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Gators 24 - Wildcats 7
Florida Head Coach Will Muschamp
Opening statement …
“Very
proud of our football team, it’s been a long week for us,
psychologically and mentally as much as anything. When you go through
Jeff’s (Driskel) situation and then Domonique’s (Easley) situation on
Tuesday night, they are very frustrating but you can’t always control
your circumstances in life but you can control your vision. I told our
players, ‘no excuses and no regrets.’ That’s just who we are, we have
an expectation level here at the University of Florida in what we’re
going to do and where we’re headed with our program. I’m very pleased
with how our guys pulled together and the Gator Nation pulled together
and came up here and did what we did. Very proud, obviously you start
the game with a 13-play drive, 93 yards. Proud of Tyler Murphy,
11-for-11 in the first half, 15-of-18 for the game, just made really
good decisions as much as anything throwing, the ball but in the run
game. He got us in and out of the right runs, we had a great surge all
night on the offensive line. Every play seemed like three or four
yards, getting them off the line of scrimmage and the two guys they
have inside are big guys and the two edge guys are good players, just
really proud of that. You know you have scoring of 93, 79 and 62 yards;
our field goal drive was 15 plays and 64 yards. We were really good on
third down defensively, didn’t start the game as well defensively. They
had a week off, they gave us some new stuff, we adjusted to it in the
game. We have to clean up our field goal block team a little bit as far
as some responsibilities there; we needed to have somebody on the edge
to make sure that that doesn’t happen to us as we move forward.
We’re
very proud of our offensive line, thought we played extremely well up
front, getting a hat on a hat in the run game. They started, especially
in the second half, giving us a lot of different looks and creating
some problems in the run game. Really proud of our football team, they
just came out there and worked hard.”
On Tyler Murphy’s decision making and composure …
“Outstanding, I mean really good. Again, he’s a very cerebral kid and he’s very smart, he gets the game.
I
think we’ve done a good job, I think (offensive coordinator) Brent
(Pease) did a really good job of putting him in some good situations.
We checked everything at the run game based on the look that they were
a three-down and four-down team. Just really proud of his performance,
he continues to improve and gain confidence in his play. Our football
team has always had confidence in him, this coaching staff has always
had confidence in him but he really played well.”
On running back Matt Jones compared to where he was weeks ago …
“Well
I think it just takes some time, I think we all knew that a little bit
and you don’t ever want to admit it because Matt is a good football
player and a guy we were really counting on coming into the season but
when you miss four weeks, maybe a little over a month of exercise and
activity, I don’t care how old you are, it’s going to shut your body
down a little bit, it takes some time to respond, especially with some
of the physicality, holding on to the ball and doing some of that
stuff. Real proud of Matt, I pulled Matt in Monday and I said, ‘man,
you need to cut it loose and play. You’re very tentative when you run
it, you look like last year at the beginning of the year. If you make a
mistake, put it on me, I don’t care, everybody else does. So just run
the ball hard, run the ball hard, cut it loose and go play.’”
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