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Gators LEGEND Drops ELITE INSIGHT on UF's Upcoming Game vs Ole Miss Rebels! | Mr. Two Bits · A Peek Inside Gators Football: A Show About the Florida Gators

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to A Peak Inside Gator Football Alley Peak.
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  Speaker 1: about this. I am chatting with Gator great Louis Oliver,
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  Speaker 1: who is going to be the Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Two Bits this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to me about what it means to you to
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  Speaker 1: be back in that stadium representing Gator Nation.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm so excited. It's been so long since
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  Speaker 3: I've actually been on that field, almost 40 years to
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  Speaker 3: be exact. I think my last game was back in 88.
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  Speaker 3: That was the last time I was on that field. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to come back and get in front of
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  Speaker 3: those fans, that stadium, where it all started for me,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and then representing Mr. Edmondson as Mr. Two Bits,
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  Speaker 3: I'm more than ecstatic.
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  Speaker 1: We are so excited you're going to be back. And
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  Speaker 1: I was doing some research on you, and I saw
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  Speaker 1: that you said you love Coach Summerall and that you
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  Speaker 1: even compared him to a young Don Shula. What is
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  Speaker 1: it about Summerall's personality and coaching style that reminds you
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  Speaker 1: of Coach Shula?
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  Speaker 3: He's all about accountability. He doesn't do excuses. I like
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  Speaker 3: his energy. I mean, he comes, he's very high tempo guy,
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  Speaker 3: which Coach Shula was, even when I got here and
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  Speaker 3: he was up in age, very high tempo guy, very energetic,
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  Speaker 3: but he expects the best from everybody, whether it be
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  Speaker 3: the players, the coaches, the training staff, the medical staff.
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  Speaker 3: He wants everybody doing the most that they can, when
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  Speaker 3: they can, how they can for the betterment of the team.
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  Speaker 3: And he took no excuses, none excuses. And then on
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  Speaker 3: top of that, Coach Summerall, he's got a little humor
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  Speaker 3: to him too. So I like that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Florida's 3-0.
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  Speaker 1: They're coming off of that 44-39 road win at Auburn.
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  Speaker 1: What have you seen from this team that makes you
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  Speaker 1: believe Florida may really be.
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  Speaker 2: On the way back?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, offensively, just looking at the team, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the way they're built offensively, running the ball to open
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  Speaker 3: up the passing game, which is what I thought his
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  Speaker 3: predecessor should have done last season. But He's got the blueprint.
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  Speaker 3: Jayden's running the ball well. The offensive line is blocking well.
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  Speaker 3: The defense is playing well, but we're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to play a lot better, especially in the secondary this week,
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  Speaker 3: this Saturday against Ole Miss and Chamberlain. So that part
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  Speaker 3: I like. The energy's back. The level is up. The
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  Speaker 3: competition is there in practice, and it's time to go.
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  Speaker 3: It's time for us to go now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned Trinidad Chambliss and as a former safety,
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  Speaker 1: what is the first thing Florida secondary needs to take
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  Speaker 1: away from him?
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, you're going to have to take
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  Speaker 3: away the passes, and especially the deep pass. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we played him last year. We were up 24-20 at halftime.
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  Speaker 3: He hit some big passes. But on top of that, Lacey,
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  Speaker 3: their running back, gashed us for over 220 yards rushing.
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  Speaker 3: So these guys got to tackle, and you got to
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  Speaker 3: tackle forcefully. And then when the ball is in the air,
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  Speaker 3: it's your ball. That's how, you know, when I played...
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  Speaker 3: I'm either going to get the ball or I'm either
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  Speaker 3: going to get a body with the ball and it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be hit violently. And that's the way they
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  Speaker 3: got to play. And that's what's going to get the
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  Speaker 3: job done on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Chambliss is dangerous when the original play breaks down. From
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  Speaker 1: a DB perspective, how difficult is it to stay disciplined
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  Speaker 1: when a quarterback starts extending plays?
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  Speaker 3: Well, when they're extending plays, you got to stay deep.
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  Speaker 3: You can't be jumping routes, especially early routes, shallow routes.
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  Speaker 3: You got to stay in your back paddle. You got
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  Speaker 3: to keep your eyes open, head on a swivel. And
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  Speaker 3: most of all, the guys have to communicate back there.
