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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to A Peek Inside Gator Football. I'm Allie Peek,
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  Speaker 1: joined today by Landon Tangwell, host of Landon Tangwell's College
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  Speaker 1: Football Show. We are going to talk about Florida's offensive
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  Speaker 1: line performance against FAU and what maybe we could expect
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Landon, I'm so excited to talk about our Florida's offensive
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  Speaker 1: line with you. You have kind of taken YouTube by storm.
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  Speaker 1: I know Florida fans are like clamoring for anything and
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  Speaker 1: everything you can tell us because Phil Trotwine was your
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  Speaker 1: coach at Penn State and you've had some really in-depth
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  Speaker 1: analysis and opinions about this offensive line and you liked
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  Speaker 1: what you saw on Saturday night, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I really did.
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  Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people first, like I
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  Speaker 2: see the comments, not only from Florida fans, some of them,
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  Speaker 2: but a lot of other fans like, oh, it's just FAU, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I've watched about 10 to 12 different offensive lines from
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  Speaker 2: week one. There's a lot of teams that are supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be good teams that played bad teams and their
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  Speaker 2: offensive line was not good and did not look like
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  Speaker 2: Florida's offensive line looked. So I just want to say
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  Speaker 2: that first and foremost, that that's one of the reasons
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  Speaker 2: I was so impressed. You had so many different moving
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  Speaker 2: pieces and so many new aspects to this offensive line. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: new offensive line coach, which was very much a positive,
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  Speaker 2: but still everything was so new that that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: why I was so impressed that everybody was on the
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  Speaker 2: same page.
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  Speaker 3: There was the detail oriented. uh, aspect of this offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was so clear to me and I could just,
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  Speaker 2: I could just see the Phil Trout wine just oozing
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  Speaker 2: out of these guys because I know how detail oriented is.
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  Speaker 2: I know the test that he gives these offensive linemen
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  Speaker 2: every single week. It's four or five, six pages long
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  Speaker 2: and you have to know every single thing.
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  Speaker 3: If you're Harrison Moore, You don't just know center.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to write down everything that the left tackle,
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  Speaker 2: the right tackle, everybody has. And that's why I think
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  Speaker 2: you're going to start to see this offensive line just
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  Speaker 2: look so smooth and they're just moving in unison. And
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  Speaker 2: the other part that was so exciting for me was
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  Speaker 2: the physicality aspect. I mean, guys, I didn't even think,
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  Speaker 2: like when I watched Emeka Ugorji at Stanford, I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people felt this way. Like it was
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  Speaker 2: kind of like... He's going to start. I don't feel
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  Speaker 2: that way after watching him on Saturday. I look, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll wait and we'll see him get some tests, especially
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  Speaker 2: in past pro verse, you know, true SEC defensive ends.
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  Speaker 3: But he looked completely different.
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  Speaker 2: I just saw a different level of overall physicality where
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  Speaker 2: it was like, I want to bury you. I want
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  Speaker 2: to take you from point A to point B against
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  Speaker 2: your will and just establish my dominance. And I really
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  Speaker 2: didn't see I'd say the only guy really saw a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that from last year was Bryce Lovett. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that there wasn't that like I want to I just
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  Speaker 2: want to dominate you.
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  Speaker 3: And you're seeing that really across the board.
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  Speaker 2: And mind you, not only from the offensive line, we
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  Speaker 2: saw that from tight ends, wide receivers. Everybody was getting
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  Speaker 2: in on it. It feels like John Summer has brought
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  Speaker 2: a new identity to Florida and especially Buster Faulkner. And
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot of unique. stuff that they're doing. But,
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  Speaker 2: but the, the number one thing is we got a
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  Speaker 2: lot stronger. We all heard about how the offensive line
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  Speaker 2: was not in a good place. And I think they're
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  Speaker 2: really fixing that up.
