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Gators Coach Has BIG TIME WARNING For UF Football | Jon Sumrall · 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. Allie Peek here.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so Florida got the win at Auburn. It
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  Speaker 1: was a big win. It was an emotional win. It
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  Speaker 1: was a road SEC win in a place that is
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  Speaker 1: not easy to play in. And according to Coach Sumrall,
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  Speaker 1: it's already completely irrelevant. That was his message coming out
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  Speaker 1: of Monday's press conference. And he basically said, if Florida
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  Speaker 1: plays against Ole Miss the way it played against Auburn,
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  Speaker 1: the Gators are going to lose.
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  Speaker 2: And he really wasn't subtle about it. He opened the.
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  Speaker 1: Press conference by saying, we got to get a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: He said last week's performance will not cut it. He
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  Speaker 1: took it even further. He said Florida plays, if Florida
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  Speaker 1: plays like it has in any of its games so
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  Speaker 1: far this.
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  Speaker 2: Season, the Gators won't beat Ole Miss, no chance.
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  Speaker 1: And that's probably the biggest takeaway from his whole press conference.
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  Speaker 1: Florida is coming off a game where it did a
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  Speaker 1: lot of really good things. The Gators went on the road.
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  Speaker 1: They scored 44 points. The offense made explosive plays. Jaden
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  Speaker 1: Baugh was a monster. They won the middle eight. They
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  Speaker 1: made enough plays defensively to survive, and they got out
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  Speaker 1: of Jordan Hare with a win. But Summerall clearly does
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  Speaker 1: not want this team falling in love with the result.
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  Speaker 1: When he went back and watched the tape, he also
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  Speaker 1: saw a Florida team that repeatedly gave Auburn opportunities to
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  Speaker 1: stay in the game, or as he put it, the
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  Speaker 1: Gators tried to beat the Gators. And that might be
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  Speaker 1: the quote of the press conference. Against Auburn, Florida survived
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  Speaker 1: some of those mistakes. Now, against Ole Miss, Summerall doesn't
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  Speaker 1: think they will. Let's start with the penalties. Florida has
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  Speaker 1: now had some penalty issues over the last several quarters,
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  Speaker 1: and Summerall said there were three plays in particular that
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  Speaker 1: he showed the entire team. The taunting penalty after the
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  Speaker 1: fourth and one touchdown, the unsportsmanlike penalty after the extra point, and.
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  Speaker 2: The block that continued out of bounds.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Summerall did say that he sent a few of
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  Speaker 1: these calls to the league office, and he clearly disagreed
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  Speaker 1: with some of the officiating. But he also made something
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  Speaker 1: very clear. Florida was not innocent. There were penalties that
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  Speaker 1: were absolutely deserved, and those got called out in front
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  Speaker 1: of everybody. And I actually like the way he explained
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  Speaker 1: what he wants from this team. He doesn't want them
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  Speaker 1: playing passive. He doesn't want them afraid to be physical.
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  Speaker 1: He said he actually wants them to play with an edge.
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  Speaker 1: He wants them to have that mentality that they're not
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  Speaker 1: taking anything from anybody, but that there has to be
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  Speaker 1: a line. Be physical, be aggressive, finish blocks, play nasty.
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  Speaker 1: But when the play is over, stop. Those extra five
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  Speaker 1: seconds after the whistle can completely change a football game.
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  Speaker 1: And against an Ole Miss team that Summerall clearly believes
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  Speaker 1: is one of the best teams Florida will play all season,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot give them free yards. The other area he
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  Speaker 1: was extremely critical of was Florida's coverage. And this was
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  Speaker 1: interesting because he basically said you could make two completely
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  Speaker 1: different highlight tapes from the Auburn game. You could take
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  Speaker 1: eight or ten plays and say, man, Florida's secondary looked
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  Speaker 1: really good. Cormani's interception would obviously be on there. There
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  Speaker 1: were snaps where the coverage was exactly what Florida wanted.
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  Speaker 1: And then you could make another eight or ten play
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  Speaker 1: cut up where it looks completely different. And Summerall said
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  Speaker 1: Auburn's final touchdown made him want to puke.
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  Speaker 2: That was his words.
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  Speaker 1: Because the issue isn't that Florida can't cover people. They've
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  Speaker 1: shown they can. The problem is consistency. And that becomes
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  Speaker 1: even more important this week because Summerall absolutely loves Trinidad Chambliss.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, really, really likes him.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, Summerall called him the best quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: college football. Later, he said he was as good a quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: as good a college player as he's ever seen with
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  Speaker 1: his own two eyes. Now, that is a pretty strong endorsement.
