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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to A Peak Inside Gator Football. Allie Peek here.
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  Speaker 1: get $ 150 in lineups instantly. Well, if you watched Florida
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  Speaker 1: beat Ole Miss 52-28 on Saturday, there were definitely a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things that jumped out. Jaden Ball was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Duke Clark was incredible. Aaron Filo was efficient. The defense
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  Speaker 1: made some huge plays. Special teams was really good again.
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  Speaker 1: But if we're being honest, none of that happens the
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  Speaker 1: way it did without the guys up front. Florida's offensive
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  Speaker 1: line absolutely took over that football game. And today I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about a group that usually doesn't get
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  Speaker 1: enough credit when things are going well, but gets all
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  Speaker 1: the blame when things aren't. The offensive line. And after
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  Speaker 1: what Florida did to Ole Miss on Saturday, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's high time we give this group some serious attention.
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  Speaker 1: Florida didn't just run the ball well. They ran for
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  Speaker 1: 302 yards. They scored six rushing touchdowns. They had two
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  Speaker 1: running backs go over 100 yards, and they did it
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  Speaker 1: against the number four team in the country. That's not normal.
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Baugh finished with 142 yards and three touchdowns. Duke
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  Speaker 1: Clark had 126 yards on only 12 carries. Those two
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  Speaker 1: alone combined for 268 rushing yards. And Florida finished with
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  Speaker 1: 498 total yards of offense. That is domination up front.
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  Speaker 1: And what I loved about it was it wasn't some
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  Speaker 1: gimmicky rushing performance. Florida wasn't running reverses every other play.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't living on quarterback scrambles. They weren't getting all
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  Speaker 1: of their yards because Ole Miss blew a coverage somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: They lined up and ran the football over and over
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  Speaker 1: and over again. And Ole Miss couldn't stop it. That's
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  Speaker 1: what made it so impressive. Ole Miss knew what Florida
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do. Once Florida got rolling in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: there was no secret. They knew Jaden Ball was getting
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  Speaker 1: the ball. They knew Duke Clark was getting the ball.
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  Speaker 1: They knew Florida wanted to lean on that offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: And Florida did it anyway. That's when you know you've
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  Speaker 1: got something, when everybody in the stadium knows what is
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  Speaker 1: coming and it still works. That's a mentality. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what stood out to me the most. Florida looked physical.
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  Speaker 1: They looked confident. They looked like they expected to win
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  Speaker 1: up front. And I don't think that's something we could
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  Speaker 1: consistently say about this team over the last few years.
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  Speaker 1: There were certainly good offensive linemen. There were good performances.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of games where Florida would get
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  Speaker 1: into obvious running situations. And you just weren't sure if
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  Speaker 1: they were going to be able to move anybody, though.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday felt completely different. Florida got stronger as the game
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  Speaker 1: went on. And I think that's what maybe impressed me
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  Speaker 1: very most. Ole Miss didn't wear Florida down. Florida wore
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss down. There's a huge difference there. Florida scored
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns in its first five possessions the second half. Five straight.
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  Speaker 1: And a huge part of that was the running game.
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  Speaker 1: By the fourth quarter, it felt like Florida could hand
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  Speaker 1: the ball off and get whatever it needed. And at
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  Speaker 1: that point, you could see Ole Miss starting to feel it.
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  Speaker 1: Florida was leaning on them. Ball was running through tackles.
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  Speaker 1: Clark was breaking off big runs. And that offensive line
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  Speaker 1: was creating space. Now, not every run was perfect. Not
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  Speaker 1: every play was blocked perfectly. That's never going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: But what stood out was how often Florida was getting
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  Speaker 1: positive yards. Even when Bob didn't have a huge hole,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't getting hit three yards in the backfield every
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  Speaker 1: other play. He could still get downhill. And when you've
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  Speaker 1: got a back like Bob, that matters. Give him a
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  Speaker 1: crease and just let him do the rest. Same thing
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  Speaker 1: with Duke Clark. His 44-yard run in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: is a perfect example. Florida's trying to put the game away.
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss desperately needs a stop. And instead, Clark breaks
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  Speaker 1: loose and gets Florida all the way down to the
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  Speaker 1: five-yard line. A few plays later, Florida's back in the
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  Speaker 1: end zone. That's how you break a team. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's where Phil Troutwine deserves a ton of credit.
