 4: phases right now, and that's defensive.
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  Speaker 3: Football under Will Muschamp.
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  Speaker 4: Special teams has been disastrous at Tennessee and then off
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  Speaker 4: by week and then the pump block at Oklahoma for
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  Speaker 4: their only score in the first half. And the offense
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  Speaker 4: has continued to sputter. Arch really struggled in the Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 3: Game when it mattered.
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  Speaker 4: So there's a lot of concern amongst Texas fans.
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  Speaker 3: I would say where the.
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  Speaker 4: Concern lies is more offense than special teams. But, Allie,
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  Speaker 4: it's 1A and 1B. There's not much distance here between
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  Speaker 4: 1A and 1B. So I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: concern right now because I think kind of how the
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  Speaker 4: Oklahoma game played out, you could kind of see coming
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  Speaker 4: if you were paying attention, even in the win over
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  Speaker 4: Texas State from an Arch Manning standpoint. Obviously, the three
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  Speaker 4: and outs, the offensive struggles, really good defensive coordinators, but
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  Speaker 4: then the special teams. You could see it coming, but
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  Speaker 4: with that said, Oklahoma had not played well this year.
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  Speaker 4: John Materich struggled. Defensively, Oklahoma's tremendous. Brent Venables is great.
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  Speaker 4: He's a great defensive coordinator. With that being said, that
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  Speaker 4: was a bad loss for Texas. Credit Oklahoma, but still
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  Speaker 4: from the Texas perspective, that was a bad loss. It
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  Speaker 4: was made worse by who you lost to, obviously, in
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  Speaker 4: a rivalry game and the way you lost it.
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  Speaker 1: So as much as I want to talk special teams,
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  Speaker 1: because I do, but I want to start with Arch.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he is one of the biggest names in
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  Speaker 1: college football, and we have seen some inconsistency from him.
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  Speaker 1: He threw three touchdowns against Oklahoma, but those two fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter interceptions were so costly. And, you know, we watched
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  Speaker 1: Sartre get on the microphone this week and talk about
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  Speaker 1: if his name on the back of the jersey was different,
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  Speaker 1: we wouldn't be having this conversation. how would you evaluate
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  Speaker 1: his season so far? Is he playing below expectations or
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  Speaker 1: do you think that the most of the issues are
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  Speaker 1: actually around him?
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  Speaker 4: No, look, I think there's issues around him, but I
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  Speaker 4: do think he hasn't progressed the way people had hoped.
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  Speaker 4: And I always preface this by saying I'm a big
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  Speaker 4: fan of Arch Manning. I think he does amazing things
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  Speaker 4: for university and He always.
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  Speaker 3: Stands up in front of the press and answers the
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  Speaker 3: tough questions.
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  Speaker 4: He's always there. He represents the university really, really well.
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  Speaker 3: And I always start off with that. And he lives
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  Speaker 3: in a fishbowl.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 100%.
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  Speaker 4: But then you have to get to reality. You have
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  Speaker 4: to give him credit for who he is.
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  Speaker 3: Sure. Then we have to come to the reality. And
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  Speaker 3: I've said this. Some of the things that showed up
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  Speaker 3: in the Oklahoma game when it.
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  Speaker 4: Mattered most were there earlier in the season when games
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  Speaker 4: weren't in doubt. And I've been taking people back to
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  Speaker 4: the Texas State game at the end of the first half.
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  Speaker 3: You're up 28-7. It's an inferior opponent.
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  Speaker 4: But coming out of a timeout to end the half,
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  Speaker 4: you came out of a timeout, you had an incompletion
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  Speaker 4: in the wing go, then it's one play kick a
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  Speaker 4: field goal if you don't get into the end zone.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a long-winded answer to your question, but I
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  Speaker 4: think it matters, is that ball was– he threw a
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  Speaker 4: ball in the triple coverage for an interception in the half.
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  Speaker 4: And a ball– and a throw that you just can't
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  Speaker 4: really make as a quarterback, and now you're in year two.
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  Speaker 4: That was start 16 for him, 15 or 16. That
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  Speaker 4: wasn't like valuing the ball, valuing the momentum, valuing the moment.
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  Speaker 4: In making that split-second decision to say, I'm throwing the
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  Speaker 4: ball away, we're going to take three points, that's the
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  Speaker 4: correct football play, and we get the ball to start
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  Speaker 4: the second half.
