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Former Gator Champion Has IMPORTANT MESSAGE You NEED to Hear After UF's LOSS to Missouri! · 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. Allie Peak here.
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Speaker 1: the screen with me. I am joined by... Former Gator player,
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Speaker 1: national champion, Eric Wilber. Also happen to be married to him.
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Speaker 1: You're actually looking at what's going on in my kitchen
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Speaker 1: over there. Eric, thanks for hopping on with me. We've
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Speaker 1: been talking all weekend kind of on and off about
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Speaker 1: what we're going to talk about now. And I feel
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Speaker 1: like it's something that our viewers would really be intrigued by.
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Speaker 1: You know, we watched Florida get just demolished by Missouri yesterday.
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Speaker 1: And You know, first of all, before we get into
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Speaker 1: any comparisons, what as a former player jumped out to you?
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Speaker 1: Was it, you know, the way that they got beat
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Speaker 1: physically or mentally or was there some sort of lack
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Speaker 1: of preparation or was it just kind of a combination
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Speaker 1: of all of those things?
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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, it's typically a combination. The biggest thing
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Speaker 2: that jumps out is just how we got destroyed in
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Speaker 2: the trenches on both sides of the ball. O-line was
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Speaker 2: getting beat left and right, no matter what we were
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Speaker 2: trying to do. D-line wasn't getting the pressure that we
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Speaker 2: were used to getting, which I've been saying for weeks,
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Speaker 2: that's going to be our biggest weakness on defense, is
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Speaker 2: our defense can kind of hold them if our D-line
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Speaker 2: is able to get pressure. If we're not able to
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Speaker 2: get pressure, our DBs are not in a position to
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Speaker 2: cover people over a longer period of time. So it
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Speaker 2: eventually happens. So we got to figure that part out.
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Speaker 1: Florida looks like a completely different football team from the
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Speaker 1: one we watched a week ago that dominated Ole Miss.
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Speaker 1: As a player, how does a team go from playing
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Speaker 1: that well one Saturday to looking so flat the next?
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Speaker 2: Well, you buy into the hype a little bit. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: coaches do everything they can to make sure that players
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Speaker 2: don't do that. But with social media and everything like that,
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Speaker 2: I mean, what are you going to do? You can't
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Speaker 2: take their phones. They're going to be out in the world.
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Speaker 2: So they start to get a little bit complacent, but
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Speaker 2: also they don't realize the level of preparation that other
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Speaker 2: teams are going to start putting on them. So Florida,
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Speaker 2: because we've had some rough few years, teams aren't putting
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Speaker 2: their full effort into us. No matter what coaches say,
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Speaker 2: people start to look past us, and we're not getting
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Speaker 2: that anymore. Now that we're on the rise, we're showing
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Speaker 2: what we're capable of, and we're getting everyone's full effort again.
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Speaker 1: You were on Urban's first Florida team in 2005, and
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Speaker 1: you guys went to Alabama. You got beaten 31-3. This
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Speaker 1: is ingrained in my brain because you shot me a
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Speaker 1: text message when the team plane landed, and you said,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to see anybody, and that includes you.
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Speaker 1: Watching yesterday, did anything about this Missouri loss remind you
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Speaker 1: of that afternoon game in Tuscaloosa?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit. But first off, I'm sure I
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Speaker 2: put a smiley face in there somewhere. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: take that with a grain of salt. Yeah, it did.
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Speaker 2: Getting punched in the mouth, it hurts. And how you
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Speaker 2: respond to it, the reflection that you need from a
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Speaker 2: player standpoint, you know, people are going to respond different
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Speaker 2: ways to that. And our team, there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: guys that got really pissed off and there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of guys that just needed some time to kind of
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Speaker 2: reflect on what was happening, how it happened, what we
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Speaker 2: need to do, you know, to fix that. I will
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Speaker 2: tell you, there was no time as a player under
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Speaker 2: Meyer that any of the players were looking at the
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Speaker 2: coaches saying, what should you have done better? It was
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Speaker 2: always an internal reflection on what we should have done better.
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Speaker 2: What did we not do? There was no finger pointing.
