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T&L Spring Previews: Swamp247's Graham Hall Previews Florida

Thunder & Lightning

SuperTalk Mississippi Media

News, Sports, Sports News

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Florida had an great mid-season turnaround in 2024, but that means elevated expectations in 2025. Can the Gators ride the strong arm of DJ Lagway to the College Football Playoff, or will one of the nation's toughest schedules be too much to overcome? Brian Hadad welcomes Graham Hall of Swamp247 to the pod for a preview. Brian Hadad of SportsTalk Mississippi and Robbie Faulk of On3 give you the best insight into Mississippi State athletics. We cover the Bulldogs like no one else. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM

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0:00.0

A Super Talk, Mississippi Media Production.

0:06.5

Another step on the road of the spring previews.

0:09.3

We're in Florida today to talk to Graham Hall from 24-7 sports.

0:14.2

Graham's been on the podcast.

0:15.1

It was a few times before.

0:16.8

And this time a year ago, I think we talked, and it was like, man, this Florida team, this

0:21.9

schedule, this is going to be really tough. And you've got to give Billy Napier in that group a lot

0:26.1

of credit. They found their way through and ended up being one of the surprise teams in the SEC.

0:31.1

The schedule is equally as tough this year, but I feel like this is a more battle-hardened

0:35.2

Florida team that we can actually have some expectations for.

0:39.3

Yeah, I think so.

0:40.2

I think they did something that was really impressive was that they improved as the season

0:43.5

went on.

0:44.1

Sometimes when you take a couple of disappointing losses, you can see the will wane a little

0:49.4

bit here.

0:50.1

You can see guys lose their motivation.

0:52.7

In Florida, you know, dug deep.

0:54.7

They locked in and made some improvements on the defensive end, especially here.

0:59.6

There were some changes from their defensive coordinator set up with Ron Roberts moving into the box to have that bird's eye view to call plays.

1:07.1

And then obviously, DJ Lagway, I mean, was nothing short of really a, I hate to say revelation for Florida because everyone knew how talented he was, former five-star quarterback.

1:17.8

The hype for him was considerable coming in, but for him to come in and elevate Florida's offense to be as explosive as it was, how good he was on deep throws, his mobility before the injury that he

1:29.2

suffered against Georgia was just extremely impressive.

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