Everything head coach Jon Sumrall said after Florida\u2019s 45-17 loss to Missouri in Week 5.\n<\/p>\n
Opening Statement\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHats off to Missouri. They played really good today. We did not, and that was an earned loss by us. They are a good football team. They didn\u2019t need our help. They played really good, hats off to them, like I said. But we did not play to our standard. Embarrassing performance in every phase. Starts with the coaching, starts with me. I told the guys in the locker room just now, I expect everybody to be a man, which means be accountable for your actions and own it. I\u2019m going to start that way right now. I\u2019m not going to point fingers at anybody, but we have to play a lot better. I\u2019m sick to my freaking stomach with what we just did, like, livid. With that, we will open it up.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
On Bryce Thronton not playing in the game:\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHad a little tweak that happened in pregame warmups. Something that I\u2019ve never really seen a whole lot of. Just went out there and was not right. Warming up, felt something that didn\u2019t feel good. Lower body. Kind of like a soft tissue thing, which was hard to predict because he practiced this week. Just went out in the warmups and was not himself, and came over and told the trainers, like, \u2018Hey, I got something going on.\u2019 As they examined him, it wasn\u2019t good enough to go.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
On the performance in the secondary, your level of concern:\n<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah. I mean, we haven\u2019t played to the standard we need to play at a lot this year there, and I haven\u2019t hidden from that. It\u2019s not just one guy, it\u2019s been certain guys on different downs. There\u2019s sometimes it\u2019s coverage discipline, detail, and leverage. They beat us on the out and up, they beat us on a go ball, they got 19 on the move on a lot of third downs. We didn\u2019t play great technique on him. We knew he was the move guy to motion to try and create space to get him open. There was a couple times we were gonna bracket him, and we didn\u2019t execute the call great, to be quite honest. It would be a really easy fix if it was just one guy. It would be a really easy fix if it was just one thing. The problem is right now it\u2019s different guys wearing the hat that maybe are giving something up, and then different issues that are presenting that are really, when you\u2019re trying to maybe plug one hole, and another one opens. And then when you\u2019re calling the game, like coach White, he can\u2019t protect everybody. Somebody has got to win a one on one down. Like there\u2019s 11 guys on each side, and we have to win some one on ones out there on the perimeter, which we are not doing enough of right now.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
On the inability to get the run game going:\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThey did a really good job of playing with physicality. We missed some things, but I thought they swarmed well to the football. I don\u2019t think the flow of the game really dictated us not getting the run game. They played good defense, and we didn\u2019t execute. We still tried to commit to the run coming out of the half, because, you know, when you\u2019re in the third quarter and you\u2019re down 17, it\u2019s not like you can\u2019t run the ball still. Now, in the fourth quarter, we get to a spot where you kind of have no choice. That was something that they did really good tonight, and we did not execute well in the run game in a lot of different areas.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
On what bothered you the most about how today went:\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t pin it down to one thing. Look, what bothered me was our lack of execution, our lack of discipline, our lack of detail. I did not feel this this week, but, man, today, it\u2019s like, guys, you get 12 regular season opportunities, you can\u2019t let one get away from you without giving your best, and the fact that we put less than our best out there absolutely makes me freaking sick. I am freaking livid over the fact that we just did that. Anybody that, I told the guys in the locker room, anybody that\u2019s comfortable with that, come see me tonight. We ain\u2019t moving forward like this. The score is the score. But it\u2019s not just what we do, it\u2019s how we do it, and how we just did what we did, it\u2019s not acceptable, and it will not be acceptable. I\u2019m livid. I\u2019m frustrated about so many things that I can pin it down to one thing.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
On what you attribute the way they showed up this week, and how do you address that:\n<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it\u2019s a good question. I didn\u2019t feel it this week. I made sure to show them all the things that you try to show guys about not being casual or complacent, continue to be urgent, and tough, and gritty, and blue collar. And, I don\u2019t know. I know there\u2019s been a lot of pats on the back. I\u2019ve tried to make sure they understand that that doesn\u2019t matter. What matters is showing up every day and being at your best. I don\u2019t know what to attribute to today. I don\u2019t know that we\u2019re a very mature team yet. And that\u2019s not letting them off the hook, or letting me off the hook, but we\u2019ve got to grow up. We\u2019ve got to be a more mature outfit, and you cannot play that way against anybody in this league and expect an outcome that\u2019s going to be favorable, because it ain\u2019t getting any easier. Every team you play in this league is gonna be talented. Like I said, Missouri won. We earned the loss. They don\u2019t need the help, but we beat ourselves at times tonight too.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