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  Speaker 3: In the secondary, you got to let guys know when
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  Speaker 3: somebody's crossing, when somebody's coming into your zone, so you
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  Speaker 3: can pick them up if it's zone, if it's man. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: you got to know your technique. You got to know
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  Speaker 3: your leverage point. And, you know, that defensive front, He's
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  Speaker 3: got to let Woods go. He's got to let Oya
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  Speaker 3: Badejo go. He's got to let them guys go. The
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  Speaker 3: hell with read and run. We getting up for this.
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  Speaker 3: Send that defensive line to put pressure on this guy.
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  Speaker 3: Play on their side of the football, and we can
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  Speaker 3: win this football game.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I heard communication, and I've also heard discipline.
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  Speaker 1: When Ole Miss wants to spread you out, which one
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  Speaker 1: is more important, the communication before the snap or the
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  Speaker 1: discipline after the snap?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're both equally important because once the ball
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  Speaker 3: is snapped, if you're not talking, you're not communicating, there's
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  Speaker 3: going to be breakdowns. So if you know he's extending
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  Speaker 3: the play, keeping your eyes on the receiver, keeping your
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  Speaker 3: eyes in your zone if it's zone, keeping your eyes
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  Speaker 3: on the man if it's man, and once that ball
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  Speaker 3: is in the air, you got to be screaming ball, ball, ball,
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  Speaker 3: so the corners know, the linebackers know that the ball
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  Speaker 3: is in the air and somebody can possibly make a
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  Speaker 3: play on the ball.
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  Speaker 1: How aggressive should Florida be defensively? Do you pressure Chambliss
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  Speaker 1: and risk giving him escape lanes? Or would you rather
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  Speaker 1: make him sit in the pocket and consistently.
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  Speaker 3: No, no. I'm all about pressuring a running quarterback. He's
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  Speaker 3: a quarterback. He's not a running back. He's not Jaden Ball.
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  Speaker 3: He's not willing to take 40, 50 hits a game.
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  Speaker 3: He's a quarterback. He wants to throw the ball and
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  Speaker 3: sit back there at his leisure. I come with pressure everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: All the time because pressure busts pipes.
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  Speaker 1: Florida went into Jordan-Hare and won a close SEC game,
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  Speaker 1: and you've played in hostile environments. How much confidence can
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  Speaker 1: one road win give this young football team?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, when you go into a place
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  Speaker 3: like Auburn, I mean, you know, it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: packed to the rafters, you know, and they're sound SEC
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  Speaker 3: football team. So when you anytime you can go into
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  Speaker 3: an SEC team's hometown on their field with their fan
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  Speaker 3: and pull off a victory in the manner that we did,
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  Speaker 3: it's got to give the team a ton of confidence.
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  Speaker 3: And now we're playing home on Saturday. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be 90,000 plus fans. Come on. If you,
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  Speaker 3: if you ain't ready for this, then give up your scholarship,
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  Speaker 3: go back home and sit on the couch.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I want to talk a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: your career. You came to Florida as a walk-on and
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  Speaker 1: you eventually became a two-time first team, all American, a
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  Speaker 1: first round NFL draft pick. Where did that belief come
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  Speaker 1: from that you belonged with anybody in the country?
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  Speaker 3: I think God gave me that as soon as I
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  Speaker 3: could walk. I mean, from as early as I can remember,
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  Speaker 3: I told my mom, I said, Mom, I'm going to...
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  Speaker 3: Because growing up, I was always a Dolphin fan watching
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  Speaker 3: Mercury Morris and Larry Zonka and Bob Greasy and those guys.
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  Speaker 3: And so I just told my mom, Mom, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to be a professional football player. And I know she
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  Speaker 3: was she just thought her baby was just talking, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is what he wants to become. And
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  Speaker 3: then once I got to high school, wasn't really recruited
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  Speaker 3: by any colleges, mostly, you know, Ivy League schools, but
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to play football and I felt like I
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  Speaker 3: could play on that level. I could have gone, I
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  Speaker 3: could have walked on at Florida state. I could have
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  Speaker 3: walked on at university of Miami, but you know, being
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  Speaker 3: that we have some, uh, some history with guys coming
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  Speaker 3: from my high school, going to a university of Florida,
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  Speaker 3: Ray McDonald, Greg Bain, Rondy Weston, Tommy Duhart. I was like, look,
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  Speaker 3: I played with these guys. I played with them, practice
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  Speaker 3: with them. If they can play there, I can play there.
