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Gators Wake Up Call Means Something For UF Football NOW! · A Peek Inside Gators Football: A Show About the Florida Gators

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  Speaker 1: that right this second. Now let's get into it. I
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  Speaker 1: have spent the last day trying to figure out what
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  Speaker 1: exactly I am supposed to do with that Missouri game.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the right reaction is to just throw
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  Speaker 1: out everything we saw from Florida over the first month
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  Speaker 1: of the season. But I also don't think you can just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, shrug your shoulders, call it a bad day
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  Speaker 1: and move on. There were way too many things in
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  Speaker 1: that game that looked real. The offensive line getting pushed around.
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  Speaker 1: the defense not adjusting, the penalties, the missed tackles, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe most concerning of all, the way
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  Speaker 1: Florida responded once the game started to get away from them.
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  Speaker 1: So I think this is where we have to separate
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  Speaker 1: two things. Was it just bad football on one Saturday?
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  Speaker 1: And what did Missouri show us that could actually become
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  Speaker 1: a problem for.
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  Speaker 2: Florida moving forward? These two things are not the same.
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  Speaker 1: And with South Carolina coming to Gainesville followed by a
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  Speaker 1: trip to Austin, we're going to get some answers pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: So today I want to go through the areas where
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  Speaker 1: I think Missouri may have genuinely exposed Florida and the
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  Speaker 1: areas where I think people need to like pump the
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  Speaker 1: brakes a little bit. Let's talk about the offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: because to me, this is the biggest concern coming out
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  Speaker 1: of Missouri. Florida had just run for more than 300
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  Speaker 1: yards against Ole miss. They looked physical. They controlled the
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Jaden Baugh and Duke Clark were running downhill.
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  Speaker 1: The offensive line looked like it had become one of
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  Speaker 1: the strengths of this football team. And then against Missouri,
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  Speaker 1: completely different story. Florida struggled to consistently generate movement. They
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  Speaker 1: struggled in pass protection. Missouri got penetration. Florida was behind
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  Speaker 1: the chains way too often. And once that started happening,
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  Speaker 1: the entire offense changed. Florida's identity up until this point
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  Speaker 1: has been built around being able to run the football.
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  Speaker 1: This offense works when Florida is dictating the terms, when
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  Speaker 1: they're staying ahead of the chains, when the defense has
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  Speaker 1: to respect Jaden Ma, when play action is available, when
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Filo isn't being asked to consistently convert third and long.
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  Speaker 1: Against Missouri, Florida never established that. So was the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line exposed? I'm not ready to say that yet. One
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  Speaker 1: bad game doesn't erase what we saw against Auburn and
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss. But I do think Missouri gave every defensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator left on Florida's schedule some film to study. They
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  Speaker 1: showed that if you can disrupt Florida up front, get
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  Speaker 1: penetration early, and make this offense play from behind, Florida
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  Speaker 1: becomes a much more ordinary football team. And that's something
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  Speaker 1: Florida's going to have to fix immediately. Did Missouri expose
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  Speaker 1: Florida's defense? This is probably the part that bothers me
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  Speaker 1: the most. Giving up points happened. College football is built
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  Speaker 1: around offense. So you are going to give up points
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  Speaker 1: over the course of the season. You are going to
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  Speaker 1: give up explosive plays sometimes. But what happened in the
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  Speaker 1: second half against Missouri felt different. Missouri found something, and
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  Speaker 1: then Florida never really came up with an answer to
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  Speaker 1: what they found. Jamal Roberts started ripping off huge runs.
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  Speaker 1: Missouri began controlling the line of scrimmage. Florida missed tackles.
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  Speaker 1: There were poor fits. Guys were out of position. And
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  Speaker 1: I think the thing that really stood out to me
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  Speaker 1: was that it just kept happening.
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  Speaker 2: That's where the concern comes in.
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  Speaker 1: If a team is beating you with the same concepts
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  Speaker 1: over and over again, eventually you have to adjust. You
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  Speaker 1: have to, as Buster Faulkner likes to say, change the picture.
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  Speaker 1: You have to load the box. You have to change
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  Speaker 1: your fronts. You have to do something that makes them
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  Speaker 1: beat you another way. Florida didn't do that well enough.
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  Speaker 1: And that makes this upcoming week really important. South Carolina
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  Speaker 1: is going to watch every single snap of that Missouri tape.
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  Speaker 2: So will Texas. So will Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody left on Florida's schedule is going to ask the
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  Speaker 1: same question. Can we make Florida defend the run the
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  Speaker 1: way Missouri did? And until Florida proves otherwise, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to keep seeing it. The penalties and self-inflicted mistakes. This
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  Speaker 1: is another area where I think Florida got exposed a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Not because penalties are some new problem, but
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  Speaker 1: because when Florida got uncomfortable, they started hurting themselves. And
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  Speaker 1: that's a maturity issue. Good football teams don't make bad
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  Speaker 1: situations worse. They don't take a five-yard problem and turn
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  Speaker 1: it into a 15-yard problem. They don't follow up a
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  Speaker 1: negative play with a penalty. They don't give the opponent
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  Speaker 1: free first downs. And Florida did too much of that.
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  Speaker 1: This is where John Summerall's message about player leadership becomes important.
