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Podcast: Recapping the Florida Gators win over Miami

August 26, 2019

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators big win over Miami on Saturday night in Orlando.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown how the offense did on Saturday and what went right and wrong for the Gators.
Andrew and Nick also breakdown what the Gators can do to improve between week 0 and week two of the football season as they started the season 1-0.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. As you can tell, my voice is gone a little bit. Orlando won this weekend, and the Gators won, Nick. Gators are 1-0. Wasn’t pretty, but they’re 1-0.
Nick:                         That’s good then, Spivey, because the people really want to hear me talk, and since your voice is hurting, I’ll just talk more today.
Andrew:                 There you go. I’ll let you go at it. You can go. Mark Richt’s not coaching for Miami, so I don’t need to get fired up.
Nick:                         No. If he was, then they would have covered the spread.
Andrew:                 Yeah. I mean, Jarren Williams wouldn’t be the quarterback, because he was leaving.
Nick:                         Obviously, not a clean game from either side. Not a well officiated game, and not saying the officials were biased one way or the other, they were just plain bad. Plain bad for both teams. Not what we expected from Florida. I didn’t expect the penalties. Miami had more. You expect that in a first game for a new staff and a young team. I didn’t expect the penalties for Florida. I didn’t expect the turnovers for Florida. Feleipe had three on his own, two interceptions and then a fumble, which was a botched snap between himself and Lamical. Then I didn’t expect the big plays from Miami. I think Miami had a couple chunk plays, especially when they’re chunk plays out of a wildcat. I mean, come on. That’s stuff you see on film, and you should be ready for.
Overall, and I wrote this after the game, it’s what Florida, the coaching staff, preaches. The strain, the want, the desire. Don’t let go of the rope. All of those things that you can say are clichés, that’s why they won the game. It’s Nick Savage’s weightlifting program and that mental toughness. That’s why they won the game. I think they were the better team, but they didn’t play like it. Dan Mullen joked and said, “Our offense did a really good job of keeping Miami’s offense on the field by turning the ball over.” Florida did that three times. Only ran 52 plays to Miami’s 94. The time in possession, Miami had a 13-minute advantage in time in possession.
Is it good that Florida found a way to win? Yes. Good teams find ways to win. That’s not going to be good enough to win week in, week out in the SEC. You’re not going to just will yourself to victory, more times than not. Maybe you can, but more times that not you’re not going to will yourself to victory on the road in Baton Rouge or in Jacksonville against Georgia, against good teams.
Andrew:                 I think the biggest thing, Nick, is the two fumbles were drive killers. I mean, they were. They were drive killers.
Nick:                         Drive killers. Momentum shifters. Both of them.
Andrew:                 Then several of the late hits were drive extenders for Miami. This is a team that is a veteran team on defense for the most part. You wouldn’t expect that. You wouldn’t expect the late hits, out of bounds, the jawing after the play, as much. You wouldn’t expect that kind of stuff. You had way too much of it. I said it was an undisciplined football team on Saturday, and that’s what it looked like on both sides. Miami was undisciplined because they were very young. Florida was undisciplined. I don’t know the answer. Was it Game 1? We’ll see as it goes on.
When I say undisciplined, it’s the penalties, turnovers. It’s the missed tackles, Nick.