GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators 23-6 win over Missouri on Saturday on the road.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown how the Gators went on the road and ended their losing streak to Missouri on Saturday.
Andrew and Nick also talk about the Gators basketball team as they fail on the road to UConn on Saturday.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, we’re back, and get to finally talk about a Missouri win. Been almost three years.
Nick:                         Years.
Andrew:                 Yeah. So, we’re talking about it. It happens. It can happen.
Nick:                         Yeah. We’re taping this on Monday. It was a long travel day for me. I was, I think, left my hotel at 7:00 Central time, 7:30 Central time, and didn’t get back into Gainesville until about 6:30, almost 7:00 p.m. So, it was like a 12-hour travel day for me, so taping this it’ll be a day late, but it’s a bye week, so we can get away with it. It allows us to talk about some basketball as well.
We’ll get into Missouri first, because I don’t know about you, but it kind of felt almost therapeutic to go in, and it looked like so many other games. It’s early. It’s 3-3. It’s 6-3 at halftime. Just shooting yourself in the foot with penalties, dumb penalties. It just looked like that game that we’d seen in the past where Missouri’s going to turn it on and win this game. That’s just what happens when Florida plays Missouri.
Andrew:                 Yeah. I mean, it was. When you went into the half 6-3, it was like what team’s about to come out in the second half? I say this for every team, but you expect every team to come out in the second half with some adjustments. For the most part, Missouri didn’t come out in the second half with adjustments, and that was kind of where it was. I say this, and, Nick, I don’t know if you watched this or not, but I watched the Bears and Rams game last night. You look at Aaron Donald, and he was just unblockable. That’s what it was on Saturday with Jonathan Greenard. Missouri did not game plan around stopping him at all. You look now at the all honors he’s picked up.
Nick:                         Hey, they might have game planned to stop him, and I think a lot of teams have tried. He’s just not letting you. He’s like, what’s your game plan? Cool. I’m just going to do what I do anyway.
Andrew:                 Well, one on one blocking against Greenard probably ain’t going to work.
Nick:                         I would like to chip him at least.
Andrew:                 Yes.
Nick:                         At minimum, have a running back chip him.
Andrew:                 Yes. Then that was the case. That’s what it was. There was one play, Nick, and I believe it was in the first half. You’ll have to correct me if I’m wrong here. Greenard literally forced Kelly Bryant to keep the ball, because he was in between him and Larry Roundtree in the backfield.
Nick:                         I thought the play was designed to hand the ball off to Jon Greenard. Was I wrong?
Andrew:                 It was close. Six tackles for Greenard. Two sacks. Five tackles for loss in the game. It was just a defensive game.
Nick:                         That’s a win for me.
Andrew:                 Absolutely. I think, Nick, and again, correct me if I’m wrong here, but you could tell if Florida wins or losses by these two stats. Missouri was 5 of 18 on 3rd down, and they gave up, let’s see here, three sacks. When Florida doesn’t sack the quarterback, and they give up a ton on 3rd downs, they lose.
Nick:                         I think the stats were wrong, and we asked Florida about it. Greenard forced an intentional grounding.
Andrew:                 Right.