Gator Country brings you our recap podcast for the Florida Gators football win over Vanderbilt on Saturday afternoon in Nashville.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down what happened with the offense on Saturday, plus what can be fixed.

Andrew and Nick also break down the offensive line play, and look back at our picks for players of the week from Friday.

TRANSCRIPT:

 

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, back with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, slug fest, defensive slug fest. That’s what we got on Saturday. I guess you could say it was a typical Florida/Vandy game from say the last 10 years really. You kind of called it. You said that you thought it would be a defensive slug fest. I thought Florida would pull away late. They definitely didn’t. It was ugly.

Nick:                         That played out exactly how I thought it would play out.

Andrew:                 It started how I thought it would play out, and I think I said 27-10 would be the final, and I thought that the Appleby fumble at the goal line, that would have been there. I thought Florida would get a couple garbage touchdowns and win, obviously. I think we both thought that Florida’s defense would play really well. They did, and, Nick, that bad feeling I had turned out to be a little accurate, my friend.

Nick:                         Yeah. I don’t know what it is about Vanderbilt, but it’s just like that game of Florida. For some reason, to me, it made so much sense. Of course, it’s going to be a close, ugly game. I think I said before the year, when we were talking about this week, I said, “Hey, that’s a tough game, because you’re going up to Nashville.” At the time we though Vanderbilt’s defense was good. They’re not. Vanderbilt’s defense is terrible. That’s just a bad football team Florida played yesterday. I said before the year, “That’s a tough week. You’ve got Tennessee. You’ve got LSU, and somewhere sandwiched in there is a game in front of 30,000 people at Vanderbilt. That’s tough to get up and going.” Jalen Tabor said as much. He goes, “I don’t want to say that Vandy got to us, but ya’ll can say that.” Almost like I don’t want to say that we skipped it this week, but that might be what happened.

Andrew:                 It’s a game, and I’m not making excuses, because we’ll dive into how bad this game was, but we’ll dive into that in a second. Every team, I think, has that team they struggle against. Alabama’s is Mississippi State. It always is. Alabama will struggle against Mississippi State. It doesn’t matter how good, how bad Mississippi State is, they struggle. They always struggle. Auburn’s is Kentucky usually. They just always struggle. It just seems like a team they struggle against. It’s weird the way that is, but it seems like every team has it. I mean, a lot of guys have played in front of more fans in high school than they played in front of Vandy fans on Saturday. They’ve played in bigger stadiums than they were on Saturday.

Nick:                         There’s no reasoning for it. You can’t point to something and say, that’s why.

Andrew:                 Right. It just, it is that game. It always is that game. We talked about this off the air that some of the Urban teams, some of the Spurrier teams, they struggled against Vanderbilt, and it just is that way. Now, let’s get into why this team struggled on Saturday. It’s one person.

Nick:                         Only one?

Andrew:                 Only one.

Nick:                         Very interesting.

Andrew:                 There’s only one.

Nick:                         Very interesting.

Andrew: