GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we recap the Outback Bowl for the Florida Gators, plus update you on the latest recruiting news for Florida.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre break down how the defense played on Monday, plus how Randy Shannon's play calling was.

Andrew and Nick also break down the latest news for the Gators recruiting efforts after the Under Armour game and what to look forward to it in January for recruiting.

TRANSCRIPT:

 

Nick:               What’s going on, Gator Country podcast listeners? We’re back. Travel. Andrew’s a little sick, but he’s powering through it today. We’re going to get back on an off season schedule. We’ll have podcasts going up Tuesday and Friday. Just one this week, and then we’ll get back on that regular schedule after the weekend, and we’ll be able to talk about that championship game going on Monday.

Andrew:         Yeah. We’ll get back on that Tuesday, Friday off season schedule that we’ve always had for baseball/softball and recruiting and all that good stuff. So we’ll start back on that on Tuesday and get back on that. Busy since we’ve last talked last week. Had the Outback Bowl. Had some recruiting stuff going on, and we’re finally back settled into our own beds.

Nick:               I went 16 days without sleeping in my own bed. I think I was on the road for a little over two weeks.

Andrew:         Can’t complain too much, except for coming home and, like you said, being under the weather. That Tampa weather was rough. Someone told me it was 103 on the field was the temperature on Monday.

Nick:               First day of practice we were all like, “Oh man, it’s hot.” Like 90 degrees. Second day of practice it’s hot again, and out of nowhere it’s freezing. You show up, leave Orlando, and you’re like, “What the heck?” I’m like, “I don’t know, man. I was sweating yesterday, and I’m freezing today.” We go out to practice for interviews, and somebody looks at me and is like, “You don’t have a jacket?” I was like, “I was in south Florida. I didn’t need a jacket. I didn’t pack for this.”

Andrew:         Exactly. Let’s get back to the Outback Bowl a little bit. Nick, it was what we kind of stated all along. It was a game Florida had to win, and they did. Surprisingly, for me, well, I guess I can’t continue to call it a surprise, because the defense played well, and it was a situation where it a bunch of young guys that played and did well. Chauncey Gardner ends up being Outback Bowl MVP of the game, and, Nick, I think he showed what you and I have talked about since watching him in the Under Armour game, and that is the guy’s a player. Corner, nickel, safety, wherever it may be, the guy’s a player.

Nick:               I don’t know if I’m ready to say corner. Love him at safety. Love him at nickel. I think he’s kind of like a Duke Dawson where put him in those spots. I don’t know if he plays corner next year. He might have to. See what happens after Signing Day, but just a player. He’s a football player, and that’s what you’re getting at is your football team is better if you have Chauncey Gardner on it.

Andrew:         Yeah. I think the thing, Nick, that is the reason that I’ve been very high on him, even at corner, is the speed he showed off, and you mentioned this to me in the press box on Monday. When he caught that pick, and wasn’t nobody catching him. Nobody was catching him.

Nick:               No. I think I said it to you. I was like, “He might be the fastest player on the team, hands down.” He caught that pick, and had to make a couple people miss, but once he got into it there were a couple guys that might have had angles on him, and I said, “He’s gone. He’s the fastest player on the field right now. No one’s catching him.”

Andrew:         Y