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Rapid Reaction to Florida's 26-7 loss at Miami

On3 imageby: Zach Abolverdi9 hours agoZachAbolverdi

MIAMI — The Florida Gators dropped to 1-3 on the season with their 26-7 loss to No. 4 Miami on Saturday night. Their offense was 0-for-13 on third down and had three turnovers on downs.

After the game, I was joined by Gators Online’s Keith Niebuhr to break it all down. In the video above, we share our rapid reaction to the Florida Gators’ loss to the Hurricanes.

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“Okay, heck of a football game, and hats off to Miami. They have a really good football team, I think they played well enough to win tonight, and credit to coach Cristobal and his team and how they played complimentary football. You know, I do think that our kids battled their tail off, you know, I think in particular defensively, it was an incredible effort. Obviously not good enough on offense. We didn’t generate enough yards or points. The first half was a trial of errors. Not many plays where we executed well at all. We had mental errors of protection on third down, and really struggled to stack any good plays together. You know, we had four three-and-outs and six punts in the first half. I do think the kids responded at halftime. The staff did a great job of putting together a good script. We found some running game there early in the second half, and able to kind of make it a football game there, 13-7, and get a takeaway, right, and in position there with a fourth down, got to have it. You come up a little bit short on the 30-yard line. And then, obviously, at that point, the game kind of gets out of control with a couple of short fields late.

“But in general, you know, our kids competed. I do think that I’m proud of the way the kids showed up and the effort in which they played with. Now, the execution on offense obviously was not good enough. We struggled to get off the field on third down in the first half on defense. I do think that Tommy Doman had a good day in the punt game, but it was a game of field position, and we played on a long field in the first half, and obviously we kind of got back into some normal field position in the second half, but in general, had our shots, we had our chances. There were some plays to be made in the second half in particular, but it’s a good football team.”

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