Brooks Austin EXPOSES What's REALLY Wrong With Florida - Can the Gators Fix It vs Texas?

The old adage is like, you're either teaching it or you're allowing it. And we're six weeks into allowing it. We're six games into allowing this to happen. Boys and girls, we got a special one. The man Brooks Austin joins us. Brooks Austin. I'll add some couple letters in there for you. Brooks Austin joins us here. The film guy. You did a great breakdown, Brooks, talking about the defense. You know, it's funny. I didn't say it. I didn't tag you. but i was like please brooks i need to know what's going on with the defense so you heard the uh my telepathy uh getting to you so i appreciate it you broke it down and now i want to ask the hard questions i got to know what you're feeling i also i want to know what's going on with the offense too i mean the defense has been atrocious but it feels like the buster swagger has turned off a bit as well we'll get into that the one thing i took away brooks from it is and you've made it very clear right it's hard to know what guy is going where who's supposed to do what and a lot of the we're trying to figure out what's the problem do we not got enough dogs is it is it coach white is it both what's going on what what's happening and i didn't really come to much of a conclusion which means i think you did a good job of showing us and you kind of left it up to interpretation a good book where are we at with it brooks well and first of all breaking down defense like i mentioned in the in the beginning of the film study it's extremely hard it's extremely hard because everybody teaches defensive concepts differently. So I went into that without any purpose to point blame because unless you are in the rooms, unless you're the one installing the defense, you don't really know where it went wrong. You don't really know what went, like, what broke down, right? Like, but here's what the overall theme was, right? It was constantly something, whether it be, like, our pass rush plan, for example, right, where we're stacking two guys in one gap on a pass rush plan Or we're trying to call a pick, which means the first guy is going to like penetrate and try to take the eyes of the guard. And then we're going to wrap somebody around into the gap that's been created now because we've taken the eyes of the guard. Well, they just they just run into each other or they stack each other up or whether it be like, hey, we've got man to man called on third and five or third and ten. And if we rush the quarterback with six, like we better squeeze the pocket. Nobody can be selfish. You can't pick a side on your rusher. We really just have to squeeze and make him hold the ball and then bring him down with inside the pocket. And then all of a sudden, the linebacker gets matched up on a running back and he picks a side. And then all of a sudden, we've got a massive void in B-gap and when Norris Sellers takes off for a 15-yard gain. And then the next play, you're in zone coverage and we've either not passed it off correctly or two guys thought they're going with the crosser when in reality, the boundary safety probably should be going with the crosser in the field safety if you should be going and closing the post or whether we're back in man coverage and I think we're actually going to exchange this meaning if he goes in I'm going out with the switch release but we both go in and now all of a sudden the running back wheel's gone and then we get into an automatic rundown it feels like it's short yardage situation and we're all in cover zero in the red area and then all of a sudden I lose my man and he's running butt naked down in the back end like it's a combination of all these things and they are constantly stacking up and when they constantly stack up that's that's when we look like a horrendous defense instead of just a defense that can't seem to get off the field um and i figured that's what it was going to be i always look at box scores on saturday afternoon like everybody else and then on sunday I go to look at the film and when when I looked at the box score on Saturday and I saw that Florida had allowed seven South Carolina receivers to have at least one reception worth 15 yards or more, buddy. I knew we were busting all over the place. Pause. I knew, I knew it was eyes discipline all over the place. I knew it was bad defense. That's what I knew. And I didn't expect it to be all, all the problems, right? Like, and I even said on our film study, like, if we're a man to man coverage and we get beat by another guy, I can deal with that. what I can't deal with is constantly beating ourselves. And I feel like that's what it is right now. And I know the next question is going to be, well, how do you solve it? If I had that answer, buddy, I'd be making $2.5 million like all these other defensive coordinators. I wasn't going to ask that because I think if they knew how to solve it, we wouldn't be here two weeks in a row either. I would assume so, right? Actually, my next question was going to be, we had a great debate about this earlier this week because Brad White came out and we talked. they asked him basically like you know simplifying it and I think that question came about because this defense isn't very different from last year meaning the personnel that's on the team yeah and it wasn't great but it wasn't bad either the defense last year it was it was was sound and so it looks completely lost out there right everybody we're talking Miles Graham Aaron Chiles veteran guys that have played a lot of football just not looking like they know what they're doing and so that's what it points back to right but you can simplify things and process of elimination, you look at, okay, well, Brad's the only thing that's changed outside of a few players. And so the question was, hey, are you going to simplify? Because it feels like everybody's a bit lost, a bit confused, and that's where you're seeing the lack of confidence, you know, in the defense. And he goes, no, we're going to stick to our guns. And so my question to you, somebody who watches film that's been around this, is that the right attitude to have right now? Florida fans don't like hearing that, right? We want to win football games. We're not in this patient mindset. That doesn't mean what he said isn't right, but And also, you know, do you make