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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to A Peak Inside Gator Football. I'm Allie
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  Speaker 1: Peek and Saturday the Florida Gators and the Georgia Bulldogs
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  Speaker 1: renew one of college football's great rivalries. This time it's
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  Speaker 1: happening in Atlanta and while Georgia is favored, there is
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  Speaker 1: a fascinating chess match developing between two coaches.
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  Speaker 2: Who know each other extremely well.
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  Speaker 1: Florida Offensive Coordinator Buster Faulkner and Georgia Defensive Coordinator Glenn
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  Speaker 1: Schumann Joining me today is someone who has spent a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous amount of time breaking down both sides of this
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  Speaker 1: matchup on film, Brooks Austin. You guys know him as
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  Speaker 1: the film guy. Brooks, appreciate you joining me today.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt. I'm excited for this one. I'll be in attendance.
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  Speaker 3: First time watching Florida in person all year long, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited for this one. I'll be on the sidelines,
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  Speaker 3: so it should be a good one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited too.
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  Speaker 1: I will be watching at home, taking five children trick-or-treating
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  Speaker 1: and trying to watch the game at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm excited for it.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed your recent breakdown of Buster Faulkner's previous
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  Speaker 1: matchups against Georgia. And I think something that really stood
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  Speaker 1: out to me was that you clearly have a ton
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  Speaker 1: of respect for what he does schematically.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll start here.
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  Speaker 1: Does Buster Faulkner give Florida a legitimate advantage in this
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  Speaker 1: game that maybe isn't reflected in the point spread?
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  Speaker 3: There's an advantage is tough to say, but will you have,
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  Speaker 3: do you feel confident going into this because you have
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  Speaker 3: a familiarity with your opponent? 100%. This is not a
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  Speaker 3: guy that just like spent time at Georgia. He spent
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  Speaker 3: time as a quality control analyst over there at Georgia
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  Speaker 3: and for years understood like, okay, well, this is what
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  Speaker 3: they do. This is how they do it. This is
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  Speaker 3: how this defensive brainstem, this is how they see football.
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  Speaker 3: All that being said, Will Muschamp was also on that
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  Speaker 3: defensive staff, and I just got done watching the first,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, 50 clips of that Texas matchup. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think there's been a defensive coordinator prepared for Buster
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  Speaker 3: better than Muschamp was from an alignment standpoint. He made
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  Speaker 3: him in the second half really like basically chop up
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  Speaker 3: the entire game plan and start from anew at half. Now,
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  Speaker 3: to Buster's credit, he did exactly that, found the answers
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  Speaker 3: to what they were doing to him, and ended up
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  Speaker 3: putting up enough points to win the football game. But
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  Speaker 3: there's a ton of familiarity here. Now, what I have
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  Speaker 3: a tremendous amount of respect for Buster is what I
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  Speaker 3: just alluded to. He understands, A, what the defense is doing.
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  Speaker 3: But B, how to put that into conflict and put
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  Speaker 3: it into conflict right now. All that being said, in
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  Speaker 3: order for him to do that, he's still got to
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  Speaker 3: be in third and manageable situations anytime. And that's every offense.
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  Speaker 3: But it's really an offense that has young quarterback play.
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  Speaker 3: Or when he was at Georgia Tech, an offense that
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  Speaker 3: had a quarterback deficiency from a throwing standpoint. Like say
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  Speaker 3: what you want about Haynes King, he's just not the
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  Speaker 3: best pure passer in the world. So they had to
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  Speaker 3: be in third and five or better offensively. And right
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  Speaker 3: now with the way Florida's quarterback situation is, I would
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  Speaker 3: agree with that same sentiment being applied here. We've got
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  Speaker 3: to do everything we can on first and second down
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  Speaker 3: to not only be explosive, but also make sure we're
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  Speaker 3: putting ourselves in manageable counts on third down in this
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  Speaker 3: football game if I'm Buster.
