GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we recap the Florida Gators big win over Mississippi State on Saturday night in Starkville.

Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre breakdown how both the offense and defense did on Saturday night and what worked for them against Mississippi State.

Andrew and Nick also breakdown the play of quarterback Feleipe Franks and explain why they think it was his best game as a Gator.

TRANSCRIPT:

Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, you and I will eat some crow, and do it proudly. Gators went out and took care of business in Starkville. Wasn’t pretty, 13-6, but it’s a road win, so I guess all road wins are pretty.

Nick:                         I think we’ll get more into it, but that’s probably the best way, or maybe the only way, that Florida was going to win that game. Hats off to Dan Mullen, Brian Johnson, John Hevesey, Billy Gonzales, the offensive staff, for recognizing that and putting that game plan together.

Andrew:                 Nick, this is what I think you see from Dan Mullen. You never see a game that is identical, as far as offensive game plans. I mean that in the utmost respect of a way. You don’t see game that’s usually won the same way, week in and week out. Last week it was a lot of up the middle running and throwing middle of the field, because that’s where they were weak. This week it was more about the extended run plays, like you and I talked about. I think that’s one of the things that really just separates Dan Mullen from a lot of coaches, and that’s an offensive-minded coach in Dan Mullen.

Nick, he did exactly what you and I had talked about Friday. You weren’t going to be able to run at this team constantly just right at them. You had to figure out a way to get some extended run plays in, the stand passes, the screens, the swing passes and that kind of stuff. For a majority of the night, that’s what he did, and that play ended up scoring Florida a touchdown on the double pass from Toney to Moral Stephens.

Nick:                         That play was just so well set up. I think we saw early on that the offensive line was overmatched, and it’s not even really saying anything bad about them. That’s just a really physical defensive line for Mississippi State.

Andrew:                 Listen, you’re not going to find too many better players than Montez Sweat and Jeffery Simmons.

Nick:                         Right. You and I were talking during the game. You can’t run up the middle, because Sweat and Simmons were collapsing that. Feleipe wasn’t getting much time to throw. People were asking, why aren’t we getting shots downfield? I said, you got two and a half seconds to throw. How far is your nine route getting before Feleipe is having to run?

Andrew:                 Right.

Nick:                         So, you make the adjustment. It’s screen pass, stand pass, screen pass, stand pass. It’s kind of like you said on the Friday predication pass. If you’re not going to be able to run, because of what this defense is and how physical they are, use that quick passing game as an extension of your running game. Florida did that. The reason you were able to hit on the double pass is because you had thrown so many screens. The safety sees you throw to Kadarius Toney behind the line of scrimmage, and he immediately bites. He immediately runs, or immediately runs towards the screen, and then you’ve got a Moral Stephens wide open.

Andrew:                 You talked about not having the time for the seam route. Van Jefferson was wide open on a seam route, and listen, for the first time that I’ll say this, Feleipe didn’t have time to see that, because it was one of those where the pocket was collapsing. He didn’t have time to see that Van beat the DB at the time to have an open pass there. There wasn’t a ton of time. Like you say,