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  Speaker 1: And when your head coach is talking like that about
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  Speaker 1: an opposing quarterback, you better believe the secondary is going
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  Speaker 1: to hear all about discipline all week long. Ole Miss
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  Speaker 1: is going to find the guy who relaxes. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to find the defender whose eyes get in the wrong place.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to find the guy who thinks that he
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  Speaker 1: has a playoff. And somehow basically said that. Every player
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  Speaker 1: has to prepare like he is going to be the
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  Speaker 1: challenged player on every snap. Eventually, Ole Miss is going
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  Speaker 1: to find you. And that brings me to something else
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  Speaker 1: that I found interesting, which we're going to get into
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  Speaker 1: on audio platforms as well. Okay, so this is the
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  Speaker 1: other part I thought was interesting. For as critical as
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  Speaker 1: Summerall was about Florida's mistakes, he seems really happy with
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  Speaker 1: where this offense is going, especially with Buster and the
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  Speaker 1: offensive staff. And I think Florida fans are starting to
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  Speaker 1: see why. Summerall talked about the way Buster creates conflicts
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  Speaker 1: for defenders. Now, Florida may run a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: same concepts week to week, but they dress them up differently.
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  Speaker 1: Different formations, different motions, different pictures, different ways to make
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  Speaker 1: a defender think that he is seeing one thing when
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  Speaker 1: he's really seeing something else. And the goal is to
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  Speaker 1: put that defender in conflict.
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  Speaker 2: Do I play the run? Do I play the pass?
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  Speaker 2: Where's my leverage? Where are my eyes?
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  Speaker 1: What are they telling me? And then once you create
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  Speaker 1: that hesitation, you attack it. We saw a great example
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  Speaker 1: of that against Auburn with the double pass. And one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite parts of the press conference was Summerall
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  Speaker 1: talking about that play.
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  Speaker 2: He said he wasn't even completely sure when Buster called it.
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  Speaker 1: Like, is this going to work? Florida had practiced it.
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  Speaker 1: They'd worked through how they wanted it to look. And
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  Speaker 1: then on third and long, Buster decided, hey, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: And Summerall basically said, he almost asked him, are you sure?
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  Speaker 1: And he said, but then he thought, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: Let it rip.
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  Speaker 1: Auburn gave them the exact look they wanted. Florida hit
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  Speaker 1: the play. And it ended up being one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest calls of the night. And Summerall said something important here.
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  Speaker 1: The play itself wasn't necessarily some revolutionary concept that nobody
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  Speaker 1: had ever seen. They'd had versions of it in the
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  Speaker 1: playbook for years. The genius was the timing of the call,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what impressed him. And that's one thing I
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  Speaker 1: think has been really encouraging about this offense so far.
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  Speaker 1: Florida just isn't lining up and saying, here's what we run,
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  Speaker 1: now stop it. They're attacking looks. They're adapting personnel. They're
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  Speaker 1: trying to put players in positions that fit what they
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  Speaker 1: do well. And Summerall specifically talked about how this version
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  Speaker 1: of the offense doesn't necessarily look exactly like what Buster
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  Speaker 1: has done on other stops because the personnel is different.
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  Speaker 1: And great offensive coordinators adapt to the talent that they have. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that might sound obvious, but we've all watched enough football
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  Speaker 1: to know that plenty of coaches don't do that. Another
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  Speaker 1: position group Summerall really praised were the tight ends. And honestly,
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  Speaker 1: this might be one of the biggest surprises of the
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  Speaker 1: season this far. Summerall admitted that in the spring, he
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  Speaker 1: looked at that room and basically thought, What exactly do
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  Speaker 1: we have here? He jokingly called it the land of
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  Speaker 1: misfit toys. There was roster turnover. There were questions about roles.
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  Speaker 1: There wasn't a lot of proven production. And now he
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  Speaker 1: says he trusts that group as much as almost anybody
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  Speaker 1: on offense. Lakota was specifically praised for his blocking. Summerall
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  Speaker 1: said he was Florida's offensive player of the week previously
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  Speaker 1: without really putting up any stats because he physically brought
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  Speaker 1: it as a blocker. He talked about Harper being a
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  Speaker 1: Swiss Army knife. He talked about Amir making the big
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  Speaker 1: catch and continuing to improve as a perimeter blocker. And
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  Speaker 1: he talked about the growth throughout that room. That's important
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  Speaker 1: because this offense is asking its tight ends to do
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: They have to block. They have to move.
