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Gators SMASH Auburn & PROVE EXACTLY What We NEEDED To SEE | UF Football · A Peek Inside Gators Football: A Show About the Florida Gators

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  Speaker 1: What's up, Gator Nation?
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  Speaker 2: Allie Peek here with your Florida Gator post-game recap. This
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  Speaker 2: All right, so we have been asking the same question
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  Speaker 2: for the last two weeks, and so has the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the country, truly, and it's, is Florida actually good
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  Speaker 2: Or do they just look good because they hadn't played
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  Speaker 2: anybody yet? Well, went into Jordan-Hare Stadium at night, played
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  Speaker 2: their first SEC game under a new head coach, commit
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  Speaker 2: 16 penalties, give Auburn 138 free yards, and you still
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  Speaker 2: walk out of there with a 44-39 win? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think we learned something about this football team. Now, was
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  Speaker 2: it perfect? Absolutely not. In fact, Coach Summerall said afterwards
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  Speaker 2: that if Florida plays like this against the best teams
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  Speaker 2: on its schedule, They will get killed. But there is
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  Speaker 2: something different about this team. They respond. They don't panic.
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  Speaker 2: They don't seem overwhelmed by big moments. And maybe most importantly,
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  Speaker 2: they have an identity. Florida went into Auburn and put
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  Speaker 2: up 495 yards of offense.
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  Speaker 1: They ran for 243.
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  Speaker 2: They threw for 252. They possessed the football for more
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  Speaker 2: than 39 minutes. They scored on seven of their eight possessions.
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  Speaker 2: They never trailed. Florida is 3-0 for the first time
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  Speaker 2: since 2019. John Summerall is the first first-year Florida coach
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  Speaker 2: to start 3-0 since Urban Meyer, and the Gators just
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  Speaker 2: won at Auburn for the first time since 1999. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's plenty to clean up, but there's also a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot to like. Let's get into the good, the bad,
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  Speaker 2: and the There were some very, very ugly as well.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with the good, Jaden Baugh.
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  Speaker 2: We may need to make this a permanent segment every
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  Speaker 2: single week because what else are you supposed to say?
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  Speaker 2: 26 carries, 162 yards, three touchdowns, 6.2 yards per carry.
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  Speaker 2: And when Florida needed him the most, he absolutely ripped
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  Speaker 2: Auburn's heart out. You know, early in the third quarter,
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  Speaker 2: Florida comes out of the half ready to play.
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  Speaker 1: Baugh takes one.
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  Speaker 2: 33 yards to the house. Then in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 2: Florida's facing fourth and one from its own 47. Every
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  Speaker 2: person in Jordan-Hare Stadium knows who's getting the football.
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  Speaker 1: Auburn knows it. Florida knows it. You knew it. I
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  Speaker 1: knew it. Doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Baugh hit the hole and goes for 53 yards for
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  Speaker 2: a touchdown. Not a first down, not three yards and
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  Speaker 2: a cloud of dust. We're probably taking that though, right?
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  Speaker 1: 53 yards. Ball game.
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  Speaker 2: And what I love about Baugh right now is that
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  Speaker 2: these aren't empty numbers against bad competition anymore. Auburn came
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  Speaker 2: into this game with a defensive front that was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be the strength of its football team. Florida ran
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  Speaker 2: for 243 yards, the most Auburn has allowed since DJ
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  Speaker 2: Durkin became defensive coordinator there. Baugh now has four straight
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  Speaker 2: 100-yard games dating back to last season. He has eight
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  Speaker 2: rushing touchdowns already this year. And even after the mistake
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the game, when he bobbled that pass and
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  Speaker 2: it became Aaron Pilo's interception, he didn't disappear.
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  Speaker 1: Summerall went right over to him and basically said, good.
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  Speaker 1: You made a mistake. Good. Now go respond. And he did.
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  Speaker 2: That mentality is probably my favorite thing about this team
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  Speaker 2: so far.
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  Speaker 1: They are going to screw up. They are young.
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  Speaker 2: They are going to make mistakes. But the response has
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  Speaker 2: been different. And nobody embodied that better Saturday night than
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  Speaker 2: Jaden Baugh. Another good is the offense and Buster Faulkner.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is maybe my biggest takeaway from the
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  Speaker 2: entire game. Honestly, maybe even this season so far. We
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  Speaker 2: knew Florida could score against FAU. We knew Florida could
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  Speaker 2: score against Campbell. But could this offense travel? Could it
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  Speaker 2: work against SEC athletes? Could Buster Faulkner still create the
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  Speaker 2: same mismatches?
