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Official Game Thread Week 1: Florida Gators vs #8 Utah Utes 9/3/2022

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"Woulda/Shoulda/Coulda"
But no use looking back--at least not now.
Maybe later, in the aftermath there'll be lessons we can and will learn and take away from that first half (although one'd HOPE that most of them would have been learned before NOW).
For the moment, this team must regroup, settle down, get with their Coaches and apply what WORKED to eliminating errors and more efficiently exploiting our clear positional and seeming talent advantages.
I still say we have opportunities at quick strike long throws from Anthony. Our running game is solid too--and Pearsal is clearly a weapon.
But above all, we have GOT to be a more PHYSICAL team in every way: We are faster, generally more talented all over the field--but somehow discipline, technique and sharp-HITTING are still somewhat lacking.
THAT, if anything, will be what gets us beat, if we don't address it.
 

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WE are gonna HAVE to get a big takeaway somehow, I think, to eventually take this game.
 

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More poor tackling. Another stupid penalty.
They will score from a foot away now. But not yet. 3rd and goal: 4th down inside our one.
FUMBLE!!! Goalline stand.
Will that be the turning point here?
Only if we can AT LEAST grind it out of our end and push them back to the other side of the field.
 

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Richardson got away with a bad throw. Need to buckle down. Penalties still an issue.
 

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Yikes. Can only IMAGINE how much better we might be once we learn to eliminate all these mistakes!
And then AR is fortunate not to get that intercepted (when he HAD a reciever open for a first; he has missed SEVERAL of those at crucial moments tonight).
Well, they DID "flip the field" after that fumble recovery inside the one, anyway.
This team has made a "close one" despite generally showing more speed and talent than this supposed "Top Ten" program.
Nuts, long completion to midfield by Utes.
We just GOTTA stop them now.
 

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It is still our defense that will either make or break us --not just here tonight but throughout the first maybe HALF of this season.
 

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Utah retakes the lead.
 

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I don't know how this will come out here tonight, but all inall these Gators have pretty well performed as I had alternately both hoped and feared. It may just come down to our Offense having to pull the game out at the end--realisticalky ALSO about what I expected, if I'm honest with myself about it.
More missed tackles for a big gain.
Then again as their RB runs it in from the 7.
They go for 2...failed.
Makes little difference, at this point.
We may well have to score TWO more TDs to ultimately win this one. I don't know if we'll manage it--but I'm even LESS confident our D will do more than "slow them down some"; Can't count on us actually STOPPING them the rest of the game. If we can hold them to just ONE more score it'll be the likely best chance we'll get to actually WIN this thing.
To a great extent, it's all on Richardson and this offense now. Sure hope Billy & Co. have some pre-planned surprises in their 4th quarter "bag-of-tricks".
 

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Great quick-drive. Here's a familiar refrain:
"IF ONLY WE HAD A DEFENSE!"
Well, the one we've got, if still a little inconsistent, does look somewhat "improved" overall.
Just GOTTA get more PHYSICAL--Stop missing tackles and START wrapping guys up on the first TRY.
 

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Gators retake the lead.
 

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Jeez! MORE missed tackles.
WTF is WITH these guys? Are we still just overmatched across-the-board?
 

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(I wonder where Lf is tonight, by the way...We're MISSING you, dude!)
 

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Is it their scheme wearing us down. Or are we just in the end still a "weak defense"?
 

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I just don't think Utah is that good. Either that, or WE really ARE coming along faster than expected (possibly before our very EYES).
ALMOST stopped them--but who cares? They'll soon have a first down inside our 30, regardless.
First down Utes.
If there were EVER a time to come through on defense, this would be IT, boys.
But instead we give up the little dump off to get them to our 13. Unless we stop missing tackles, we'll soon be down 4 points.
And instead, they run it in. MORE missed tackles.
Like I said: It would take at least another score to pull this out at the end.
So it's all on AR and our Offense after all.
And we somehow can't score "TOO quickly"...gotta score, but burn some clock in the process.
 

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Utes retake the lead. Stats are dead even.
 

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Weird call. Gators have to convert the 4th down and 3 or else Utah gets 1:54 to milk a win—with 3 timeouts.
 
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