Gator Country brings you a new podcast as we preview the Florida Gators football team's second scrimmage that takes place on Friday, plus look at some key position battles.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre also look at the suspensions of Teez Tabor and C'yontai Lewis and what happened to cause the suspensions. Andrew and Nick break down the situation and explain why they don't see it as a huge deal.

Andrew and Nick also start a new segment called "buy or sell" where they discuss several topics and several players this fall camp.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 Hello, Gator Country. Man, once again, Andrew Spivey, here with my man, Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, it’s 16 days, when we’re taping this. 15 when they are listening to it. Almost into single digits, and when it hits single digits, the time is there.

Nick:                         Yeah. It’s getting closer. Getting very close, and maybe the players are starting to feel camp and starting to get excited about the new season coming up. At least it seemed like they were excited this week.

Andrew:                 I think it kind of hits when the players go back to school. Players are about to get out of camp. They’re about to start what I call game prep, where they start to kind of focus in on U Mass instead of focusing in on each other. Once it kind of hits that, then it kind of seems like things go. You got the start of high school football season this weekend, so that means football’s back, and it kind of goes. I mean, it’s two weeks from Saturday that kickoff against U Mass. We’re finally here, and it’s good.

Yesterday was kind of, I’m talking about Wednesday, of course, it’s kind of what camp’s all about. There was a fight that took place on Tuesday. Tabor and C’yontai are both suspended for Game 1, are both suspended from activities right now. Nick, what we know is that it was a fight between the two of those guys, and it turned a little ugly with helmets being thrown. Tabor reportedly had to have stitches to his head. Here’s the thing. I think Mac’s right in suspending them, because he had to have stitches, but everything I’ve been told was it just simply a fight that took place. It got out of hand because they didn’t stop when Mac and the coaches told them to, and they’re suspended. I just don’t like the narrative that these guys are thugs or punks, because they got into a fight. It simply happened. It was two guys that are whooping each other’s ass all day. Tabor talks a lot of shit. We know C’yontai talks a lot of crap. It happens.

Nick:                         Yeah. So the sentiment among fans, of course yesterday was probably like Christmas for Tennessee fans on social media, but what really turns this, so everyone, if you’ve ever played football, there has been some kind of fight. I can’t remember what player it was, but last week told us that…

Andrew:                 Cronkrite.

Nick:                         Cronkrite said that there fights at practice. He thought it was, or it was Jordan Scarlett said that there were fights at practice; he thought it was a good thing. At times it shows that guys care. It shows that you’re invested, and you get beat in a play, you’re invested, and you care that you got beat. You’re playing an emotionally charged sport, a lot of testosterone out there. I get it. There’s going to be fights. It’s going to happen. What makes this different is the suspension. I think, so the headline of two Florida players get into a fight at practice gets swept under the rug, not a big deal. Almost a boys will be boys kind of thing. Once you start dealing with a suspension, that’s when you’re getting into now this is different, and it becomes another bad headline, after the Callaway stuff and players transferring. There’s just been a lot of negative atte