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  Speaker 1: They have to create those pictures that we were just
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  Speaker 1: talking about. And when you start trusting that group, it
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  Speaker 1: gives Buster a lot more flexibility.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's Jaden Baugh.
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  Speaker 1: And I think Summerall gave us a really good explanation
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  Speaker 1: for why Baugh seems to be so dangerous and get
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  Speaker 1: more dangerous as the game goes on. He says, Baugh
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  Speaker 1: is the kind of running back who gets better with carries.
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  Speaker 1: The more touches he gets, the more comfortable he becomes.
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  Speaker 1: His vision improves. He starts seeing the running lanes clearer.
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  Speaker 1: He becomes more decisive. And obviously the physical part of
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  Speaker 1: his game, it begins to take over. The question mentioned
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  Speaker 1: pro football focus crediting Baugh with 13 broken tackles against Auburn.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not hard to believe when you watch the tape.
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  Speaker 1: Some backs make defenders miss by avoiding contact. Baugh can
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  Speaker 1: do that. But Summerall also pointed out something that Baugh
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  Speaker 1: does that makes people miss, and that's just simply running
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  Speaker 1: through them. And that is going to matter against Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 1: Because if Florida wants to keep that Ole Miss offense
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  Speaker 1: off the field, Baugh.
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  Speaker 2: Could once again become a huge part of the game plan.
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  Speaker 1: But all of this brings us back to the same
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  Speaker 1: thing Summerall keeps emphasizing. None of the good stuff from
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  Speaker 1: Auburn matters anymore. He told the team it was okay
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  Speaker 1: to feel good about the win. Until dinner on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: After that, it's done.
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  Speaker 2: Move on.
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  Speaker 1: Florida's 0-1-0 again. And Summerall had a really good line
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  Speaker 1: about college football. Every Saturday, you're either going to be
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  Speaker 1: promoted or exposed. And I think that's exactly what this
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss game is for Florida. We've learned something at Auburn.
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  Speaker 1: We've learned Florida can go on the road in the
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  Speaker 1: SEC and win. We've learned the offense can score points.
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  Speaker 1: We've learned Jaden Baugh can carry the workload. We've learned
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  Speaker 1: this offense can be aggressive. We've learned Florida can make
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  Speaker 1: some big plays when it absolutely has to. But now
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  Speaker 1: the question becomes, Can Florida play cleaner? Can the Gators
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  Speaker 1: eliminate the penalties? Can they stop blowing coverages? Can they
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  Speaker 1: maintain their edge without crossing the line? Can they take
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  Speaker 1: away the emotional high of Auburn, throw it away, and
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  Speaker 1: prepare for an even tougher opponent? Semmel clearly believes Ole
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  Speaker 1: Miss is really good. He said that there is much
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  Speaker 1: more than, you know, the same but different Ole Miss
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  Speaker 1: team that he had previously seen.
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  Speaker 2: This team is more.
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  Speaker 1: There are new wrinkles. There are some new players. There
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  Speaker 1: are some differences defensively and on special teams, but the
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  Speaker 1: foundation's there. And Summerall also believes Ole Miss may be
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  Speaker 1: a little more aggressive now on special teams. More pressure,
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  Speaker 1: more attempts to block punts, more opportunities for Florida to
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  Speaker 1: get caught if it isn't prepared. So this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be one of those games where details matter everywhere. Offense, defense,
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  Speaker 1: special teams. penalties, situational football, everything. And Florida does this
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  Speaker 1: at home. They get this game at home. Summerall hasn't
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  Speaker 1: even coached an SEC game in the swab, and he
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  Speaker 1: is pretty excited and impressed with the environment that he's seen,
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  Speaker 1: even though it hasn't been an SEC game.
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  Speaker 2: He said FAU and Campbell felt electric.
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  Speaker 1: So imagine what it is going to be like with
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  Speaker 1: a ranked Ole Miss team coming into Gainesville. Florida will
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  Speaker 1: need that crowd. Florida will need the energy. But the
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  Speaker 1: crowd can't fix busted coverage. The crowd can't erase the
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  Speaker 1: 15-point penalty. The crowd can't overcome the Gators beating themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And that really was Summerall's entire message. Enjoy Auburn. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: we hope you enjoyed Auburn with that EDD.
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  Speaker 2: Past tense. It's over. Now get better.
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  Speaker 1: Because Florida got away with some mistakes last week, and
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  Speaker 1: Summerall doesn't think they'll get away with them again. And
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  Speaker 1: if Florida wants to prove that Auburn was more than
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  Speaker 1: just one Saturday night, Ole Miss is the next opportunity
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