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  Speaker 1: How much of that do you think has to do
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  Speaker 1: with the strength and conditioning program that they had over
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  Speaker 1: the off season in obviously in conjunction with Phil's coaching?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, if you have– and I think it was very
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  Speaker 2: clear that it was not a good strength and conditioning program.
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  Speaker 2: If you come out and basically say that if you're
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  Speaker 2: the head coach, that means it wasn't good because you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to just come out and just trash someone
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  Speaker 2: for no reason. It came in and it was probably,
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  Speaker 2: what the heck were these guys doing? And I've seen–
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  Speaker 2: there's a big difference between a good strength program.
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  Speaker 3: And a bad one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I think that just I mean, you saw
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Lovett, for example, the transformation of his body. But really,
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  Speaker 2: everybody you saw, everybody dropped some bad weight, put on
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  Speaker 2: some great muscle. And not only does that just help
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  Speaker 2: your overall play, but like there is an aspect to
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  Speaker 2: to look good.
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  Speaker 3: Feel good, play good.
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  Speaker 2: And I think John Summerall even said that he's like
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Lovett didn't want to take his shirt off a
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  Speaker 2: couple of months ago.
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  Speaker 3: And now he's feeling good.
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  Speaker 2: There is that that is a piece of it as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that plays into it. But part of it, too,
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  Speaker 2: is just it's just doing everything right. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: why Florida was on such a bad track where a
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff was not being done correctly. And I
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  Speaker 2: think now the weight room and what they're demanding of
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  Speaker 2: the mayor and what Trout demands of the offensive line
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  Speaker 2: room in not only in the film room, but also
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  Speaker 2: on the field and all of that in conjunction. It
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  Speaker 2: changes the way that you operate. The fact that Trout
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  Speaker 2: we were talking before we started about how Trout. is
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  Speaker 2: just a freak about how he eats. Like he eats
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  Speaker 2: nothing bad. There's really no alcohol. There's no sugar in
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  Speaker 2: his diet. And I'm not to say, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: guys on the team aren't doing that. Like you're, you're
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  Speaker 2: a college kid and you have to take in a
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  Speaker 2: ton of calories as a football player, but that.
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  Speaker 1: Does enjoy your college experience.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. They're going out. Trust and believe, especially after those
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  Speaker 3: big wins.
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  Speaker 2: But there is a factor of like all these outside
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  Speaker 2: influences are going to make them do the little things correctly.
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  Speaker 2: And those little things add up that little extra time
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  Speaker 2: in the film room that I guarantee you're getting because
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  Speaker 2: Trout is pushing you and raising that bar. That's why
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  Speaker 2: you're going to see the product continue to get.
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  Speaker 3: Better and better.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things you talked about in your breakdown
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  Speaker 1: video was Florida's rushing game, and they ran for 281 yards.
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  Speaker 1: They averaged seven yards per carry against Florida Atlantic. I
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  Speaker 1: think Jaden Ball averaged over 11 per carry himself. How
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  Speaker 1: much of that was the backs making plays, and how
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  Speaker 1: much of that was genuinely good offensive line play?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so listen, I am a believer, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that people that don't think that Jaden Ball is the
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  Speaker 2: best running back in college football— I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think he is. Like I said, I look around.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think there's anybody else out there doing
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  Speaker 2: what he's doing now. So I think there was a combo.
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  Speaker 2: I think there was many of plays where I look
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  Speaker 2: at it. I say, this is just blocked up perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: Like this is just so clean. And I even put
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  Speaker 2: a couple of plays on there where they only went
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  Speaker 2: for like a three yard gain, but it's still, it
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  Speaker 2: was a hat on a hat and everybody did their job.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes that's just going to be the reality that
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  Speaker 2: everybody on defense is on scholarship too. But then there
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  Speaker 2: was also place where it's, the ball was in boss
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  Speaker 2: hands and he just made it happen. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: can think back to multiple, but there was one where
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  Speaker 2: he was in the wildcat and phyla was kind of
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  Speaker 2: split out to the right and he snaps the ball.