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Speaker 2: It was everyone taking the accountability that they needed to take,
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Speaker 2: which listening to Summerall's press conference, it seems like that's
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Speaker 2: kind of the approach that they're taking as well. There
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Speaker 2: is no finger pointing there. Um, you know, some people
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Speaker 2: do need to get called out, but you know, it's
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Speaker 2: everyone sees on the film who it is and who
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Speaker 2: needs the extra work.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned that that was really the first time that
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Speaker 1: you guys got punched in the mouth and that Alabama game,
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Speaker 1: what did that game expose about your team at that
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Speaker 1: point in the season?
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Speaker 2: Uh, that's a good question. I, that we, we weren't
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Speaker 2: living up to the standards that we could live up to.
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Speaker 2: We thought we were. Hey, we're on the rise. We're
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Speaker 2: doing the right things. But we could be better. We
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Speaker 2: need to be better. We have to be better. We
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Speaker 2: can't get complacent. We can't go in thinking, oh, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's okay. We'll just come out with a W and
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Speaker 2: just kind of move on from there. We have to
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Speaker 2: prepare every single week knowing that we're going to get
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Speaker 2: everyone's best from then on. So the preparation going into it,
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Speaker 2: the focus going into it, the I mean, we kind
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Speaker 2: of had a schedule of what nights you would go
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Speaker 2: out and stuff like that, when you could hang out,
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Speaker 2: when you could stay out late and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: All of that got completely revamped internally from a player's standpoint.
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Speaker 2: How we prepared for the entire week moving forward from there,
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Speaker 2: we kind of realized, hey, this is not what we want.
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Speaker 2: We do not want a four loss season to be
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Speaker 2: our norm. We know we can do better.
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Speaker 1: Coach Summerall talks a lot about player-led teams, and he
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Speaker 1: always says that the difference between being good and being
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Speaker 1: great is having players who police the locker room. After
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Speaker 1: a loss like Missouri, how important are those player leaders
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Speaker 1: compared to anything that the coaching staff would say?
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Speaker 2: It's really important, but it also depends on the type
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Speaker 2: of leaders that they are. So I tell this, I
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Speaker 2: coach as well, and I tell kids all the time,
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Speaker 2: there's vocal leaders and there's lead by example. And I
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Speaker 2: always ask the kids as a group, I'm like, who
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Speaker 2: thinks they're the vocal leaders on the team? And we'll
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Speaker 2: have five, six, seven kids raise their hands. And I'll say, okay,
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Speaker 2: of you, which ones are lead by example? And we'll
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Speaker 2: have like two or three kids raise their hand. And
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Speaker 2: I tell them, you can't be a vocal leader if
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Speaker 2: you're not leading by example. You have to lead by
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Speaker 2: example first. You can be a lead by example and
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Speaker 2: not a vocal leader. That's what Chris Leak was. He
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Speaker 2: was not the big, boisterous, rah-rah type guy, but he
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Speaker 2: led by example. He worked his butt off. He did
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Speaker 2: what he needed to do. Then you got the Tim Tebow.
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Speaker 2: He led by example and was the vocal leader. So
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Speaker 2: you got the best of those. You cannot have someone
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Speaker 2: who is a lead by example or a vocal leader
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Speaker 2: and not lead by example. Then they're a hypocrite. Then
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Speaker 2: there starts to become animosity in the locker room. So
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Speaker 2: it depends on the type of leader that you have
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Speaker 2: and how they're trying to get the best out of
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Speaker 2: the players.
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Speaker 1: When you guys lost at Alabama, who were the players
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Speaker 1: that stepped forward and what did leadership actually look like
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Speaker 1: during the next week of practice?
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Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you, I kind of removed myself
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Speaker 2: from that. Being the punter, I can kind of isolate
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Speaker 2: myself for what I need to do and take a
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Speaker 2: focus on my position and not get bigger than I
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Speaker 2: need to be. It didn't matter for me to perform
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Speaker 2: what was going on with everyone else. So I just
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Speaker 2: very much took a step back and it was a
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Speaker 2: lot of self-reflection on, am I doing my job to
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Speaker 2: the best of my ability? And if I am doing that,
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Speaker 2: is there anyone I can then help do their job
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Speaker 2: to the best of their ability? And being a punter,
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Speaker 2: it's very difficult to kind of cross that over. So
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Speaker 2: my standpoint, I was much more internal reflection on that.