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  Speaker 1: In your breakdown, you showed how Georgia kind of adapted
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  Speaker 1: from 2023 into 2025.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Particularly how they defended that quarterback run game that you
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  Speaker 1: just talked about and that they shifted between different coverages.
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  Speaker 1: And we saw Schumann have more success against Faulkner last year.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that that's an evolution and now he's
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  Speaker 1: kind of figured out how to defend Buster Faulkner? Or
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  Speaker 1: was that more about Georgia Tech getting beat physically up front?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say a couple of it. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I'll just put it this way. I think the world
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  Speaker 3: of college football has defensively has gotten much better at
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  Speaker 3: fitting quarterback counter read. They've certainly got better at fitting
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  Speaker 3: counter in general because more and more teams are running this.
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  Speaker 3: Four or five years ago, everybody was an inside zone,
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  Speaker 3: wide zone football team. And nowadays you look up and
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  Speaker 3: almost everybody's running some form of counter. The add-on to
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  Speaker 3: that is to bring jet motion and then do it
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  Speaker 3: with our quarterback where we're running counter off of that
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  Speaker 3: jet action read. That's why we call it quarterback counter read.
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  Speaker 3: So I think the world of defensive football has gotten
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  Speaker 3: much better at fitting this. And certainly Georgia's defensive line
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  Speaker 3: got much better from 23 to 25. In 2023, Krista
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  Speaker 3: Miller is a very young football player. By 2025, he
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  Speaker 3: was a late second-round draft pick, right? In 2023, Elijah
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  Speaker 3: Griffin was a junior in high school. By 2025, he
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  Speaker 3: was one of the best freshman defensive linemen we had
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  Speaker 3: in college football last year. So certainly, Georgia's defensive line
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  Speaker 3: had gotten better. C.J. Allen was a true freshman in 2023,
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  Speaker 3: playing a lot of snaps. Raylon Wilson was still a
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  Speaker 3: young football player. by 2025, those guys had played, you know,
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  Speaker 3: 30 some odd games of college football. So yes, Georgia
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  Speaker 3: had gotten better in the box, but I also think
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  Speaker 3: the defensive structures of football have gotten much better at
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  Speaker 3: fitting these counter aspects. So it's why I think you've
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  Speaker 3: seen Buster rely a little bit more on stretch and
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  Speaker 3: do things like that and get into more of a,
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  Speaker 3: of a stretch play action rollout type of offensive system.
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  Speaker 3: But even that I'm worried now has a I just
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  Speaker 3: tweeted out a video of Texas linebackers. Like every time
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  Speaker 3: they were in pistol with the ball on the near hash,
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  Speaker 3: Justin Cryer, the linebacker from Texas is turning around and
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  Speaker 3: he's pantomiming.
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  Speaker 2: I actually saw that live.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Those things worry me, but I was also
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  Speaker 3: tipped off to that when Eli Drinkowitz gives you a
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  Speaker 3: thumping and then post games like, yeah, I mean the more,
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  Speaker 3: the more tape they put on, the more tendencies they have,
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  Speaker 3: the more things that we expect are coming. Those things
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  Speaker 3: scare me. We have to buck those trends. We have
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  Speaker 3: to do some self-scouting, and we have to get away
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  Speaker 3: from those things that defenses are tipped off on.
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  Speaker 1: So were those things that were also tendencies of his
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech offense that we either, A, didn't pick up on,
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  Speaker 1: or B, do you think maybe overlooked because it was
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech as opposed to Florida?
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  Speaker 3: Don't want to be demeaning to Georgia Tech, but certainly not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Georgia Tech was never maybe possibly not really
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  Speaker 3: compared to 2019 LSU, but that never happened with those guys.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? So you were a bit
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  Speaker 3: more of a threat to the world of college football.
