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Podcast: Recapping the Florida Gators win over Kentucky

September 16, 2019

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators 29-21 win over Kentucky on Saturday in Lexington.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown the play of Kyle Trask as he had to replace an injured Feleipe Franks in the second half of the game.
Andrew and Nick also breakdown the play of the offensive line and the defense as well as look forward to Florida vs. Tennessee next week in the Swamp.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, recapping a win wasn’t what we expected, I’ll be honest. Didn’t think it was going to be that close. We’ll recap this. Before we get started, prayers up to Feleipe. Went down in the game. Dan Mullen says it looks to be season ending injury. I would say I agree with that. Prayers up to him. I hope that whatever has to come in the next few days goes well, and he’s able to fully recover.
Nick:                         Yeah. I had a friend who had a similar injury to what the trainers and what Dan Mullen described. It’s a dislocation that kind of causes a break in the fibula. Will Muschamp’s ruined that word for me forever. Now I never know if I’m saying right, after hearing him say it wrong so many times. He had to have surgery and had to have a pin put in. It’s painful, and it was a long road to recovery. It certainly would end Feleipe’s season. He didn’t get an x-ray Saturday. They were going to do that on Sunday when he got back to Gainesville.
I think, to kind of what I’ve been saying, what some of us who are around him a little more than maybe fans, I think the reaction that his team gave, the surrounding him, the receivers that were around him when he was still on the ground on a knee and their arms around each other praying, the way the whole team left the sideline to rally around him and talk to him. Then the fact that he stayed. Obviously, devastated. I don’t know what hurts worse, your ankle in that situation, or you’re sitting on the field and thinking about everything that you lost and how hard you worked and the weight of all that coming and down starting to sink in and be reality might hurt worse than your ankle does in that moment.
Sticking around to address the team, I think that shows how far he’s come, just as a person and as a football player and as a leader. I think Feleipe earned the respect of a lot of his teammates. I mean, he went down trying to get one yard on a broken play. I think he earned the respect of his teammates. Certainly earned more respect from me. I hope all the fans that kind of watched, whether or not you like him as a football player, I think you feel for him as a person, for sure.
Andrew:                 I’m not going to sit here and say that I was the biggest Feleipe supporter or fan or whatever it was, but it doesn’t matter the circumstances, you never want to see a guy go down. In that play, it was just a nasty looking play. I’ll be honest, I was very shocked that he didn’t have also a knee injury. The way he was bent up, to me, instantly screamed torn ACL, MCL, LCL, as well as a fractured ankle, just the way he was flipped up. Like you said, I remember, Nick, was it three years ago when Jake McGee went down? It was similar to Feleipe. His teammates rallied around him and that kind of stuff.
You never expect to have your quarterback go down, but to move on a little bit, I thought that Kyle Trask handled it as good as you could ask a backup quarterback to handle it. Now, Kyle Trask is a seasoned veteran. He understands his role. To come in in that opportunity, listen, Lexington, Kentucky is no longer a dull place to play. That place gets loud. For him to come in down 11, rally his team to win, and let’s face it, behind a shitty offensive line and behind, just throwing the ball. That was it. To rally his team to win, I think says a lot about Kyle Trask as well.