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Speaker 2: But it's, I mean, you got the standard guys. You
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Speaker 2: got the Dallas Baker. You got, I mean, Dallas, always
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Speaker 2: a great guy, very vocal leader, very positive, which I
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Speaker 2: loved about Dallas. And there was not, from what I
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Speaker 2: can remember... There was not a lot of you screwed up,
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Speaker 2: you need to fix this. There was a lot of
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Speaker 2: we know we can do better. It was a lot
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Speaker 2: of leading by reminders, leading of what we know we
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Speaker 2: can do, not leading by finger pointing.
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Speaker 1: Florida came into Missouri coming off a huge emotional win.
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Speaker 1: They'd climbed into the top 10, and suddenly everybody on
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Speaker 1: every show everywhere was talking about them as a legitimate
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Speaker 1: playoff contender. Can Young's team start believing the praise before
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Speaker 1: they've really earned it?
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you can start believing it, but it doesn't
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Speaker 2: mean it's going to be true. So that's where games
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Speaker 2: like this, I think... end up helping in the long run,
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Speaker 2: is the younger guys that know what they're capable of
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Speaker 2: start to realize what it takes. The older guys, even
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Speaker 2: though they're like, hey, you know, I may be a
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Speaker 2: senior or this is my last season, whatever it is,
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Speaker 2: they can start instilling that leadership effort to the younger
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Speaker 2: guys to make sure they can carry on through that.
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Speaker 2: I've said, This year has been phenomenal so far based
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Speaker 2: on what everyone's expectations were going into this season for
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Speaker 2: what we've done and how we've performed. I've been saying
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Speaker 2: to everyone who said the Gators are looking good that
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Speaker 2: next year is going to be the year. This year,
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Speaker 2: if things continue in this direction, it's a bonus. It's
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Speaker 2: very much a learning year for everyone. Next year is
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Speaker 2: the year that makes the big difference.
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Speaker 1: Would you call yesterday... a maturity test that Florida failed?
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Speaker 3: And if so, is that.
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Speaker 1: Something you can fix during the season or does a
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Speaker 1: team either have maturity.
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Speaker 2: Or it doesn't? No, teams can definitely mature throughout the season.
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Speaker 2: Teams develop throughout the season. Coaches develop throughout the season.
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Speaker 2: I think this is something that from a player standpoint,
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Speaker 2: you're going to see a lot, but I think you're
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Speaker 2: going to see a lot from the coach's standpoint as
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Speaker 2: well on the how they prepare, how they play, what
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Speaker 2: adjustments need to be made, what adjustments need to be
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Speaker 2: made during the week, not necessarily in-game adjustments, but how
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Speaker 2: do we prepare for the actual talent level we're going
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Speaker 2: up against and the schemes that we're going up against
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Speaker 2: that seems like we were kind of like, hey, we're
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Speaker 2: kind of bulldozing people doing what we do right now,
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Speaker 2: which is great. You can't do that. You got to
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Speaker 2: make adjustments throughout the week and take advantages where an
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Speaker 2: advantage is there.
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Speaker 1: One thing that bothered me yesterday was how Missouri seemed
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Speaker 1: to become more physical as the game went along. Florida's
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Speaker 1: offensive line coach is you know your former teammate Phil
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Speaker 1: Troutwine and I know he's going to be you know
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Speaker 1: on these guys this week but when you watched Florida
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Speaker 1: lose control at the line of scrimmage like they did
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Speaker 1: what are you looking at is it technique is it
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Speaker 1: effort is it communication is it.
