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Gators Coach EXPOSES What's Going On With UF's Defense... · A Peek Inside Gators Football: A Show About the Florida Gators

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  Speaker 1: this college football season. Okay. So we've had a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of time to digest Florida's season opening win over FAU.
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  Speaker 1: And on Monday, Coach Summerall got back in front of
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  Speaker 1: the media after having the opportunity to really sit down,
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  Speaker 1: watch the film, and evaluate what happened. And I thought
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  Speaker 1: his press conference was actually really interesting. There was plenty
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  Speaker 1: that Summerall liked about what Florida did offensively. He really
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  Speaker 1: liked Aaron Filo. He really liked the offensive line, I
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  Speaker 1: think maybe more than some people expected. He loved the
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  Speaker 1: way the receivers and the tight ends blocked. But defensively,
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  Speaker 1: he was really clear that there is a lot of
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  Speaker 1: work left to do. So I want to take today
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  Speaker 1: to give you my biggest takeaways from Summerall's press conference,
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  Speaker 1: what I think was important, what maybe got overlooked. And
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  Speaker 1: what some of these answers tell us about this Florida
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  Speaker 1: team moving forward. So my first takeaway, I think this
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  Speaker 1: was easily the biggest thing that stood out to me
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  Speaker 1: at the entire press conference, was that Summerall went back
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  Speaker 1: and watched the defensive film and said repeatedly, his guys
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  Speaker 1: played hard. That's important. He didn't come out and say
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  Speaker 1: Florida was loafing. He didn't question whether guys wanted it.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't question their effort or their desire. What bothered
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  Speaker 1: him was their situational awareness. He gave the example of
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  Speaker 1: third and one and Florida having a corner playing nine
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  Speaker 1: yards off. That can't happen. He talked about understanding down
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  Speaker 1: and distance, formation, splits, spacing, handling tempo, knowing when to
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  Speaker 1: challenge receivers, and when to play off. Basically, Florida's defenders
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  Speaker 1: need to understand not just what the call is, but
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  Speaker 1: why the call is being made and how the situation
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  Speaker 1: should change the way that they execute it. I think
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  Speaker 1: the quote that he had really summed up his frustration.
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  Speaker 1: He said Florida was either young or in his words,
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  Speaker 1: untrained at certain spots. And that's fascinating to me because
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  Speaker 1: Summerall's essentially saying, I think we have some guys capable
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  Speaker 1: of doing this, but right now they haven't been trained
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  Speaker 1: well enough, i.e. coached well enough to react correctly in
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  Speaker 1: every situation. So that's putting it on the coaches too.
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  Speaker 1: He said, we have to coach better. That wasn't Summerall
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  Speaker 1: throwing his players under the bus. It was him saying
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  Speaker 1: the entire operation defensively has to become sharper. And Campbell
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  Speaker 1: is actually going to give Florida another test here. because
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  Speaker 1: they play with tempo too. So if you watch one
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  Speaker 1: thing on Saturday, forget the final score for a minute,
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  Speaker 1: watch how quickly Florida gets lined up. Watch the cushion
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  Speaker 1: in the secondary. Watch whether guys seem to anticipate what's
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  Speaker 1: coming based on formation. That's where Summerall wants to see
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  Speaker 1: the biggest jump. Takeaway number two, he thinks Florida may
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  Speaker 1: have gotten a little too comfortable. And I thought this
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  Speaker 1: was another interesting answer. After the game, Summerall hinted that
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  Speaker 1: maybe some guys thought they were a little further along
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  Speaker 1: than they actually were. He did clean that up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit on Monday, but he didn't exactly walk it back.
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  Speaker 1: He said he doesn't think Florida has players walking around
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  Speaker 1: thinking that they're the best players in America, but he
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  Speaker 1: does think that maybe they've been too relaxed. And I
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  Speaker 1: love the way that he phrased this. He said every
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  Speaker 1: seven days, you're either going to be promoted or exposed.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to become one of those Sumrall-isms that we
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  Speaker 1: hear over and over again if I'm a betting person.