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  Speaker 1: Because when John Summerall took this job, the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: was one of the biggest questions. It really was. There
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  Speaker 1: were some returning pieces. There were some transfers. There were
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  Speaker 1: some guys with experience, but nobody really knew what this
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  Speaker 1: group was going to look like. We talked about it
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  Speaker 1: all summer long. Troutwine comes back to Gainesville after coaching
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  Speaker 1: at Penn State, and obviously he knows what good offensive
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  Speaker 1: line plays look like. He played here. He was a
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  Speaker 1: two-time captain. He was a two-time All-SEC player. He won
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  Speaker 1: two titles at Florida. So when he talks about what
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  Speaker 1: the standards should be for offensive line play in Gainesville,
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  Speaker 1: he actually knows it because he lived it, and I
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  Speaker 1: love that because if isn't somebody coming in and trying
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  Speaker 1: to explain Florida football from the outside. He understands what
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  Speaker 1: it's supposed to look like, what it does look like
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  Speaker 1: when it's at its best. And now four games into
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  Speaker 1: the season, you can already see the identity developing. Florida's
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  Speaker 1: line is big, they're physical, and they're starting to play
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  Speaker 1: with confidence. Najee Harris gives you veteran experience. Caden Jones
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  Speaker 1: has played a lot of football too. TJ Shanahan comes
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  Speaker 1: over from Penn State with Troutwine. Harrison Moore came in
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  Speaker 1: from Georgia Tech to play center. Amika Ogori was another
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  Speaker 1: transfer addition. This was not just a plug-and-play group where
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  Speaker 1: five returning starters came back and everybody knew exactly what
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  Speaker 1: they had. There was a lot of work to do.
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  Speaker 1: Florida returned some experience, but the unit also got heavily
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  Speaker 1: reworked this summer. Going into the season, Florida's own position
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  Speaker 1: preview described it as basically a mix of new and old,
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  Speaker 1: 10 returners, 10 newcomers, and a starting five that still
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  Speaker 1: needed to come together. And that's why the development is
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  Speaker 1: so encouraging. Offensive line is one of those positions where
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  Speaker 1: chemistry really matters. It's really important. You can have five
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  Speaker 1: individually talented guys and still have a bad offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: They have to communicate. They have to understand what the
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  Speaker 1: guy next to them is doing. They have to handle twists.
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  Speaker 1: They have to handle blitzes. They have to know when
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  Speaker 1: to pass something off. And maybe most importantly, when you're
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  Speaker 1: running the ball, all five guys have to be working together.
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  Speaker 1: And that takes time. So if Florida is already putting
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  Speaker 1: together a rushing performance like this, four games into the season,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's really encouraging. I also think Buster Faulkner
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  Speaker 1: deserves credit here because this running game fits the personnel.
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  Speaker 1: Florida's not asking its offensive linemen to do something they
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  Speaker 1: can't do. They're using motion. They're using different personnel packages.
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  Speaker 1: They're creating angles. But they're also letting these guys just
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  Speaker 1: come off the football and hit people. And you can
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  Speaker 1: tell the offensive line loves it. You can see it
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  Speaker 1: after plays. You can see them helping Bob. You can
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  Speaker 1: see linemen celebrating a big run. There's just a different
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  Speaker 1: energy out there. Offensive linemen love running the football. If
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  Speaker 1: you talk to almost any offensive lineman, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you that same thing. Pass protection is necessary, but
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  Speaker 1: they want to go forward. They want to hit somebody.
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  Speaker 1: They want to impose themselves. And Florida is giving them
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  Speaker 1: a chance to do that. And that's why Saturday felt
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  Speaker 1: like such an important performance. Now Florida knows something. They
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  Speaker 1: know they can run the football against a quality opponent.
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  Speaker 1: They did it against Auburn, and they did it again
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  Speaker 1: against Ole Miss. Ball went 162 yards at Auburn. Then
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  Speaker 1: he comes home and he goes for 142 against Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't happening because Florida found one bad run defense.
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  Speaker 1: It's becoming a pattern, and that matters with what's coming
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch. Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Florida
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  Speaker 1: is going to play some really good defensive fronts. There
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  Speaker 1: will be games when throwing the football is difficult. There
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  Speaker 1: will be games when Aaron Filo gets pressured. There will
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  Speaker 1: be games where Florida's receivers have trouble getting open. And
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  Speaker 1: those are the games where you need to be able
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  Speaker 1: to say, fine, we're running the football. Stop it. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to take a quick break from this video to
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  Speaker 1: way that you want to. We appreciate Summit Wealth Advisors
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  Speaker 1: for all their support. If Florida can do that, that
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  Speaker 1: changes the ceiling for this team. If you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be perfect at quarterback, you don't have to hit
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  Speaker 1: 40-yard passes all game, you don't have to play pretty football,
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  Speaker 1: you can survive bad stretches, you can shorten the clock,
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  Speaker 1: you can shorten a game, and you can protect a lead.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that last part is really important too.