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Speaker 2: Attitude I'll tell you right now, I would hate to
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Speaker 2: be in that meeting room. I'd hate to be in
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Speaker 2: any of those meeting rooms, come today and tomorrow. That's
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Speaker 2: one of those, you walk in, you know you made mistakes,
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Speaker 2: you know you're going to get called out for it,
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Speaker 2: but you just got to eat it, you got to
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Speaker 2: own it. So as far as, yes, the physicality, Missouri
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Speaker 2: fed off of it and got better throughout the night,
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Speaker 2: it seemed like, and Florida kind of died down a
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Speaker 2: little bit. that's the part that the player-led needs to
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Speaker 2: step up. The coaches can only do so much to
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Speaker 2: get you fired up during the game. What really frustrated me,
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Speaker 2: and it was very unfortunate, the D-lineman at the one
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Speaker 2: point where he got called for delay a game for clapping.
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Speaker 2: he wasn't clapping, trying to simulate a snap. He was
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Speaker 2: trying to get his other teammates hyped up and get
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Speaker 2: them going. And then we just get smacked down because
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Speaker 2: of it. So obviously a learning experience for how you
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Speaker 2: can motivate your teammates while you're standing at the line
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Speaker 2: of scrimmage. But I can't remember who it was, but
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Speaker 2: that's something that that's what you want to see is
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Speaker 2: you want to see people get fired up and start
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Speaker 2: to push the other guys. Hey guys, we know we
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Speaker 2: can do better. If you, if we're man on man,
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Speaker 2: our guys are better than their guys, right? hopefully. I
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Speaker 2: will tell you that going into the season, I remember
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Speaker 2: I was at a scrimmage and walked by Trout Line
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Speaker 2: and I was like, hey man, O-Line's looking good. And
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Speaker 2: he looked me dead in the eye. He goes, we're
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Speaker 2: better than we were. We're nowhere near good. And I
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Speaker 2: was like, Okay, so that's the standard that we are
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Speaker 2: trying to live up to. He knows what it takes
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Speaker 2: to be a top 10 program, a top 10 O-line.
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Speaker 2: He knows we're not there yet. He has developed these
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Speaker 2: guys and brought some guys in to make us much
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Speaker 2: better than we were, but we still have a ways
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Speaker 2: to go to be a top-notch O-line, and he knows that.
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Speaker 2: So now from a coach's standpoint, knowing that and knowing
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Speaker 2: that the D-linemen you're going against are you're going to
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Speaker 2: be getting their absolute best effort. How can we put
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Speaker 2: our guys in a position to win? We may not
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Speaker 2: have it to where our jimmies are better than their joes.
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Speaker 2: Knowing that, what adjustments are being made from an O-line standpoint,
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Speaker 2: from a play-calling standpoint, to put your guys in better positions?
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Speaker 2: Are we going to start getting the ball out wide faster?
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Speaker 2: Are we going to start doing some roll-out passes? Um, we,
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Speaker 2: the runs are, I mean, we're getting stuffed right up
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Speaker 2: the middle, you know, the pockets kind of collapsing on us.
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Speaker 2: So we got to do something to start getting the
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Speaker 2: ball in the playmakers hands and let them go try
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Speaker 2: and make plays.
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Speaker 1: When a game starts to snowball, like it did yesterday, we,
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Speaker 1: you know, talked about the penalties, missed assignments, big runs.
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Speaker 3: The offense was overall was struggling.
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Speaker 1: How difficult is it as a coach to stop everybody
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Speaker 1: from trying to make one huge play instead of just
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Speaker 1: simply doing their job?
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Speaker 2: It's real difficult, but you've got to instill in the players,
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Speaker 2: just win this play. Break it down into mini battles.
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Speaker 2: The game is the war. Each play is a battle.
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Speaker 2: Just win this play. Do your job this play, and
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Speaker 2: that's all that matters. You'll see those start to snowball
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Speaker 2: in your favor if you can do that, as opposed to, oh, crap,
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Speaker 2: they just ran it 80 yards on us. Now what? Oh, crap,
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Speaker 2: we're down 30 points. Now what? All your focus is
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Speaker 2: short-term focus. Win this play is all that matters.
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Speaker 1: Is that, do you think where urban developed that four
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Speaker 1: to six seconds of relentless effort?
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Speaker 2: Uh, probably, um, that, and that, that mindset of I
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Speaker 2: can go as hard as I can for four to
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Speaker 2: six seconds, right? Once you start looking past that, then
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Speaker 2: it starts getting a little daunting. That's like, Hey, if
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Speaker 2: I have you go run sprints for four to six seconds,
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Speaker 2: and that equals a mile, are you going to look
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Speaker 2: at that better or worse than, Hey, go run a mile?
