Gator Country brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators tough loss on Saturday night to Florida State in Tallahassee.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down what went wrong for the Gators offense against Florida State and what they can do to improve.

Andrew and Nick also update the injury status of several Gators, plus start to preview the Gators vs. Alabama game on Saturday.

 

TRANSCRIPT:

 

Nick:                         What’s going on, Gator Country? Somber day in orange and blue land. Florida loses 31-13 to Florida State. Andrew Spivey and I were there, and it’s starting to look a lot like 2015, Andrew.

Andrew:                 It is. It’s just so many question marks, and it’s so many…

Nick:                         So few answers to those questions.

Andrew:                 Right. So many, well, this and this, you know. You can blame Nuss. You can blame the players. You can blame both sides, and I said this on Sunday morning on my thoughts on Gator Country, that is that you can’t blame it fully on Nuss. The offense is really bad. you can’t fully blame it on Nuss, because you and I both see that there’s receivers open. There’s not enough time, so that’s on the players. My thing that is bothering me the most is that the scripted plays, the first 10 plays, the plays that Mac is involved in, is a lot of tempo. The ball’s getting snapped quick, and it looks organized. When it’s not the play is coming in slow. Too many delay of game penalties or getting close to being delay of game penalties. There is no tempo. It just looks like a slow death of an offense, I guess, is the best way to say it. There’s no energy whatsoever. That spark that was there last week, again, they only scored 16 points, but they moved the ball. This week there was no spark. I mean, only 80 yards of total offense in the second half.

Nick:                         I think I brought it up on the podcast, remember? Outside of a 98 yard pass, there wasn’t a lot of offense last week either.

Andrew:                 Right.

Nick:                         The running game was there.

Andrew:                 It still moved. It wasn’t, I’m going to pull up the drive chart for Florida last night.

Nick:                         I’ve got it.

Andrew:                 I’ve got it as well. There’s five plays, this is the 3rd quarter, three plays.

Nick:                         Start in the 2nd quarter.

Andrew:                 Yeah. You can start in the 2nd quarter really. After the first two drives they go three plays, 1 yard, punt. 16 for 54, field goal. That’s okay.

Nick:                         No. It’s right after the field goal, and this is what happens. This is what we’ve been talking about about one bad drive happens, and then all of a sudden it’s an avalanche of bad drives.

Andrew:                 Yeah. It’s punt after three drives for six. Two drives for seven, and it’s halftime. Three plays for five yards and a punt. Four plays, three yards, and a field goal, and I think that that field goal opportunity in the 3rd quarter when Chauncey got the pick, them not able to capitalize that.

Nick:                         That’s deflating.

Andrew:                 It was.

Nick:                         That’s completely deflating. You get an interception. The place shuts up, finally. That place was loud all night, because you allowed it to be, and then you get a momentum shifting play. I talked about it before, Florida needs to get a big play, a momentum shifting play. Chauncey Gardner, I mean, listen, Chauncey Gardner didn’t do anything special th