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#141: Florida vs Utah: Preview and Predictions · North Florida Sports Network Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Gators Utah.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Salt Lake City on Thursday night.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a great game.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: We're going to preview it.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: God, I hope we have power.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: We're going to see who we got against the spread, who we have winning.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: So you might want to stay tuned for that.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Last year, the Gators with the 29-26 win.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: We'll see if Utah can get revenge.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Let's get it started.
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: At time of year, college football on the way and hurricane brewing in the Gulf.
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: Also on the way.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like that's every few years, but in all seriousness it's going to hit.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: I tell you everybody, stay safe out there.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: But we decided to hurry up and do this preview because we might not have power tomorrow.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: So Florida, it took off a little early from Gainesville.
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were leaving after practice, I think flying in Dallas.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good, that's smart.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Get ahead of it.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: Used to the change, this is a big game on the road in a place that Gators probably have never been.
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't go outside of the South much, on the road Probably not, you know way out West.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: Well, this a lot of questions, a lot of questions leading up to this game, as to who's going to be playing in this game.
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: It doesn't sound like we're going to find out anything about you know, camera rising for certain until right before kickoff.
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: So it's really hard to just assume he plays man.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: He got hurt in the bowl game, yeah, so I'm going to assume he's going to play Now.
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: The tight end is also questionable.
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a different story.
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not going to assume anything there.
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: There haven't been any quotes where he's, you know, out there saying how great he feels, unlike with cam rising, you know, just so just assume that rising will be the starting quarterback.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, All right.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: Well, this will be his first game since having that injury, and it'll be also the first game for Graham Ertz Kurtz.
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: Graham Mertz yeah.
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: Ertz, sorry.
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: Former Wisconsin Wisconsin quarterback.
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, transfer from Wisconsin.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: This guy was highly touted out of high school.
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was in a lead 11 quarterback, if I believe correctly.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin's not a place where it's not a cute yeah.
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not man so.
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: But again, we'll see if he can.
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, run the offense.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: We'll see how the running game is and what defense looks like.
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: Get tested right away.
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean you know the depth.
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: They got some questions themselves the Gators with, with the health.
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: You know I think the starting center may be questionable.
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: They got a defensive lineman, chris McClellan, that that may not play.
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: And then they got some youth in the secondary.
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: That's a.
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: That's a brand new doff defense.
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: Dolphin.
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: Defensive coordinator for Billy Napier.
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: Um, you know, with with youth back there in the secondary, you kind of kind of raise a little little bit of an eyebrow back there.
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: But you'll see, man, I you know we'll find out.
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think both teams are going to rely heavily on the run game, florida especially.
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: They got a really nice, stable, a running backs.
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: It's really really three deep there with guys that can get you.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: Right, they're getting six and a half points right now.
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you know what, I'll go ahead and I I would take it.
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: I think they, you know, I said 38, 27 Utah, if rising plays, I think maybe they'll keep it a little closer, maybe 38, 34.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: I'm taking the um.
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: I think the Gators win this game.
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: I think the injuries, with the injuries to the Utah key players, yeah, and this being you know you want to win the conference and get to, you can still win the pack 12.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: You don't want to ruin his chances for this the whole year.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: Of course I could be dead wrong, but I think the gate I mean the quarterback, can come in.
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: Like you said, florida is going to rely on the running game.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: Make it easier for this, for Mertz to settle down and I like, I like the receiver they have.
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, ricky.
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: Pierce off track Pierce all's pretty good and you know he can get open if they started running that game.
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: You know, we saw that firsthand.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they do have some unproven talent, young guys at wide receiver, at tight end.
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: But you're right, man, it's all going to be based off that run game.
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: You know, montrell Johnson, what is it?
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: Trevor Etienne?
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: Is that the younger brother, trevor?
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then Tayaon Treyon Webb.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: right, the younger guy, I mean it's they have a really good running back room.
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: And that's why that's kind of why I'm picking them, I'm taking the, I'm taking the money line.
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: That's my get, that's my pick.
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: I got Florida winning this game outright, so we'll see what happens.