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  Speaker 3: Not like the game was in doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But then you saw the pick six against Oklahoma. And
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  Speaker 3: those decisions.
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  Speaker 4: That you don't make that should be part of your
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  Speaker 4: development come home and roost if they don't end up
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  Speaker 4: being part of your development down the road. And there
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  Speaker 4: was plays earlier this season where he took a sack,
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  Speaker 4: and he's three, four yards outside the tackle box. And
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  Speaker 4: was it a meaningless game against a Texas State when
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  Speaker 4: you're up 35-7?
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  Speaker 3: Sure. Right.
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  Speaker 4: But if that ball's not thrown away there, why would
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  Speaker 4: you think it's going to be thrown away under duress
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  Speaker 4: when it's really chaotic in a win-or-lose type of situation?
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  Speaker 4: He's had really good moments. Some of it hasn't all
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  Speaker 4: been on him. Ohio State, Cam Coleman– Probably he's a
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  Speaker 4: touchdown if he doesn't fall.
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  Speaker 3: Ryan Wingo drops a touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't want to put everything on him, but
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  Speaker 4: I hear for instances this season, Allie, that if you
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  Speaker 4: were really paying attention and there's some head-scratching plays, like
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  Speaker 4: beyond flag for being beyond the line of scrimmage twice
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  Speaker 4: in the Tennessee game.
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen that happen twice.
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  Speaker 4: And then it also happened to UTSA the week before.
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen it happen in back-to-back games. So there
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  Speaker 4: was just so many head-scratching moments that you're like, you're
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  Speaker 4: kind of like, here, put your seatbelt on and let's
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  Speaker 4: see what happens when this gets to talent neutralized situations,
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  Speaker 4: neutral or road. And so I don't think I've seen
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  Speaker 4: the progression. And I think I speak for a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people that you'd hope to see.
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  Speaker 3: And you still have those inconsistencies. You have too many
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  Speaker 3: head-scratching plays. That's where I'm at on Arch right now.
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  Speaker 1: so let's look at what we've got for this game.
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  Speaker 1: I and Jaden Baugh is sitting at 78 and.
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  Speaker 2: A half rushing yards. I'm going to take the more
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  Speaker 2: on that.
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  Speaker 1: I think that he finally gets, gets going a little
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  Speaker 1: bit this week, which maybe is fool's gold against.
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  Speaker 2: Texas, but, but I'm going to, I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: for it. I'm feeling lucky.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also going to take the more on Jaden Baugh
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  Speaker 1: at 0.5 anytime touchdowns. I'm going to take the more
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  Speaker 1: as well on Dallas Wilson, 43 and a half receiving yards.
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  Speaker 1: And then let's pair that. Let's pair that with Cam Coleman.
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  Speaker 1: So Gator fans are going to relate to this because
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  Speaker 1: I feel like those are some of the things we
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  Speaker 1: said during the first four games that even though Florida
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  Speaker 1: was winning, not with our quarterback, but just our situation
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  Speaker 1: in general, is that like we've done some things that
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  Speaker 1: are going to bite us later on. And we probably
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  Speaker 1: could have foreseen some of the issues that they're going through,
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  Speaker 1: at least defensively, had we been paying attention more the
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  Speaker 1: first four. You know, you mentioned those sacks and they
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  Speaker 1: did take six sacks in the Oklahoma game. Florida's offensive
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  Speaker 1: line has struggled tremendously the last two weeks, and Texas
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  Speaker 1: seems to be having some of its own issues. What
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  Speaker 1: is happening up front for the Longhorns, and how vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: is that offensive line?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think this one's more twofold, if not threefold.
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  Speaker 4: So I think Texas, on the offensive front itself, they
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  Speaker 4: played some really good players.
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  Speaker 3: Like, David Stone's really good. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Xavier Gillum at Tennessee is really good. Ohio State has
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  Speaker 4: good players. So there's pieces of it where, okay, you've
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  Speaker 4: lost some one-on-one matchups, right? There's pieces of it where
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  Speaker 4: you're losing too many matchups, maybe at center, potentially at
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  Speaker 4: right tackle right now. So there's instances where, okay, it's
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  Speaker 4: been really good players you've played against, so you always
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  Speaker 4: need to tip your cap to other really good players
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  Speaker 4: who are going to win some matchups. Then it comes
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  Speaker 4: down to, okay, from an execution standpoint, where did where
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  Speaker 4: are your issues coming from on the offensive line?