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  Speaker 1: one week to the next. You don't get to assume
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  Speaker 1: that you've arrived. You don't get to say, well, we're
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  Speaker 1: Florida and they're FAU, or this week we're Florida and
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  Speaker 1: they're Campbell. If you aren't locked in on the details,
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  Speaker 1: somebody is going to expose it. And we did see
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of that on Saturday. Now, Florida won comfortably.
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  Speaker 1: But some of the things that you can survive against
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  Speaker 1: FAU are going to get you absolutely killed when the
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  Speaker 1: SEC schedule starts. And Summerall knows that. And I think
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to fix the mindset before Florida reaches the
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  Speaker 1: portion of the schedule where those mistakes become losses. My
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  Speaker 1: takeaway number three is Summerall was extremely pleased with Aaron Filo.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, think this whole coaching staff walked away
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  Speaker 1: from the opener feeling good about our quarterback situation. So
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  Speaker 1: everyone said Philo made some really good decisions. He said
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  Speaker 1: the interception was not on him and should have been caught.
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  Speaker 1: He praised the way Philo communicated at the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: He praised his leadership. He praised his decision-making as a runner.
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  Speaker 1: And he specifically pointed out multiple downfield throws that he
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  Speaker 1: thought were really good. That is the part that stood
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  Speaker 1: out to me. Coming into the season, we talked so
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  Speaker 1: much about Philo having, you know, to avoid feeling like
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  Speaker 1: he needed to be Superman. Get the offense in the
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  Speaker 1: right play. Make the right decision. Take the easy completion.
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  Speaker 1: Use your legs when it's there. Take the shot when
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  Speaker 1: you get the matchup. That's pretty much exactly what Summerall described.
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  Speaker 1: He even used the word clean. Now, was it perfect? No.
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  Speaker 1: Summerall pointed that out a couple of times. He talked
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  Speaker 1: about a few shorter throws that came out a little funky.
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  Speaker 1: But overall, he said Philo operated at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: And that is about as good of a week one
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  Speaker 1: review that you could ask for from your head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Takeaway number four, the offense is designed to make life
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  Speaker 1: miserable for defense. He gave us a really good explanation
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  Speaker 1: of what Buster Faulkner's offense is trying to accomplish. He
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  Speaker 1: said the offense wants to, quote, threaten every blade of grass,
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  Speaker 1: both vertically and horizontally. I love that description. Because one play,
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  Speaker 1: you can have run action going one direction and a
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  Speaker 1: passing option going the other direction. So now that linebacker
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  Speaker 1: or safety has a problem. What are you reading? Where
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  Speaker 1: are your eyes? Do you fit the run? Do you widen?
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  Speaker 1: Do you carry something vertically? That is the conflict this
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  Speaker 1: offense is trying to create. And when you combine that
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  Speaker 1: with Aaron Filo making good decisions and Jaden Baugh in
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  Speaker 1: the backfield and speed on the perimeter, suddenly you understand
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  Speaker 1: why Florida looked so efficient offensively. Florida didn't punt Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that. Not one time. And Summerall even joked
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  Speaker 1: that he loves Alec Clark, but he'd be perfectly happy
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  Speaker 1: to never see his punter play. He actually joked about
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  Speaker 1: how he's a great holder and that's all he really
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  Speaker 1: needs to see. Obviously, that is not going to happen
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  Speaker 1: all season, but it tells you just how consistently Florida
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  Speaker 1: stayed ahead of the chains and kept drives alive in
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  Speaker 1: that opener. Takeaway number five. This one stood out to
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  Speaker 1: me because offensive tackle was one of the biggest question
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  Speaker 1: marks entering the season. And the offensive line may have
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  Speaker 1: been better than we thought it was going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Summerall's assessment was pretty positive. Now, he definitely did not
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  Speaker 1: call the offensive line elite. In fact, he almost went
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  Speaker 1: out of his way not to. But he did say
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  Speaker 1: they looked organized and prepared and cohesive and well-coached. I
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  Speaker 1: think his word was competent. And that may not sound
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  Speaker 1: like the biggest compliment in the world, but considering where
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  Speaker 1: the conversation around this offensive line has been, Competent football
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  Speaker 1: is a pretty darn good starting point. He thought the
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  Speaker 1: tackles played well. He thought Bryce played well. He thought
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  Speaker 1: a Gorgie played well. He thought dice played well when
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  Speaker 1: he entered the game and some all gave Buster Faulkner
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  Speaker 1: credit for helping those tackles. Florida isn't planning to drop
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  Speaker 1: back 50 times a game and let defensive ends tee off.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to run the football. They're going to use
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  Speaker 1: play action. They're going to get the ball to the perimeter.
