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Napier Talks Lagway & Camp Progress + Castell & Thornton Connection + Baugh Looking for Next Step

Gators Breakdown

Gators Breakdown

Sports, Football

4.6642 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Florida Gators Head Coach Billy Napier shares insights on the team's and DJ Lagway’s progress. Safeties Jordan Castell and Bryce Thornton reveal their unique chemistry in the secondary, describing how their connection has strengthened and expressing confidence in having "one of the best secondaries" in college football. Meanwhile, powerful running back Jadan Baugh discusses his development as a leader and the specific ways he's working to elevate his performance this season. #FloridaGators #GatorsBreakdown #GoGators #CFB #SECFootball #CollegeFootball JOIN Gators Breakdown Plus: https://gatorsbreakdown.supportingcast.fm/ Get Florida Gators merch at Fanatics: https://fanatics.93n6tx.net/DVYxja Get Gators Breakdown merch: https://gatorsbreakdownmerch.com Questions or comments? Send them to gatorsbreakdown@gmail.com You can be the difference! For the first time ever, YOU can directly impact the outcome on the field by joining Florida Victorious! Want to help the Gators win? Want a better game day experience? Just like when you pack The Swamp, your unwavering support through Florida Victorious empowers the Gators to be their best! Join today and be the difference in making the orange and blue victorious. JOIN: https://floridavictorious.com/join-now/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We got Gators Breakdown here.

0:01.3

We know we're business.

0:05.0

Gators Breakdown.

0:07.1

Because there's never a dull moment in Gator Nation.

0:13.7

We know we're business, Will.

0:15.6

Plenty of business to get into tonight on this episode of Gators Breakdown.

0:18.7

We got lots.

0:19.6

We got Fall Kim kind of wrapping up with the last scrimmage. We got progress on DJ Lagway. We're going to hear from the safety duo of Jordan Castell and Bryce Thornton. We'll hear from Jaden Ball. Everybody welcome to Gators Breakdown. I'm your host, David Waters, joined by Will Miles. We're going gonna break it down right here in this

0:37.6

episode of Gators Breakdown a lot to get into a lot to get into

0:42.3

Billy Napier literally spoke like at like 530 so like three hours ago so I have a little bit of

0:47.6

he usually speaks at noon on Mondays but there have an afternoon practice schedule this week

0:53.5

so kind of had to speed out.

0:56.0

I had to go pick the daughter up from cheerleading practice will and all that.

1:00.8

So scrambling, but we got it done.

1:05.1

And there's going to be a lot to talk about in this episode.

1:07.2

It's not warm enough for an apier at practice early in the morning.

1:10.7

Had to make sure it got a little warmer this afternoon, have the guys out there. Heat acclamation, I guess. Yeah, there we're going to. I don't know. But, hey, we're not quite to bid this yet, man. That's two weeks from now. Two weeks from now. All that stuff really starts because, you know, we enjoy this. it's nice that we're starting get closer to the season. Obviously, everybody's starting to anticipate.

1:30.6

But the reality is, is that talking season has been a lot of, has been a lot of fun the last three years with Napier and the seasons. Other than the last four games last year, not so much. So it's time to turn that around, man. Let's have the talking season match the match the results on the field and the good news is is that we're going to find out soon enough florida florida should have pretty easy shot its first couple of weeks but obviously a lot of intrigue with some of the injuries in camp and that sort of stuff and then uh you know and and then we'll see man rubber meets the road pretty quick a bunch of road games start the year and And we'll know whether Napier's got it or not pretty early on this year. For sure, for sure. So, yeah, as you mentioned, kind of talking season, Billy Napier gets into narratives a little bit. So that won't be from the sound that we hear from Billy Napier, but it will be. I do have graphics of that quote to share. It was a good talking point there in a Gators Breakdown Plus Discord just a just a few moments ago. So we'll get into that, but also what he had to say about fall, you know, the scrimmage and kind of fall camp wrapping up a bit, what they're going to be working on this week before it is game week next week so lots to

2:34.3

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