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  Speaker 3: You were certainly more of a threat to better defenses
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  Speaker 3: that have to play you and have you on the schedule.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think I've ever seen Georgia players, if
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  Speaker 3: they knew– The tip, I don't think I've ever seen
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  Speaker 3: them on tape show that they knew the tip. They
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  Speaker 3: just reacted. And that would be the only team that
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  Speaker 3: I know year over year faced them every year other
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  Speaker 3: than Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh boxed them up pretty good a couple
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  Speaker 3: years ago. NC State got them pretty good a couple
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  Speaker 3: years ago. There are certain ACC teams that saw Buster
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  Speaker 3: time and time again. But again, I didn't see anything
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  Speaker 3: as absolutely, oh my God, he knows what's about to
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  Speaker 3: happen again. As I've seen on, on Texas tape and,
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  Speaker 3: and some of these coaches like you, I drink with
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  Speaker 3: post game. I haven't seen any of that yet.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, we talk about offensive tendencies. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about defensive tendencies. If you're Buster and I know this
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  Speaker 1: Georgia defense is, is really good, but is there something
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  Speaker 1: that he's seen on film from Georgia that if you're Buster,
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  Speaker 3: You know, Keith Niebuhr actually asked me this earlier in
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  Speaker 3: the week, and I basically told him, like, Buster seems
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  Speaker 3: to attack individual matchups against Georgia in the three previous matchups. Like,
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  Speaker 3: it's very clear if you sit there and watch Georgia
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  Speaker 3: Tech football against Georgia the last three years, he was, like,
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  Speaker 3: circling one football player on critical downs and trying to
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  Speaker 3: hit explosives, right? In 2023, I felt like it was
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  Speaker 3: Tykee Smith In 2024, I felt like it was Dan Jackson.
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  Speaker 3: And then in 2025, they never really got an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to hunt. They were constantly in tough situations, whether it
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  Speaker 3: be due to penalties or due to TFLs or due
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  Speaker 3: to sacks. They just weren't able to get into these
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  Speaker 3: counts to be able to be aggressive. And in this
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  Speaker 3: football season, the only guy in the defensive backfield that
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  Speaker 3: I would look at and I would say from Georgia,
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  Speaker 3: that's obviously the guy we need to go after. It's
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  Speaker 3: Jamello Jones. Um, number eight, the corner, I would, I
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  Speaker 3: would say that would be the guy that I'd be
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  Speaker 3: going after. Um, I don't think I would hunt after
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  Speaker 3: Ellis Robinson. He's bound to make some miraculous play. Um,
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  Speaker 3: I KJ Barnes, Khalil Barnes has been really good. Most
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  Speaker 3: of the year, I would argue he had his worst
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  Speaker 3: performance against Auburn, but that was from a tackling perspective. Um,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't know if you guys have anybody that
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  Speaker 3: is like Byron Brown. Now you do have a Jane ball.
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  Speaker 3: And that's great. I would get him the rock, and
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  Speaker 3: that's obvious. Everybody knows that. You don't have to be
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  Speaker 3: a ball knower to know that 13's got to get
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  Speaker 3: loose for Florida to win this football game. But you
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  Speaker 3: could possibly get on top of Khalil if Eric Singleton's healthy.
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  Speaker 3: I would use Dallas Wilson to attack DeMello, and then
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  Speaker 3: I would try to get the nickel with speed by
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  Speaker 3: doing that with Eric Singleton, assuming everybody's healthy. And obviously Trammell,
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  Speaker 3: if he's healthy. Or not Trammell, Vernell. If Vernell's healthy,
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  Speaker 3: like that, that adds a whole different.
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  Speaker 1: Type of x factor to this offense And we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to him being back in a minute. I do think
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  Speaker 1: Florida's going to be at full capacity for wide receiver,
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  Speaker 1: which is going to be the first time that's happened
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  Speaker 1: five plays into the FAU game.
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  Speaker 2: But one of the things.
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  Speaker 1: That stood out to me about your preview was that
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  Speaker 1: Florida's offensive line had looked like a potential Joe Moore
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  Speaker 1: award contender earlier.
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  Speaker 3: In the year.