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  Speaker 1: That's protecting your tackles. That's coaching around what your personnel
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  Speaker 1: does well. Now, the obvious negative was the snapping issue.
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  Speaker 1: Summerall said Harris had five bad snaps and four of
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  Speaker 1: those came on the exact type of block. That makes
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  Speaker 1: it a little less alarming to me because it gives
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  Speaker 1: you something very specific to fix. We already spoke to
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  Speaker 1: an offensive line expert earlier in the week, too, who
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  Speaker 1: said that every bad snap was high and right and
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  Speaker 1: that that's something... that's easier to correct than if it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of all over the place. So this wasn't five
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  Speaker 1: completely random breakdowns. They identified the common denominator already. And
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  Speaker 1: Summerall made it pretty clear to everybody involved that he
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  Speaker 1: was furious about it and he expects it to be corrected.
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  Speaker 1: So the offensive line is not a finished product, but
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  Speaker 1: I came away from this press conference more encouraged about
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  Speaker 1: that group than I was going into week one. Takeaway
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  Speaker 1: number six is maybe my favorite part of the Summerall
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  Speaker 1: era so far. He was asked about how decisive Florida
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  Speaker 1: appeared on fourth downs, and he basically said, yeah, that's me.
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  Speaker 1: He makes the decision. They use analytics. John Donovan helps
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  Speaker 1: with the situational information. But Summerall made it clear that
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  Speaker 1: he isn't blindly following some analytics sheet. He uses the information,
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  Speaker 1: then combines it with game situation, matchups, the opponent, his defense,
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  Speaker 1: the kicking game, and his own instincts. And his instincts
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  Speaker 1: are aggressive. He said, if Florida is outside its own
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  Speaker 1: 40 and it's fourth and one, you're betting on whether
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  Speaker 1: Florida will go for it? Bet yes. That is a
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  Speaker 1: pretty strong statement. But what I found even more interesting
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  Speaker 1: was how much communication goes into the decision before fourth down.
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  Speaker 1: Summerall's telling Buster Faulkner early in that drive, hey, if
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  Speaker 1: we get into fourth and two here, we're going. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why is that important? Because now Buster can call third
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  Speaker 1: down differently. Third and four doesn't necessarily mean you need
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  Speaker 1: four yards. You can call something designed to get you
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  Speaker 1: two or three knowing you have another play. That impacts
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  Speaker 1: the entire offensive sequence. Summerall also said something that I
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  Speaker 1: think tells you a lot about what he wants this
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  Speaker 1: team to become. If you coach aggressively, eventually your players
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  Speaker 1: are going to play aggressively. If you coach passively, they'll
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  Speaker 1: play passively. He wants Florida to have an attacking mindset,
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  Speaker 1: and he's willing to live with the times that the
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  Speaker 1: aggression fails in order to establish that identity. Takeaway number seven. Listen. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Baugh is becoming exactly the runner Summerall wants to be.
