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Speaker 1: Welcome back to A Peak Inside Gator Football. Allie Peek here.
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Speaker 1: I'm joined today by Landon Tegwell of Landon Tegwell's College
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Speaker 1: It's a big, long name. It is a fun, exciting show.
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Speaker 1: Landon is also a former Penn State offensive lineman under
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Speaker 1: coach Phil Troutwine, and I feel like that just makes
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Speaker 1: these reviews... so much cooler because you know exactly what
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Speaker 1: is going on in coach's head. Um, and that's just
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Speaker 1: so you watched Florida's game against Ole Miss. You called
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Speaker 1: it an outside zone clinic. When you watch Missouri, because
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Speaker 1: you told me you've watched Missouri as well, when you
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Speaker 1: watch them, what specifically do they do defensively that could
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Speaker 1: make outside zone more difficult for Florida this week?
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Speaker 3: You know, I think– I will say this. I think
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Speaker 3: Mississippi State actually got outside pretty well in the run
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Speaker 3: game against them, especially when they did bounce those outside runs. Look,
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Speaker 3: I'll say this too. Like, when I talk to other
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Speaker 3: people in the college football space and everybody's talking about
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Speaker 3: Buster Faulkner and what he does, like– It's, it's a nightmare.
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Speaker 3: Like in terms of like being a defensive coordinator, it's like,
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Speaker 3: what do I do? And it really is difficult because
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Speaker 3: there is so much, I mean, everybody's kind of talked
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Speaker 3: about the first play of the game against Ole Miss
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Speaker 3: where there was a million different things going on shifts
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Speaker 3: at a certain point, you could have five guys in
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Speaker 3: one line and then everybody was going different ways and
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Speaker 3: you got pullers and everything. Like it is so difficult.
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Speaker 3: And I think the other part of this that's hard, too,
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Speaker 3: for Mizzou and why Buster Faulkner is the best offensive
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Speaker 3: coordinator in college football. And he even kind of brought
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Speaker 3: this up in his presser, I believe, of saying like, hey,
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Speaker 3: we're going to we'll present it in different ways. We're
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Speaker 3: going to we'll come and they're going to run outside zone.
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Speaker 3: You best believe Florida is going to run outside zone.
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Speaker 3: But there is going to be multiple different instances and
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Speaker 3: it looks where it looks where they change the picture. Exactly.
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Speaker 3: So it's not going to be presented the same way,
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Speaker 3: but they're still going to run outside zone and they're
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Speaker 3: going to find different ways. And especially when you have
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Speaker 3: tight ends and wide receivers that are willing to block
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Speaker 3: the way that this group is. That makes it pretty difficult.
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Speaker 3: But I'll tell you, as I watch Mizzou, it is
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Speaker 3: kind of funny. I totally, I see certain things, like
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Speaker 3: they're going to be a heavy movement front. They love
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Speaker 3: twists with their tackle and end, where they go to T.E. twist,
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Speaker 3: where the tackle's the penetrator and the end will loop inside,
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Speaker 3: and they'll kind of switch that around. And I just know,
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Speaker 3: I watch it, I'm like, oh, Trout's going to be
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Speaker 3: on top of that. Like, he has been drilling that
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Speaker 3: probably all week long into their head, and I'm sure
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Speaker 3: they've done a million reps in practice. this dealing with
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Speaker 3: the T twist and talking it over and they're going
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Speaker 3: to continue to talk it over tonight and Friday night
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Speaker 3: at the hotel and all of it. So that is
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Speaker 3: the exciting part is like I watch stuff. I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 3: I know exactly what Trout is going to say to
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Speaker 3: them off of that right there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think having that perspective while you
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Speaker 1: watch all of this has to be incredibly unique because
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Speaker 1: you you see what Missouri.
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Speaker 2: Is putting on film.
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Speaker 1: You see what Florida is putting on film, but you
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Speaker 1: also know the internal conversation that's going on inside the
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Speaker 1: locker room and how they're going to combat it.
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Speaker 2: I loved your Ole Miss breakdown, and.
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Speaker 1: One of the things you highlighted was how well Florida's
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Speaker 1: O-line handled Ole Miss's slanting and moving the defensive front.
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Speaker 1: So against Missouri, how important is the ability to adjust
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Speaker 1: on the fly rather than just simply winning your one-on-one blocks?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's really important. They're going to be
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Speaker 3: very movement heavy. And like I said, that's kind of
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Speaker 3: where you see a lot of these defenses starting to
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Speaker 3: move towards is they're all just going to be moving, slanting, stunting.
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Speaker 3: But Mizzou does it at a high level in terms
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Speaker 3: of how often they do it, not necessarily like a
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Speaker 3: very high level. But, you know, the biggest thing within
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Speaker 3: that is like, yes, it can mess with you. And
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Speaker 3: there's times with any offensive line, with the floor offensive
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Speaker 3: line where it's gotten them, but they have been so good.
