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I NEED To SEE This From Aaron Philo when Gators Football Travels to Auburn! · A Peek Inside Gators Football: A Show About the Florida Gators

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to A Peek Inside Gator Football. Allie Peek here.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so through the first two games of the season,
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Filo has given Florida pretty much exactly what it
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  Speaker 2: has needed at quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: He's been efficient. He's taken care of the football. He's
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  Speaker 1: made some big throws. He's shown us his mobility. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe most.
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  Speaker 2: Importantly, he hasn't looked overwhelmed by the fact that he
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  Speaker 2: is now the starting quarterback at the University of Florida.
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  Speaker 1: But Saturday night, this is different.
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  Speaker 2: Because we are about to find out whether Aaron Filo
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  Speaker 2: can do all of those things when there are 88,000
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  Speaker 2: people in Jordan-Hare Stadium trying to make his life absolutely miserable.
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  Speaker 2: And to me, this is the first real test of
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  Speaker 2: the Aaron Filo era at Florida. Not because he has
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  Speaker 2: to throw for 350 yards.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't. Not because he needs four touchdowns. I'll take them.
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  Speaker 2: And certainly not because Florida needs to put the entire
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  Speaker 2: offense on his back.
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  Speaker 1: I actually think that the opposite is. is true.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest thing Aaron Philo needs to do Saturday night
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  Speaker 2: is exactly what John Summerall has been preaching.
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  Speaker 1: Be a quarterback. Don't worry about being a superstar.
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  Speaker 2: If Philo can manage this environment, make good decisions, and
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  Speaker 2: play within himself, I think Florida has a really good
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  Speaker 2: chance to walk out of Auburn 3-0. And if he can't, well,
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  Speaker 2: SEC road games have a way of exposing that pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: So let's talk about Aaron Philo's first real SEC road test,
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  Speaker 2: and what Florida needs from its quarterback Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: All right, first I want to establish something.
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  Speaker 2: Philo has been good through two games. He has completed
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  Speaker 2: 32 of 42 passes with five touchdowns and only one interception.
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  Speaker 2: That is better than 76% completions. And while obviously the
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  Speaker 2: competition gets significantly better this weekend, I think what has
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  Speaker 2: impressed me the most isn't necessarily the numbers. It's how
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  Speaker 2: comfortable he's looked doing it. We haven't seen a quarterback
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  Speaker 2: that looks like he's constantly– searching for the answer. We
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen a guy who looks like the moment is
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  Speaker 2: moving a little bit faster than he is. For the
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  Speaker 2: most part, Philo has just looked under control. And that
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  Speaker 2: kind of lines up with everything Summerall said about him
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  Speaker 2: in his press conference on Monday. Summerall called him competitive
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  Speaker 2: and a good leader and confident and really coachable. And
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  Speaker 2: he said his teammates really like playing with him. And
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  Speaker 2: maybe most importantly for this week, he described Philo as
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  Speaker 2: somebody who isn't easily rattled. Something goes wrong, moves on.
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  Speaker 2: Bad play, short memory. And you really do have to
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  Speaker 2: have that at quarterback. I think of the Ted Lasso,
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  Speaker 2: be a goldfish. It's what you need, especially Saturday night,
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  Speaker 2: because I can almost guarantee something is going to go wrong. Now,
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't mean Florida loses. It means it's an SEC
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  Speaker 2: road game. There's a false start. Maybe somebody misses a
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  Speaker 2: protection or Philo misses a throw or Auburn gets a sack.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Florida has to burn a timeout because nobody can hear.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Auburn scores and suddenly the place just gets really
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  Speaker 2: obnoxiously loud. What happens next? That is what I want
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  Speaker 2: to see from Aaron Filo. Because playing quarterback on the
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  Speaker 2: road in this conference is as much about managing the
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  Speaker 2: bad moments as it is about creating the good ones.
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  Speaker 2: And Summerall said something Monday that I thought was perfect.
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  Speaker 2: He said he wants his quarterbacks more concerned with being
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks than being superstars.
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  Speaker 1: Now, hopefully.
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  Speaker 2: They do become superstars eventually. But first, do your job.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that needs to be Aaron Fila's mentality
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night. You do not have to win the game
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  Speaker 2: on every play. You don't have to silence Jordan Hare
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  Speaker 2: with some ridiculous 60-yard throw on Florida's first possession.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need to prove anything.
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  Speaker 2: Operate the offense. Get everybody lined up. Get the football
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  Speaker 2: where it needs to go. And when a play isn't there,
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  Speaker 2: live to play another down. I know that sounds really
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  Speaker 2: simple sitting here talking about it, and it becomes a
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  Speaker 2: lot harder when you can barely hear the guy standing
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  Speaker 2: next to you. And maybe that's the biggest adjustment this week, communication.
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  Speaker 2: Philo actually talked about that himself. He said in an
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  Speaker 2: environment this loud, he has to be louder with the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line and maybe even need to get physically closer
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  Speaker 2: to those guys to make sure that everybody's getting the call.
