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Gators Football FACING Something NOBODY Expected Right Now... | UF | Florida Gators · A Peek Inside Gators Football: A Show About the Florida Gators

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to A Peek Inside Gator Football. This is
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  Speaker 1: Allie Peek. This video is brought to you by PrizePix.
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  Speaker 1: So there is a very predictable thing that happens after
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  Speaker 1: a loss like Florida took to Missouri. Everybody starts, you know,
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  Speaker 1: fast forwarding to the end of the season. The playoffs
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  Speaker 1: are over. The SEC race is over. The hype was fake.
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  Speaker 1: The season is ruined. And I think all of that
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  Speaker 1: is honestly way too dramatic. Florida's season is not over,
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  Speaker 1: not even close. But here is what did change. The
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  Speaker 1: margin for error is gone. That is the real consequence
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  Speaker 1: of Florida's loss to Missouri. Now, they still have a
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  Speaker 1: lot to play for. They still have big games ahead,
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  Speaker 1: and they have opportunities to build a really big resume.
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  Speaker 1: They have opportunities to prove that the first month of
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  Speaker 1: the season was real. But now the path is much
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  Speaker 1: more narrow. And from this point forward, every mistake is
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  Speaker 1: kind of magnified. Before Missouri, Florida had room.
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  Speaker 2: They were unbeaten.
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  Speaker 1: They had momentum. They had that big win over Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 1: They climbed to the top 10. They had control of
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  Speaker 1: the narrative. Now the cushion for.
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  Speaker 2: That is gone, though.
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  Speaker 1: Every game carries more weight, and every bad quarter matters more.
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  Speaker 1: Every self-inflicted mistake is magnified, too. And every opportunity kind
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  Speaker 1: of becomes more important. That doesn't mean the season is over,
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  Speaker 1: but it means Florida no longer has the luxury of
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  Speaker 1: wasting Saturdays.
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  Speaker 2: Now, South Carolina is up next.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, I think a week ago, South Carolina
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  Speaker 1: looked like a game that Florida should win. Now it
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  Speaker 1: looks like a game Florida absolutely cannot afford to lose.
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  Speaker 2: And there is a difference.
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  Speaker 1: If Florida responds well, they beat South Carolina. They look
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  Speaker 1: like itself again. Missouri becomes a bad Saturday. Florida drops another.
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  Speaker 1: Then you're talking about a trend, and you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: momentum disappearing, and you're talking about a season that can
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  Speaker 1: start slipping.
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  Speaker 2: Away really quickly.
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  Speaker 1: That's why this week matters so much. Florida does not
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  Speaker 1: need it to be perfect, but they do need it
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  Speaker 1: to win. And then Texas is waiting, and that's where
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  Speaker 1: the margin gets really tight. Florida's not coming out of
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina into an easy stretch. After that Texas game,
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  Speaker 1: then Georgia. That means there is no time for Florida
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  Speaker 1: to slowly find itself. no time to spend three weeks
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  Speaker 1: fixing the same issues, and no time to keep making
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  Speaker 1: the same mistakes. The response has to happen right now.
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  Speaker 1: The schedule's not going to wait. That's the reality of
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  Speaker 1: playing in this conference. You have one bad week, but
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  Speaker 1: you can't have three. And, you know, I do think
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  Speaker 1: there's one loss doesn't erase what Florida did to Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 2: They still beat them. That didn't disappear. That still happened.
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  Speaker 2: That's still important.
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  Speaker 1: And I think fans sometimes make the mistake of treating
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  Speaker 1: the most recent game like it's the only game that matters.
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  Speaker 2: And it is not. Florida has already shown it can
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  Speaker 2: beat really good football teams.
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  Speaker 1: And the question now is whether that was a glimpse
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  Speaker 1: of what Florida is capable of becoming or whether it
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  Speaker 1: was just a great day. And the next few weeks
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  Speaker 1: are going to answer that more. And, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's where we have to keep this tone balanced.
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  Speaker 1: Florida still controls a lot of its own story. They
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  Speaker 1: may not control everything anymore, but they do control plenty.