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  Speaker 3: And there are issues there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Because you gave six sacks against Tennessee as well. Then
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  Speaker 4: the third part of that is Arch has taken some
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  Speaker 4: sacks that he shouldn't be taking. There was two against
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  Speaker 4: Oklahoma where he steps up in the clean pocket and
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  Speaker 4: he takes away his vision of a receiver that ends
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  Speaker 4: up being open as the route develops.
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  Speaker 3: Then he tries to back out. Then it's over at
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  Speaker 3: that point. You stepped up into a clean pocket when
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  Speaker 3: you didn't need to step up. Then there was a sack...
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  Speaker 3: that was given up by.
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  Speaker 4: All SEC offensive tackle Trevor Goosby technically, but it really
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  Speaker 4: should have never happened. It was a three-man route to
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  Speaker 4: the boundary side, and Cam Coleman was just running the
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  Speaker 4: safety out of the play and the corner out of
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  Speaker 4: the play. So it's a two-man progression, and one of
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  Speaker 4: those was a hot route to the running back on
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  Speaker 4: a little middle crosser route right in front of the backers.
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  Speaker 4: That play was there, and he didn't take it, and
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  Speaker 4: Arch didn't look back left. There was nobody on the
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  Speaker 4: left side of the field. This was a right side,
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  Speaker 4: boundary side, two progression read.
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  Speaker 3: And he hesitates.
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  Speaker 4: He pumps the ball, pumps the ball, looks left. There's
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  Speaker 4: nowhere to go left, so he takes a sack. So
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  Speaker 4: there's been instances.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a long-winded answer, but sometimes they have
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  Speaker 3: to be, Allie. It's multiple reasons for that.
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  Speaker 4: But I do always want to give who you play
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  Speaker 4: some of those players credit to.
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  Speaker 3: They deserve it.
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  Speaker 4: There's good players in the SEC, and these guys are
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  Speaker 4: NFL draft picks, but I think Texas, here's where I
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  Speaker 4: think Texas has been vulnerable, is disguised blitzes with linebackers.
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  Speaker 4: That's been something that UTSA deployed, and I think you've
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  Speaker 4: seen Tennessee kind of incorporate that, and Brent Venables is
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  Speaker 4: really good at a lot of ghost pressures and some
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  Speaker 4: late movement pressures, and I think a lot of the
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  Speaker 4: pressures have been created in the last, changing alignments inside
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  Speaker 4: 10 seconds on the play clock or before the ball snapped.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit more about the talent Texas
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  Speaker 1: has offensively. I mean, it should be one of the
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  Speaker 1: best offenses in the SEC if you're looking at talent composition.
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  Speaker 1: And Sark has always been regarded as one of the
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  Speaker 1: best offensive minds in college football. The offense hasn't looked
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  Speaker 1: consistently explosive, and it's for all the reasons that we
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  Speaker 1: just talked about. But how much of that falls on
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  Speaker 1: Sark and his play calling versus just simply not executing
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  Speaker 1: by the personnel?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's a little bit of all of it,
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  Speaker 4: but obviously everything eventually falls to the feet of.
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  Speaker 3: The head coach.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, so the reality, he's the head coach of
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  Speaker 4: the University of Texas, and he's had really good success
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  Speaker 4: at Texas. I mean, two straight playoffs, semifinals, last year
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  Speaker 4: even a 10-win season, even though the season didn't, go
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  Speaker 4: as you'd hoped or planned so I think there's a
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  Speaker 4: it goes around to a few things here.
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  Speaker 3: One of my things in.
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  Speaker 4: Terms of play calling is commitment to run and commitment
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  Speaker 4: to physical run game I think there's commitment to physical
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  Speaker 4: run game I think there's a willingness to say okay
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  Speaker 4: it's two and three yard gains there you may get
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  Speaker 4: stoned on a couple of them you may have an
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  Speaker 4: explosive run I think there's always going to be that
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  Speaker 4: question because a stat popped up, Allie, during the Notre
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  Speaker 4: Dame-North Carolina game. I was just flipping through the channels.
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  Speaker 4: The last 22 national champions, 22 years in a row,
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  Speaker 4: have averaged 160 rushing yards or more per game.
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  Speaker 3: That's not a two- or three-year trend.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking 22 national champions.
