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Gators Coach DOES NOT HOLD BACK After Shocking LOSS by UF Football · A Peek Inside Gators Football: A Show About the Florida Gators

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to A Peak Inside Gator Football Alley. Peak here.
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  Speaker 1: in lineups instantly. So I just watched the John Summerall
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  Speaker 1: press conference. And I think, you know, there are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways you can react to a loss like
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  Speaker 1: Florida just took to Missouri. You can panic. You can overreact.
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  Speaker 1: You can start questioning everything that looked good through the
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  Speaker 1: first four weeks. And I think that's probably what us
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  Speaker 1: as fans are doing. But you could also do exactly
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  Speaker 1: what John Summerall says Florida has to do now. Look
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  Speaker 1: it squarely in the face. Tell yourself the truth. Own it.
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  Speaker 1: And then move on. That really was the message from
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  Speaker 1: Summerall today. Not excuses. Not pretending it didn't happen. Not
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  Speaker 1: trying to convince anybody that Florida was actually fine and
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  Speaker 1: it just kind of had a weird day. His message
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  Speaker 1: was really simple. We weren't good enough. Some of these
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  Speaker 1: problems were already there. Winning was hiding them. Missouri exposed them.
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  Speaker 1: And now the question is, what does Florida do about it?
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  Speaker 1: Because the loss itself is over. So now we find
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  Speaker 1: out what this team is. The thing that stood out
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  Speaker 1: to me immediately was how Summerall phrased this. He said
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  Speaker 1: adversity reveals more about your character than success does. Anybody
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  Speaker 1: can have the right attitude when things are going well.
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  Speaker 1: Florida was 4-0. They had just beaten Ole Miss. They
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  Speaker 1: were ranked in the top 10. Everybody was feeling good.
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  Speaker 1: That part's easy. Now you get punched in the mouth.
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  Speaker 1: You lose 45-17. Now everybody is criticizing you. Now people
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  Speaker 1: are wondering whether the first four weeks were real. This
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  Speaker 1: is when you learn about your football team. Summerall challenged
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  Speaker 1: everybody in the building to look in the mirror, including himself.
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  Speaker 1: Own what happened. Tell yourself the truth. Tell each other
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  Speaker 1: the truth. And then get better. And that last part
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  Speaker 1: is the most important part. Summerall acknowledged something I think
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  Speaker 1: we all probably needed a reminder on. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: issues that hurt Florida against Missouri had already shown up
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  Speaker 1: before Missouri. They just hadn't cost Florida a game. That
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  Speaker 1: is a really important distinction. When you win, everybody celebrates
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  Speaker 1: the result, but the coaching staff still sees the flaws.
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  Speaker 1: And when those same flaws finally lead to a loss,
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  Speaker 1: then everybody notices them. But Coach basically said, I've been
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  Speaker 1: seeing these things. Now everybody else is seeing them too.
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  Speaker 1: And this isn't about a bounce back. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: where this conversation maybe needs to change. We always say
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  Speaker 1: after a loss, can they bounce back? I don't really
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  Speaker 1: think that's the question. Florida doesn't need to bounce back
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  Speaker 1: to exactly what it was before Missouri. Florida needs to
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  Speaker 1: get better than it was before Missouri. If you simply
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  Speaker 1: go back to the same team that had flaws hidden
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  Speaker 1: during a 4-0 start, eventually those flaws are going to
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  Speaker 1: show up again. Summerall said they're trying to build a
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  Speaker 1: long-term sustainable success at Florida. That doesn't happen by pretending
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  Speaker 1: you didn't get exposed. It happens by identifying exactly where
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  Speaker 1: you got exposed and then fixing it. He was pretty clear.