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Speaker 3: at picking up those stunts. And the biggest thing is
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Speaker 3: like understanding your rules when you're dealing with that. And
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Speaker 3: what I mean by that is, and I watched like
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Speaker 3: Florida last year and I just didn't see anything close
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Speaker 3: to this. It triggers in their mind right away when
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Speaker 3: I have a three technique and he slants away that
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Speaker 3: I know that I need to brace back into whatever's
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Speaker 3: coming this way. Like it's clear to me that Trout
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Speaker 3: has drilled that into their head. It's clear to me
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Speaker 3: that those five page papers that Trout gives them that
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Speaker 3: I know he gives them ever since probably probably multiple
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Speaker 3: different tests. And they have to write it out five
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Speaker 3: different times and they have to write everybody's responsibility. And they,
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Speaker 3: and they have to know that if I'm the right guard,
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Speaker 3: I also know what the left tackle is doing. That's
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Speaker 3: when we're dealing with this specific stunt. And the best
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Speaker 3: thing that trap will do is he'll go through and
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Speaker 3: he'll give you, he'll build out the sheet for you
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Speaker 3: that week of, Hey, here's this guy's top moves. Here's
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Speaker 3: each guy on the defensive line. You're going against, here's
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Speaker 3: his top moves. Here's what he likes to do on
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Speaker 3: third and three. When we're, you know, when it's third
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Speaker 3: and one, he, this guy's a big swimmer in the,
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Speaker 3: you know, in the run game, like little things like that.
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Speaker 3: He'll give you that, but it'll also give you all
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Speaker 3: their top blitzes, all their top pressures, all their top
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Speaker 3: stunt moves and kind of when they do them. And
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Speaker 3: then he makes you obviously get a million reps in
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Speaker 3: practice against it. You write it out in the answers
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Speaker 3: to what to do against it. So it's not a
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Speaker 3: coincidence that this offensive line is, It's playing the way
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Speaker 3: it's playing. It's because of this attention to detail. Even
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Speaker 3: I said coming into the season, people were asking me, like, oh,
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Speaker 3: this is all great, but, like, it's still going to
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Speaker 3: take time, right? And I'm like, yeah, absolutely. It hasn't
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Speaker 3: really taken much time. It's been, like, instant. And now–
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Speaker 3: and you see these guys taking these huge strides. Like,
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Speaker 3: watching Bryce Lovett just continue to get so much better
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Speaker 3: is exciting. And when you run the ball at will–
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Speaker 3: you start to get this confidence that just creeps into
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Speaker 3: your offense of like, hey, we can go in there
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Speaker 3: and dominate anybody. If we're going to run the ball
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Speaker 3: 50 times and we're going to just continue to move
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Speaker 3: a man from point A to point B against his will,
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Speaker 3: and that's kind of the mindset that this offense has.
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Speaker 3: So it's not only... The technical aspect of understanding, hey,
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Speaker 3: when guys are moving, what do we do? And having
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Speaker 3: the answers right away because of all the preparation that
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Speaker 3: they're doing. But it's also the nastiness and the physicality.
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Speaker 3: So that's the part that's even more impressive to me.
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Speaker 1: And is all of that preparation why they're able to
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Speaker 1: communicate and change assignments after the snap so effectively? Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so, because you can't you can't really
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Speaker 3: talk like there's a little bit. You have a mouthpiece
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Speaker 3: and you kind of hear like over, over. You hear
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Speaker 3: like a muffled, like if you hear a scream from
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Speaker 3: the guy next to you, kind of think like, oh,
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Speaker 3: something's going on. But you do just kind of have
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Speaker 3: to know. And that's Trout's big thing. And that's really
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Speaker 3: why offensive line play is becoming harder and harder, because
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Speaker 3: it's not only physicality, but now you're dealing with all
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Speaker 3: these moving variables where 10, even just 10 years ago.
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Speaker 3: It was like, hey, you're going to you're going to
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Speaker 3: go from across to the guy across from you. That's
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Speaker 3: who you're going to go against. And he's going to
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Speaker 3: play right into you. And let's see if you're stronger.
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Speaker 3: That is not the game anymore. There's there is some
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Speaker 3: of that. Don't get me wrong, but it is so
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Speaker 3: much more complex for offensive line. And especially when you
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Speaker 3: have an offensive line that, you know, for the most part,
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Speaker 3: you know, you got some new faces, you got a
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Speaker 3: new coach. And so that would you would expect that.
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Speaker 3: They're kind of a little bit difficult and not be
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Speaker 3: on the same page, but yeah, it's, it's clear. I'm
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Speaker 3: every single week in the summer before they got to
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Speaker 3: go home on a Friday, they had to turn in
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Speaker 3: their test on what to do on outside zone when the,
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Speaker 3: when the three techniques spikes inside and they have to
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Speaker 3: know everything like that type of stuff pays off and
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Speaker 3: he just continues to do it. And he's going to
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Speaker 3: harp on it all week long. And like I said,
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Speaker 3: you're going to get the test. You're going to do
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Speaker 3: a million different walkthroughs. I think part of it too.
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Speaker 3: And I can't speak to what they were doing in
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Speaker 3: the past, but. inferring from what I've heard, my guess
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Speaker 3: is the walkthroughs were very true walkthroughs. The Phil Troutwine walkthroughs,
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Speaker 3: and I'm sure Buster Faulkner's walkthroughs as a whole, are
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Speaker 3: not walkthroughs. It is perfect technique. It is perfect footwork.
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Speaker 3: It is they're going to move. The guys that they're
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Speaker 3: walking through on, the bodies that are standing there, they're
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Speaker 3: not just going to stand there like this. They're going
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Speaker 3: to be like, hey, run this twist that they're running,
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Speaker 3: and I want to see you react to it in
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Speaker 3: real time. So it's not only getting that in practice.
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Speaker 3: Of course, you're going to get those reps in practice. Sure.
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Speaker 3: You're going to continue to get those reps through Friday
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Speaker 3: night walkthrough at the hotel. So I, I can tell
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Speaker 3: the preparation is there. And anytime you have that preparation
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Speaker 3: and trust of, I know all the answers to the test,
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Speaker 3: if you will. Yeah. I'm going to play a hundred
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Speaker 3: percent speed. And that gives me the confidence that I
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Speaker 3: would go out there and mall you.