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's going to be.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think either part of it's, because of Utah, what we do, what we don't know in Utah if they're either way, if he plays, it's going to be, he's not going to be the same.
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: And I'll be out like Utah had a step back on defense last year by a statistical standpoint.
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: You know, normally they're pretty stout on the defensive side of the ball.
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: We'll see if they got better.
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, man, I just I think it's going to be too much for first year starting for the Gators, first year defensive coordinator.
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: Now, if rising doesn't play, then I think I think you're right.
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: I think the Gators are probably going to win that game Just just basing, you know, relying on the running game, and they can get that victory.
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: But yeah, 38, 34, utah calling it Utah, give me two, ah we'll see.
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: You're getting um.
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: Four is getting six and a half.
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: We'll find out Thursday night.
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: That's the first game.
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: It's going to be fun.
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: Hopefully we'll have power Nape your man, big game yeah.
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: Well, you know it's.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: The schedule is only going to get tougher for the Gators, so it would really be nice to get out like they did last year.
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, that was probably the difference of making a bowl.
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: It was the difference, and this could be the difference again Probably be the same situation Right.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: So this could I mean you're talking about the way your season looks.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people picking the Gators to not do anything, so this would be a you know, they gotta be fired up, ready to prove some.
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna come out ready.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: The big question is gonna be is the consistency that Merch is supposed to bring to the offense?
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: Is that gonna be worth more than what Anthony Richardson was last season, which was extreme highs, extreme lows, because you're not gonna see him busting off any 60 yard runs.
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: Graham Merch's not gonna happen.
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: Right, but like you were saying, use that running game.
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't need him to.
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: You don't need him to do flips, man, you've got three other guys that can do it yeah, he doesn't need you know the I.
• 8:16
  Speaker 2: what he needs to do is keep the swing passes and not throw them at guys feet.
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: Not throw passes, you know, 14 rows up into the stands, yeah, that kind of stuff.
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: But we'll see, we'll see.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: Well, you're taking Utah and Florida to cover, is that right?
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: I'm taking Florida in the money line, get ya, we had to go, that's it.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: That's it, man.
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: Just a little quick preview.
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: We gotta get ready for this hurricane.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we gotta go get the loose debris up.
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: Get all that, get all the lawn clippings up.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got the ones I just set out.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: Gonna be having those going all over the neighborhood.
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: It's a great way to meet your neighbors, man.
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you gotta get it ready.
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: Man, it's coming.
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: You gotta prepare for the worst.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: It looks like it's coming right at us.
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: But the Gators already got out of town.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: The Seminoles are set to play Sunday.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: Nothing has changed there.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Sit tight.
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: Luckily the game's right down the road in Orlando.
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: Hopefully everything goes smoothly in terms of damage.
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we'll know tomorrow afternoon that things are gonna move pretty quickly.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe you know something about the injuries to Utah's playmakers, because that really makes this game hard to pick.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: But they have it at six and a half.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: I'm taking the upset.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: I think the Gators do it.
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: They go out to Utah and they give two wins over the Utah Uteson.
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: They'd be home and home win in the series.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: You're wrong, ed, we'll see.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: Put a lot of pressure.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: No, there's no pressure.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: A lot of pressure.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just think they're gonna have to win one of them and they're gonna win a couple games this year that people don't think they're gonna win.
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of talent on that team.
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: Well, there's a whole lot of games that people don't think they're gonna win, so they got their opportunities.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, that's true, and that is.
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: We'll find out, man, I'm so ready.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: I'm so ready.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: I'm so ready to see some real games Got FAMU, Jackson State down in Miami.
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: That's on Sunday as well.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: Florida on Thursday Miami's playing Miami.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: Miami and Miami.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, miami coach came out and said that they're the real Miami.
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: Cradle, the coaches baby.
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: That was probably not a good idea.
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: Oxford, Ohio, Well stay safe out there.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: We'll react to it all and we'll talk to you next time right here in North Florida Sports Network.
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: We had to go.
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: I'm riding with you here.
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: We got a shuttle.