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  Speaker 3: Texas won 40s.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting. Yards per rush, rushing yards per game have gone
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  Speaker 4: down consistently the last four years. So there's a physicality
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  Speaker 4: problem weaved in there, I think, in the run game
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  Speaker 4: and wide receivers. Like Cam Coleman is not playing physical football,
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  Speaker 4: not blocking on the edge, not playing through contact.
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  Speaker 3: There's been some of that, so it's not just on
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  Speaker 3: one position.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it's a little bit of everything, but
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  Speaker 4: I think in the run games, I think there's some.
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  Speaker 3: Issues that have to be addressed because if you can't
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  Speaker 3: run the football well enough in.
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  Speaker 4: This league or consistent enough in this league, and I
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  Speaker 4: think with physicality to start, I'm not sure you ever
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  Speaker 4: get to the end line of where you want to go. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Florida's defense has been a major disappointment the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Surely it hasn't been good all six weeks, but it
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  Speaker 1: really was on full display the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: The Gators have struggled.
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  Speaker 1: With tackling and explosive plays and getting off the field
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  Speaker 1: on third down, I think, more than anything. If you
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  Speaker 1: are Sark and you're watching that Missouri and that South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina film, what are you looking to exploit? And is
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  Speaker 1: this a matchup potentially that Texas maybe needs to get
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  Speaker 1: its offense going?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I do think this, and look, it'll probably come
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  Speaker 4: back and bite me for saying this on air, but Florida,
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  Speaker 4: I think, is what, 109 in the country in total defense. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Ole Miss is, I think, 108. Mississippi State's around 195, 96,
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  Speaker 4: in those ranges.
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  Speaker 3: I could be off by two or three. But Florida
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  Speaker 3: has struggled defending the pass. Obviously, we all know that.
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  Speaker 4: I think they give up 290 yards passing a game.
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  Speaker 4: Byron Brown, Lenora Sellers, some guys have had– Austin Simmons
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  Speaker 4: have had their best games passing the football against Florida
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  Speaker 4: this year.
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  Speaker 3: So what do you have to do?
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  Speaker 4: It kind of goes back to one of your questions earlier.
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  Speaker 4: Pass protection is– key for Texas in this game you
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  Speaker 4: have to be able to establish a run but Jaden
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  Speaker 4: Woods I can't remember the big the big kid off
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  Speaker 4: the edge 99 yeah there's two I think Jaden Woods
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  Speaker 4: is gonna be a first round pick one day they
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  Speaker 4: have two solid edge guys but can they create pressure
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  Speaker 4: consistently with their front four I think for Florida is
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  Speaker 4: kind of my question and if Texas can pass pro
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  Speaker 4: and obviously your.
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  Speaker 3: Goal is not to be in third and ten but
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  Speaker 3: if you can pass pro and you can hold up
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  Speaker 3: and pass pro.
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  Speaker 4: If you can force Florida to bring the extra hat
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  Speaker 4: or two to get pressure, a six-man pressure, if you
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  Speaker 4: can force that, then I think you can win down
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  Speaker 4: the field and win some battles where I think you've
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  Speaker 4: seen there's enough tape right now to say, okay, here's
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  Speaker 4: some places you can attack, but you've got to get
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  Speaker 4: it to where Florida doesn't win with four, so you've
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  Speaker 4: got to pass pro well enough five on four. Then
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  Speaker 4: you've got to get them to bring the numbers. I
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  Speaker 4: think if you can get Florida to bring the numbers,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to have some really good opportunities for success.
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  Speaker 4: Then it comes down to Arch seeing it, get the
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  Speaker 4: ball out of his hand with the correct timing.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what I say.
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  Speaker 4: But it almost always starts with the run, too. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you've got to force the.
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  Speaker 3: Extra hat in the box.
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  Speaker 4: And you can't play against a light. If you can't
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  Speaker 4: run against a light box, then you've got issues. But
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  Speaker 4: that's the big one for me is you've got to
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  Speaker 4: get Florida to bring a six-man pressure. And if you
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  Speaker 4: can get Florida to bring six-man pressures, I think Texas
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  Speaker 4: will find some opportunities in the passing game because I
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: think that's kind of been proven out.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Let's flip and talk about the other side of the ball.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Texas has been really impressive defensively. They allow about 265
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: yards per game. What makes this defense so effective, and
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: who are the two or three players Florida fans really
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: need to know their name heading into Saturday?