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  Speaker 1: And then things really changed against Missouri and South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: And I think when we talked over the summer at
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  Speaker 1: SEC Media Days, we spent a lot of time talking
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  Speaker 1: about this offensive line and talking about how kind of
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  Speaker 1: the ceiling of this offense depended on how well they
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  Speaker 1: came together. And you mentioned in your preview wanting to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what was behind the drop-off. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: do you think the competition's figured out how to defend
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  Speaker 1: Florida's run game? Or did something fundamentally change with the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line?
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say there was fundamental changes. I would say
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  Speaker 3: level of competition has certainly changed. Like, it's just the
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  Speaker 3: reality of the situation is y'all played really good defenses
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  Speaker 3: as of late, too. Missouri, if anybody knows how to
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  Speaker 3: stop the stretch run game, it's Eli Drinkowitz. Reason being,
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  Speaker 3: they've ran it better than anybody else in this conference
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  Speaker 3: for four or five years. He knew what was going
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  Speaker 3: on there. Texas is just really freaking good. I know
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  Speaker 3: that's breaking news, but they're just a great defense.
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  Speaker 2: The Gators actually did better against them.
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  Speaker 3: They did. I think a lot of that had to
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  Speaker 3: do with finding new ways to run the football. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to show some of that tomorrow. I just, like
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  Speaker 3: I said, just got done watching the first half of
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  Speaker 3: that football game, and we're going to be breaking that
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  Speaker 3: down on our channel tomorrow morning. But just newer run schemes,
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  Speaker 3: like you're still bad at running stretch. They still got
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  Speaker 3: the face off of that. So the 88 yards from
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  Speaker 3: ball had to be found somewhere else. I'll find them.
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  Speaker 3: I'll figure out where they were. And I think it
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  Speaker 3: was a lot, like I said, of newer run schemes.
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  Speaker 3: Like there's one where it looks like they're, They've inverted
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  Speaker 3: the responsibilities of read option. It looks like the quarterback's
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  Speaker 3: actually going to be running a zone to the boundary,
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  Speaker 3: and they're going to let the running back be like
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  Speaker 3: what would be a read option quarterback keep. It's funny.
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  Speaker 3: He's doing different things because he's got to now to
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  Speaker 3: establish the run and get back to being able to
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  Speaker 3: run the football. I think the reality is you face
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  Speaker 3: really good defenses, but there has been a level of
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  Speaker 3: you've been whipped. Like I felt like, like Missouri did
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  Speaker 3: some schematical stuff to give you problems, but bottom line,
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  Speaker 3: they brought the fight and punched you in the chin
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  Speaker 3: and you weren't ready. You weren't, you weren't ready for
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  Speaker 3: the punch and you definitely did not punch back. Um,
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  Speaker 3: so I think there's a, there's some realities there as well.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, we've got to match the energy. Which I
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  Speaker 3: think they got right.
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  Speaker 1: Last week, but just didn't get right the weeks before.
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  Speaker 1: So fixing it, moving forward, doing what you can do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously there's some pieces you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to get into the portal or you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to develop from high school.
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  Speaker 2: There's not a quick fix there.
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  Speaker 1: But is there a way to win some individual matchups
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  Speaker 1: or like scheme slightly differently to put a bandaid on
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  Speaker 1: it through the rest of the year? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I would go the route of like, give
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  Speaker 3: them a variety of fits. Basically what I'm alluding to,
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm going to find in the second half
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  Speaker 3: of that Texas game to find running success. Like I
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  Speaker 3: would imagine y'all just threw the kitchen sink at them.
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  Speaker 3: And if that's the case, instead of being like a
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  Speaker 3: like we're going to run stretch and we're going to
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  Speaker 3: run counter. Well, we're going to give them five different
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  Speaker 3: looks on a 12 play drive. And now they've got
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  Speaker 3: to fit all five correctly. And if they don't, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to spit one that that would be the approach
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  Speaker 3: that I would take. Like if we're not good enough
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  Speaker 3: to physically go out and just beat people man to man.