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  Speaker 2: And Summerall said Florida will pump crowd noise into practice
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  Speaker 2: all week long to try and simulate that. But he
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  Speaker 2: did also admit that there really isn't a perfect way
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  Speaker 2: to recreate that and make these kids feel ahead of
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  Speaker 2: time what they're about to experience. You can turn speakers
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  Speaker 2: up as loud as you want. It's still not Jordan
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  Speaker 2: Hare at night. Some guys on this team have been
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  Speaker 2: in environments like that, but some haven't. And Philo has
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  Speaker 2: not started in game in an environment like that. And honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that Philo has even been a part
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  Speaker 2: of a game that had an environment like he's about
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  Speaker 2: to experience.
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  Speaker 1: So... There are little.
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  Speaker 2: Things we probably don't talk enough about that are suddenly
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  Speaker 2: going to become really important. Can Florida get the play
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  Speaker 2: communicated quickly? Can Philo get everybody set? Can the offensive
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  Speaker 2: line hear the cadence or whatever silent communication Florida chooses
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  Speaker 2: to use? Can Florida avoid burning timeouts? Can they avoid
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  Speaker 2: delay game penalties? And maybe most importantly, can they avoid
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  Speaker 2: the pre-snap penalties that turn a manageable down into a
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  Speaker 2: terrible situation? Because one of the absolute worst things Florida
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  Speaker 2: can do Saturday night is put Aaron Philo in third
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  Speaker 2: and long over and over and over again. That is
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  Speaker 2: when the crowd really becomes a factor. That is when
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  Speaker 2: Auburn can pin its ears back, and that's when protections
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  Speaker 2: become more difficult. And that is when a young quarterback
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  Speaker 2: is much more likely to make a mistake. Florida has
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  Speaker 2: to help Philo. And that starts with the running game.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked a lot about Jaden Baugh, and deservedly so.
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  Speaker 2: He has three consecutive 100-yard rushing games going back to
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  Speaker 2: last season. But this week, the run game isn't just
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  Speaker 2: about Jaden Baugh putting up a big number. It's about
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  Speaker 2: keeping Aaron Filo out of bad situations. If Florida can
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  Speaker 2: consistently get four or five yards on first down, the
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  Speaker 2: outside the pocket. You can throw something quick. You can
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  Speaker 2: take a shot if you like the matchup. But if
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  Speaker 2: Florida constantly is facing second and 11 because of a
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  Speaker 2: negative run or a holding penalty or some kind of
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  Speaker 2: pre-snap mistake, now Auburn knows what's coming. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what you don't want with a quarterback making his first
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  Speaker 2: SEC road start. The offensive line is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a huge part of this. Summerall was very complimentary of
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  Speaker 2: Auburn's front. He said they're physical. They knock people back.
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  Speaker 2: He loves their linebackers. Their safeties fit the run well.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be completely different from what Florida has
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  Speaker 2: faced the first two weeks. And so when we talk
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  Speaker 2: about this being Philo's first real test, it's really a
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  Speaker 2: test of the entire offense that's around him as well.
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  Speaker 2: Can Florida protect its young quarterback by being able to
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  Speaker 2: run the football? Can the offensive line keep the pocket clean?
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  Speaker 2: Can the receivers continue blocking the way that Summerall has
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  Speaker 2: praised them for blocking?
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  Speaker 1: Can Florida stay on schedule?
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  Speaker 2: Because the best way to help your quarterback deal with
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  Speaker 2: the hostile environment is to make that environment irrelevant.
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  Speaker 1: And the best way to do that, move the chains.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing takes a crowd out of a game faster than
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  Speaker 2: an offense that keeps converting first downs. And nothing gets
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  Speaker 2: that crowd back into it faster than a 3-0. Guys,
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  Speaker 2: slash Allie Peek. The first quarter, guys, is going to
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  Speaker 2: tell us a lot. I don't even necessarily care if
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  Speaker 2: Florida scores on their first possession. I want to see
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  Speaker 2: how they operate. Does Philo look comfortable? Are they getting
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  Speaker 2: the snap off with a lot of time? Do you
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  Speaker 2: guys know where they're supposed to be? Are they committing penalties?
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  Speaker 2: Does Philo look like the same guy that we've watched
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  Speaker 2: the last two weeks in Gainesville? Because if Florida gets
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  Speaker 2: through the first couple of possessions cleanly, then from there,
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  Speaker 2: I think the game kind of starts to settle down.
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  Speaker 2: And then, obviously, so does Philo. There is another thing
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  Speaker 2: I really like about his game going into this matchup.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't appear to be the type of guy that
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  Speaker 2: needs to be the hero. There's going to be the
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  Speaker 2: temptation Saturday night to make something happen when nothing is there.
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  Speaker 1: You escape pressure. The crowd is loud.