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  Speaker 1: One of the biggest differences between good teams and great
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  Speaker 1: teams is the ability to finish. You get a lead
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, Can you run the football when
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  Speaker 1: the other team knows you're trying to run the clock?
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  Speaker 1: That's hard because now they're loading the box. They don't
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  Speaker 1: care about anything else. They are trying to stop the run.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can still pick up first downs, that's demoralizing.
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  Speaker 1: We saw some of that on Saturday. Florida gets the
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  Speaker 1: ball late. Ole Miss needs the football back. And Florida's
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  Speaker 1: still able to move it. Ball scores his third touchdown
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  Speaker 1: with under five minutes left. And that's basically the ball game.
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  Speaker 1: That's closing. That's what physical teams do. And it's also
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  Speaker 1: why I think this offensive line needs a lot more
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  Speaker 1: credit when we talk about Jaden Baugh. Baugh is phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: He makes guys miss. He runs through tackles. He's got
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  Speaker 1: great vision. None of that is in question. But backs
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  Speaker 1: don't rush for 600 yards in four games by themselves.
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  Speaker 1: They need blocking. And right now, Florida's offensive line is
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  Speaker 1: giving Baugh opportunities. They're giving him a chance to get
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  Speaker 1: to the second level. And once Baugh gets there, well,
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  Speaker 1: good luck. That's where this combination gets scary. If the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line gets a hat on everybody at the first level,
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  Speaker 1: now you're asking linebackers and safeties to tackle Jaden Vaughn's space.
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  Speaker 1: That is a terrible job. And when you have Duke
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  Speaker 1: Clark coming in behind him and averaging more than 10
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  Speaker 1: yards a carry against Ole Miss, now you got a problem.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I don't look at Saturday and say, man,
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  Speaker 1: Jaden Vaughn had a big game. I look at Saturday
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  Speaker 1: and say, Florida's running game had a big game. There's
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  Speaker 1: a difference there. It wasn't just the backs. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just the offensive line. It wasn't just the tight ends.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't just the receivers blocking downfield. It wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: the play calling. It was the whole thing working together.
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  Speaker 1: But it does start up front. It always does. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's where Phil Troutwine's impact is really starting
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  Speaker 1: to show. This group looks well coached. They look like
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  Speaker 1: they know what they're doing. And they look like they
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  Speaker 1: enjoy being physical. That's exactly what Florida needed. John Summerall
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  Speaker 1: came in talking about toughness and physicality and accountability. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you can say those words as much as you want. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: it has to show up on the football field. It
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  Speaker 1: did show up Saturday. 302 rushing yards, six rushing touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: two 100-yard rushers against the number four team in the country.
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  Speaker 1: That is physical football. And I think what Florida's offensive
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  Speaker 1: line did against Ole Miss sent a message, not just
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  Speaker 1: to Ole Miss, to the SEC. Florida is going to
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  Speaker 1: run the football. They are going to be physical. And
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  Speaker 1: if you want to beat them, you are going to
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  Speaker 1: have to hold up for four quarters. This team doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look like it's trying to trick people anymore. They look
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  Speaker 1: like they want to line up and beat you. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying Florida's offensive line is perfect. Of course
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  Speaker 1: it isn't. There will be tougher challenges down the pipeline.
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  Speaker 1: There will be better pass rushers. There will be defensive
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  Speaker 1: fronts that give Florida problems. That is the SEC. But
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  Speaker 1: through four games, there is enough evidence now to say
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  Speaker 1: that this group is becoming a strength. And honestly, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how many of us expected to be able
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  Speaker 1: to say that so quickly. Before the season, we had
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  Speaker 1: questions about this group, and now Florida just ran for
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  Speaker 1: more than 300 yards against a top-five team. That answers
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  Speaker 1: a few of those questions for sure. So when we
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  Speaker 1: talk about why Florida's 4-0, and when we talk about
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  Speaker 1: why Jaden Baugh is suddenly being mentioned nationally, when we
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  Speaker 1: talk about why Aaron Filo looks so comfortable, when we
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  Speaker 1: talk about why this offense suddenly feels sustainable— Don't forget
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  Speaker 1: the guys up front because they are a huge part
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  Speaker 1: of it. And if this offensive line keeps playing the
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  Speaker 1: way it played against Ole Miss, Florida is going to
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  Speaker 1: have a really difficult team to deal with the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the season. Let me know what you guys think.
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  Speaker 1: How impressed have you been with Florida's offensive line through
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  Speaker 1: four games? How much credit do you give Phil Troutwine
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  Speaker 1: for the way this group has come together? Let me
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  Speaker 1: And I appreciate you guys for tuning in. As always,
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  Speaker 1: go Gators.