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  Speaker 3: then we need to be a little bit more diverse
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  Speaker 3: in our run schemes. And I think that's the thing
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  Speaker 3: that Buster is known for. When I study him, when
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  Speaker 3: I talk to people in the football world about like,
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  Speaker 3: what do you connote with Buster? And the number one
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  Speaker 3: word I hear the most is volume. Like the amount
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  Speaker 3: of things that we're going to give you, right? The
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  Speaker 3: amount of things that we're going to have to prepare for,
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  Speaker 3: the amount of things that we're going to have to fit.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's what stopping runs are. It's making sure we
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  Speaker 3: have a body in all the gaps. We have to
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  Speaker 3: fit it properly. and the more and more volume we
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  Speaker 3: throw at defenses, the more there's a likelihood that they
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  Speaker 3: will misfit a run. So that would be my immediate answer,
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  Speaker 3: but that's a lot easier said than done because then
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  Speaker 3: we become like the old master of none thing where
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  Speaker 3: we're not really good at anything, but we're doing a
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  Speaker 3: lot of it, and we're doing a lot of it poorly.
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  Speaker 3: That's not necessarily a great recipe for success, but I
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  Speaker 3: would go the volume route because Jaden is that individually excellent.
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  Speaker 3: Even if we don't block it up perfectly and we
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  Speaker 3: let somebody loose, it's okay. 13 is going to take
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  Speaker 3: care of us. What we can't do is have five
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  Speaker 3: guys get put in the backfield.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and, you know, Jaden Baugh is kind of where
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  Speaker 1: I want to go next on this. Against Georgia's front,
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  Speaker 1: is Florida capable of consistently running the football? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I look at his game against Texas and Quietly, almost
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  Speaker 1: 100 yards. Nothing that was so overly impressive.
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  Speaker 2: No explosives, truly.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing that stood out in the way that he stood
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  Speaker 1: out in some of his previous games. But it is
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  Speaker 1: what allowed the offense to move the chains and to
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  Speaker 1: put points on the board. Do you have to manufacture
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  Speaker 1: those rushing yards in unconventional ways?
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  Speaker 2: What do you do with Ba against Georgia?
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  Speaker 3: I'll say this. Georgia's a really good defense. To me,
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  Speaker 3: they're a top five, top ten defense in the sport
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  Speaker 3: right now. But it's not like they're the 85 bears
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  Speaker 3: in the run department exactly at the moment. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: a box score guy, but look at the box scores.
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  Speaker 3: They've given up over 100 yards rushing four out of
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  Speaker 3: their eight games this year. It's not like they're going
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  Speaker 3: out there and holding everybody. Allie, there was a stretch
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  Speaker 3: of Georgia football. where they went 24 games in a
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  Speaker 3: row without allowing 100 yards, not to a single rusher,
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  Speaker 3: to a team. Wow. From late 2018 when Jordan Davis
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  Speaker 3: got implemented at the nose tackle position all the way
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  Speaker 3: until he left, they did not allow 100 yards to
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  Speaker 3: a single football team. They're not that anymore, but they
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  Speaker 3: are still really tough to down-to-down beat. That being said,
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  Speaker 3: Alabama creased them. Once or twice, Treshawn Brown got loose
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  Speaker 3: for a 58-yarder. I think it was a busted assignment,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm not in the room. But let's say Alabama
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  Speaker 3: got him once with a 58-yard explosive. Byron Brown is
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  Speaker 3: individually excellent. That's what I think that is. I think
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  Speaker 3: Byron Brown, every once in a while, well, four out
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: of his five SEC games this year, he's rushed for
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: over 100 yards. He's getting everybody. So there's that. Western
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Kentucky got him, but I think Western Kentucky was just
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: trying to run the ball. because they were trying to
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: get the hell out of there and still gave up
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: 70 points. So there has been some success on the
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: ground so far this year. So yeah, there is a
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: recipe where we look up and Florida's got, they don't
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: need to rush for 200, but if they get 140
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: yards on the ground, they've now created balance offensively. It's
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: also the reason why, and I think Philo is the