an adjustment this early on to try to salvage what is left of this season to get the best out of your defense? Well, I don't know if this is going to be positive or this is going to cause more area for concern. I don't think you're all that complicated in the first place. Like, I don't think you're like one of these defenses that's doing a whole bunch of stuff, right? You're playing basic zone coverage or you're in man-to-man coverage. it doesn't seem to me that to be that complicated whereas like I turn on Tennessee's tape after watching you guys that looks like they don't really know what they're doing but they're doing it all really well because it's all it's all disguised and it moves late and it's late stems and and if they show me this I'm triggering into the fit and you're going to back me up and they're allowed to do that I think because they brought over like five or six transfers from Penn State. So most of those guys have been hearing this defense for a little while. And they also have veteran football players like T. Lander and Arian Carter. So I don't look at you and be like, damn, they're doing so much they need to they need to dwindle the package down just quite a bit. I think if I were in that situation, I would probably stick to my own guns too and say, No, we just got to teach it better. We got to get these guys to play a lot more confident, which is the word you used, which is the right word. It's not as much like there's some I there's Some eye sins is what we would call those, some eye discipline problems. But there's also a lot of stuff where, like, guys just aren't triggering like they know and trust what they're seeing. When something crosses my face, and I'm a hook-curl player in zone coverage, and it crosses my face, I need to go now, especially if, like, there's been a little bit of time that has occurred. Like, there was a play in the red area where Nick Harper runs all the way from the outside wide receiver in a trips formation and runs almost flat down the line of scrimmage and then crosses the face of Childs and Childs waits till the ball is thrown to actually like react and like those those are the things that we can't really do those are the things where we're not we're not freed up instinctually we're not we're not playing free um so those are the things that I would look at I also do think there is like a reality to the point where when I watch you it's simplest to play man coverage but I don't know if you're good enough in the defensive backfield right now to go play man coverage on a down-to-down basis so you have to like when someone says let's simplify it well that would be the only simplification the only simplification would be is you got him you got him you got him instead of playing zone coverage and passing concepts off and squeezing when we're you know and doing all these things that require to be a good zone defense I just don't think you're good enough to line up and go my five are going to cover your five let's go play ball I don't think that's the case right now a couple years from now probably will be because no matter how much the the negativity has arisen in the last couple of weeks you guys are still recruiting your balls off so you're gonna be all right um so i think those things are are gonna fix a lot of the the problems because bottom line man like jimmies and joes will always ascend x's and o's my dad taught me that about the game of football when i was five years old and it is still to this day 25 26 years later 100 true um if we got good players the scheme's always going to feel good and i'm saying you i'm not saying you have bad players i'm just thinking that like we can't simplify it too much there's not much left to simplify in my opinion look i think you know there's just been a battle we florida fans we love to argue what is the problem a lot of blame and you know has fallen on brad white and we're not here to necessarily take any shots at players right a lot of that has to do with their upbringing and maybe the past regime not being coached or taught properly so they're coming in with you know kind of behind the eight ball a little bit and that's what you know we talk about our guy Stephen Harris, it just felt like a lot of guys weren't you know hitting their spots or being where they needed to be playing with a dog mentality, it's kind of interesting you mentioned that I'm like, look, your Jos will outweigh the X's and O's, and right now nothing's outweighing it feels like anything uh because of how disastrous it may be, look, I feel, I don't know if I feel any better I do feel like we have a little bit more of an understanding, I think for me and you're talking like, hey, how do we fix it? It does seem like, look, you gotta quit playing stuck, you gotta play more freely, right now it feels like they're almost playing not to make a mistake and in turn making mistakes, and so it's like I'd rather you rather play with instinct and have a blown coverage because you made a play or you tried to make a play versus just standing there in no man's land and a play is still happening but you ain't done a damn thing, so we're not even playing 50-50 ball, like, hey, if you hit, if you make the right call we gotta stop, if we make the wrong call they get a blown coverage, you're not making a call and we have no chance of making a stop or even, it's just a worst-case scenario. It seems like what's happening. I do think the box play lacks a lot of discipline, though, to be honest with you. And again, not going to call anybody out, but there's one, and you mightn't even know this, and you might be able to, like, your light bulb will go off, or maybe it's a Florida fan who watched them every day. I feel like there's one defensive tackle that has a false start or an encroachment penalty almost weekly. Congratulations, boys and girls, because this show is brought to you by PrizePicks, and I congratulate you because you finally made it the college football season, boys and girls. Yes, that is right. You can now get in on the action on PrizePicks with college football. It is time to get up after it. This week, we're rocking and rolling, feeling pretty good. But our guy, Micah Alejandro from Hawaii. Then we've got, of course, King Miller with USC. Get some rush touchdowns. I know we don't like FSU around these parts, but I think Ashton Daniels is going to use a little legs in this upcoming week for some nice football to get him more in his rushing yards. 