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  Speaker 1: There are areas on this football team that need significant growth,
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  Speaker 1: not minor tweaks, not let's clean up one or two
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  Speaker 1: little things. significant growth. That is probably the biggest takeaway
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  Speaker 1: from this whole press conference. Florida is 4-1. The season
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely not over. But Summerall also knows that this
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  Speaker 1: is nowhere near a finished product. One of the more
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  Speaker 1: revealing answers from the press conference was when Summerall talked
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  Speaker 1: about what Florida looks like when it falls behind. He
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  Speaker 1: was incredibly straightforward. This team, as currently built, does not
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  Speaker 1: need to live in a true dropback passing game. That
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  Speaker 1: is not an insult to Aaron Filo. That's not Summerall
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  Speaker 1: throwing his quarterback under the bus. That is a head
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  Speaker 1: coach telling you exactly what his offense is. Florida needs
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  Speaker 1: complimentary football. Run the football. Stay ahead of the chains.
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  Speaker 1: Create manageable second downs. Use play action. Keep the whole
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  Speaker 1: playbook available. And Missouri completely knocked Florida out of that world. Way,
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  Speaker 1: way too many second and longs. Penalties creating first and long,
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  Speaker 1: third and long. And now suddenly the defense knows exactly
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  Speaker 1: what's coming. That's not how Florida wants to play. And
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  Speaker 1: we've seen that all season. When Florida can run the football,
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  Speaker 1: this offense looks completely different. When Jaden Bogg gets going,
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  Speaker 1: when the offensive line controls the line of scrimmage, when
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  Speaker 1: Philo can work off play action, Florida looks dangerous. When
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  Speaker 1: that disappears, now you're asking this team to become something
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  Speaker 1: that it isn't. And that has to change. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: and we'll make it happen. Missouri also exposed Florida's offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: And Missouri You know, Summerall wasn't shy about that. He
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  Speaker 1: said Missouri's defensive front got after Florida. More importantly, he
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  Speaker 1: said this was probably the most exposed Florida's offensive line
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  Speaker 1: has looked all season. That's significant because up until Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: Summerall felt like this group had really answered the challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Against Missouri, they didn't elevate their style of play. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that goes hand in hand with everything we
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  Speaker 1: saw in film. Missouri reset the line of scrimmage. They
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  Speaker 1: were violent. They were active. They built a wall on
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  Speaker 1: outside zone. They forced Jaden Ball into places Florida didn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily want the ball going. And Florida didn't handle it
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  Speaker 1: well enough. That can't become a trend. But guess what?
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  Speaker 1: Every defensive coordinator on Florida's schedule just watched the same film.
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina saw it. Georgia's going to see it. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: Florida plays from here on out is going to test
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  Speaker 1: whether that was one bad Saturday or whether Missouri found something.
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  Speaker 1: And Florida has to know its own weaknesses. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's a point that Summerall made that I really liked.
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  Speaker 1: You have to know yourself better than you know anybody else.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that Might sound like coach speak. It's not.
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  Speaker 1: Because once there's tape on you, opposing coaches are studying
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  Speaker 1: exactly where you struggle. If your offense can't handle certain
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  Speaker 1: pressure looks, they're coming. If your secondary has trouble with
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  Speaker 1: vertical routes, they're testing you. If your offensive line struggles
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  Speaker 1: when teams reset the line of scrimmage, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: attack it. So Florida has to identify its weaknesses before
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  Speaker 1: opponents exploit them again. What are we good at? Lean
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  Speaker 1: into that. What are we bad at? Figure out how
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  Speaker 1: to offset it. That's coaching. And I think that's where
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  Speaker 1: we are going to learn a lot about this staff
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  Speaker 1: over the next few weeks. Missouri adjusted to Florida. Now
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  Speaker 1: Florida has to adjust to the adjustment. The defensive side
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  Speaker 1: might actually be a little simpler. Florida gave up four
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  Speaker 1: explosive plays that accounted for 235 yards. Four plays. Summerall
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  Speaker 1: basically said if you remove those four plays, Florida played
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  Speaker 1: decent defense. Obviously, you can't just remove them, though. They happen,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the whole point. You can't play defense in
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  Speaker 1: a way where four stops destroy your entire afternoon. Sarmal
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  Speaker 1: said Florida has to make people earn it, and that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly right. If somebody's going to drive 12 plays and
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  Speaker 1: go 80 yards against you, I mean, fine. Sometimes offenses
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  Speaker 1: make plays, and you can't hand out those chunk plays, though.