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  Speaker 1: He talks all the time about the difference between good
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  Speaker 1: and great teams. The great teams are player-led. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: game starts slipping away. That's when leadership matters. Who gets
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  Speaker 1: everybody fired up? Who calms the offense down? Who grabs
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  Speaker 1: somebody after a dumb penalty and says, enough? Who makes
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  Speaker 1: sure that one bad series doesn't become three? Against Missouri,
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  Speaker 1: Florida didn't look like a team that handled adversity very well.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean they don't have leadership, but it does
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  Speaker 1: mean that we need those leaders to show up now.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate Alumni Hall for all their support. Okay. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get back into this. Now, what about Aaron Filo? I
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  Speaker 1: don't think Missouri exposed Aaron Filo. I actually think Missouri
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  Speaker 1: gave us a much-needed maybe evaluation point. Almost every quarterback
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  Speaker 1: looks good when the run game's working, the protection's clean,
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  Speaker 1: and the offense is playing on schedule. The next step
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  Speaker 1: is what happens when none of those things are true.
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  Speaker 1: And against Missouri, Filo was under pressure. Florida couldn't consistently
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  Speaker 1: run it. They got into obvious passing situations, and he
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  Speaker 1: was asked to play from behind. That's really hard for
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  Speaker 1: any quarterback, but especially a young one. I'm sure there
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  Speaker 1: are throws that he would like back. There were decisions
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  Speaker 1: that could have been better. But I'm not coming away
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  Speaker 1: from Missouri suddenly worried about Aaron Filo. But I am
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  Speaker 1: watching how he responds.
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  Speaker 2: Does he press? Does he try to do too much?
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  Speaker 1: Or does he come back against South Carolina and play
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  Speaker 1: under control? Because part of being a great quarterback is
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  Speaker 1: learning how to respond after you've gotten humbled. That's this
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  Speaker 1: moment right now. The biggest thing Missouri may have exposed
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  Speaker 1: is maturity or lack thereof. And that's probably the biggest
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  Speaker 1: thing that they exposed. Florida looked like a team that
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  Speaker 1: handled success really well through the first four games. Then
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  Speaker 1: they beat Ole Miss. Then they jumped all the way
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  Speaker 1: into the top 10. Everybody started talking about them. National
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  Speaker 1: media started giving John Summerall credit. Florida started becoming one
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  Speaker 1: of the hottest teams in the country. And one week later,
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  Speaker 1: they got punched in the mouth. That makes you wonder,
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  Speaker 1: did Florida fail the maturity test? Did they start believing
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  Speaker 1: the hype? Did they lose some of that edge that
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  Speaker 1: got them to 4-0? We can't know that from the outside,
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  Speaker 1: but I will say this. Florida did not play with
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  Speaker 1: the same urgency or physicality or discipline that we saw
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  Speaker 1: the week before, and that does concern me. Great teams
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  Speaker 1: don't just play great when everybody is telling them how
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  Speaker 1: great they are. Great teams handle success differently. They handle expectations.
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  Speaker 1: They handle everybody patting them on the back. And when
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  Speaker 1: they get hit, they respond. Florida failed that test against Missouri.
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  Speaker 2: But now they get another one.
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  Speaker 1: So is it a wake-up call for the Gators, or
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  Speaker 1: did they get exposed? Right now, I think the answer
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  Speaker 1: is a little bit of both. I don't believe Florida
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  Speaker 1: suddenly became a bad football team. I don't believe everything
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  Speaker 1: we saw in the first month was fake. You don't
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  Speaker 1: accidentally run for 300 yards against Ole Miss. You don't
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  Speaker 1: accidentally start 4-0. You don't accidentally look physical and confident
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  Speaker 1: for a month. Those things were real. But Missouri exposed
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  Speaker 1: some things that Florida does need to address. The offensive
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  Speaker 1: line can be disrupted. The defense has to adjust better
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  Speaker 1: when an opponent finds something that works. Florida has to
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  Speaker 1: tackle better. They have to stop hurting themselves with penalties.
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  Speaker 1: And most importantly, they have to prove that they can
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  Speaker 1: handle adversity. I think that's what this upcoming week is about.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: One loss does not define Florida's season. But how they
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  Speaker 1: respond to that loss Absolutely can. If Florida comes home,
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  Speaker 1: beat South Carolina convincingly, and looks like the team we
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  Speaker 1: saw against Ole Miss, then Missouri becomes a wake-up call,
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  Speaker 1: a painful one, an embarrassing one, maybe even a useful one.
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  Speaker 1: But if the offensive line struggles again, if the defense
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  Speaker 1: gets pushed around again, if the penalties continue, if Florida
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  Speaker 1: looks emotionally flat, then we're going to have to start
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  Speaker 1: looking at Missouri differently. Then it wasn't just a bad day.
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  Speaker 2: It was a warning.
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  Speaker 1: And that is why Saturday against South Carolina suddenly feels
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  Speaker 1: a lot bigger than it did a week ago.
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  Speaker 2: Not because South Carolina is the biggest game on Florida's schedule.
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  Speaker 2: It's not. But because Florida needs to show us who
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  Speaker 2: they really are.
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  Speaker 1: Were they the real Florida Gators in those first four weeks?
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  Speaker 1: Or is the real Florida Gator team the one we
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  Speaker 1: saw against Missouri? And we are about to find out.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know what you guys think down in
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  Speaker 1: the comments. Warning sign, wake up call. Where are you
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  Speaker 1: on this? Do you think the Gators rebound? Was this
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  Speaker 1: a bad week? Was this something, you know, pointing to
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  Speaker 1: what's to come?
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  Speaker 2: For this team?
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  Speaker 1: I want to know down in the comments, let me know.
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