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously number one is Colin Simmons.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: Florida fans may know it for the right reasons or
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: the wrong reasons after Tennessee.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: But he's the best pass rusher in the country. I mean, look,
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: I think Prince Will, Eumann Emelian is really good.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: At LSU too. Florida just played some good edges. Dylan
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Stewart's a really good player.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: But Colin Simmons and Dylan Stewart are different players. Colin
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Simmons is an elite, elite, elite pass rusher. And I
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: think Coach Summerall kind.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Of mentioned that in his press conference.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: I think Raheem Biles, number three, the linebacker is the
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: other one. I think Raheem Biles is a tremendous three-level
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: football player.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: He's a guy who can create turnovers. He can create TFLs.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: He is very fast. You can use him as a
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: spy if you need to. Texas has deployed him in
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: that situation multiple times this year. But those two guys
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: are kind of the disruptive forces on the Texas defense.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: But I think in this game– I will say this,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: I think in this game because– The wide zone stretch
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: play is so important for Florida's offense, and Jaden Baugh
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: is a tremendous running back, a tremendous running back. I
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: think Lance Jackson for Texas and Edge is number 40.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: He's really taken a step this year under Will Muschamp.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I think Hiro Kanu, Maraud Watson, the other two, three
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: techniques that play a five. I think all those guys
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: are important, but the two, I think, most talented players
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: on this defense are Colin Simmons and Raheem Biles.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Jaden Baugh and Florida's running game have struggled the last
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: couple of games, even though they were so good, maybe
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the best in the country during the first four. Jaden
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: has found or has struggled to find room to run, though,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: against Missouri and South Carolina.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: They completely shut it down.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: When you look at this Texas defensive front, is there
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: any reason to believe Florida can get that ground game
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: going again? Or is this really just, you think, an
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: absolutely another difficult matchup for them?
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: And I'm not trying to get Florida fans on my
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: side here, but I'm always real, Allie. Vernell Brown's a
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: big loss for the offense. And Eric Singleton not being
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: healthy all year. Because all the pre-step movement, the misdirection,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Vernell Brown's an explosive player.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: There aren't many.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Guys on his level in college football. And Jaden Ball's
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: a tremendous player, but all this has to kind of
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: fit together. I mean, is your eye candy the same
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: if you don't really have to worry about the guy
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: that– and I'm not saying Bailey Stockton's not a good player, but.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: It's not the same, though.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: It's not the same.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: It's not the same.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: That's like if Xavier Worthy would have been hurt at
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Texas back in the day when he was there. It's
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: not the same.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: So you can put the extra hat in the box
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: against the run game, and then, look, it becomes a
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: numbers game at some point. And I think what made
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Florida really tough, and it's early before people have to
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: scout too, right?
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: The more you get into the season, the more teams
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: can scout and find tendencies. Sure.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: You are really difficult to stop.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Even if Singleton's a.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Decoy and he's running deep, okay, with Vernell Brown and
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Jaden Ball on the field. So you took away one
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: of your two best weapons.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, fine.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: If I'm a DC, I'm going to add the extra
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: hat to the box, and I'm going to take away
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: your wide zone stretch play, and then what's your counter?
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Because I'm not worried about your misdirection as much anymore.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: So I think the health of Vernell Brown– I don't
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: know where Eric Singleton's.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Going to be at.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: I think if I'm a Florida fan, that is ultra
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: important for me to see Saturday. What is, not that
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Vern L. Brown's going to play, but what does he
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: look like on the field? Does Will Muschamp have to
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: be concerned or he has to play with a lighter
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: box a higher percentage of the time than Missouri had to,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: probably than South Carolina did?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I'll be interested to see.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: As we're recording this, we don't have the Wednesday injury
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: report yet. By the time it runs, it'll probably be
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: out there, but I am interested to see where they
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: put Brown on that. When he very first got hurt,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I was told by somebody inside the locker room that
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: it was a two- to four-week PCL strain. You know,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: one week is you miss Missouri. Week two is you've
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: missed South Carolina. So you are still very much in
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that range where you may not be back.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: You may be back. We did hear he practiced today.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Buster Faulkner did tell us that Eric Singleton is 100%
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: for the first time since his injury, which he was
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: injured in the– first series of the first game. So
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: we have yet to see VB3, Eric Singleton, and Dallas
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Wilson on the field at the same time together.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: That really changes the offense, by the way. I mean,
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: you become with Dallas Wilson and Vernell Brown and just
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: the threat of Singleton hitting a go on you, right?