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Speaker 1: I need to know how many times you in your
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Speaker 1: life being coached by Phil Troutwine heard the term, um,
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Speaker 1: Don't practice until you get it right.
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Speaker 2: Practice until you can't get it wrong.
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Speaker 1: Because my husband was also coached by the same people
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Speaker 1: that Phil Troutwine was. And our six-year-old soccer team hears
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Speaker 1: that on a very regular basis.
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Speaker 3: Yes, literally all the time. I mean, Trout. And, you know,
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Speaker 3: you hear that phrase you hear. I'm sure a lot
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Speaker 3: of people have seen him put hashtag NTT.
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Speaker 2: No talent.
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Speaker 3: No talent. Thanks. He is. And he'll write it out.
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Speaker 3: So every week, I mean, every single night. So, I mean,
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Speaker 3: this morning, the guys woke up from practice and they
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Speaker 3: probably got it last night, but they woke up from practice.
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Speaker 3: And they have their whole sheet of every single play,
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Speaker 3: the walkthrough plays to Phil Troutwine, giving them everything, a critique,
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Speaker 3: anything they need to know from that. So you also
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Speaker 3: get this instant feedback from Trout. And on that, like
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Speaker 3: right before you turn the page into all the notes,
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Speaker 3: he'll write out like a bunch of no talent things. Like, hey,
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Speaker 3: it doesn't take any talent to make sure that you're
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Speaker 3: getting in the cold tub, to make sure that you're stretching,
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Speaker 3: to make sure that I know what I need to
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Speaker 3: do when a three tech slants. Like all those little things.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't take talent. That is just, are you going
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Speaker 3: to put in the work? And that's kind of– people
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Speaker 3: are always wondering, like, what does it look like to
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Speaker 3: raise the bar in the room in terms of the
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Speaker 3: expectation for the offensive line? Like, that's an example. Like,
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Speaker 3: he is going to push you to do all those
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Speaker 3: little things. It's like, hey, if you can't physically bench,
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Speaker 3: you know, 450, you know, work there. Work to get there. But, like,
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Speaker 3: that's okay. That's fine. But anything that you can control, like,
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Speaker 3: you better be doing. And that's the expectation that's set,
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Speaker 3: and that's what's so exciting about And I think kind
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Speaker 3: of almost a question for me, knowing who he is
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Speaker 3: and being a part of watching him kind of rebuild
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Speaker 3: the offensive line room at Penn State was like, OK,
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Speaker 3: how quickly are these guys going to buy in to
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Speaker 3: that down in Florida? And the answer was right away.
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Speaker 3: And it's easy to. because of the standard that he sets,
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Speaker 3: but sometimes guys don't want to like fully buy get
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Speaker 3: after it. Like when he first got here, offensive line,
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Speaker 3: like it was not a good group and they kind of,
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Speaker 3: they weren't all the way in and it was difficult.
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Speaker 3: And so I was kind of like waiting to see,
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Speaker 3: and I'm like, wow, these guys have taken to that
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Speaker 3: right away. And it's not even just the starters, like
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Speaker 3: big Rod, Rod Kearney's getting in and he's demolishing folks.
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Speaker 3: Like you got, you got, you got backups that are
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Speaker 3: wanting to get in and take guys heads off as well. So,
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Speaker 3: I mean, you're, you're in a really good place with
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Speaker 3: where this offensive line is. Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit more about Missouri's defense. They've
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Speaker 1: been pretty stringy against the run, only about 2.8 yards
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Speaker 1: per carry allowed, and obviously Florida's going.
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Speaker 2: To want to run the ball. When you watch them,
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Speaker 2: are they stingy.
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Speaker 1: Because their defensive line is physically winning up front, or
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Speaker 1: is it scheme, or because their linebackers are fitting the
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Speaker 1: run particularly well?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think they fit the run pretty well.
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Speaker 3: Their defensive line, they do a good job of playing
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Speaker 3: as much as they move. They're pretty gap sound, and
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Speaker 3: there's not a ton of times you will see them
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Speaker 3: out of place. The times that I did see Mississippi
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Speaker 3: State be able to break off some long runs. it
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Speaker 3: was an instance of like, hey, they ran a twist,
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Speaker 3: they picked it up, and they hit it for a
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Speaker 3: big run. Whether that be like an interior twist, whether
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Speaker 3: that be like, hey, the tackle went and the end
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Speaker 3: looped inside and they completely picked it up and they
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Speaker 3: were able to just– there was nothing on the right
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Speaker 3: side of the line of scrimmage and they could just run.
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Speaker 3: So I think that's the biggest thing. Like when I
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Speaker 3: see them play straight up, they're fairly stout. But what's
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Speaker 3: so different about the scheme they're going to see– and
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Speaker 3: it was kind of like almost difficult for me to watch.
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Speaker 3: Even like– because the Mississippi State offensive scheme could not
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Speaker 3: be further and just different from the Florida scheme. Like
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Speaker 3: it's just a world– so they're going from one world
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Speaker 3: against this like ultra-spread RPO offense where it's like Mississippi
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Speaker 3: State wants to spread you out as far as possible
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Speaker 3: to now like a lot of– there's a lot of
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Speaker 3: different condensed looks and a lot of motion and all
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Speaker 3: these little things that Buster Faulkner throws at you. And
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Speaker 3: he's going to try. to stretch you, stretch you outside zone.