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: Most people. Yeah. Right. So let me break it down
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Speaker 2: into small, easy to easy bites. And I know no matter.
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Speaker 2: No matter how tired I am, I can give 100%
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Speaker 2: of what I have for four to six seconds. It's
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Speaker 2: difficult for me to give 100% of what I have
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Speaker 2: for a longer duration. So just putting those small bites
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Speaker 2: together and instilling that throughout the game, just, hey, win
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Speaker 2: this play, win this play. Can you take 30 steps
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Speaker 2: as hard as you can and then you get a break? Sure,
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Speaker 2: I can do that. Just trying to break it down
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Speaker 2: like that I think really helps the players focus on
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Speaker 2: on not getting caught up in the big picture of, hey,
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Speaker 2: we're getting our ass beat. It's, hey, I'm going to
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Speaker 2: go win this play right here.
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Speaker 3: I got a couple more questions for you, Eric.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so Eric, here's a big comparison for me.
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Speaker 1: Florida got embarrassed at Alabama in 2005, but that loss
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Speaker 1: didn't define what Urban ultimately built. How do you know
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Speaker 1: whether a loss is simply, you know, maybe a really
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Speaker 1: painful step in building a program versus a warning sign
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Speaker 1: of bigger problems.
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Speaker 2: To be honest, you won't know until two or three
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Speaker 2: weeks down the road how they respond to that loss,
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Speaker 2: what they're saying in the locker room, what they're saying
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Speaker 2: to the media. That's when you're really going to know
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Speaker 2: if they actually learned from it or if they're just
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Speaker 2: accepting it and accepting mediocrity. I wish I could tell
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Speaker 2: you right now, hey, this is what I'm seeing, this
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Speaker 2: is how this team's going to do, but we're not
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Speaker 2: going to know that for a couple more weeks.
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Speaker 1: Did that 2005 loss change Urban at all? Did you
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Speaker 1: notice anything different afterwards in the way that he coached
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Speaker 1: or practiced or how he challenged the room?
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Speaker 2: Honestly, not really. He did a lot of internal reflecting,
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Speaker 2: and this is very well documented as well, for being
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Speaker 2: able to coach to the talent that he has. That's
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Speaker 2: when he involved Latsko. Yeah, put his players in the
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Speaker 2: best position to win, not put his players in the
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Speaker 2: best position to fit the scheme that he wants. And
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Speaker 2: I think that's what great coaches have to do. And
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Speaker 2: I think that our coaching staff, that's what they're going
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Speaker 2: to have to do is do a little internal reflecting on,
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Speaker 2: are we trying to force, you know, round pegs in
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Speaker 2: the square holes or are we going to, you know,
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Speaker 2: start adapting the hole that we're trying to fit them
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Speaker 2: into and make sure we can come out on top.
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Speaker 2: So that's where I think from a coaching standpoint, I
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Speaker 2: think the motivational aspect, I think, All of that, Summerall
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Speaker 2: has what it takes. I think this coaching staff has
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Speaker 2: what it takes there. There's going to be some internal
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Speaker 2: reflecting on how we're best utilizing the guys to take
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Speaker 2: advantage of the team we're going against.
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Speaker 1: If you were in Florida's locker room today, what would
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Speaker 1: you want to hear from Coach Summerall? And maybe even
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Speaker 1: more importantly, what would you want to hear from the
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Speaker 1: players themselves?