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  Speaker 2: And there's, we had two defenders coming off the edge
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  Speaker 2: and they're just unaccounted for. And honestly, I said on
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  Speaker 2: the film breakdown, I'm like, I don't really love this play,
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  Speaker 2: but when you have Jaden ball, I love any play
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  Speaker 2: where the ball's in his hands. And so he just
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  Speaker 2: made both of them miss and then got into the
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  Speaker 2: end zone. I just had some ridiculous runs. So I
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  Speaker 2: think you have a good combination of an offensive line
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  Speaker 2: that was blocking really well. And I'm, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: a tight end group. I don't know if that's been
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  Speaker 2: talked about enough of how these were blocking too. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: very physical and establishing their will as well. But listen,
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  Speaker 2: it's just going to bake ball's life that much easier
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  Speaker 2: where he doesn't have to do everything. But I would
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  Speaker 2: definitely say a mixture of both in a very good way.
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  Speaker 1: I do think we've spent so much time over the
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  Speaker 1: last four years kind of harping on Florida's offensive line
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  Speaker 1: and deservedly so most of the time. But I do
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  Speaker 1: think you bring up an interesting point about the tight
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  Speaker 1: ends and even the wide receivers blocking. I think back
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  Speaker 1: to Florida's dominance under Urban Meyer and one of the
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  Speaker 1: things he hit home all the time is that you
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  Speaker 1: won't be on the field if you don't block. So
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  Speaker 1: you might have the best hands on the team. You
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  Speaker 1: might have track speed. We're never going to see it
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  Speaker 1: if you're not going to block. And I feel like
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  Speaker 1: that attitude kind of went away with Urban. And it
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  Speaker 1: feels like for the first time it's back. But talk
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  Speaker 1: about what that actually brings to the table here offensively.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So when you get those initial blocks from the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line, like that, that's great. And that's what gets
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  Speaker 2: you those, those medium, you know, five to seven yard carries.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of times when, just when the offensive
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  Speaker 2: lines blocking is good and you have Jaden ball, you
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  Speaker 2: can also get some big time explosives. So where you
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  Speaker 2: really get those explosives is when the old lines blocking well,
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  Speaker 2: and then your wide receivers and your tight ends are
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  Speaker 2: getting a hat on a hat. And they're getting and
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  Speaker 2: they're inserting on these safeties and these nickel cornerbacks. And
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  Speaker 2: that's how you get those explosives where I'm at the
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  Speaker 2: second level and I'm balling. I'm able to cut off
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  Speaker 2: Amir Jackson's block. I'm able to cut off Dallas Wilson's block.
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  Speaker 2: Dallas Wilson was out there. doing some dirty work and
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  Speaker 2: getting physical. I loved how he was so happy. He
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  Speaker 2: was so, he was pancaking guys and he was getting
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  Speaker 2: up and just, you saw the energy. I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of us have seen the Amir Jackson pancake took
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  Speaker 2: his man 20 yards down the field, buried him. And
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  Speaker 2: my favorite part is after he buried him, he just
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  Speaker 2: got up and like jogged back to the huddle.
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  Speaker 3: Like nothing happened.
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing, but it can, it can do so
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  Speaker 2: much for the run game. But I think the biggest
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  Speaker 2: thing is it's just, it's just infectious. Like when everybody's
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  Speaker 2: blocking like that, it creates a mindset on the offense.
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  Speaker 2: Like we are going to go out and physically dominate.