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  Speaker 1: And Apparently the answer is yes.
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  Speaker 2: Florida finished with 495 yards and averaged about six and
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  Speaker 2: a half yards per play. They had 243 rushing and
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  Speaker 2: 252 passing. That is about as balanced as you can
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  Speaker 2: possibly get. I know some of you guys are like
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  Speaker 2: me and the word complimentary football just brings up some
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  Speaker 2: bad memories for us, but this was balanced. Florida went
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  Speaker 2: five for five in the red zone, three for three
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  Speaker 2: on fourth down.
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  Speaker 1: They had one punt the entire night.
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  Speaker 2: And they scored on seven of their first eight possessions.
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  Speaker 2: That is ridiculous efficiency in your first SEC road game.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the part that impressed me the very
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  Speaker 2: most was that Florida kept overcoming its own mistakes. Third
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  Speaker 2: and 12, okay, Florida's going to hit BB3 for 27.
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  Speaker 2: Third and 20, Duke Clark somehow scores a touchdown. Third
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  Speaker 2: and eight, Buster Faulkner says, all right, how about we
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  Speaker 2: get Khalil Jackson, you know, former high school quarterback, to
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  Speaker 2: throw a 48-yard bomb to Amir Jackson. That play came
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  Speaker 2: right after the officials overturned that BB3 catch.
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  Speaker 1: It was a catch, by the way. That could have
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  Speaker 1: been a moment where Florida gets frustrated. Instead, fine. You
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  Speaker 1: took that one away. We'll take 48 on the next one.
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  Speaker 2: And that is one of the biggest differences I see
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  Speaker 2: offensively right now.
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  Speaker 1: There is an answer.
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  Speaker 2: Florida gained 151 yards on third down plays alone.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that. That means Auburn repeatedly got Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Into situations where the defense should have won the down.
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  Speaker 2: But Florida kept finding a way out. That wears a
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  Speaker 2: defense out. And by the second half, I think you
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  Speaker 2: could see it. We got to give some good to
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Filo as well. He deserves his flowers.
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  Speaker 1: First SEC start, first road start.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Hare at night, 15 of 22, 204 yards, one touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: The interception technically goes on his stat line, but the
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  Speaker 2: football hit ball just absolutely right in the chest and
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  Speaker 2: the hands and popped into the air.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's just such a fluke thing.
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  Speaker 2: And outside of that, Philo looked completely comfortable. Not spectacular
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  Speaker 2: on every snap, not Superman, but controlled. And that is
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  Speaker 2: exactly what this offense needs. He made some really impressive
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  Speaker 2: throws under pressure. He kept drives alive. He handled the atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: And the moment never felt like it got too big
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  Speaker 2: for him. Summerall in the postgame described him as having kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of a cowboy mentality.
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  Speaker 2: Tough, blue collar, chip on his shoulder, doesn't say a lot,
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  Speaker 2: but also doesn't back down. And I think that's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good description of what we're seeing. Through three games,
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  Speaker 2: Philo doesn't look like the guy who's trying to prove
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  Speaker 2: he can be Florida's quarterback. He just looks like he
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  Speaker 2: is Florida's quarterback, and I do think that there's some
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  Speaker 2: nuance there. Another good, VB3, Dallas Wilson, and all of
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  Speaker 2: these weapons. This offense is becoming really hard to defend
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  Speaker 2: because there isn't just one guy. Vernell Brown had five
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  Speaker 2: catches for 86 yards. Dallas Wilson had four catches for
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  Speaker 2: 74 yards and a touchdown. Khalil Jackson threw a 48-yard pass.
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  Speaker 2: Amir Jackson goes and makes a big catch. Duke Clark
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  Speaker 2: gives you 50 yards at a touchdown behind Baugh. And
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  Speaker 2: even when Auburn knew Florida wanted to run the football,
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  Speaker 2: they couldn't stop it. That's what I mean when coming
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  Speaker 2: into this game, I was saying that Auburn would tell
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  Speaker 2: us a lot about this offense, a lot more than
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  Speaker 2: the first two weeks would.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the answer here is pretty clear. The
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  Speaker 1: offense is real.
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  Speaker 2: I'm giving my own section of good to the middle eight.
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  Speaker 2: And Gator fans, you know exactly why this matters. Florida
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  Speaker 2: won the middle eight 10-0. For anyone unfamiliar, that's the
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  Speaker 2: final four minutes of the first half and the first
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  Speaker 2: four minutes of the second half. And the last several years, well,
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  Speaker 2: that stretch of football has been a nightmare for the Gators.