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: That Florida offense is much different if you have all
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: four of your weapons because then a defensive coordinator is
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: has to make box decisions.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Well, and we will find out.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: So TBD on the Vernell piece of that, it does
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: appear that Eric Singleton should be ready to go, which
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: is good. However, we did learn today that Aaron Filo
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: is dealing with a shoulder injury, and I can tell
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you exactly what play he went down on against South Carolina.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: You could tell when he got up that he was hurting.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: So we don't know for sure, but there is a
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: real possibility of Tramell Jones Jr. making his first career
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: start in Austin. From the Texas perspective, how much does
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: that change how they prepare? And if you are the Longhorns,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: how aggressively do you attack a young quarterback who is
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: making his first start in that environment?
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I will say this.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure it changes your game plan because I
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: think the game plan.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Is that limit slow Jaden Ball. You can't do that.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure how much the rest of this matters.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: If Voss got 28 carries for 170 in Austin.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Or something, that's not good.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: So I think obviously they're looking back at tape. I
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: don't know if there's anybody in the Texas staff that
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: was part of recruiting him out of high school that
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: kind of knows, has a feel for what his athleticism, Trammell's,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: is actually like, right? I mean, going beyond if he's
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: the starter and there's going to be some nerves that
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: come with that. I saw him in high school because
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Texas recruited Jamie French out of Mandarin. Oh, yeah. Trammell
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: is a super smart player, very intelligent kid. So I'm
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: not sure there's a big fall-off from Philo. That's no
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: disrespect to Philo, but I'm not sure there's a big
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: fall-off there. I think Philo probably won the job because
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: he was very familiar with the system and came with
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Buckner Faulkner. But I think Trammell Jones is a pretty
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: good player from what I saw. Now the question is,
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: with a young quarterback, It's always the same. If we
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: light you up and we start bringing the heat and
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: we can make it very chaotic in here.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: How do you respond? Yeah. And I do think the
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: way to run first for that to happen and matter.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm the hope, obviously, is that BB three
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: is there and that can help lessen this transition maybe
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: a little bit.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: And I do.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I think you're right there. Florida fans have long believed
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: there wasn't a huge talent gap between them. And honestly,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I looked back and I think Florida has made it
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: through an entire season with the same quarterback like three
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: times in the last 20 years.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: It doesn't happen very often, particularly for Florida.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: So I think there was kind of a lot of
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: confidence we would more than likely see both at some
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: point throughout this season, just if history is any indicator there.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: And I do, I think it's the familiarity with Faulkner
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and with the playbook that was really a deciding factor.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: But I think they are at least decently similar in
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: terms of skill set. Florida went into Austin in 2024.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Things got ugly really quickly. We were on a third
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: string quarterback.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: You could be three or four from what I remember. Yeah,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: it was a bad team.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it just never, I was sitting in
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: that stands and it just, I felt like I never
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: really got to even enjoy the stadium because it was
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: more like, man, we're sorry you guys still have to
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: do this kind of attitude as opposed to, you know,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: really feeling the juice there. And so this is now
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the second time potentially that Florida's going there without their
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: starting quarterback. How difficult is it to play in DKR
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and what should Florida expect from that crowd? I think
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: we don't have a great taste of what it was
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: like because literally last year it was, or two years ago,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: dead man walking. There was no, you know, There wasn't
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of hype around the game because I think
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the result was kind of a foregone conclusion. You guys
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: are coming off a rivalry loss. And potentially there's some
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: hope for revenge from last year. You know, Texas didn't
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: make it to the playoffs. One of those two losses
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: was to the Gators. Tell me what we can expect.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Well, the first thing I want to see in this
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: game is where both of these teams are at. This
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: should be a super physical football game. Florida's lost two
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: games in a row and it hasn't been pretty. Texas
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: lost to their rival, and some would say we gave
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: them the game. I mean, you know, a pump block,
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: and it picked six. I mean, Oklahoma didn't really move
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: the football. They had 238 yards and were 2 of
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: 13 on third down. They made a couple of plays
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: when they had to. But other than that, I mean, Oklahoma,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying they necessarily earned that game.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: On offense, but they won the game. And not to
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: take credit away. So I'm very interested to see.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: This should be a physical desperation on both side game.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: I'm real. It's a must-win game for Texas. Yeah. If
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: you take two.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Losses in a row, when you still have Trinidad Chambliss
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: at Missouri and at LSU left on the schedule, you
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: think you're going to the playoff?