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  Speaker 1: No 50, 60, 70-yard runs. And some of these weren't
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  Speaker 1: even surprises. Summerall talked about one of the vertical balls
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  Speaker 1: where Florida literally knew what Missouri was running. They were
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  Speaker 1: calling it out from the sideline. They knew the receiver
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  Speaker 1: was a go ball guy, and Missouri still hit it.
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  Speaker 1: That's execution. At some point, you have to make the play.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things Summerall said that I think
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  Speaker 1: was a great phrase from him, he said, Florida can't
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  Speaker 1: sustain roller coaster football. And I think about how fast
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  Speaker 1: the Missouri game got away from Florida. It was 3-3,
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  Speaker 1: then it was 10-3, then Florida responds and it's 10-10.
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  Speaker 1: Then Missouri hits another explosive, 17-10. Florida doesn't take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of the two-minute situation. So Missouri gets a field goal, 20-10.
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  Speaker 1: Then Missouri gets the ball after halftime, touchdown. Suddenly it's 27-10.
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  Speaker 1: And Summerall basically said you blink and you wonder, shoot,
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  Speaker 1: how did that happen? That is what happens when you
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  Speaker 1: stack mistakes. One missed coverage. then one bad possession, then
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  Speaker 1: one failed third down, then one explosive, then one penalty,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly the game is gone. Florida has to be steadier.
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  Speaker 1: That word matters, steady. Now, that doesn't mean perfect. Bad play,
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  Speaker 1: next drive. Give up a touchdown, respond. You cannot let
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  Speaker 1: one mistake turn into three. And this is where leadership
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  Speaker 1: has to show up. And I think that's maybe one
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  Speaker 1: of the more encouraging parts of this press conference, because
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  Speaker 1: Summerall talked about how the players responded afterwards. Jaden Baugh
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  Speaker 1: reached out to Summerall and apologized for his performance. Summerall
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  Speaker 1: said Baugh owned it. And to me, that's so much
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  Speaker 1: more important than pretending he had a great game. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't. Summerall acknowledged Florida didn't help him enough either.
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  Speaker 1: The offensive line didn't create enough. The perimeter blocking wasn't
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  Speaker 1: always there. Missouri swarmed the football. But Baugh still looked
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  Speaker 1: at his own performance and said, I wasn't good enough.
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  Speaker 1: I won't let that happen again. That is exactly the
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  Speaker 1: kind of response you want. Player-led teams respond differently than
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  Speaker 1: coach-led teams. At some point, Summerall can only say so much.
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  Speaker 1: The locker room has to take ownership. And if Florida
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  Speaker 1: is going to become the team it wants to become,
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  Speaker 1: this is where those voices have to emerge. One thing
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  Speaker 1: I also found really interesting was when Summerall talked about
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  Speaker 1: his own history. He said he has started seasons a
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  Speaker 1: hell of a lot worse than 4-1. And he's right.
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  Speaker 1: He's gone through adversity before. He hates losing. He said
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  Speaker 1: he hates losing more than he likes winning. But he
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  Speaker 1: also knows that there is something you can learn from
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  Speaker 1: this that you simply cannot learn from being 4-0. When
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  Speaker 1: you win, people outside the building are having a party.
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  Speaker 1: Inside the building, the coaches are still pointing out problems.
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  Speaker 1: And the players might hear it, but do they feel it?
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  Speaker 1: Now they will. Now they know exactly what those mistakes cost.
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  Speaker 1: And Summerall said the losing forces more direct accountability. That
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  Speaker 1: can be valuable. Not because losing is good. It obviously isn't.
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  Speaker 1: And he said very clearly, it's never okay to lose.
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  Speaker 1: But once it happens, you better get something out of it.
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  Speaker 1: I also thought Summerall gave one of his better answers
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  Speaker 1: when he talked about Florida's fan base. He said one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons he came here is because people care.