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  Speaker 2: How many times do we watch previous staffs have a
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  Speaker 2: chance to steal points before halftime and instead get conservative?
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  Speaker 2: And how many times did Florida give up points right
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  Speaker 2: before the break? Or how many times did they come
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  Speaker 2: out of the locker room just absolutely flat? It became
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  Speaker 2: one of those things you almost expected. And Saturday night,
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  Speaker 2: it was completely different. Auburn had just tied the game
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  Speaker 2: at 17. Jordan Hare is going bonkers. Momentum has completely flipped.
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  Speaker 2: Florida gets the football with just over five minutes left.
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  Speaker 2: And instead of panicking, they go on an 11-play drive,
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  Speaker 2: bleed the clock, and Patrick Durkin hits a field goal
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  Speaker 2: with five seconds remaining. So then Florida goes into halftime up.
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  Speaker 2: 20 to 17. But then they get the ball to
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  Speaker 2: start the second half. First play, Philo to VB3, 37 yards.
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  Speaker 2: Another completion to Brown. Then Jaden Baugh, 33 yards.
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  Speaker 1: Touchdown. Three plays, 75 yards.
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  Speaker 2: A 20 to 17 game suddenly becomes a 27 to
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  Speaker 2: 17 game. Florida won that stretch 10-0. That is how
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  Speaker 2: you play situational football. And Summerall said afterward that he
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  Speaker 2: felt like that sequence coming out of halftime was was
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  Speaker 2: essentially the game-deciding swing.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he's right.
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  Speaker 2: Auburn had spent the second quarter just clawing their way back.
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  Speaker 2: Florida could have let them carry that momentum into halftime
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  Speaker 2: and into the third quarter. Instead, Florida punched them right
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  Speaker 2: back in the mouth. And for anybody who's lived through
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  Speaker 2: Florida's middle eight issues the last few years, that was refreshing. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to have plenty to say about the defense
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  Speaker 2: in a minute, but The defensive front still belongs on
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  Speaker 2: this good list. There was some really good stuff there.
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  Speaker 2: Florida had seven sacks, seven. Cormani McLean picks Byron Brown
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  Speaker 2: off on Auburn's opening possession, and Florida immediately turns it
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  Speaker 2: into a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Woods was disruptive.
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  Speaker 2: Emmanuel Obadejo, who Samaral said was basically a game-time decision,
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  Speaker 2: that he hadn't practiced all week. He ran around really
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  Speaker 2: for the first time on Friday. Well, he shows up
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  Speaker 2: and plays his butt off. Those two combined for five sacks.
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  Speaker 2: and Auburn's traditional running game really never got going. Jeremiah
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  Speaker 2: Cobb finished with only 32 yards on nine carries, looking
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  Speaker 2: for that Brad guy who says he's better than we
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  Speaker 2: got in Jaden Baugh.
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  Speaker 1: Don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: Florida held Auburn to 102 rushing yards total, and a
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  Speaker 2: huge chunk of that came from Byron Brown scrambling. There
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  Speaker 2: were moments when Florida's defensive front absolutely took over this
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  Speaker 2: football game, and those sacks came in just absolutely huge
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  Speaker 2: in some enormous situations. So I do think the pieces
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  Speaker 2: are there.
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  Speaker 1: Now, before we get to the bad, I want to
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  Speaker 2: so it's time to bring me to the bad. And
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  Speaker 2: headlining this list would be the defense, especially late. How
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  Speaker 2: do you evaluate a defense that gets seven sacks, forces
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  Speaker 2: an early turnover, makes some really big plays, but still
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  Speaker 2: gives up 39 points?
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the question.
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  Speaker 2: Because Florida's defense did some really good things Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: They also gave up way too many explosives. And Summerall
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  Speaker 2: was clearly irritated about it afterwards. Florida's game plan was
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  Speaker 2: always to stay on top of routes and force Byron
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  Speaker 2: Brown to consistently make the underneath throws. Instead, too often,
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  Speaker 2: defenders got impatient and they attacked the low hip. They
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  Speaker 2: lost leverage, they got out of position, and Auburn made
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  Speaker 2: them pay. Byron Brown finished with 271 passing yards, three
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  Speaker 2: passing touchdowns, and another 65 yards and a touchdown on
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  Speaker 2: the ground. I think my biggest issue with the defense
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  Speaker 2: overall is how Florida finished. Florida gets up 41-24. At
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  Speaker 2: that point, the game should be over.
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  Speaker 1: It felt over.