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  Speaker 2: Like I think this passing game can be very good,
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  Speaker 2: but this team is going to run the football and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to run it well. And I think they are,
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  Speaker 2: have made it clear to anybody that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: on the field. I don't care where you're lining up.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to block and you're going to give everything
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  Speaker 2: you've got. And I think that's been really the biggest
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  Speaker 2: transition from Florida last year and years past to now 2026, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like you saw a ton that you think
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  Speaker 1: is sustainable from you know, on film, but was there
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  Speaker 1: anything on that FAU tape where you said like, man,
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  Speaker 1: they got away with that on Saturday, but they are
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  Speaker 1: not going to get away with that against an sec
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  Speaker 1: defensive line.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I I'd say the number one thing is Harrison
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  Speaker 2: Morris snaps. That was, that was like right away in
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  Speaker 2: terms of plays. Like there really was not that much
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  Speaker 2: like bad. Of course there were plays that, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: that went for one yard, two yard, no gain type
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  Speaker 2: of things. Sometimes defense is just in a good position
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  Speaker 2: and you don't run into a good look. But that's
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  Speaker 2: the biggest thing for me is Harrison Moore had a
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  Speaker 2: great day, too. This is an athletic center. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to run a lot of outside zone and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of gap scheme, a lot of power encounter in this
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  Speaker 2: Buster Faulkner offense. And so everything he was doing, you
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  Speaker 2: get a lot of screen game, too. There was a
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  Speaker 2: screen where Harrison Moore got out, got on a linebacker
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  Speaker 2: and put him in the dirt.
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  Speaker 3: There's so many things that he is doing. That's fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: But that will all be for now if you're snapping
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  Speaker 2: the ball over everybody's head. And Philo really saved him
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  Speaker 2: a couple of times. Obviously, the one to ball was
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  Speaker 2: just way too high. And thankfully, ball was able to
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  Speaker 2: save that. But Philo, I mean, got up and it
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  Speaker 2: was like on his fingertips as he was reaching into
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  Speaker 2: the air. He just like one hand OBJ brought it down.
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  Speaker 2: He's really lucky there was not more than one true
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  Speaker 2: fumble off of those snaps.
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  Speaker 3: But you just can't have that. There was there was
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  Speaker 3: multiple times.
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  Speaker 2: And and he's lucky that I believe one of them
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  Speaker 2: was was a pass play where they were trying to
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  Speaker 2: take a deep shot and it wasn't there. But if
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  Speaker 2: and if I said to completely run around and end
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  Speaker 2: up kind of like basically getting sacked. The problem is, like,
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  Speaker 2: if you do that in those big games, in those
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  Speaker 2: big moments, when you do dial up a deep shot
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  Speaker 2: and let's say that deep shot just so happens to
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  Speaker 2: be there and we can't take that deep shot because
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  Speaker 2: you have a bad snap. Well, that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a problem. And I can guarantee I can literally see
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  Speaker 2: the look on Trout's face in the film room. I
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  Speaker 2: think he has one leg up on one of the
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  Speaker 2: seats and he's just looking down and he's like, we
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  Speaker 2: just got to get it fixed. You're just going to
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  Speaker 2: have to just constantly take snaps. I mean, he is
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now he is going to make
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  Speaker 2: him he is probably doing 100, 150 snaps pre pre practice,
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  Speaker 2: post practice like there.
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  Speaker 3: Trust me, Trout is on top of that.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's, it's, it's a problem that we saw a
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  Speaker 2: little bit at Georgia tech as well, but there is
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  Speaker 2: not going to be for a lack of trying if
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  Speaker 2: that does not get fixed.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it will get fixed.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I think the, my only worry though, is, is
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  Speaker 2: it a little bit of like, just kind of like
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  Speaker 2: the yips?
