Gators Breakdown

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But a little sponge has been forever since we've got to talk about a victory.

We don't have to, you know, a couple of times we've already talked about it this week. since we got to talk about a victory uh we don't have to you know we've

a couple of times we've already talked about it this week so we'll we'll look back and look ahead

this episode but uh man 29 21 arch manning kind of you know comes to the swamp another manning

in a shade of orange that can't get a win in the swamp yeah i like um like it. Yeah, there we go. So 29, 21, upset victory for the Gators. But like I said, kind of just leading off with this, man, it's been since L-I-U, yeah, yeah, yeah, since we got to talk about the Gator victory. Yeah. But this one certainly, no matter what you feel about Napier program, all that stuff, it was good for three and a half hours to just watch your team play well.

Yeah, no.

That's the sad part about it is that's what we were expecting, man.

Or at least that's what we had been talking about like all summer, you know, going back to July-july where you're like all right we got this

we got this we got these pieces we got this got all these ingredients you know it's going to look

great and you know you come out the gate and you none of that happens and then you look like you look

and you know you're just like you know like we said last week is like do you count on this team to do anything? And, you know, it's just like, no, I don't, I don't have any, I don't have any confidence at any level of anything that's going on. And so you're like, I can't pick this team to beat Texas. And lo and behold, they play like the team that we thought they were going to be, you know. and yeah, it was awesome to watch and it was fun to watch and that's what you want to see.

And, you know, have they turned the corner? Have they, you know, like, again, we've talked about

it till we're blue in the face of like, dude, why does it take four weeks or, you know,

why does it take a buy week to like make this team just seem different?

I mean, it's, it's, I can't even explain it. I can't even put my finger on it. I don't even know what to say, you know, from, you know, just the intensity that I felt from the team to where they were playing to all of a sudden DJ Lagway's got swag throwing sidearm balls on dots. and you know i i don just, I don't, I don't know, I don't even know what to say, you know, but for, for like you said, anytime you beat a top 10 program, anytime you beat a team that was in the college football playoff last year, anytime you beat a team that, you know, has the pedigree like a Texas, you'll take that any day of the week. So, heck yeah. Now the question is,

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