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: I would say no, no, no, no.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: And for Florida, I think getting off to the start
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Florida did in year one or summer all got people
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: really excited as they should be. But going into the season,
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: if I'd thrown eight and four at Florida fans.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: They'd have said, we'll take it. Yeah. We'll take it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: And so now you're going to see what type of– and,
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: you know, I think Summerall's really good. I'm a fan
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: of Summerall because I think he's real and genuine. We're
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: going to see the fight that Florida brings to Austin
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: and the fight that Texas brings to Florida. That should
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: make for a really physical game. As far as for
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: the Florida team, I think what's going to be so
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: interesting about this game If Texas gets off to a
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: poor start offensively, Florida.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Fans are going to hear some boo-birds. Yeah.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: And that might make it easier for Florida.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: It's going to be very interesting, that crowd Saturday at 11.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: It is very interesting to me.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: And I don't, you know, this is a game that
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I predicted Florida would lose starting back in June. And
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's a must win for the Gators,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: but I think if they could figure out pulling it off,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: it would really change things around. And the last two
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: weeks have been hard for Gator fans. I think more
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: so the way the losses happened than that they happened.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: You know, we've talked extensively about the problems that Florida
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: has had the last couple of weeks. But when you
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: look at this matchup, Is there anything that does concern
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: you about the Gators?
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: You had talked about special teams.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I do think Florida has some of the best special
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: teams in the country, which you haven't been able to
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: say the last four years. What are some matchups you
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: think could give Texas trouble?
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Jaden Woods off the edge. Look, I think that guy
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: has first-round ability. If he goes out and has a
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: two- or three-sat game, Texas is going to be behind
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: the chains. If Florida can create enough pressure up front
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: and win on first down defensively, That's huge against Texas
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: because Texas is– and all teams struggle in third and longs,
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: but I think this one's been pretty rough for Texas
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: this year. And part of that is how can you
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: confuse Arch on third down. So the Jaden Woods matchup,
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: if that's against Trevor Goosby, that's a key matchup. Trevor
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Goosby and all SEC pick preseason. And I think, look,
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: another big one is a Texas defensive front versus a
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Florida offensive line as a whole because the blueprint's Missouri.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, you've got to take away the wide zone.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: You take away the stretch. If you can take away
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: somebody's bread and butter in their run game, especially if
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: it's a first-time starting quarterback, you make life much more
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: difficult on that team.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I think the.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Vernell Brown-Grayson-Littleton matchup was a fun matchup for football fans
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: because that's one of the best nickels in the country,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: and that's one of the most explosive players in the country.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: That's one for me.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Texas fans don't want to see Dallas Wilson running down
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: the field after last year. I can tell you that
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: when he had the spitball touchdown. That one's PTSD type
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: of stuff.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: I think, for some Texas fans.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: So Florida's wide receivers. I'm not sure Bo Masco is
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: going to be 100% going into this game. So if
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Florida tends to think that, they may try to attack
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Bo Masco. And it'll be interesting to see how Florida
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: attacks him. But really, I really look at Florida's offensive
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: line versus Texas' defensive front and Florida's run game. I
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: think that's big. In the SEC, it's take away the run.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: And then I think for Florida, it's getting after Arch
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Manning and Texas and pass pro to help protect your secondary.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Which is vulnerable.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: All right, so let me know, how do you see
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: this one playing out? Do you have a prediction for us?
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do, and who knows if it's right at
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: this point. I can't predict anything in the SEC. That's true.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Other than Georgia Kirby's pregame speech, you can predict that.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: But, I mean, it's really good.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: I'm going to go Texas 30, Florida 21. I think
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: it's going to be in that area code. Maybe Florida 23.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be in that area code. And, look,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go on this.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: And a lot of Texas fans say Jerry's nuts for
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: predicting 30 points. But I just– I think Florida's secondary
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: this year is an opportunity for Texas that really was
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: tougher to come by against Ohio State, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: That's where I come out on this game.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: I don't think Texas is going to shut down Florida's offense,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: by the way, especially if those guys are healthy at
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: wide receiver.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to shut them down.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: I think Will's really good, and I think Texas' defense
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: is really good, but I have respect for Florida's skill guys.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Well, Jerry, tell everybody where they can follow along this week.
• 31:22
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• 31:25
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• 31:26
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• 31:29
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• 31:32
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• 31:34
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• 31:36
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• 31:37
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• 31:45
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• 31:48
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• 31:51
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• 31:55
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• 32:01
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• 32:02
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