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  Speaker 1: Like I was going to ask you, like, so my
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  Speaker 1: hunter was, my husband was a punter. So I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: familiar with kickers and punters and you kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get the yips. I have a son that is a
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  Speaker 1: long snapper, same kind of concept. Is that something that,
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  Speaker 1: where it's more mental than anything else. And, and how
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  Speaker 1: much harder is that to work your way out of?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it definitely looks mental because when I was watching
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  Speaker 2: on the, on the reps from the all 22, where
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  Speaker 2: you can see his hand, there was a couple of
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  Speaker 2: times on the bad snaps, you could see it. And
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  Speaker 2: it was, it didn't look like wrong. It wasn't like
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  Speaker 2: he was holding onto it too long. And that's why
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  Speaker 2: it was drifting. He was just releasing it and flicking
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  Speaker 2: it straight up. And every snap was high and right. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the good news. It's not like they're
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  Speaker 2: completely errant going right, low, all that. every single thing
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  Speaker 2: was high and right. So I think that's something you
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  Speaker 2: can try to work on and pinpoint that a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But I definitely think this is a mental aspect and
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  Speaker 2: he's just going to have to take a million reps.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, is going to drill that into
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  Speaker 2: him and they are going to be working on that constantly.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: And just like, I could, once again, I could just
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  Speaker 2: hear him. I know trout would like woke up at
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  Speaker 2: like 3am and was thinking about it. And then he'll
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  Speaker 2: go and share that with the team guys. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: sleep last night because we couldn't snap the football. We
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  Speaker 2: need to be able to snap the football so I
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  Speaker 2: can get some sleep.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Aaron Filo, and he bailed Harrison Moore out
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times. He wasn't sacked against Florida Atlantic
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  Speaker 1: at all. When you watched the tape, did he actually
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  Speaker 1: have a clean pocket most of the night, or did
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  Speaker 1: his ability to get the ball out make the protection
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  Speaker 1: look better statistically?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think it was a mixture. But overall,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the pass pro was really clean.
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  Speaker 2: I think my film breakdown was really just I kind
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  Speaker 2: of just dove into the run game because I was
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  Speaker 2: so excited about that transformation. But I think part of
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  Speaker 2: what the Buster Faulkner offense is, is it's extremely and
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  Speaker 2: we've heard this quarterback friendly. And there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: stuff that's going to make it hard for the defense
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  Speaker 2: to be able to get after the quarterback. You also
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  Speaker 2: get a lot of those wide receiver tunnel screens. You
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  Speaker 2: get the ball out quick defensively. But no, I thought
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line looked really good in pass pro. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we'll wait and see when you do get
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  Speaker 2: some tests from some some true SEC defensive linemen.
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  Speaker 3: But especially from the tackles, like I really like what
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  Speaker 3: I saw.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I thought Emeka Yagorji looked very much improved,
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  Speaker 2: not only from Stanford, but even from the spring game
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  Speaker 2: where we saw him have a couple lapses. It looked
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  Speaker 2: really solid. And I'm a huge Bryce Lovett fan. I
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  Speaker 2: was at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: I didn't know he was going to go to tackle.
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: And when I did my first like Florida film breakdown
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: back in July, I was like, I kind of want
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: him to start at right guard. Like I really liked
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: TJ Shanahan, but I don't, I want, I want him
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: on the field. And I was really excited when we
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: saw that, Hey, he is going to be the guy
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: at left tackle. And it looks solid. I mean, he
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: has such a clean set. His hands are so good.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: And he's a very physical guy. He is really the
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: guy that I think is going to kind of establish
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: that tone. But overall, I mean, TJ Shanahan was someone
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: that was always really solid and pass pro at Penn State.