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  Speaker 2: Instead, Auburn goes 80 yards in 2 minutes and 35
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  Speaker 2: seconds for a touchdown and a two-point conversion.
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  Speaker 1: So then that makes it 44-32.
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  Speaker 2: Then Auburn goes 75 yards in 2 minutes and 29
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  Speaker 2: seconds and scores again. Now suddenly, with 24 seconds left,
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  Speaker 2: Auburn is attempting an onside kick in a five-point game,
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  Speaker 2: a game Florida controlled for essentially the entire night, and
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  Speaker 2: suddenly it looks like it's going to come down to
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  Speaker 2: the final seconds. That cannot happen against better teams, and
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  Speaker 2: Summerall knows it. He basically said that explosive plays were gifts.
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  Speaker 2: Just do your job. Stay where you're supposed to stay.
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  Speaker 1: Trust the call.
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  Speaker 2: Because when Florida did that, Auburn struggled. And when Florida didn't,
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  Speaker 2: there were receivers running free. That has to improve. I
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  Speaker 2: need Florida to finish the game too, so I added
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  Speaker 2: this to my bad list.
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  Speaker 1: This ties into the defense, but I also think.
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  Speaker 2: It really should be mentioned separately. Florida had a chance
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  Speaker 2: to make a statement with the final score. They were
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  Speaker 2: up 17 twice.
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  Speaker 1: 34-17, then 41-24.
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  Speaker 2: And instead of putting Auburn away, they let them hang around. Now,
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  Speaker 2: do I think the final score accurately represents this football game?
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  Speaker 1: No, I really don't.
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  Speaker 2: Florida controlled the ball for 39 minutes and 16 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: They had 495 yards. Auburn had 373. Florida ran 76 plays.
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  Speaker 1: Auburn ran 66.
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  Speaker 2: Florida never trailed for a minute in this game. For
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  Speaker 2: large stretches, Florida was clearly the much better football team.
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  Speaker 2: But championship level teams don't let a game they control
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  Speaker 2: turn into an onside kick situation with 24 seconds left.
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  Speaker 1: You have to close. You have to finish. You have to.
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  Speaker 2: Make 41-24 feel like 41-24. I think that's the next step.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's move on to the ugly. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know where to begin on this. 16 penalties. That's 138 yards.
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  Speaker 1: And that is insane.
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  Speaker 2: I do not care how you felt about the officiating.
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  Speaker 2: Were there calls that I didn't love?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Were there inconsistencies? Absolutely. Summerall even said he.
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  Speaker 2: Disagreed with some of the flags, but he also refused
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  Speaker 2: to let his players use that as an excuse.
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  Speaker 1: And either should we.
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  Speaker 2: Florida had procedural penalties, personal fouls, holding, false start, an
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  Speaker 2: ineligible man downfield, a touchdown wiped off the board, big
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  Speaker 2: plays erased, six penalties in the first quarter, 10 by halftime.
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  Speaker 2: Dallas Wilson alone had three, although you will never find
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  Speaker 2: me complaining about a wide receiver getting a penalty because
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  Speaker 2: he's blocking a defender into the sidelines.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, this isn't nerves anymore, though. It's discipline.
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  Speaker 2: And Summerall's quote after the game tells you exactly how
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  Speaker 2: he thinks this is and how serious he takes it.
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  Speaker 2: He said, we won't win another game all year if
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  Speaker 2: we do that again. Then he pointed out the trend.
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  Speaker 2: Week one, four penalties. Week two, eight penalties. Week three,
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  Speaker 2: 16 penalties. And he joked about not being a mathematician,
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  Speaker 2: but knowing that, you know, listen, they're doubling. And then
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  Speaker 2: he basically said, if Florida does that against an elite
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  Speaker 2: SEC team, they will get embarrassed.
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  Speaker 1: And he's right.
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  Speaker 2: You can't spot Ole Miss, Georgia, Texas, whoever, 138 yards
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  Speaker 2: and expect to survive. Now, the encouraging part, Florida committed
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  Speaker 2: 16 penalties and they still.
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  Speaker 1: Beat Auburn on the road.
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  Speaker 2: The terrifying part is that eventually somebody is going to
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  Speaker 2: make them pay for that. It has to get fixed immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely immediately. Guys, that was the good, the bad, and
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  Speaker 2: the ugly. But you know, one of the things that
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  Speaker 2: I loved about the post-game press conference that Coach Summerall
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  Speaker 2: told us about, and it was the theme the entire week,
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  Speaker 2: is that he said the phrase, work the cut, comes
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  Speaker 2: from boxing, was something that he kept repeating into the
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  Speaker 2: headset all night. He said, you don't just walk into
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  Speaker 2: a fight throwing uppercuts, hoping you knock somebody out.