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  Speaker 2: A receiver is kind of open downfield, and you think, hmm,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I can squeeze this one in. That's when you
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  Speaker 2: have to be willing to throw it away or take
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  Speaker 2: the check down or even take a sack if the
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  Speaker 2: alternate is putting the football in jeopardy.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing Florida cannot afford.
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  Speaker 2: Is turnovers that feed the crowd. You throw an interception
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  Speaker 2: in Gainesville against Campbell, you hear some groans. You turn
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  Speaker 2: the football over at Jordan-Hare, the entire stadium changes. And
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  Speaker 2: now Auburn's offense takes the field with momentum. That's why
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  Speaker 2: I keep coming back to the Summerall quote, be a quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: not a superstar. You don't need the Aaron Filo-Heisman game Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: You need the Aaron Filo winning the football game on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: And those could be two very different things. Maybe he
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  Speaker 2: throws for 225 yards. Maybe he only throws 25 times.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Jaden Baugh carries it for 25 times.
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  Speaker 1: Who cares?
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  Speaker 2: If Florida wins, nobody is going to complain that Filo
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  Speaker 2: didn't throw for 400 yards. And to me, this is
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  Speaker 2: where Buster Faulkner becomes really important too. Help your quarterback
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  Speaker 2: settle in. Give him some easy completions early.
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  Speaker 1: Use the run game. Use the tight ends. Use some screens.
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  Speaker 1: Move the pocket. Find Vernell Brown in space.
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  Speaker 2: Let Philo complete some passes.
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  Speaker 1: Let him get hints once or twice and then realize, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. This is still football. Because that was basically.
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  Speaker 2: His own message this week. He knows the environment's going
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  Speaker 2: to be different. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: football is football. Don't make it bigger than it is.
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  Speaker 2: And I love that mentality. Now we have to see
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  Speaker 2: whether he can actually live it because it's really easy
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  Speaker 2: on Monday to say, hey, we're not going to let
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  Speaker 2: this game be bigger than it is. But then you
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  Speaker 2: walk out of the tunnel on Saturday night and the
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  Speaker 2: place is packed and you can't hear and Auburn is
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  Speaker 2: flying around and SEC Nation's been there all day and
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  Speaker 2: the crowd is nice and inebriated and suddenly it feels
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  Speaker 2: pretty big. And that is where the quarterback has to
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  Speaker 2: settle everybody else down. And maybe the most encouraging thing
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  Speaker 2: Summerall said Monday was that Philo has been steady.
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  Speaker 1: Not perfect. Steady. And I think there's a difference. Summerall
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  Speaker 1: said if.
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  Speaker 2: Philo continues playing the way he's played through the first
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  Speaker 2: part of the season, he gives Florida a chance to
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  Speaker 2: win every week.
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  Speaker 1: Think about what that means.
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  Speaker 2: He's not asking Philo to suddenly become somebody else because
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  Speaker 2: it's Auburn. He's asking him to be exactly who he
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  Speaker 2: has been.
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  Speaker 1: Make good decisions. Be competitive. Lead. Don't get rattled. Move
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  Speaker 1: on from mistakes. And give your team a chance.
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  Speaker 2: And frankly, I think we're about to learn a lot
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  Speaker 2: more about Aaron Philo Saturday night than we learned in
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  Speaker 2: the first two games combined. FAU and Campbell told us
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  Speaker 2: he was capable of running this offense. Auburn can tell
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  Speaker 2: us whether he's ready to lead through the SEC. Can
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  Speaker 2: you do it when the crowd's against you? Can you
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  Speaker 2: do it when you're taking a hit? Can you do
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  Speaker 2: it after making a mistake? Can you do it when
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  Speaker 2: your running game gets stuffed? Can you convert a third
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  Speaker 2: and seven when everybody in the stadium knows you're going
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  Speaker 2: to throw the ball? Can you make the right decision
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  Speaker 2: late in the fourth quarter when the game is actually
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  Speaker 2: on your shoulders? Those are the questions we haven't had
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  Speaker 2: answered yet. And that's why I'm so fascinated by this
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  Speaker 2: Florida-Auburn game. You could pretty much make a convincing argument
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  Speaker 2: that the single most important thing Florida needs to learn
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  Speaker 2: Saturday isn't whether the defense can stop Auburn. It isn't
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  Speaker 2: whether Florida can run the football. It isn't even whether
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  Speaker 2: John Summerall can get his first SEC win. It's whether
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  Speaker 2: Florida has found its quarterback. Not for FAU, not for Campbell,
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  Speaker 2: but for the SEC portion of the schedule. Saturday night
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  Speaker 2: in Jordan-Hare Stadium, Aaron Filo gets his first chance to
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  Speaker 2: show us. And if it's the same calm, confident, steady
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  Speaker 2: quarterback we've watched through the first two weeks and that's
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  Speaker 2: who shows up in Auburn, then Florida may have something
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  Speaker 2: really interesting on its hands. I appreciate you guys for
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  Speaker 2: tuning in.
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