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Speaker 3: They're obviously going to hit you with the counter run
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Speaker 3: scheme and pull guys. But I think the hardest thing
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Speaker 3: for this Mizzou defense is going to be trusting your keys. Like,
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Speaker 3: you know, every single time you have to read your keys.
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Speaker 3: Like when this guy comes in motion, I have rules
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Speaker 3: as a defender that I have to go through. And
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Speaker 3: Buster Faulkner knows those rules, and he's going to try
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Speaker 3: to expose those rules. But overall, I've seen a fairly
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Speaker 3: sound defense. But, you know, everybody looks sound until you
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Speaker 3: go against Buster Faulkner. So that's what I'm most excited
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Speaker 3: to see because it really is difficult. When I watch it,
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Speaker 3: I'm like, are you kidding me? Like that looked like
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Speaker 3: outside zone for two seconds until it wasn't. That looked
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Speaker 3: like counter for two seconds until it wasn't. And that's
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Speaker 3: what's hard. Like I have to– When I see an
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Speaker 3: offensive lineman pull and I'm a linebacker, like I got
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Speaker 3: to respect that, especially it's not only like the fact
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Speaker 3: that you're just running it when you run it at
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Speaker 3: the highest level like this offense is running it. Then
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Speaker 3: I really have to respect when you're pulling two guys
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Speaker 3: on counter and be like, hey, we got to haul
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Speaker 3: our butts because they've been running counter down our throat. Oh, wait,
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Speaker 3: here we come back the other way with a little
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Speaker 3: arrow route into the flat and they're out of there.
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Speaker 3: So I think that's what's difficult. But, I mean, overall,
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Speaker 3: you know, I have been, you know, I thought it was,
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't say overly impressed with their front seven. I
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Speaker 3: think it's decent. I do think Dayton Hopkins, number 10. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You do face a real dude off of the edge.
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Speaker 3: I think he's sitting at like six sacks. Very bendy,
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Speaker 3: very active with his hands. So Bryce Leffert, Bryce Lovett,
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Speaker 3: Ameke Gorgi, we've been talking about. Seeing them, you know,
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Speaker 3: against some high tier pass rushers here is an opportunity
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Speaker 3: to face one of those. I will say for the
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Speaker 3: most part, you don't see a ton of like true
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Speaker 3: drop back. It's not like Aaron Files getting back there
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Speaker 3: and dropping back 20, you know, 25 times in a game.
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Speaker 3: That's not the buster fuck their offense. So I think
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Speaker 3: that's part of it, too. That helps an offensive line.
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Speaker 3: where if you feel like, hey, we're going to have
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Speaker 3: to drop back 25, 30 times, there's a little bit
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Speaker 3: more stress on me. And I'll tell you what, as
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Speaker 3: an offensive lineman, if you tell me I get to
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Speaker 3: run in this offense where I get to be physical,
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Speaker 3: I get to move, and you're putting me in situations
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Speaker 3: where I don't have to be in a full-on pass
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Speaker 3: pro set and do 30 reps against this guy where
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Speaker 3: he can start to time me up and set me
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Speaker 3: up for moves, I'm going to be really happy and
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Speaker 3: be in a good place. So I say that, but
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Speaker 3: I have a feeling they're going to try to scheme it. So, hey,
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Speaker 3: Hopkins doesn't even get too many opportunities to really get
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Speaker 3: those type of rushes, you know, against our offensive tackles.
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Speaker 3: But no, I'm excited to see how this Mizzou defense responds.
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Speaker 3: And I think everybody in college football is kind of
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Speaker 3: just excited to see, hey, it's kind of like, hey,
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Speaker 3: can Buster Faulkner do this again for another week straight
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Speaker 3: and just just punish you with the run game?
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Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break from this interview
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15:21
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15:23
Speaker 1: and we're trying to make it happen for you. You know,
15:26
Speaker 1: I've been kind of referring to this like I think
15:29
Speaker 1: each game, each SEC game Florida's played so far presents
15:32
Speaker 1: kind of a different type of litmus test. Like the
15:34
Speaker 1: Auburn litmus test is like, how do we do against
15:37
Speaker 1: the other first year coaches in the league? Did we
15:39
Speaker 1: make the best hire of those available? And I think
15:42
Speaker 1: the answer was yes. Like we're further along than Auburn was.
15:45
Speaker 1: And that's why we won that game. And then the
15:47
Speaker 1: Ole Miss game is kind of like, how far are
15:49
Speaker 1: we from where we want to be on the national stage?
15:51
Speaker 1: Like how far are we from some of these top
15:53
Speaker 1: tiered SEC programs? And you know, we got our answer
15:56
Speaker 1: on that not far on Saturday, but this to me
16:00
Speaker 1: is almost more of a maturity litmus test. Like you
16:04
Speaker 1: have had, you are no longer hunting people. You are
16:07
Speaker 1: the hunted. You are no longer flying under the radar.
16:10
Speaker 1: Everybody has you, you know, front and center. You're getting
16:13
Speaker 1: all the press clippings. Can you be mature enough to
16:16
Speaker 1: ignore all of it, figure out where your deficiencies are
16:18
Speaker 1: and continue to grow? And I think maybe even though
16:21
Speaker 1: I don't know that Missouri is the best opponent Florida's
16:23
Speaker 1: faced so far, I think that that maybe is the
16:25
Speaker 1: toughest test so far.
16:28
Speaker 2: But let's talk a little bit.