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: Obviously, I watched him a lot.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: So I feel really good about where this offensive line
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: is at in pass pro. But, but, but Philo did,
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: I think earlier I said on that Aaron snap that
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: he was sacked.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: You're right.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: He was, I think he just ended up throwing it away.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: So he does a good job too. And that was
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: kind of the plus side. of Philo was at times,
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: he really does know when to throw the football away.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: We did see last year, there were some times where
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: he will make some very dumb mistakes, but I think
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: that's kind.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Of going to go away, especially as he becomes the starter.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: And I think that's something that Buster Faulkner has really
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: harped on with him, especially because they came over here together.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: He probably said to father, look, those, those mistakes you made,
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: I need you to make smarter ones. I need you
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: to get rid of the football when nothing is there.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: And from game one, it did look like he took
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: that advice and did a good job of keeping himself clean,
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: not just the offensive line, keeping him clean. Yeah.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think we, we saw why he was
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: named the starter. You talked a lot about the run
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: game in your, in your breakdown, but How good was
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Florida at getting off its initial block and getting to
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: the linebackers at that second level? I feel like that's
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: an area where you can turn those four-yard runs into
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: 15-yard runs.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: And I think that's somewhere where I saw the center
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: and guards did a really good job. This is where
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Harrison Moore is so good because he's so athletic at
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: kind of hitting that defensive tackle over, allowing TJ Shanahan
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: and crew to be able to take over those blocks
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: and then getting up on the linebackers. And I think
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: that's where you saw some of those big explosive runs.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Anytime you're able to get up And especially when you
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: have ball, all you got to do is give them
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: a little bit like that's the biggest thing. When you
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: get up on the linebacker, it doesn't need to be
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: some dominant block where you're pancaking the linebacker. It's great
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: if it is, but we just need to get a
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: little bit to give ball a little bit of that crease.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: And I noticed them getting up on the linebackers quicker
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: and something I will share. This is something that Phil
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Troutwine really brought back when he went to go study
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: under Jeff Stoutland, who was the Eagles offensive line coach,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: who's now semi-retired. He's considered one of the best offensive
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: line coaches in football anywhere.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: He came back.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: And Trout's big thing that he told us is like, hey,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: we're going to stop being super obsessed with the down lineman. Like,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: you got to take care of the down lineman first.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong. But we're going to accelerate and
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: get up on the linebackers. And the goal is, hey,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: we just want to create enough space where our running back,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: especially once again, when you have ball where he can
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: just kind of the angles and he can set it up.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: The block doesn't need to be perfect on the linebacker.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Let's just create some space and open up some gaps
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: for him. And that was something that I really noticed.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Another big difference last year when I watched the tape,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: there was a lot of waddling. There was a lot
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: of like kind of hanging on that down lineman. And
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: it's good to secure that. But at the same time,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: when you kind of claw, sometimes you clog up those
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: gaps yourself as an offensive lineman, because if I'm looking
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: at I'm ball and my guard isn't getting up to
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: the back or fast enough and he's just kind of
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: sitting in that gap. Well, I can't go, but if
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: he gets up on the linebacker and even if he
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: only just gets a paw on him, at least I
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: can make a cut off of that block and there's
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: so much more space. So I noticed them getting up
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: to the linebackers a lot faster.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: So if you're an opposing defensive line coach preparing for
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Florida right now, where are you attacking this offensive line? Oh.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: That's a good question.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: You know, I would say I still really want to
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: see Emeka Yagorji against a good defensive end and pass pro.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I still think there's a little bit of a question
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: for me on his anchor. There was one play where
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: he got pushed right back into Philo. One of the
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: defensive ends on FAU kind of gave him like a
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: long arm and walked him back. that's something I would
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: be looking at. I'll tell you what though, this, I mean,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: this is a, and when I look at this group,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I'm like, this is a physical group across the board.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Cause TJ Shanahan is nasty. We know how nasty Bryce
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: love it is. I thought Harris had a physical day.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, he was pulling and destroying guys, playing dudes
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: in the dirt. And then big Rod, Rod Kearney, when
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: he got in, I listen, like I Harris had such
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: a good day. I'm not saying like you're at such
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: a good situation. I'm not saying he should take over
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: any spot, but I think that's going to be someone
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: we're going to continue to see trout rotate in. And
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I don't love the whole rotation thing, but I'm watching
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: his tape and I'm like, it's going to be hard
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: not to, not to keep this guy in. So, you know,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: coming off of week one, it was just such a
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: dang good offensive line performance.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you this.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: It, Out of all the offensive line I watch, I
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: would say Iowa was number one because they're always number one.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: It feels like in the O-line, they're just always good.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: They always produce that.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Florida was probably the second best offensive line I watched.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: And just from a standpoint of technique, of being where
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: they need to be, communication, All of those little things.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: And so where I sit today, it's hard for me
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: to pinpoint just because of the performance was just that good.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: But if you asked me if I have one question,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: it would still be Yegorji in pass pro, especially as
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: he starts to face some of those real SEC defense events.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: What do you think has to happen between week one
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: and SEC play for you to say like, OK, legitimately
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: really good SEC caliber offensive line?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I'd say a couple more weeks like the tape that
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I just watched. I think that'd be the biggest inconsistency.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: If I turn on next week or the week after
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, okay, that didn't look the same.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: We didn't look as physical or we didn't look as confident.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: That would make me say, okay, I don't know if
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I'm all the way sold on this offensive line, but
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: if you put together two more performances where it is physical,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: where everybody seems to be on the same page and
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: you know, and you have one of the best running
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: backs in America and, I'm going to be hard-pressed not
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: to say that. I think Florida, it kind of felt
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: like in the offseason, Florida was that sleeper team in
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: the SEC and maybe one of the favorite picks to say, hey,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: if someone's going to ruin the party, who's it going
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: to be?