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  Speaker 1: You jab. You open a cut.
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  Speaker 2: Then you keep hitting the cut over and over and over.
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  Speaker 2: And eventually the big shot comes. And that's basically how
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  Speaker 2: Florida won this football game. They possessed the ball for
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  Speaker 2: nearly 40 minutes. They converted third downs. They converted fourth downs.
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  Speaker 2: They ran Jaden Baugh again and again and again. They
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  Speaker 2: made Auburn tackle. They made Auburn defend 76 plays. And
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  Speaker 2: they made them defend long drives. And eventually, 33 yards
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  Speaker 2: from Jaden Baugh. 20-yard touchdown from Dallas Wilson, 48-yard double pass,
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  Speaker 2: 53 yards from ball, uppercut, uppercut, uppercut. Florida didn't play
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  Speaker 2: a perfect football game, but they kept working the cut.
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  Speaker 2: And when Auburn punched back, Florida responded. And that is
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  Speaker 2: the identity that John Summerall is trying to create. This
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  Speaker 2: is why I thought this game was such a huge
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  Speaker 2: litmus test for Florida. Not because Auburn is Georgia, not
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  Speaker 2: because Auburn is suddenly an elite SEC team, or not because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is the toughest game on the schedule,
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  Speaker 2: but because this is the first time Florida had to
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  Speaker 2: prove that what we saw in weeks one and two
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  Speaker 2: would travel. Road game, SEC opponent, hostile environment, night game
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  Speaker 2: at Jordan-Hare, adversity, mistakes, momentum swings. And Florida handled it all. Now,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't always handle it well, but they handled it.
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  Speaker 2: And they're now 3-0. They're 1-0 in SEC play. It's
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  Speaker 2: Florida's first 3-0 start since 2019. It's Florida's first win
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  Speaker 2: at Auburn since 1999. And John Summerall is the first
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  Speaker 2: first-year Florida head coach to start 3-0 since Urban Meyer
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  Speaker 2: did it in 2005. Florida has scored 162 points in
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  Speaker 2: three games. The offense just put nearly 500 yards on
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  Speaker 2: an SEC defense that everybody thinks is very good. Jaden
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  Speaker 2: Baugh is one of the best running backs in America.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Filo looked comfortable. The offensive line is playing physical football.
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  Speaker 2: The receivers are making plays. Buster Faulkner appears to have answers.
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  Speaker 2: And this team believes it can walk into somebody else's
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  Speaker 2: stadium and win. Those are not small developments. And listen,
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  Speaker 2: there are still problems. 16 penalties will get you beat.
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  Speaker 2: Giving up explosive plays will get you beat. Failing to
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  Speaker 2: close when you're up by 17 will eventually get you beat.
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  Speaker 2: And Florida's about to face a much more difficult test
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: with Ole Miss coming to the swamp. Summerall said it himself,
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  Speaker 2: this is not their best football. But guys, that's the
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: most encouraging part of all of this to me. Florida
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  Speaker 2: just went into Auburn, scored 44 points, ran for 243 yards,
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  Speaker 2: possessed the football for almost 40 minutes, won the middle
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  Speaker 2: eight 10-0, sacked Auburn seven times, and then the head
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  Speaker 2: coach stood in the press conference after the game looking irritated,
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  Speaker 2: telling us that wasn't our best football. Good. The standards
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  Speaker 2: should be higher. Three games, three wins, and now we
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: finally have one that tells us something. Florida 44, Auburn 39.
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  Speaker 2: The good, Jaden Baugh, Aaron Filo, Buster Faulkner, the offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: the middle eight, the ability to respond when things went wrong.
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  Speaker 2: The bad, explosive plays defensively and failing to put the
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: game away when you had Auburn on the ropes.
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  Speaker 1: And the ugly, I don't ever want to have.
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  Speaker 2: To talk about 16 penalties for 138 yards again. But
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  Speaker 2: this team went into one of the SEC's toughest environments,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: and they found a way.
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  Speaker 1: They were punched. They punched back. They made mistakes. But
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: then they responded. They worked the cut. And in the end,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Florida was the last team standing. So now go home.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to the drawing board. Clean it up.
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  Speaker 2: Ole Miss is next, and we're about to find out
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: just how high the ceiling really is for this Florida
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: football team. Guys, I want to know you're good, you're bad,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: you're ugly. Let me know down in the comments. You
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