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Speaker 2: From the players, it needs to be a lot of
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Speaker 2: positive call-out. Right. Everyone made mistakes during this game. Everyone
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Speaker 2: needs to own those mistakes. And good leaders lead a
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Speaker 2: lot through reminders, not necessarily demands. So what kind of
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Speaker 2: language are they using to get the best out of
17:29
Speaker 2: people from the coaching staff? I think one thing Meyer
17:32
Speaker 2: was really good at was. figuring out how the players
17:36
Speaker 2: ticked and how they were motivated because you can have
17:39
Speaker 2: two of the best athletes in the world right next
17:42
Speaker 2: to you that are motivated different ways. Some of them,
17:44
Speaker 2: you challenge them and they're going to say, you know,
17:47
Speaker 2: you challenged me. I'll screw that. Watch this. And they'll
17:49
Speaker 2: step up to the challenge. Others you challenge them and
17:52
Speaker 2: they'll curl up, curl up in the corner and cry
17:54
Speaker 2: for three days, but that doesn't do anyone any good. Right? So,
17:57
Speaker 2: and I've seen both, both are phenomenal athletes and, But
18:01
Speaker 2: how do you motivate both of them to get the
18:03
Speaker 2: best out of them? And it's very difficult to do
18:05
Speaker 2: that with a large number of people. So that's one
18:08
Speaker 2: thing that I'm interested to see how Summerall does that
18:12
Speaker 2: with different personalities, with different players responding different ways, and
18:16
Speaker 2: how the team does that as well, right? I'm very
18:19
Speaker 2: much a, if you challenge me, I'm gonna step up
18:20
Speaker 2: to the challenge. So that's also how I think people
18:23
Speaker 2: will respond. So if I do that to someone that's
18:26
Speaker 2: a curl up and cry person, Well, that didn't do
18:29
Speaker 2: the team any good. Right. So you got to figure
18:31
Speaker 2: out how that works and who you can motivate.
18:33
Speaker 1: So if someone's a curl up and cry person, which like,
18:37
Speaker 1: I know you're not meaning that as a negative, even
18:39
Speaker 1: though I like feel like that's a negative, but if
18:40
Speaker 1: you're someone that's motivated better by positive reinforcement, as opposed
18:44
Speaker 1: to a negative challenge, you're not good. Okay. Maybe I'm
18:48
Speaker 1: not good is the way that you, but you're, you,
18:50
Speaker 1: you're capable of being better and that's, they receive that better.
18:55
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So it's more so, um, if I call
19:00
Speaker 2: you out, I'm trying to think of how to say this.
19:02
Speaker 2: I had it in my head. Um, I don't know.
19:06
Speaker 2: If I call you out, are you going to say,
19:08
Speaker 2: or I say, man, that was a shit play. What
19:11
Speaker 2: are you doing? Are you going to be like, yeah,
19:12
Speaker 2: that was a shit play. Maybe I'm not that good.
19:14
Speaker 2: Or are you going to be like, that was a
19:15
Speaker 2: shit play. Watch this. Let me show you. Which one
19:18
Speaker 2: are you going to be? And that's the hard part
19:21
Speaker 2: of trying to figure out how that works. So you,
19:24
Speaker 2: as the leaders on the team, One, there's multiple leaders
19:30
Speaker 2: that are going to lead in different ways. I don't
19:32
Speaker 2: know all of them personally, so I can't tell you
19:34
Speaker 2: how they're going to do it. Philo, I feel like,
19:37
Speaker 2: is not that I'm going to call you out and
19:39
Speaker 2: challenge you type person. He seems more like that, hey,
19:42
Speaker 2: I'm going to motivate you and give you some positive
19:44
Speaker 2: reinforcement type person. But you need the other guy that's
19:46
Speaker 2: going to call people out. I don't know if that's
19:48
Speaker 2: Jaden Ball. I don't know if it's VB3. I don't
19:49
Speaker 2: know who that is but you need both of those
19:53
Speaker 2: people that's why it's not just one leader and you
19:56
Speaker 2: never have just one type of leader you have a
19:58
Speaker 2: leader group right you have your captains and they're going
20:01
Speaker 2: to have different personalities and you got to kind of
20:04
Speaker 2: feed off of each other on that and make sure
20:06
Speaker 2: the right ones are leading the right way.
20:08
Speaker 1: You've been on a Florida team that took a loss
20:11
Speaker 1: early that was ugly in a new coach's tenure and
20:14
Speaker 1: eventually became a national championship program. After what you saw yesterday,
20:19
Speaker 1: do you still believe this Florida team is headed.
20:22
Speaker 3: In the right direction? And what do you need to
20:24
Speaker 3: see next to believe.
20:26
Speaker 1: That Missouri was maybe an aberration rather than a sign
20:30
Speaker 1: of some kind of bigger issues?