16:30
Speaker 1: Ole Miss, or excuse me, Mizzou has a decent run D,
16:33
Speaker 1: better than Ole Miss did, better than Auburn. If you're
16:36
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator, What poison are you choosing? Are you
16:41
Speaker 1: committing extra bodies to stop Jaden Baugh and Duke Clark
16:45
Speaker 1: and live with Aaron Filo throwing behind you? Or can
16:49
Speaker 1: you realistically defend Florida with normal numbers in the box?
16:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you have to. You have to commit
16:56
Speaker 3: an extra defender and say, hey, we have to slow
16:58
Speaker 3: down this rushing attack. I don't think there's any question
17:01
Speaker 3: about that because you come to this and that's what
17:04
Speaker 3: Florida has eaten on. And that's why everything off of
17:06
Speaker 3: it works so well. Again, like all of this play action, boot,
17:10
Speaker 3: all that type of stuff off of the outside zone game.
17:12
Speaker 3: Wouldn't work as well if you weren't, you know, running
17:15
Speaker 3: outside zone so well and so significantly. So, yeah, I
17:19
Speaker 3: definitely think you have to. And if I'm a defensive coordinator,
17:21
Speaker 3: I'm saying, hey, I do want to try to get
17:23
Speaker 3: into a situation where Aaron Philo has to drop back
17:26
Speaker 3: and beat us with his arm. And I think it
17:29
Speaker 3: generally always like sounds good. Like, hey, yeah, we'll just
17:31
Speaker 3: commit another guy and we're going to stop the run.
17:33
Speaker 3: But there's a reason no one has been able to
17:35
Speaker 3: do that. And you also, you got to think about
17:37
Speaker 3: the fact that you do have some playmakers. Like you've
17:39
Speaker 3: got some playmakers out at wide receiver. It's not just
17:42
Speaker 3: Clark and ball. It's the fact that like, Hey, we've
17:45
Speaker 3: started to leave guys one-on-one and Aaron Filo's not inept
17:49
Speaker 3: in any shape or form. Like he could still sling it.
17:51
Speaker 3: He's got some really good passes. Yes. He's been at
17:54
Speaker 3: times inconsistent, but that, that would be what I would
17:57
Speaker 3: say though. You do need to try your best and say, Hey,
18:00
Speaker 3: we will put an extra hat in there. But it's difficult.
18:03
Speaker 3: These running backs are really good at hitting cutback lanes,
18:06
Speaker 3: because I think part of this, too, is like when
18:07
Speaker 3: you see outside zone, when you see counter, you want
18:09
Speaker 3: to almost over pursue as a defender. And it's like, hey,
18:13
Speaker 3: it's not only do we we might have a pass
18:15
Speaker 3: scheme off of that, but it's also like, hey, these
18:17
Speaker 3: running backs are great at setting things up in terms
18:20
Speaker 3: of like pressing their angles. And if they see something
18:22
Speaker 3: open backside, they are not afraid to cut it. Like
18:24
Speaker 3: there's some running backs that are just like, Hey, I'm
18:26
Speaker 3: going to hit the hole. That's neither of these two
18:28
Speaker 3: running backs. Like they're very good at hitting the hole
18:30
Speaker 3: when it's there, but they'll also find a hole elsewhere
18:32
Speaker 3: if it opens up. So I think that's, what's going
18:35
Speaker 3: to be difficult, difficult for this Mizzou defense. And, you know, look,
18:38
Speaker 3: I obviously Mississippi state, has run the ball fairly well.
18:42
Speaker 3: And I think the Mizzou defense definitely did a good
18:44
Speaker 3: job against them. And the difficult part about that aspect is,
18:48
Speaker 3: like I said, they spread you out and they want
18:49
Speaker 3: to give light boxes and, you know, kind of make
18:52
Speaker 3: you run against that. And, you know, there were times
18:54
Speaker 3: where Mizzou missed a couple tackles and there was times
18:55
Speaker 3: where they made some great plays up front where their
18:57
Speaker 3: defensive line was really, really stout. But I look across,
19:01
Speaker 3: you know, the board and I say, hey, I don't
19:02
Speaker 3: think you've played a rushing attack even close to this.
19:05
Speaker 3: So now here's the challenge of that. And then within that, too, again,
19:10
Speaker 3: like you start to really commit to the run and
19:13
Speaker 3: that's when Buster Faulkner hits you with, yeah, I'm going
19:15
Speaker 3: to make it look that way for a second and
19:16
Speaker 3: a half. And then here we go. We're off the
19:18
Speaker 3: gate with a play action boot back the other way, or,
19:20
Speaker 3: you know, a million different things, something that we probably
19:22
Speaker 3: haven't even seen yet. It's going to be showcased on Saturday.
19:25
Speaker 3: So that's, that's the most difficult part.
19:28
Speaker 1: They threw the ball to Jaden Baugh so much this
19:30
Speaker 1: summer that I'm so interested to see when that pops.
19:33
Speaker 1: And Eric Singleton is off the injured list for the
19:36
Speaker 1: first time since week one, so I'm kind of excited
19:39
Speaker 1: to see how he does as well. But I thought
19:41
Speaker 1: one of the most interesting things you talked about, that
19:43
Speaker 1: it is both backs. You know, bog gets so much
19:46
Speaker 1: attention and rightfully so, but you've been extremely complimentary of
19:50
Speaker 1: Duke Clark as well from an offensive line perspective. How
19:54
Speaker 1: much harder is it on a defense when the second
19:57
Speaker 1: back coming into the game doesn't give.
20:00
Speaker 2: You a break at all?
20:02
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, it gets it gets really difficult. And look,
20:04
Speaker 3: Duke Clark, he'll he'll put his shoulder through your chest, too.