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: much better thrower of the football. I think he elevates
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: the offense from a play action passing standpoint. He's much
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: better in the pocket under pressure. But from a variety
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: of run game that we talked about earlier, the answer
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: is undoubtedly Trammell. He provides a little bit more of
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: an explosive metric there and it opens more doors for
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Buster to get a little bit more creative in his
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: run packages than Philo does. Philo is a north and
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: south runner. He is a three yards and cloud of
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: dust runner. That's not exactly going to work. against a
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Georgia defense that that's what they want you to do.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Georgia wants you, Georgia dares you to go 18 plays
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: on drives. It's like, you're going to inevitably mess up
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: or we're going to beat you at some point. That's
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: been their defensive MO since day one under Kirby Smart.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: And we're a decade into this.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: This is a really interesting quarterback conversation, I think. And
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Florida fan base has been having it like ad nauseum on.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Social media this week.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: And I think it it appears that the fan base
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: does kind of side with you there. They favor Trammell Jones.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's because they actually think
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: he's the better matchup or if they have the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: syndrome where they see 1-0 against Texas. And I do
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: think it's important to note that Philo went 4-0 in
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: his first four. But one of the things we've seen suggested,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Steve Spurrier is actually who suggested it first, but could
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: a two-quarterback approach actually– create problems for Georgia's defense or
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: do you think that it's a bigger risk to disrupting
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Florida's offensive rhythm and that these guys maybe have too
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: similar of a skill set to to rotate them I've I've.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Never been a look Steve Spurrier has forgotten more football
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: than I'll ever even venture to learn in my life
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: so but I personally have never been a fan of
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: the two quarterback system I've always believed that if you're
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: playing two quarterbacks, you have no quarterback.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Which he's also said at points in his career too.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's always been my adage on that. And
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: having been a player myself, the idea of working myself
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: into a flow of the football game is impossible, especially
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: if I'm a quarterback. It's one thing if I'm a
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: center or an offensive tackle and I'm in every other drive.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I'm a quarterback and it's just like, well, he's had
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: two good drives in a row, so he's going to
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: get a third one. But if he sucks on the
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: third one, don't worry, you're coming back in like that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: That bothers me. I would I would have a problem
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: getting into a flow. But from are they going to
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: be prepared? Is it one more thing you have to
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: throw into them? I think the the idea that you
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: have a name to starter and that every time John
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: gets in front of a microphone, he's like, well, they're
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: both hurt and they're both going to play. But we're
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: not going to play two quarterbacks. but we might have
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: to play them both I think that alone has already
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: done its job of making Georgia's defensive staff prepare for
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: both yeah we've already done the job the job when
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: we do that in my mind from a football's perspective
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: is like we just want to soak up like 30
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: hours of prep for them to make sure that they
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: have to prepare for the other guy And if we
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: just get that done, that's a win. We put that
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: in the win column from a preparation and time management standpoint.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: We are probably going to see all of Florida's offensive
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: weapons healthy and available for the first time since the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: first series in FAU.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: You have talked about.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: The combination of Singleton and Brown and Wilson and how
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: much Faulkner uses the screen game to create explosive opportunities.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: How much does that offense change? when all three of
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: those guys are available?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: And does it create a matchup where they could exploit
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: something in Georgia's secondary?
