Gator Country brings you a new podcast as Dan Thompson break his numbers break down to the podcast to help break down the Florida Gators during the bye week.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre talk with Thompson about the numbers that show Florida's offense has improved but just isn't finishing drives when in opponents territory.

Andrew and Nick also ask for Thompson's mid season MVP's, plus they gave you their picks, plus talk about the breakout players so far this year.

TRANSCRIPT:

 

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, back with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, it’s a bye week, but it’s not a bye week at the same time, because the Gators are out recruiting. If there’s a big name prospect in a state across the country, chances are the Gators are seeing them on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday.

Nick:                         This class needs a little pick me up, right?

Andrew:                 I think, usually you don’t see the coaches out on Tuesday. You see them back at home, either just game planning a little bit or other things, but I think that with that loss of that LSU it was a must that Florida see everyone they possibly could. Especially, Florida didn’t go out, despite what Clay Travis said, didn’t host recruits that week of the canceled game, so you miss a huge recruiting weekend. Then you miss it completely when the game gets moved. So important for Florida to get out and get some face time with some of these guys who they’re going to need to fill this class, because there’s a ton of talent leaving next year.

Andrew:                 I think things are not as half full as some people see it. I’ve been very impressed with a lot of the guys on defense, but we’ll talk about that more in a minute. We’re going to be joined by Daniel Thompson today, our statistician, our numbers man. He’s going to come on and talk about some numbers. I think he comes on, and I think he’s going to talk about that offense. He told us a number before we taped today about that the offense wasn’t as bad as everybody makes it out to be. I talked to someone about that over the weekend, and they were like, this offense is improving. I’m like, still not scoring a ton of points, but the stat Dan wants to talk about today is going to prove that.

Nick:                         I think what he really does well is not just say, “Here are the numbers.” Dan does a really good job of saying, “Here are the numbers, and this is how the numbers are affecting what you see on the field. So you think person’s bad, statistically, no, they’re not, but look at this other stat. That’s what makes you think that someone’s playing worse than they are, or that the offense is worse than it is.” We’ll get into some stuff with him where people are complaining about Florida’s offense, but it’s really not that bad.

Andrew:                 It’s just the simple fact of stupid penalties at stupid times, and it’s one of those things where I hate to just continue to harp on Willy Muschamp, but it’s most of the penalties are against veterans, for the most part. It’s against veterans, and it’s stupid stuff, and it’s continuing to happen. Anyway, we’ll go to Dan here now. We’ll talk to Dan real quick. I know he’s waiting on us. We’ll talk to Dan, get some stats, and then we’re going to come back here in a minute, after Dan does, we’ll talk kind of about what he talked about, and then we’ll also pick some mid season awards. We can do offense, defense, just some surprise guys, maybe freshman of the year, that kind of stuff. Sound good, Nick?

Nick:                         Perfect.

Andrew:                 Let’s go to Dan real quick.

Welcome back, Gator Country. We’re now joined by the statistician, or t