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  Speaker 3: And when I got there, I just, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: grew three inches. I gained 25 pounds of muscle. And, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I just went ballistic. We're going to take a.
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  Speaker 2: Would be really good.
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  Speaker 1: your mentality was essentially.
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  Speaker 2: I am going to outwork everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that that mentality is harder to create
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  Speaker 1: in college football today? Or do you think it really
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  Speaker 1: is timeless?
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  Speaker 3: Most of these guys, they've been, they've been, um, given
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  Speaker 3: so much, uh, praise so early in their lives that
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  Speaker 3: they relax and they get comfortable. So they kind of
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  Speaker 3: just sit in this air of, I'm already good. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't see myself as being already good. I saw guys
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  Speaker 3: who were good and I said, not only do I
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  Speaker 3: want to be that good, I want to supersede that good.
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  Speaker 3: So when I got there, it was just like Lewis
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  Speaker 3: just worked, outworked Anybody everybody, you know if a worker
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  Speaker 3: if I went to a workout and and they tell
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  Speaker 3: me hey They told me hey this guy did this
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  Speaker 3: this guy ran this fast. This guy did this I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna stay there until I supersede that You know, so
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  Speaker 3: for me it was just about work. I like to
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  Speaker 3: go I like to measure myself. So. I was looking
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  Speaker 3: for the sharpest iron. That I could measure my iron against.
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  Speaker 2: Give me one.
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  Speaker 1: Lewis Oliver practice story. Like somebody that you hit. Or
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  Speaker 1: somebody who got you. Like a moment where you're like.
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  Speaker 2: All right. I can do this. I can play at
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  Speaker 2: this level.
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  Speaker 3: I remember Emmett Smith. When Emmett first came. To the
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  Speaker 3: first practice. And, you know, I hosted him when he came.
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  Speaker 3: And Coach Galen told me, he said, Lewis, we got
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  Speaker 3: to get this guy. He's going to really help our team.
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  Speaker 3: I said, Coach, I got him. I got him. So
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  Speaker 3: I took him in a round. And fortunately for us,
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  Speaker 3: he came to University of Florida. His very first practice,
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  Speaker 3: it was offense against defense. And I said, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to destroy this guy. I said, I'm going to destroy
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  Speaker 3: this guy. So it was a run play where he
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  Speaker 3: was supposed to come to the C-gap. on the tight
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  Speaker 3: end side of the formation. But I was deep in
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  Speaker 3: the secondary, pretending that I was playing pass, but I
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  Speaker 3: was looking at the offensive linemen and I saw how
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  Speaker 3: much pressure they were putting on their forearms, so I
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  Speaker 3: knew it was a run. And I said, if he
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  Speaker 3: comes through this seahole, I'm going to take his face off.
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  Speaker 3: Snapped the ball, snapped the ball. I come flying through
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  Speaker 3: the seahole. And the running back, Coach Kirksey, said, hey, Emmitt,
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  Speaker 3: you were supposed to go through the seahole. And Emmitt said, no,
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  Speaker 3: I saw 18 coming through the seahole. So I went
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  Speaker 3: to the opposite side. And I say, how did this
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  Speaker 3: guy see me coming like that? And he was like, yo, dude,
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  Speaker 3: I watched the linebackers and the safeties, but I never
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  Speaker 3: hit him. But I was going to kill him if
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  Speaker 3: he had come through that seahole.
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  Speaker 2: I love that story.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Emmitt is the best player that you
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  Speaker 1: ever played with at Florida?
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  Speaker 2: There was a lot of really big names.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. Yeah, I mean, I can't even say.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you got linemen like Lummis Brown and Jeff
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  Speaker 3: Zimmerman and Crawford Curry. And you had guys like... Alonzo Johnson,
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  Speaker 3: Wilbur Marshall, Rickon Teal, Lorenza Hampton. I mean, three first-round
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  Speaker 3: draft picks, three running backs, first round on one team.
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  Speaker 3: John L., Neal Anderson, Lorenza Hampton, Lomas Brown. I mean it.
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  Speaker 3: It was crazy. And those guys taught me how to compete.