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, certainly. Now, look, here's the deal. I
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: think there are five NFL wide receivers in this football game.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: I think Georgia's got two of them, Talon Taylor and
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Craig Dangerous. I think you guys got three of them.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: So what breaks? What gets, right? The difference is I
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: think Georgia's got three NFL defensive backs. Ellis Robinson, KJ Bolden,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: we'll see if he's fully healthy, and Kahlil Barnes. I
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: don't know how many pro defensive backs Florida has. It
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: looks to me performance-wise like they don't have too many.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: So something's going to give there. I think the ultimate
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: thing is we've got to tackle. I think they're going
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: to get theirs is what I'm saying. Who tackles in
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: the open field will ultimately probably decide the overall output.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: of these wide receivers. There's no doubt. It's one thing
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: we talked about last night on our preview is just like,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: I'm scared to death. I'm scared to death of these
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: wide receivers on both sides of the football. They're all really,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: really freaking good. And this is the first time Georgia's
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: been in this category in a very long time. I
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: would say four or five years since they've had, you know,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: two really, really good wide receivers.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: We talked about you know, the positives and the negatives
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: to Jones and to Philo. Do you think, because we
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: were told that the reason that Philo won the starting
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: job to begin with is in large part due to
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: having a larger grasp on the offense, is there a
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: chapter of the playbook that's never been opened because we
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: haven't had all three top targets and Baugh available, and
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: that makes you potentially lean Philo? Because if it's understanding
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the offense.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: No. No. No, I don't think they're going to magically
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: reinvent the wheel offensively here now that they're healthy. Also
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: because they were healthy during fall camp where we installed
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: most of our work.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: If an offensive playbook is 100 pages long, by the
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: time spring rolls around, summer installations happen, fall camp happens,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: we should have about 90 of those 100 pages ready
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: to go. They should have been practiced, repped. like understood
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: we've got full grasp of it the last 10 are
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: in-season adjustments week-to-week tweaks that we have to like change
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: pictures of hey maybe we like this match up a
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: little bit more so here's how we're going to exploit
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: this hey this is a covered three football team so
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: we're going to do certain things to to create problems
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: here the bulk of the work is already done from
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: a this is what we do standpoint so I don't
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: think much is going to change other than hopefully for
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Florida fans' sake, is the overall output of the offense, right?
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Eric has been in and out, and the performance and
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: the output of him has been, I think, directly relative
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: to how well he feels. Sure. But I think the offense,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: like this offense's inability to get back into third and
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: four has been directly impacted by Vernell not being there.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: By the way, with my football brain, the Vernell-Tramel thing
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: is throwing me into an absolute corkscrew. Tremel or Vernel
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: said it again, Vernel's ability to catch the football and
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: take off right now. Um, and not just go get
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: seven yards, but maybe take it 70, um, has made
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: deep when he's healthy, it's made defenses completely changed the pictures. Um,
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: and that's opened up a lot of other things. So
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: having him back, I think is the most important thing
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: here for this offense.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: We've talked, you know, at nauseam about Faulkner and Schumann's
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: relationship and their familiarity with each other. But there is
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of familiarity between Mike Bobo and Brad White
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: And you mentioned that in your video.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: And you mentioned Bobo's ability to attack defenses that struggle
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: passing off receivers in zone coverage. Knowing what you've seen
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: from Florida's secondary this year and, you know, what we've
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: talked about the last few minutes, how do you expect
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Bobo to attack the Gators? And is it just absolutely
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: exploiting that secondary? And what could Brad White do differently
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: to keep Georgia from finding explosive plays?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, to me, the answer or the Band-Aid for
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: the back end against Texas was, well, we're just going
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: to hit the shit out of the quarterback. That's what
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: we're going to do. And if you watch the, and
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: we did, if you watch the Florida film or the
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Texas film, Texas offense versus Florida's defense, it wasn't like
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: dudes weren't still running open. The quarterback just wasn't hitting them.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: And while the quarterback was getting hit, it made him
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: very uncomfortable. So you added in a lot of pressures
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: you got after the quarterback. I don't know if that's
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: going to be a recipe for success against Georgia. A,
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: I think they're ninth in the country in sacks allowed.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: They've only allowed eight sacks all year. B, Gunner Stockton
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: gets the ball out of his hands really well. C,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: they're a play-action rollout football team just like you are.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: So we call it manipulating the launch point. Where the
