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Former Coach Just ADMITTED Something About Gators Football That Has Me EXCITED! · A Peek Inside Gators Football: A Show About the Florida Gators

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  Speaker 1: Okay. So I came across a video from Coach Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Collins on Twitter. He is a former UF defensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: incredible coach. He was breaking down Florida's offense and Buster Faulkner.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to tell you, this is one of
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  Speaker 1: the more interesting outside evaluations of what Florida is doing
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  Speaker 1: offensively that I think I have ever heard. I'll make
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  Speaker 1: sure I link it in the comments of this video.
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  Speaker 1: This was not just somebody looking at the box score
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  Speaker 1: and saying, wow, Florida scored a lot of points. Collins
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  Speaker 1: actually went to practice. He watched how Buster Faulkner installed
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  Speaker 1: this offense. He understands it from the perspective of a
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  Speaker 1: defensive coach who had to figure out how in the
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  Speaker 1: world you defend all of this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And his conclusions are pretty simple.
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  Speaker 1: He called Buster Faulkner the best offensive coordinator you've never
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  Speaker 1: heard of.
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  Speaker 2: And after watching what Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Did in its opener, Collins believes people are going to
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  Speaker 1: know that name very, very soon. So we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about what Jeff Collins sees in this Florida offense,
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  Speaker 1: why he thinks it's such a nightmare to defend, and
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  Speaker 1: what it could mean for the Gators going forward. Let's
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  Speaker 1: start with the numbers because that's where Coach Collins started.
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  Speaker 2: Florida put up 624 yards of offense. They ran for
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  Speaker 2: 281 yards.
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  Speaker 1: He compared that to last season's rushing average of 136
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  Speaker 1: yards per game. Florida scored 66 points. And Collins' point
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  Speaker 1: wasn't simply, look, this was one great game. It was
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  Speaker 1: how dramatically different the operation looked.
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  Speaker 2: He also brought up pass protection.
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  Speaker 1: Florida had allowed more than 20 sacks last season, and
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  Speaker 1: in this game, they allowed just one. So when you
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  Speaker 1: put it all together, rushing production, protection, total offense, points,
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  Speaker 1: Collins believes you could already see Buster Faulkner's fingerprints all
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  Speaker 1: over this team. And yes, he acknowledges the obvious response.
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  Speaker 1: People are going to say, well, look who Florida played.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: But Collins' answer was essentially, good offense is good offense.
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  Speaker 1: Execution is execution. You do not accidentally put up 624 yards.
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  Speaker 1: You don't accidentally score 66 points. And what impressed him
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  Speaker 1: even more was that he had already seen the ingredients
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  Speaker 1: during practice. The footwork, the ball handling, the motions, the shifts,
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  Speaker 1: the timing, the attention to detail. Then Florida went out
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  Speaker 1: in game one and then actually executed it. That is
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  Speaker 1: the part that got Collins' attention. And here's where this
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  Speaker 1: gets really interesting. Everything looks the same until it isn't.
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  Speaker 1: This was probably my favorite part of his breakdown because
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  Speaker 1: he explained what makes Faulkner's offense so difficult for defenses.
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  Speaker 1: Everything starts with the quarterback having some type of read,
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  Speaker 1: zone read, power read, counter read. Then off of that
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  Speaker 1: same basic action, Faulkner starts layering things on top of it.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there's a screen. Maybe there is play action. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: there's a boot. Then you add motion. Then you add shifts.
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  Speaker 1: And the beauty of it is that Florida can show
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  Speaker 1: the defense basically the same picture and then run three
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  Speaker 1: completely different plays from it.
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  Speaker 2: Collins gives you the example of counter.
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  Speaker 1: You see counter. Then later you see the same look,
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  Speaker 1: but it becomes play action. Then you see the same formation,
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  Speaker 1: the same motion, the same shift. And now Florida throws
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  Speaker 1: a screen. That creates a nightmare for defenders because eventually
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  Speaker 1: you start reacting to what you think you recognize. And
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  Speaker 1: that's when the offense actually gets you. Collins called it
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  Speaker 1: an absolute pain for a defensive coordinator to game plan
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  Speaker 1: against because Faulkner is creative enough that you aren't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: getting the same tendencies every week. And that is what
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  Speaker 1: Gator fans should be excited about. It's not just having
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of plays. Anybody can have a huge playbook.
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  Speaker 1: It's making completely different plays look identical before the snap.