20:08
Speaker 3: Like he gets vertical. And I love that about he'll
20:10
Speaker 3: run through your face. But obviously he could take off
20:13
Speaker 3: for 60 plus yards. It's when you got a one
20:15
Speaker 3: to punch like that, when you have the best running
20:17
Speaker 3: back in college football and then Duke Clark right behind
20:19
Speaker 3: him that I think people are going to be really
20:21
Speaker 3: excited about. Once Bob, you're already really excited about it.
20:23
Speaker 3: But once ball leaves, it's like, hey, we we got
20:25
Speaker 3: we got another one. We're going to go ahead and reload.
20:27
Speaker 3: It's like, ah, this, it just makes it a nightmare
20:30
Speaker 3: for a defense. Cause a lot of times when that
20:31
Speaker 3: top guy goes out, it's like, all right, we get
20:33
Speaker 3: a breather. When this guy gets eight carries a game,
20:37
Speaker 3: it's like, all right, those six day cares, we get
20:38
Speaker 3: a blow and it's going to be a little bit simpler.
20:40
Speaker 3: It doesn't get that much easier when Duke Clark's in
20:42
Speaker 3: the game. And it just provides another variable that you
20:46
Speaker 3: have to prepare for. So that's another reason why, you know,
20:49
Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing, everybody's going to talk about
20:51
Speaker 3: ball and the run scheme and the offensive line and
20:53
Speaker 3: their mulling guys. I think the two biggest X factors
20:57
Speaker 3: besides the obvious things is. duke clark and just how
21:00
Speaker 3: fantastic his vision is how physical of a runner is
21:03
Speaker 3: and how he can pop some big runs and then
21:05
Speaker 3: the the blocking from your tight ends i think those
21:07
Speaker 3: two things of duke clark and the blocking from the
21:09
Speaker 3: tight ends are two things that should be talked about
21:12
Speaker 3: a lot more nationally when florida is brought up because
21:14
Speaker 3: that's another reason why it's working so well like if
21:16
Speaker 3: you don't good good blocking from your tight ends good
21:19
Speaker 3: luck having a successful run scheme especially counter or outside zone,
21:23
Speaker 3: like two things where you're going to either have your
21:25
Speaker 3: tight ends getting out blocking in space. You're going to
21:27
Speaker 3: have to have them seal guys in, or you're going
21:28
Speaker 3: to have to have them pull as well. Like they
21:31
Speaker 3: better be good. And they have been very, very good.
21:33
Speaker 3: So they deserve a lot of credit within that as well.
21:36
Speaker 2: Well, and you know, I, I agree with you.
21:38
Speaker 1: I don't think the blocking is getting nearly the attention
21:40
Speaker 1: outside of, you know, those that are really watching Florida
21:43
Speaker 1: on a very regular basis. Talk about the mentality of
21:47
Speaker 1: an offense that that blocks like this, like outside the scheme,
21:51
Speaker 1: when you have got tight ends willing to, and wide
21:55
Speaker 1: receivers too, willing to block in the way that they
21:57
Speaker 1: are for Florida, what does that tell you about the
21:59
Speaker 1: mental makeup of this team?
22:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, it tells me John Summerall came in and he
22:04
Speaker 3: challenged this program to be completely different. And we heard
22:08
Speaker 3: about it from the weight room and all those things.
22:10
Speaker 3: But he's a psychopath in the best way possible. And
22:13
Speaker 3: I think they've responded incredibly well. Because it's clear to me,
22:17
Speaker 3: he challenged it. Like, he wants to be a punch
22:19
Speaker 3: you in your mouth. Once again, you know, work the cut.
22:22
Speaker 3: Work the cut. I love that. That mentality, I know.
22:25
Speaker 3: It gave me chills. Whenever I see, like, a really good, like,
22:28
Speaker 3: speech from a coach. I get chills every single time.
22:31
Speaker 3: John Summerall gives me chills. Like it's just a different mentality.
22:35
Speaker 3: And when, and the biggest thing is like, you can
22:37
Speaker 3: talk about it all off season. You can do it
22:38
Speaker 3: in fall camp and talk about it. But once you
22:41
Speaker 3: actually go out there and do it and you do
22:43
Speaker 3: work the cut and you beat the crap out of someone.
22:45
Speaker 3: Like the confidence that then like the belief John Summer
22:48
Speaker 3: was like, see, I told you, you can wear these
22:50
Speaker 3: dudes down. You can out physical them, make them quit.
22:54
Speaker 3: Like when you start to feel that, like I made it,
22:56
Speaker 3: I made a team quit. Like Ole Miss didn't want
22:58
Speaker 3: no more. They did not want any more. You know,
23:01
Speaker 3: the euphoric feeling that comes over an offensive lineman, a
23:04
Speaker 3: tight end group, even wide receivers. Like, that's why it's contagious.
23:07
Speaker 3: And you see everybody out there blocking their butts off
23:10
Speaker 3: because it's like, hey, I want to get put up
23:13
Speaker 3: in the team room on the big screen. And I
23:15
Speaker 3: guarantee you these blocks are getting shown like they're everybody's
23:18
Speaker 3: celebrating what this what this squad is doing in the
23:21
Speaker 3: run game. And that becomes contagious. And that says, hey,
23:24
Speaker 3: I want to get on it, too. I want to
23:26
Speaker 3: be involved in this as well. And it just it
23:28
Speaker 3: makes it it makes it so easy for that to
23:31
Speaker 3: kind of leak over into every single guy. I'll tell
23:34
Speaker 3: you what, Harris hasn't gotten enough love either for what
23:36
Speaker 3: he's got. I, you know, cause everybody's really excited about
23:40
Speaker 3: Bryce Lovett and a Mecca was kind of a question.