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: quarterback is now ain't going to be where he's designed
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: to throw the football from, so it's not like we
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: can hone in the pressures on one spot. And C,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I think I'm at C, maybe D, D, Gunnar Stockton
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: is the lead against the Blitz. I mean, since the
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: guy's been in the lineup, dating back to even the
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Texas matchup in the SEC championship game, the last thing
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: you want to do to number 14 is Blitz him.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: He's way too smart. He's played way too much football
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: at this point. He understands where the pressures are coming from,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: thus understands the defense that you're in and where you're
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: vulnerable at then. So, yeah, I don't know what Gibbs
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: there from Florida defensively. I guess just hope you get
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: some turnovers and hope you can make them one-dimensional, get
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: them behind the chains, get them in automatic passing downs.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Those are the basic-ass analysis points that we have to
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: give when we really don't know what the advantage is defensively. Oh, well,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: let's shut them down in the run game. Okay, easier
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: said than done. Let's get them in third and long. Okay,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: easier said than done. You know what I'm saying? I
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: don't know what I would do if I'm Florida's defense
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: schematically to, quote, unquote, give Georgia problems.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: And honestly, Allie, I don't think anybody has really given
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: them problems. Yeah. I mean, if you really look at it,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: they've moved the ball up and down the field all
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: season long. Um, they, they are the number one team
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: in about, I think nine of 10 critical statistical categories
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: in this, in this conference offensively, like they have been
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: phenomenal on the offensive side of the football. The only
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: thing Auburn did was get three turnovers. Sure.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Well, and I, and that's, that's basically what I'm going
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: to ask you before you get out of here is,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: is the path. And, and speaking of those statistical categories,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: that's something I've looked at a lot this week. And
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: something I did find interesting is that Florida is actually
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: a tick more effective in the red zone than Georgia is.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: but Florida scores more field goals than Georgia does. So
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I do think that's maybe part of this, is that
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: when Florida gets in the red zone, walking away with
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: seven instead of three.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: But what would a Florida upset actually look like?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: You have studied both programs extensively, and I don't think
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: it's likely that Florida wins. But if they walk out
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: on Saturday night, why?
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Why did that happen?
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, turnovers, another inexplicably bad game from Gunnar. Um, that would,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: that would be the first thing maybe, uh, obviously getting
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Jaden ball loose and having him run and have some
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: explosives there. Um, Vernel being back, getting some explosives there.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Like the old adage in football was if we win
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: the rushing battle and we win the turnover margins, we'll
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: win more football games than everybody else. That is not
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: the case anymore. Um, the, the new statistic is if
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: we win the explosives battle, we have a larger chance
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: to win than any other metric in college football. So
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: You are still an explosive football team, especially now that
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: you're going to be back healthy. If you can win
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: the explosives without giving up too many negatives and maybe
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: steal a possession or two, we're looking at a fourth
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: quarter football game. And I will say this, you've been
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: far more outmatched in this matchup as a Florida fan
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: in the last five years, and we have only had
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: a couple of snoozers. Yeah, that's true. From a coaching
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: and talent standpoint, you have been teeter-tottered quite a bit,
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: way worse than this matchup. You guys are in a
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: much better situation than I would say you've been in
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: the last four years, maybe dating all the way back
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: to 2020. And it ain't like Georgia's gone in there
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: and boxed your eyes out for four straight years. It's
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: a rivalry game. They're going to get up. It's going
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: to be all right. I'm expecting a fourth quarter football game.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Do you have a score prediction on it?
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I gave it out last night on our show, 31-24.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I think Georgia's up 31-17 going into the fourth quarter.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: And you guys punch a shot and then have the
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: ball maybe with a chance.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: We are pretty close.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Mine was the 30 or 31, 27.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I also picked Georgia, but interesting.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate you tell everybody where they can check
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: out your work. And guys, if you're watching this, you
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: have to watch both breakdowns that he's done on the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: offense and on the matchup.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: They're both really, really good.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. At Brooks Austin BA on all social media
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: and just search the film guy on YouTube. Over 135,000 subscribers.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Very blessed. The goal is to get to 200 as
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: soon as possible. Don't know when we're going to get there.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: We'll get there when we get there. All right.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate it. Thanks for joining me.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: No doubt. Be good, Allie.