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  Speaker 1: They control how they respond. They control whether Missouri becomes
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  Speaker 1: a one-off. They control whether they beat South Carolina. They
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  Speaker 1: control whether they show up against Texas. They control whether
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  Speaker 1: they compete with Georgia. And those games are exactly the
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  Speaker 1: kinds of games that can change how a season is viewed.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I'm not buying the idea that.
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  Speaker 1: Florida's year is dead. There are still way too many
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  Speaker 1: opportunities left. But those opportunities only matter if Florida starts
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  Speaker 1: taking care of business again. The playoff conversation is different now,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the part everybody wants to talk about. Playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: the rankings, the resume. And, of course, one loss does
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  Speaker 1: change the conversation. Florida no longer has a clean, undefeated path.
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  Speaker 1: Did you guys think Florida was going undefeated anyway?
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  Speaker 2: I did not. College football seasons are messy. Teams lose.
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  Speaker 2: Good teams lose. Playoff teams lose. The issue is what
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  Speaker 2: happens next.
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  Speaker 1: If Florida stacks wins, adds more quality victories, and avoids
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  Speaker 1: another bad loss, the conversation will change again really quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Think about the era that we're in. What have you
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  Speaker 1: done for me lately? Florida somehow figures out beating Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Guess what? Nobody remembers Missouri. That's just how this sport works.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if the Missouri loss becomes the beginning of a slide,
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  Speaker 1: then yes, the playoff conversation ends really fast. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why this margin of error is so small now. And honestly,
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  Speaker 1: could we just not.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about the playoffs right now?
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  Speaker 1: That would be cool because that is a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pressure and that is a lot of hype that we
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  Speaker 1: don't need right now. I don't care where Florida is
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  Speaker 1: ranked this week. I care how they play on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Rankings are going to move. Narratives are going to change.
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  Speaker 1: None of that matters if Florida doesn't fix the football.
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  Speaker 1: Can they run it again? Can the offensive line respond?
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  Speaker 1: Can the defense adjust? Can they stop the penalties? Can
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  Speaker 1: they handle adversity better? Those are the things that determine
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  Speaker 1: whether this season is still headed somewhere meaningful. not a
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  Speaker 1: number next to Florida's name at all. And I think
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  Speaker 1: the absolute worst thing that Florida can do right now
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  Speaker 1: is panic. And then you start coaching scared. Then you
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  Speaker 1: start playing scared. They can't suddenly act like every possession
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  Speaker 1: is life or death. That's how teams unravel. They have
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  Speaker 1: to stay aggressive. They have to stay physical. They have
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  Speaker 1: to stay confident. They have to fix what needs fixing
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  Speaker 1: without changing everything. The season's not in crisis. It is
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  Speaker 1: just less forgiving now. And I think there is a
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  Speaker 2: So let's get back to what we can do though.
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  Speaker 1: I think this season can still be really good. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's worth saying that clearly. Florida can still have
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  Speaker 1: a really good season. They can still beat good teams.
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  Speaker 1: They can stay in the national conversation. They can still
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  Speaker 1: prove that John Summerall has this program moving in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction. They can still make this season mean something.
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  Speaker 1: But now there's less room for inconsistency, less room for
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  Speaker 1: sloppy football, less room for bad starts, less room for
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  Speaker 1: emotional mistakes. And that's why that game matters. That's what
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  Speaker 1: Missouri changed. So I don't think Florida's season is over.
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  Speaker 2: Missouri hurt. It embarrassed them.
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  Speaker 1: It exposed some things. And it made the road tougher.
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  Speaker 1: But it didn't end anything. What it did do was
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  Speaker 1: remove the cushion. Now every game matters more. Every mistake
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  Speaker 1: matters more. Every response matters more. And that starts with
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina. Win that game. Look like yourself again. And
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  Speaker 1: Missouri starts to feel like a wake-up call. Lose again,
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  Speaker 1: then the conversation changes completely. That is the reality. Florida
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  Speaker 1: still has plenty in front of it. But from here
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  Speaker 1: on out, there is very little room left to waste.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that Florida still has everything in front
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  Speaker 1: of them? What are the things you're looking for Saturday
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  Speaker 1: that's going to tell you that the changes were made
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  Speaker 1: that can help us move in the right direction? Let
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