On falling after several highs:\n<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I\u2019ve seen the worst, Edgar. They\u2019ve been there. We haven\u2019t looked like a complete football team at any moment to me yet. So, I think, sometimes the record, like having not lost, or maybe sometimes beating a team that was ranked at a certain spot, can make people feel like you\u2019ve arrived or you\u2019ve done something. The standard of how you play this game, it doesn\u2019t matter just, I mean, yeah, I want to be 1-0 every week. But that\u2019s not enough. We have to be so much more detailed and disciplined in how we do things. And I\u2019ve seen all of our flaws. And they\u2019ve all been called out in front of the team. We don\u2019t hide them. There\u2019s going to be a lot of things that get called out. It\u2019s going to feel a lot different because sometimes when you win, I think everybody thinks, \u2018Oh, it didn\u2019t cost us. We\u2019re ok.\u2019 Well you don\u2019t have that performance today and not have some sort of sickness in your stomach about what you just did. Like I said, there\u2019s guys on our football team that don\u2019t own that, they won\u2019t be on this football team very long. I don\u2019t really care. Like, we\u2019re going to play with guys that are tough and love football and are committed to their development and improving as a team, which you can see we have a lot of improvement to do. We\u2019ve had a lot of improvement to do. It\u2019s just been masked by winning some games, but we haven\u2019t played really good football yet in my opinion. We\u2019ve just found ways to win some games and made some plays but haven\u2019t played at a high enough standard.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
On Jadan Baugh handling frustration:\n<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, Jadan was frustration. I went over to him late in the fourth quarter and put my hand on his hat and said, \u2018Hey, man. This doesn\u2019t change how I feel about you. This doesn\u2019t change who you are. We all have to own what happened today. And you\u2019re a leader on this football team, so it starts with how you handle your business. Like, how you look in the mirror. It\u2019s not like he did anything poor per se. But it\u2019s about everybody in our program having accountability. Look, they did a really good job. They had a good plan. They played really hard. I thought their defensive players flew around. They played with an energy and edge that I\u2019d like for us to play with. And, it was frustrating for him. I think it was frustrating for all of our guys.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
On Bryce Thornton\u2019s absence impacting the game:\n<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it was brought up. Something in pregame that just grabbed on him, didn\u2019t feel right. Went to the trainers, kind of unexpected. Something unforeseen. Anytime you have a pregame issue where you\u2019re not planning for a guy to be out, that\u2019s a challenge because you don\u2019t see maybe how to adjust or how to maybe offset that or fully see it coming. It\u2019s unfortunate. It\u2019s nothing major. Doesn\u2019t seem like anything long-term issue. He just wasn\u2019t quite right in pregame and voiced that to the athletic training staff, and we made the decision to not put him out there and do something dumb to set him back further.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
On improved maturity:\n<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, that\u2019s a good question. I think, man, sometimes you can write like a sentence or a page of a story when you win because it like masks a deficiency. When you lose, you\u2019re going to write a chapter. We got to learn from this. We got to sit on this a little bit, and we have to see our guys look in the mirror and take the accountability. And everybody in our program, top to bottom, like I said earlier, starting with me, all of the coaches, the staff, the players, everybody in the building, like, look at it, look into it, own it, don\u2019t shy away from it. It sucks. It\u2019s not fun. But I expect these guys to respond. I can promise you this. I\u2019m going to do everything in my freakin\u2019 power, everything to help them respond. That\u2019s my job. And, we\u2019re not going to be ok with this. This is not our standard here. And, disgusted by it. But we have to help this team grow. That\u2019s what our job is. And we need the player leadership to help it grow.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
On stopping the run getting away from them:\n<\/p>\n
\u201cSo one of them, we think we got the ball bottled up, but it\u2019s not broken the line-of-scrimmage yet, and too many guys started to pursue over the top of the football when the ball was still behind the line-of-scrimmage. You have to play through your gap when the ball is still behind the line. If it breaks across the line, you can then flow and pursue over the top. We had too many guys on that one on the backside of the play start to flow over the top and then cut back out the backdoor. And then the second one, we had gap to out fitted up. It\u2019s a basic simple run fit, and one guy got out of his gap. And it\u2019s one of the simplest run fits we have in our defensive schematics. But all it takes is one guy to get out, and hats off to them for making a play and exposing it. We weren\u2019t where we needed to be. But, really, other than those two plays, we felt like we were stopping the run. It really felt like both sides were having a hard time running the football, and then we just gave them two gifts to some degree. And, look, good plays by 20. Like, really good plays by him. But we didn\u2019t really execute neither.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
On when the momentum swung:\n<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I mean, they capitalized and created scoring opportunities, and we didn\u2019t. When they got the ball out of the second half and went down and scored again, that definitely I think that kind of swung the momentum, for sure.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
On Aaron Philo, missing Duke Clark:\n<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, Duke\u2019s the throw there, and he just felt like the pressure, he couldn\u2019t see Duke. He felt the off-the-edge pressure to make the throw. In practice, that\u2019s the throw. When I grabbed him when he was coming off, he was like, \u2018Coach, I couldn\u2019t see through the defender to feel comfortable to let the ball loose.\u2019 Sometimes, you just got to let it rip, and he\u2019ll learn from it. I don\u2019t think it was his best. I think early, he missed some things, but, look, he\u2019s done a lot of great things for us this year. He\u2019s going to bounce back. He\u2019s a tough dude. He\u2019ll learn from this. He\u2019ll grow. He\u2019ll compete, and hate it for him. It wasn\u2019t his best today. He\u2019s played a lot better football through the previous four games, and we just got to get ready to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything head coach Jon Sumrall said after Florida\u2019s 45-17 loss to Missouri in Week 5. Opening Statement \u201cHats…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-418357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}