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  Speaker 1: That creates hesitation. And in college football, if you make
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  Speaker 1: a linebacker or a safety mistake, hesitate for half a second,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be all Jaden Bond needs. That might
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  Speaker 1: be all a receiver needs to get behind somebody. That
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  Speaker 1: might be the difference between a four-yard play and a
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  Speaker 1: 40-yard play. During the conversation, the comparison was made to
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay's.
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  Speaker 2: Style of offense.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of motion, lots of shifts, lots of what Collins
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  Speaker 1: calls window dressing. Show the defense one thing, then have
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  Speaker 1: multiple answers coming off of it. Collins agrees that there
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  Speaker 1: are similarities, but then he pointed out that the difference
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  Speaker 1: that makes Faulkner's offense particularly dangerous at the college level
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  Speaker 1: is the quarterback run game. An NFL quarterback generally isn't
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  Speaker 1: going to be consistently running quarterback counter through traffic. You
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  Speaker 1: are probably not sending Matt Stafford up the middle on
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  Speaker 1: a power read. But Aaron Filo, Florida can do that.
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  Speaker 1: So now think about what that does to a defense.
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  Speaker 1: You already have to account for Jaden Ball. You already
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  Speaker 1: have to account for the receivers. You already have to
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  Speaker 1: deal with jet motion and screens and play action. Now
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback himself is a legitimate part of the running attack.
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  Speaker 1: That means the defense is basically playing 11-on-11 football. The
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  Speaker 1: quarterback isn't just handing the ball off and watching the play.
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  Speaker 1: He can actually become the ball carrier. And Collins described
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  Speaker 1: the system as having an NFL-style foundation that Similar to
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  Speaker 1: the Todd Munkin tree, but then with the additional quarterback
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  Speaker 1: run element that creates another problem that defenders are going
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  Speaker 1: to have to solve. And this isn't just something Faulkner
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  Speaker 1: did for one night at Florida. And that's where Collins
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  Speaker 1: really kind of strengthened his argument. He went back and
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  Speaker 1: looked at what happened at Faulkner's previous stops. Before Buster arrived,
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  Speaker 1: Collins pointed out that the offense had averaged 17 points
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  Speaker 1: per game. Then over the next three seasons, this is
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech, around 31. That's roughly two touchdowns per game better.
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  Speaker 1: The rushing numbers dramatically jumped too. And the statistic Collins
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  Speaker 1: seemed the most impressed with was actually sacks. He said
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech gave up 39 sacks in 2022. Over the
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  Speaker 1: next three years under Buster Faulkner, 33 combined.
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  Speaker 2: So think about that.
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  Speaker 1: 39 in one season, then 33 in the next three
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  Speaker 1: seasons combined. And Collins believes that speaks to one of
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  Speaker 1: the hallmarks of this offense, which is avoiding negative plays
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  Speaker 1: and creating explosives, protecting the football, help your offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: That last one matters a lot to Florida because we
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  Speaker 1: spent the entire offseason talking about the offensive tackles. Can
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  Speaker 1: they protect Aaron Filo? Can this line hold up against
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  Speaker 1: an SEC defensive front? Well, one way to help them
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  Speaker 1: defensively is exactly what Florida is doing.
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  Speaker 2: Run the football. Move the quarterback. Use play action. Get
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  Speaker 2: the ball out.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same thing John Summerall talked about after the game.
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  Speaker 1: Make defensive linemen hesitate instead of allowing them to pin
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  Speaker 1: their ears back and rush the passer every snap. The
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  Speaker 1: scheme itself is actually helping the offensive line. And Collins
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  Speaker 1: has already seen that formula work before. One of the
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  Speaker 1: questions brought up was how much of Faulkner's previous system
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  Speaker 1: and success was because of the quarterback, how much of
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  Speaker 1: it was because of the system.
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  Speaker 2: And Collins basically said it's both.
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  Speaker 1: A great play caller still needs a quarterback capable of
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  Speaker 1: executing what he wants. He talked about the marriage between
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  Speaker 1: Faulkner and Hayes King and how well those two fit together.
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  Speaker 2: And they did. And now we see.
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  Speaker 1: Something similar happening with Aaron Filo. A good offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: isn't supposed to force his quarterback into being something that
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  Speaker 1: he isn't. You build around what your guy does well.
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  Speaker 1: And Collins believes that's exactly what Faulkner is doing with Philo.
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  Speaker 1: That's another reason I think we saw that game one
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  Speaker 1: was encouraging.
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  Speaker 2: He looked decisive.