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  Speaker 1: This fan base is passionate. When Florida wins, everybody is excited.
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  Speaker 1: But there is a flip side. When Florida loses like
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  Speaker 1: it did on Saturday, you are going to hear about it.
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  Speaker 1: And Summerall said you have to have broad shoulders and
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  Speaker 1: handle the criticism. Good, because that's Florida football. There should
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  Speaker 1: be expectations here. There should be pressure. Summerall called that
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  Speaker 1: pressure a privilege later in the press conference, and I
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  Speaker 1: agree with him. Nobody is demanding championships at programs where
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  Speaker 1: nobody cares. This place has a standard because Florida has
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  Speaker 1: won at the highest levels before. Summerall also said something
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  Speaker 1: really important. Florida is not at that standard yet. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's something everybody needed to hear after the 4-0 start.
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  Speaker 1: Florida had a really good month in September. Florida was
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  Speaker 1: not a finished championship team. And now comes the next part,
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina. Summerall called them the most talented team Florida
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  Speaker 1: has faced this season. NFL players all over the field.
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  Speaker 1: That's not exactly the opponent you want when you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to recover emotionally from a blowout loss. That's life in
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  Speaker 1: the SEC. Nobody feels sorry for you. Summerall actually literally
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  Speaker 1: said that. You don't get two weeks to emotionally recover.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get to sit around talking about Missouri. You
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  Speaker 1: get another talented football team walking in your life seven
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  Speaker 1: days later. That is why Florida has to recalibrate quickly.
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  Speaker 1: The Missouri loss cannot beat you twice. If Florida spends
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  Speaker 1: all week thinking about what happened in Columbia instead of
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  Speaker 1: preparing for South Carolina, then you have a bigger problem.
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  Speaker 1: And Summerall understands that. So now what? That's really the question.
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  Speaker 1: Now what? Now Florida finds out whether the first loss
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  Speaker 1: changes them. Now the offensive line has to answer the challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Now the defense has to eliminate explosive plays. Now the
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  Speaker 1: offense has to stay ahead of the chains. Now the
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  Speaker 1: penalties have to stop killing drives. Now the players have
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  Speaker 1: to take ownership. Now the coaching staff has to figure
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  Speaker 1: out how to protect weaknesses without abandoning what this team
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  Speaker 1: does well. And maybe most importantly, now Florida has to
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  Speaker 1: prove that it can respond. Summerall said something I think
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  Speaker 1: that maybe should become the theme for the entire week.
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  Speaker 1: What you do next says more about you than what
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  Speaker 1: happens when everything is going well. Everybody looks tough at 4-0.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody has confidence when you're ranked in the top 10.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is smiling after beating Ole Miss. Who are you
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  Speaker 1: after Missouri? That's the test. I don't think Florida's season
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  Speaker 1: was defined Saturday night in Columbia, but I absolutely think
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  Speaker 1: what happens next will tell us a lot about where
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  Speaker 1: this season is going. Missouri exposed some flaws. Some of
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  Speaker 1: those flaws were already there. Nobody could ignore them. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe that ends up being valuable if Florida responds, if
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  Speaker 1: they clean up the penalties, if they get back to
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  Speaker 1: controlling the line of scrimmage, if they stop giving away
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  Speaker 1: explosive plays, if this team becomes more mature, if the
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  Speaker 1: players really take ownership. Then Missouri becomes a lesson. But
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  Speaker 1: if the same problems show up again, then Missouri wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a bad night. It was a warning. That's what makes
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  Speaker 1: this week so important. Florida doesn't have to erase Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: They can't. What they can do is decide what Missouri means.
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  Speaker 1: Was it the night the team started unraveling? Or was
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  Speaker 1: it the night the team got an honest look at
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  Speaker 1: itself and finally understands what still has to change? Coach
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  Speaker 1: Summerall's messaging was pretty clear. Own it, tell the truth,
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  Speaker 1: get better, and move forward. And now we find out
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  Speaker 1: whether his team actually does it. And that is the
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