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: And a lot of people said Florida.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I feel even more confident about that pick now because
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: of the offensive line. And everybody would say, Florida, if
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: the offensive line can be okay.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: That was always the but or the if.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: And I think it looks dang good. And so that's
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: why I'm sitting here. I'm saying, look, I'm I'm liking
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: what Florida is putting out. I think you're in a
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: good situation. You have one of the best. I mean,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: I've studied him all the way through. I think it's
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: very well has a has a claim to the best
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator in all of college football with how he
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: schemes things up. I'm I'm buying all my stock in
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Florida right now, especially over these next couple of games,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: if it still looks the same.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Does Florida have an NFL offensive lineman on the roster
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: right now? And if so, who is it?
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good one.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Originally, I would say Harrison Moore, but if your snaps
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: continue to be bad, you're not going to get drafted.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: At center, I'll tell you what. Oh, that's a really
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: good question.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I think Bryce Lovett absolutely has the talent because he
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: has the athleticism. His feet, I think, is the best
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: feet on this entire team in terms of pass pro,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: how he accelerates the nastiness. I think there's a question
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: of him as a tweener. He would absolutely be a
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: guard in the NFL. And then it's kind of like, hey,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: that physicality aspect, I know he has it, but I
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: think there would be maybe a little bit of a
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: question of can he be a little bit bigger if
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: he's at guard? But that would be my pick. I...
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: From everything that I've seen, I came away from watching
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: it last year. And I, you know, I know out
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: at tackle, there was a couple of games where he
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: had some problems. I think Cassius from Texas A &
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: M gave him some problems.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: He gave everybody. It was not easy for anybody. I
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: think that's my pick.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I think if I had to pick my, my favorite
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: offensive line and really the best offensive lineman on the squad.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I think I'm going to go Bryce Leavitt. And that's
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: why I was saying, like, I like TJ Shanahan. But
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: in the offseason, I'm like, I think he should start
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: when we thought it was just going to be a
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: right guard. Because he's just that good. He brings too
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: much good to the table. But I am really high
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: on Big Rod, man.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: I think he is going to be one heck of
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: a guard.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Obviously, he's in his fourth year right now. I'd like
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: to continue to get him on the field.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: You're in a situation that's a good situation to have
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: where it's a bit of an embarrassment of riches where
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: you feel really good about your two starting guards. But
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I know Trout, and I think he's going to continue
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: to do this kind of rotation stuff. And I know
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: that's a lot of fans don't like that. I didn't
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: like it when I had to rotate at left guard
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: when I was kind of technically the starter, but I
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: still had to come out for some series. But when
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: you have guys playing at that high of a level,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: it's hard to keep them off of the field.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: But, yeah, that's where I'll go. I'll go Bryce Lovett
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: for my NFL offensive lineman.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I do think you are calming some Gator fears who
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: just spent the last, you know, however many years very
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: stressed about the offensive line. But we are going to
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: have Georgia and Texas and Oklahoma and just some of
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: these elite fronts coming down the line. What part of
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: this offensive line's game is going to determine whether you
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: still love this offensive line after they play some of
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: those elite programs?