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  Speaker 1: And when you have all of these reads built into
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  Speaker 1: the offensive playbook, decisiveness is everything. Because the entire system
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  Speaker 1: is essentially asking Philo, what is the defense giving you?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, take it.
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  Speaker 1: And if Philo continues processing things quickly, suddenly all of
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  Speaker 1: those options Faulkner has built into the offense become really
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  Speaker 1: difficult to stop. But maybe the biggest compliment Collins gave
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  Speaker 1: Buster Faulkner had absolutely nothing to do with X's and O's.
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  Speaker 1: He talked about his coaching journey. He talked about him
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  Speaker 1: working under Todd Munkin, being an analyst at Georgia, being
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  Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator at Southern Miss, Arkansas State, Middle Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: Murray State, Valdosta State. His point was that Buster Faulkner
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  Speaker 1: didn't not magically appear at Florida with unlimited resources and
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  Speaker 1: suddenly figure out how to coach offense.
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  Speaker 2: He worked his way up.
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  Speaker 1: He coached at places where you don't have every single advantage.
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  Speaker 1: You don't always have elite players. You don't have endless analysts.
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  Speaker 1: You don't necessarily have the gigantic recruiting budget. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: simply have to coach. And Collins believes those experiences are
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  Speaker 1: exactly why this stage isn't too big for Buster Faulkner.
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  Speaker 1: He already had to figure out how to create offense
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  Speaker 1: without having every possible resources. But now he has Florida's
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  Speaker 1: resources and he has Florida's athletes and he has a
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff around him that can help him maximize all
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  Speaker 1: of it. which led Collins to make a pretty big prediction.
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  Speaker 1: He believes Buster Faulkner is going to be a head
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  Speaker 1: coach soon. His words were basically, people are about to
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  Speaker 1: find out that this guy is the real deal. And
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  Speaker 1: if Florida's offense keeps producing the way it did in
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  Speaker 1: game one, he might be right. So what does all
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  Speaker 1: of this mean for Florida? To me, it means there
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  Speaker 1: are really three things, I think. Number one, Florida appears
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  Speaker 1: to have an offensive identity. And I know that that
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  Speaker 1: sounds so simple, but Gator fans understand how important that is.
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  Speaker 1: You can already explain what this offense wants to do.
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  Speaker 1: Run the football, make the quarterback a threat, create conflict
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  Speaker 1: with reads, use motion and formations to make the defense
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  Speaker 1: reveal itself. Then build multiple plays off the exact same look.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, this system appears designed to make life easier
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  Speaker 1: on Aaron Filo and the offensive line. That doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: there won't be a game where Florida struggles. There absolutely
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  Speaker 1: will be. but the structure gives them answers. And number three,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe the most exciting part, we probably haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: anywhere close to the entire offense yet. That's what Collins
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  Speaker 1: was getting at when he talked about the creativity and
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  Speaker 1: not seeing the same thing every week. Game one gives
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  Speaker 1: opposing defensive coordinators information. Now they start studying it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so when Florida shows this motion, they tend to run this.
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  Speaker 1: When they line up this way, watch for the counter. Perfect,
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  Speaker 1: because next week, Buster Faulkner can take that exact tendency
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  Speaker 1: you've spent.
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  Speaker 2: Hours studying, and he's going to use it against you.
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  Speaker 2: That is offensive play calling at its best.
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  Speaker 1: And eventually, Florida is going to face SEC defenses with
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  Speaker 1: far better personnel than what we saw in the opener.
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  Speaker 1: That is when we'll really learn how good this offense
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  Speaker 1: can be. But when a defensive-minded coach looks at what
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  Speaker 1: Florida is doing and basically says, this is an absolute
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  Speaker 1: nightmare to prepare for, I'm listening.
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  Speaker 2: And Jeff Collins.
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  Speaker 1: certainly seems to believe Florida has one of the better
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  Speaker 1: offensive minds in college football running this thing. So now
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  Speaker 1: the question becomes, how high is the ceiling? Because if
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Filo continues making good decisions and Jaden Baugh continues
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  Speaker 1: running the football the way he did in game one,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line holds up and Buster Faulkner continues keeping
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  Speaker 1: defenses guessing, Florida's offense might be a whole lot more
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  Speaker 1: dangerous than people expect it. So I want to know
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  Speaker 1: what you guys think. How impressed were you with Buster
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  Speaker 1: Faulkner's offense in game one?
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  Speaker 2: And after hearing Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: Collins explain what makes this system so difficult to defend,
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  Speaker 1: are you buying the idea that Faulkner could be one
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  Speaker 1: of the next hot names in the head coaching carousel?
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