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  Speaker 3: Like when I got there, every position was competing. Nobody
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  Speaker 3: just said, okay, since you're that guy, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: let you relax and sit in this role. No, it
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  Speaker 3: was like, yo, one play dude. And you could be
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  Speaker 3: on the bench and never get back on the field.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you played with so much talent at Florida.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you played for the dolphins, you played
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  Speaker 1: for Don Shula and With Dan Marino, what did being
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  Speaker 1: around professionals at that level teach you about what championship
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  Speaker 1: level accountability looks like?
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  Speaker 3: It just taught you how to be a pro. Coach
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  Speaker 3: Shuler was not the type. He was going to set
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  Speaker 3: the example just so you know what he expected from you.
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  Speaker 3: And if you didn't meet that example... I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: didn't have to wander or ponder what was going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: You were gone. I mean, you were gone. So getting
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  Speaker 3: there to see guys like Marino, you know, early to practice,
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  Speaker 3: late after practice, watching film, that just taught me how
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  Speaker 3: to be a professional. So I didn't want to be
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  Speaker 3: the weak link. I never wanted to be the weak link.
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  Speaker 3: So if I'm going to be on a team, you
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  Speaker 3: could damn well be sure that I'm on a team
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  Speaker 3: because I'm I'm coming with purpose and I'm coming to
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  Speaker 3: play ball and I'm coming to play ball at a
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  Speaker 3: level so high that I'm trying to get you not
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  Speaker 3: to even match it. So, you know, they set the example.
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  Speaker 3: I was just trying to do my best to hit
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  Speaker 3: the team in whatever way, shape, form or fashion. And
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  Speaker 3: it's just being a professional. These guys now, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy that they're getting paid on the collegiate level.
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  Speaker 3: They think they're already pros, and they're not. There's several
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  Speaker 3: more notches to go, so I don't want them to relax.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we talk a lot about the standard at Florida,
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  Speaker 1: and we haven't been meeting the standard.
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  Speaker 2: In a while there.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think has been missing from football culturally
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  Speaker 1: at UF over the last several years? And are you
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  Speaker 1: seeing any signs that Summerall is bringing it back?
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  Speaker 2: I know you like him a lot.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's back. I mean, I can feel the energy.
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  Speaker 3: You can just see it. You can see it in
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  Speaker 3: the player's eyes. He's demanding. He's demanding. He's not going
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  Speaker 3: to let you relax. He's not going to let you relax.
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  Speaker 3: And he's bringing in talent that's going to sharpen the
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  Speaker 3: talent that's already there. And if you can't hold up,
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  Speaker 3: then you're gone. You're gone. You got to get out
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  Speaker 3: of there. So, you know, I like what he's doing.
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  Speaker 3: I like the way he's doing it. And if he continues,
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  Speaker 3: I guarantee you, You'll see us playing for a national
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  Speaker 3: championship very soon, very soon. And I want to tell
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  Speaker 3: Coach right now, if he's out there listening, hey, Coach,
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  Speaker 3: from Palm Beach County down to Dade County, get at me.
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  Speaker 3: Get at me because I can get some of these
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  Speaker 3: guys up there. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know he's going to take you up on that.
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  Speaker 1: Last question before I let you go. When you walk
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  Speaker 1: on a Florida field on Saturday and you hear 90,000
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  Speaker 1: people doing two.
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  Speaker 2: Bits with you, What do you think that moment's going
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  Speaker 2: to feel like?
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  Speaker 3: It's going to make me want to get out there
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  Speaker 3: and suit up. It's going to make me want to
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  Speaker 3: put on that 18 jersey and tie my jersey up
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  Speaker 3: in the front like I used to and put my
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  Speaker 3: black sleeves on with my eye black. But I know
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  Speaker 3: I won't be able to play, so I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: try to get that energy level up and hopefully it
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  Speaker 3: stays up for four quarters or however long the duration
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  Speaker 3: of the game takes and we get out of there
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  Speaker 3: with a W.
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  Speaker 1: Well, listen, I am currently ready to run through a wall.
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  Speaker 1: So my suggestion to Coach Summerall is to bring you
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room and have you pump this team up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited for Saturday. I'm really excited UF is
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  Speaker 1: honoring you. Appreciate you spending some time with us today.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Allie. Thank you. And go Gator. Gator Nation,
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  Speaker 3: I want to see you guys Saturday. I want to
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  Speaker 3: see you guys Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you guys heard it right there. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: Go Gators!