20:32
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I think they're heading in the right direction.
20:34
Speaker 2: There was a couple plays that I saw to where
20:36
Speaker 2: someone got beat And they gave up on the play.
20:39
Speaker 2: those are the things that need to be fixed immediately,
20:42
Speaker 2: or that player needs to be gone. Those are things
20:44
Speaker 2: that you can't have, right? You're going to get beat.
20:47
Speaker 2: You're going to lose a play, right? How you respond
20:49
Speaker 2: to that in the play and the next place to
20:52
Speaker 2: come really determines on the trajectory of this team. And
20:55
Speaker 2: if we have players giving up halfway through the play,
20:57
Speaker 2: cause they got beat that, that part has to be
21:00
Speaker 2: fixed immediately from the player's standpoint and the coach's standpoint.
21:03
Speaker 2: So if we start to see those things get fixed, I, yes,
21:07
Speaker 2: I think we're on the right path. We're hitting the
21:08
Speaker 2: right trajectory. We are in a better position right now
21:13
Speaker 2: than anyone thought we would be in coming into this season. Right.
21:17
Speaker 2: So that is the positive. The negative is we see
21:20
Speaker 2: what we're capable of and we have to live up
21:23
Speaker 2: to that now. Right. The standard has been raised a
21:25
Speaker 2: little bit. So can we continue to go in that
21:29
Speaker 2: direction and meet the new standards that are being set?
21:32
Speaker 1: Seems a little bit like a good problem to have, though,
21:34
Speaker 1: like that this this coaching staff is moving things in
21:37
Speaker 1: the right direction.
21:37
Speaker 3: You're still all in on them.
21:40
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I think they're doing great. I have no
21:43
Speaker 2: issues for kind of how they're doing things, especially in
21:46
Speaker 2: the locker room and the weight room. The the the
21:49
Speaker 2: behind the scenes, the play calling, the adjustments, stuff like that.
21:52
Speaker 2: I leave that up to them. Obviously, everyone thinks Buster
21:55
Speaker 2: Faulkner is a genius to the offense. So are we
21:59
Speaker 2: going to see him make the adjustments that are necessary,
22:01
Speaker 2: knowing we just got our asses handed to us? um,
22:05
Speaker 2: by not being physical. So we are either a need
22:07
Speaker 2: to step up our physicality, which do we have the
22:09
Speaker 2: guys to do that? And if we don't, we'd be
22:12
Speaker 2: need to make the adjustments that our guys don't have
22:14
Speaker 2: to be as physical, but we still put them in
22:16
Speaker 2: a position to win the play.
22:18
Speaker 1: Did you know, um, in the moment during that Alabama
22:22
Speaker 1: loss that this was going to help the team grow,
22:24
Speaker 1: or is that something that you recognize really only years.
22:27
Speaker 3: After the fact?
22:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was definitely looking back years afterwards that you
22:32
Speaker 2: could see, hey, this was a big turning point. In
22:34
Speaker 2: the moment, we were very much, shit, are we the
22:38
Speaker 2: team that we were last year? Are we the team
22:41
Speaker 2: that got Ron Zook fired? And that's kind of what
22:44
Speaker 2: we were trying to figure out. And that's where the
22:47
Speaker 2: leadership of the team came in. And, you know, no,
22:50
Speaker 2: we're not that team. We're not those guys. We know
22:53
Speaker 2: what we're capable of. We know what we've been pushed through.
22:56
Speaker 2: We know what the off seasons were like. We know
22:58
Speaker 2: these guys aren't going through that. We know it was blood,
23:01
Speaker 2: sweat and tears together. And very much it was it
23:05
Speaker 2: it was kind of, hey, are we not as good
23:09
Speaker 2: as we think? Kind of, you know, doom and gloom
23:13
Speaker 2: for a minute there. But then there was the realization of, oh,
23:17
Speaker 2: hell no, that's not us. We can fix this. We
23:20
Speaker 2: know what we're doing. But it wasn't until later that
23:22
Speaker 2: you looked back and saw that that was a pivotal
23:25
Speaker 2: point for that happening for that team.
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