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  Speaker 1: We all saw what he did on Saturday. But I
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  Speaker 1: thought Summerall's explanation of why Baugh looks better was very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: He called him powerful, sudden, violent. But he also said
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  Speaker 1: Baugh has become more decisive. When Summerall first got to
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  Speaker 1: Florida and watched last year's tape, one of the things
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  Speaker 1: he told Baugh was missing essentially is that you've got
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  Speaker 1: to stop trying to make everybody miss. You are a
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  Speaker 1: big physical dude. Sometimes you just need to put your
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  Speaker 1: foot in the ground, get north and south, and make
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  Speaker 1: somebody deal with you. And Summerall thinks Baugh is doing
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  Speaker 1: that now. One cut and go. That makes him scary
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  Speaker 1: because Baugh still has the ability to make people miss.
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  Speaker 1: We saw that on that long run. But when you
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  Speaker 1: pair that with a willingness to get downhill and punish defenders,
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  Speaker 1: now other teams have a problem. And one other nugget
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  Speaker 1: Summerall gave us, Florida plans to throw him the football.
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  Speaker 1: Baugh didn't have a catch against FAU, but Summerall said
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  Speaker 1: specifically that was not by design. So don't be surprised
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  Speaker 1: if that becomes another wrinkle of this offense very soon.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, do not... expect Summerall to let this team
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  Speaker 1: look ahead. Florida plays Campbell this week, and we all
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  Speaker 1: know what's coming down the pipeline after Campbell. But Summerall
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  Speaker 1: wanted absolutely nothing to do with looking ahead. His phrase
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  Speaker 1: for this week is, be where your feet are. And
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  Speaker 1: I think Campbell is actually a useful opponent for where
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  Speaker 1: Florida is right now. They're playing fast offensively, Summerall said
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  Speaker 1: they look dramatically improved from last season. They're averaging more
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  Speaker 1: than 500 yards per game, and he believes their quarterback
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  Speaker 1: is playing a really high level of football. So Florida
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  Speaker 1: gets another opportunity to work on exactly what hurt them
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  Speaker 1: defensively against FAU. Communication, tempo, spacing, situational awareness, and attention
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  Speaker 1: to detail. That may be the story of Saturday more
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  Speaker 1: than whether Florida wins by 30 or 40 or whatever
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  Speaker 1: the number ends up being. Can this defense look more connected?
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  Speaker 1: Can they get lined up faster? Can they play with
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  Speaker 1: better awareness? Can the pass rush actually finish when it
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  Speaker 1: gets home? Because Summerall said something else that I think
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  Speaker 1: we should remember. There is a difference between playing hard
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  Speaker 1: and straining. He wants another level, and he clearly does
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  Speaker 1: not believe Florida reached that level in week one. So overall,
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  Speaker 1: after listening to Coach Summerall, I actually think that there
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  Speaker 1: are reasons to feel pretty good about where Florida is offensively.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Filo looks comfortable. Jaden Baugh looks like a star.
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  Speaker 1: The offensive line was functional and maybe even encouraging. The
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  Speaker 1: scheme appears to fit the personnel, and the head coach
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  Speaker 1: is going to be aggressive. Defensively, there's talent there. But
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  Speaker 1: there is also clearly a gap between how Summerall and
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  Speaker 1: Brad White expect this defense to operate and what we
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  Speaker 1: saw on Saturday night. And that is what I am
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  Speaker 1: going to be watching this week. Not whether Florida beats Campbell.
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  Speaker 1: Florida should beat Campbell. I want to see whether the
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  Speaker 1: things Coach Summerall was frustrated about on Monday actually look
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  Speaker 1: different on Saturday. Eventually, Florida is going to have to
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  Speaker 1: face teams where being a step late, playing nine yards
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  Speaker 1: off on a third and one, or failing to communicate
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  Speaker 1: against tempo doesn't just make the film look ugly. It
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  Speaker 1: loses you football games. I need to see that growth
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  Speaker 1: that happens generally between week one and week two. Let
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  Speaker 1: me know what your biggest takeaway was from Summerall's press conference.
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  Speaker 1: Are you more encouraged by this offense? Are you concerned
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  Speaker 1: about the defense? What is the number one thing you
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  Speaker 1: want to see Florida clean up against Campbell? Let me
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