23:41
Speaker 3: It's been, Oh, he's been awesome. And you know, everybody,
23:44
Speaker 3: she just Shanahan has been balling, but I feel like
23:45
Speaker 3: he's the one that's obviously been here for a while.
23:47
Speaker 3: And it's like, Hey, he's, he's been doing his thing.
23:50
Speaker 3: So it's, it's very exciting. Everybody I talked to that
23:53
Speaker 3: watches film, we've like all agreed, like it's not even close.
23:56
Speaker 3: The most fun film to watch every single week. Everybody's like,
23:59
Speaker 3: I want to cut on the Florida offense. It's, it's
24:01
Speaker 3: not even, it's really not even close because of just
24:03
Speaker 3: everything that they do, not only schematics wise, but also
24:06
Speaker 3: just the mentality of, that the squad has, it jumps
24:09
Speaker 3: off of the film.
24:10
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what, Florida fans deserve this after
24:12
Speaker 1: the last four years of purgatory that we have all
24:15
Speaker 1: been in. We talked a little bit about the no
24:18
Speaker 1: talent things. And, you know, I love the way that
24:21
Speaker 1: Phil presented that. And he honestly, he used it on
24:23
Speaker 1: our fan base last week. He was telling everybody like
24:25
Speaker 1: no talent things, get in the stands early, be loud,
24:28
Speaker 1: you know, disrupt the third downs.
24:30
Speaker 2: Like he was schooling all of us on that as well.
24:32
Speaker 1: But when you watch on Saturday, What's going to tell
24:37
Speaker 1: you early whether Florida's offensive line is winning that chess
24:41
Speaker 1: match against Missouri?
24:45
Speaker 3: I would say a lack of negative plays, which we
24:48
Speaker 3: really haven't seen many of. Like you look and there's
24:50
Speaker 3: not many TFLs to speak of. Sure. With how often
24:54
Speaker 3: this front moves and the combination of like what Mizzou
24:57
Speaker 3: presents as a defense and also the little bit of
25:00
Speaker 3: we talking about like reading your own newspaper clippings. Do
25:04
Speaker 3: you rest on your laurels a little bit, and do
25:06
Speaker 3: you get punched in the mouth? That's what I'd be
25:07
Speaker 3: looking for. If this Florida team comes out and just
25:10
Speaker 3: straight up, I see them look exactly how they looked
25:13
Speaker 3: against Ole Miss, and I see the little details where
25:15
Speaker 3: they move, and the guys are doing exactly what they
25:17
Speaker 3: need to do when the problem is presented. Oh, there
25:20
Speaker 3: we go. I saw that a million times on the test.
25:22
Speaker 3: I saw that a million times in practice. Trout repped
25:24
Speaker 3: it over and over. Here we go. That's what will
25:27
Speaker 3: tell me. But I think the biggest overall indicator would
25:30
Speaker 3: be lack of negative plays, which you really have not
25:32
Speaker 3: had much of. But as long as I don't see that,
25:35
Speaker 3: that would lead me to believe that this is going
25:37
Speaker 3: to be the same group that you have seen in
25:39
Speaker 3: weeks past.
25:40
Speaker 2: All right. Four games into the season, Florida's 4-0.
25:43
Speaker 1: They opened in July as like the over-under on win
25:47
Speaker 1: total was six and a half. It got moved at
25:49
Speaker 1: seven and a half. And then before the season started,
25:52
Speaker 1: after Auburn, it got moved to.
25:54
Speaker 2: Eight and a half.
25:54
Speaker 1: Yesterday, it got moved to nine and a half. What's
25:57
Speaker 1: the ceiling on this team? And what do you think
25:59
Speaker 1: is the outcome on Saturday?
26:02
Speaker 3: Well, first off, I think they are going to go in.
26:04
Speaker 3: I think they're going to punish Mizzou. I think it's
26:06
Speaker 3: a Mizzou team that some people say, I don't know
26:08
Speaker 3: exactly why they're ranked at this moment. But I think
26:12
Speaker 3: they're going to get full on punishment from Buster Faulkner,
26:16
Speaker 3: John Summerall, the entire crew. you look at this, you
26:19
Speaker 3: obviously get the South Carolina and then you go into
26:23
Speaker 3: what is the gauntlet. Now you get a, you get
26:24
Speaker 3: the bi-week before, before that Georgia game, but Texas, Georgia
26:27
Speaker 3: back to back with the bi-week in between. That's, that's
26:31
Speaker 3: where it's going to be like, like, you know, you
26:33
Speaker 3: steal one of those, you go one in one in that.
26:36
Speaker 3: And by God, it's going to get crazy down in Gainesville. Like,
26:39
Speaker 3: you know, I don't think anybody's– I would not expect
26:41
Speaker 3: Florida coming away. I'm not saying, you know, maybe some
26:43
Speaker 3: people are undefeated.
26:45
Speaker 1: But, I mean, you just– Which has never happened in
26:48
Speaker 1: Florida's like 125 years of playing college football, by the way.
26:52
Speaker 3: Wow. I didn't know that. Neither of the Natty teams
26:55
Speaker 3: were undefeated?
26:55
Speaker 2: Neither of the Natty teams were undefeated.
26:57
Speaker 3: Wow. Okay.
26:59
Speaker 1: All right. 06 lost to Auburn. 08 is Ole Miss.