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the biggest thing when you list off
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: some of those defensive lines that have had big, physically
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: super gifted defensive linemen is the physicality aspect. When we
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: do run counter, when you're down block and we're pulling
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: these guys around, how much movement are you getting? Are
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: you really able to take another man that's not on
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: FAU and just move him.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Against his will? How do those combo blocks look?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: When Georgia is slanting the front with a former five
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: star defensive tackle that is showing why he's a five star.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: And can you handle that movement? So that's that's the
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: biggest thing for me would be the physicality piece. Does
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: that take a backseat when you start to play a
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: lot better defensive lines? And then I think the other piece, too,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: is definitely in pass pro when you start to become
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: challenged a lot more and more where you get defensive
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: coordinators that are going to scheme up defensively. to give
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: their defensive line one-on-one opportunities where you Gorgie where love
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: it are one-on-one in pass pro against the wide nine.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: And it gets real lonely when you're in those situations
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: out at tackle. How do you fare against a top
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: tier sec defensive end?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, all of that being said by November,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: are we talking about this offensive line as an average
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: sec line as a weakness or as one of Florida's
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: strengths on this team?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I listen, I, I think we're going to talk about
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: it as one of the strengths, especially if Harrison Moore
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: gets the snapping under control. I really think it can be,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: especially because of the depth that you have. You know,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: I think that's a big aspect, you know, a knock
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: on wood, of course, don't want any injuries, but if
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: someone does go down, it happens. You feel really good
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: about kind of where you're at now, more so at
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: a tackle. I don't feel necessarily as good, but on
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the interior, like I think we're in a good place
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: if that were to happen.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: So I think that makes you feel good.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Depth doesn't really exist much in college football on the
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: offensive line.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: So anytime you.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Have even one or two guys that you feel like
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: can play that are not starting.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I think that's a big plus. So I'm going to
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: say that I think it's going.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: To be a strength and I think it is going
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: to be, you know, middle upper middle pack of the
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: SEC in terms of offensive line.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I am firmly a believer.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: We'll definitely check back in, especially as we get into
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: SEC play. But as it sits here today, from the
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: cohesiveness to the technique to the physicality, That's why I
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: say this looked like one of the best offensive lines
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: across the board in week one, and I don't care
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: about the opponent. Once I watched Alabama, Alabama did not
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: look good against ECU up front. There was tons of mistakes,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: and those guys were getting whooped up on from time
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: to time against that defensive line, and I did not
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: see that from this Florida offensive line.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, Gator fans are going to be pumped to
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: hear it. Landon, tell everybody where they can follow you
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: on social media and check out your work on YouTube
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and anywhere else they can find it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can just find me, Landon Tangwall, on Twitter.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I do a lot of film cut-ups on there. And then, yeah,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Landon Tangwall's college football show on YouTube. I do a
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: ton of film breakdowns of all around the SEC, ACC,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: all that type of stuff. I do some big-time stuff
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: as well. So we'll have a lot of that coming.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I also do preview film breakdowns. So not only will
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I do post-game stuff where I show you what happened–
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I will also preview. So I think I'm doing both
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Big Ten SEC crossover matchups this week. I'm going to
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: do Bryce Underwood and re-breakdown Bryce Underwood against Brent Venable's
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: defense from last year. I am not a believer at
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: all in Underwood. I don't think anybody is.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: After that game.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: And then I'm going to kind of preview that Texas
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: defense versus Ohio State's offense. So if you're interested in
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: any of that, you can definitely check that out. But
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: we will have more Florida content on my channel in
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: the very near future.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 26:41
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