27:03
Speaker 1: That's where the, like, promise speech comes from. And 96,
27:08
Speaker 1: they lost to Florida State at the end of the
27:10
Speaker 1: year and then avenged it in the national title game,
27:13
Speaker 1: beat them 52-20. And the 0-9 team went undefeated in
27:18
Speaker 1: the regular season and lost in the SEC championship game,
27:23
Speaker 1: so then never made it to the natty that year.
27:26
Speaker 3: Holy cow. Wow. But wait, it's at Texas and at Georgia.
27:31
Speaker 2: It's well, it's at Texas and it's in Atlanta.
27:33
Speaker 1: Cause that game is generally always played in Jacksonville, but
27:36
Speaker 1: the stadium's under renovation. So I don't know why they
27:39
Speaker 1: didn't choose to do Athens and Gainesville. They absolutely should
27:42
Speaker 1: have in the nineties when the stadium got renovated, they
27:44
Speaker 1: did it that way. I think every generation should get
27:46
Speaker 1: to experience between the hedges and in the swamp once,
27:49
Speaker 1: but They didn't pull me.
27:51
Speaker 2: And so, you know, it's in Atlanta.
27:54
Speaker 3: I hate, by the way, a game like that where
27:56
Speaker 3: it's Florida and Georgia. I hate the fact that it's
27:58
Speaker 3: not going to be on a college campus. That makes
28:00
Speaker 3: me angry.
28:00
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what.
28:01
Speaker 1: You need to make it down to Jacksonville one time
28:04
Speaker 1: when it is there because it is.
28:06
Speaker 2: One of the coolest things ever.
28:07
Speaker 1: The entire stadium, the way they do the tickets, is
28:09
Speaker 1: split exactly 50-50. So each end zone is half red
28:13
Speaker 1: and black, half orange and blue, all the way around.
28:15
Speaker 1: It starts out really hot. It's a 3.30 kick always.
28:18
Speaker 1: By the time the game is over, though, it's freezing
28:21
Speaker 1: and windy off the river. People show up on Wednesday
28:24
Speaker 1: to start their tailgating. There's an RV city that gets
28:27
Speaker 1: set up. I am a fan of it always, staying
28:30
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. Now this Atlanta stuff, not a fan of that.
28:35
Speaker 3: I feel, all right, I'm going to have to make
28:36
Speaker 3: it down for one of those once we get back
28:38
Speaker 3: to Jacksonville. That sounds like a plan. But look, yeah,
28:40
Speaker 3: I think Penn and two is very much obviously in
28:43
Speaker 3: the grasp when you look at this, but you go
28:45
Speaker 3: 11 and one, you split one of those. Like I said,
28:47
Speaker 3: I think people are going to start to really, really
28:50
Speaker 3: talk here. And I mean, Texas has been tested. I've
28:53
Speaker 3: seen Georgia up to this point, you know, with what
28:55
Speaker 3: happened to Oklahoma, it kind of fell off the rails there. So,
28:59
Speaker 3: you know, you haven't truly had a test if you're Georgia,
29:01
Speaker 3: but I do look at them as one of these juggernauts,
29:03
Speaker 3: but look, Florida, proven team in college football. I know
29:08
Speaker 3: you can say Texas because they had the Ohio State battle.
29:09
Speaker 3: Ohio State looks like a good squad and went to
29:12
Speaker 3: Tennessee and battled. That's going to be a gritty win.
29:15
Speaker 3: Texas deserves that. But just what Florida has done up
29:19
Speaker 3: to this point, I don't know. The door closed shut.
29:23
Speaker 3: They leave no room for question. I think this Mizzou
29:26
Speaker 3: game is so big for the reason of like, People
29:29
Speaker 3: after Ole Miss like, OK, we believe it was like, OK,
29:32
Speaker 3: you beat Auburn. Auburn kind of sucks. Let's see. It
29:34
Speaker 3: was like, oh, we believe this is the real deal.
29:36
Speaker 3: But now, as you said earlier, how do you do
29:39
Speaker 3: when you are now? the hunted how do you do
29:41
Speaker 3: how do you do when you're the top dog now
29:43
Speaker 3: the good news is that you get to go in
29:44
Speaker 3: those two games and you're probably going to be the
29:45
Speaker 3: underdog in both of them so you still get to
29:47
Speaker 3: have that yeah which is awesome that's definitely going to
29:49
Speaker 3: help you out but uh But, yeah, listen, I'm excited
29:53
Speaker 3: to follow. You know me. I'm going to do a
29:55
Speaker 3: film breakdown every week. It's probably going to keep me
29:56
Speaker 3: in the run game, and I'm going to enjoy watching
29:59
Speaker 3: what is the most exciting offense in college football. All right.
30:02
Speaker 2: Well, I love it.
30:02
Speaker 1: Tell everybody where they can check out your work, find
30:04
Speaker 1: you on social media, all the things.
30:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can find me, Landon Tangwall. It's T-E-N-G-W-A-L-L on Twitter.
30:12
Speaker 3: Landon Tangwall, College Football Show on YouTube. Check it out.
30:15
Speaker 3: We do a lot of film breakdowns, mainly SEC film breakdowns.
30:18
Speaker 3: We'll cover the heck out of it, and we'll be
30:20
Speaker 3: going deep into the playoffs too, which I don't know.
30:23
Speaker 3: There might be a game in Gainesville. Hopefully not, actually.
30:26
Speaker 3: Hopefully not. Hopefully you got a bye week or something
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Speaker 3: like that. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I might be okay with not having a bye week
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Speaker 3: It'd be worth it.
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Speaker 2: It would be worth it. You would have to come
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Speaker 2: down for that one for sure. But all right. Well,
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