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There was also a play we showed against you. 91 um it's every every every single time and i'm like well a third and 15 just became a third or third and 18 just became a third and 13 and now the playbook changes and now we can actually get into this empty screen that we're going to throw to our halfback and now we get tackled for a 14 yard gain we would have been off the field bud but instead now we have to continue the possession um there's also things where like and this has been a problem that john's been talking about since week one where you guys and week two where the penalties just seemed to keep to keep doubling in size and and in importance and there was a penalty against uh Missouri that I just felt like I would have lost my you know what I would have lost it in a team meeting room on Sunday watching a linebacker who is supposed to be one of our leaders just getting a personal foul five seconds after the whistle for no reason he's in there like just pushing an offensive lineman from Missouri over and then getting in his face and gives him one last shove literally after the zebra had like walked over there and like tried to get him off and then he then he gives him another little push and it's like well all right buddy here's here's 15 and now ball's on the 35 now the ball's on the 16 and like those those types of things man so we we have bad eye discipline We're kind of bad at tackling right now in the back end, too. Like, there's some of that going on. We're not punching at the ball when we get an opportunity to, so we're not really turning teams over. I don't know where you guys' forced fumble rates are right now, but they're probably not as high as they should be. We're not disciplined in the box. We're constantly getting personal fouls. We're constantly jumping off sides like, what is it, man? It's all of it. That's what it is. So, now, that being said, I just blamed a bunch of players. If it's everybody, then it's also the D.C. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, the old adage is, like, you're either teaching it or you're allowing it. And we're six weeks into allowing it. We're six games into allowing this to happen. So, yeah, they got to get it fixed, no doubt. Well, that's exactly what I was thinking when you were talking about it. I was like, man, all the things you're mentioning, sure, the players are executing those penalties and lacking discipline. But when you're having it week over end, and now you're starting to allow it. There obviously is no consequence for acting like an idiot on a regular basis. So, sure, they shouldn't be doing it. But there is no remorse outside of that internal penalty, which, do they really care? I clearly not, right? So, what is happening behind the scenes? And maybe that goes back to, well, we just ain't got the depth to do it. I don't know. You know, to hold people accountable, that could be another problem. That isn't the greatest answer that people want to hear. But maybe you are kind of stuck with your hands tied behind your back. Like, is that a common problem in teams that are making turnovers that you've heard or seen or talked with other coaches before? Look, I'm not saying he's Nick Saban, and I'm not saying he's going to be Nick Saban. But I think everybody who loves college football has probably spent some time watching the Nick Saban documentary. And one thing that stuck out to me was they went on this, like, heater the first four games, and then they end the season 6-6 because of a lot of different reasons. But one thing that also stuck out to me was, you know, Greg McElroy, who is great in that miniseries on Saban, by the way. He's tremendous. Greg McElroy is sitting there talking about how, as players, anybody on that 2008 and 2009 football team would have told you straight up, our best football player was Rolando McClain. He was a true freshman. He was 19 years old. And midway through the season, Nick Saban just flat out sat him. Just, you're not playing anymore. You're not, like, you're getting arguments with me in practice. You're not listening. you're not you're not taking coaching I don't care about the outcomes of the football game you're gonna sit and it made them worse but in the long run it made them much better right they Rolando ended up being the best football player on those national championship teams and the first one that they won on the defensive side of the football so there is a little bit of this where like when you first get there like doing it my way is very very important winning is is paramount but doing it the right way is also extremely important. And yeah, I think they got away with some of this stuff in the first four weeks. And I at least give John credit for like recognizing that we're not going, like we're going to get embarrassed if we keep doing these things. If we keep doing things like playing off coverage, nine yards off the ball on third and two, we're going to get our ass beat. Like if we keep getting penalties, we're going to get our ass beat. If we don't get better at tackling, we're going to get our ass beat. And they didn't get better at any of those categories, so we have to look at Coach on that one. But at least he knew. At least he wasn't just like walking around high on the clouds being like, yeah, we're great. We're about to steamroll everybody. Like, I don't think that was the narrative from him. So, yeah, I think there's a lot to clean up, but I do believe in them. Here's the crazy part. I watched Kentucky for a long time. They've been in this conference. Brad White's been in this conference. I've watched Brad White defense for a long time. I never, ever, ever felt like they beat themselves. They would get beat because they didn't have good enough players. But I never felt like they beat themselves. So this is also a new thing that's very interesting. And I'm sure it's new to him. I'm sure he's sitting there up at night scratching his head going, what in the – what is going on, man? I don't know. And that's new. So it's new to a lot of areas right about now. It's interesting to take on the Saban situation because I kind of mentioned that yesterday. It's like Florida fans don't want to hear it because it felt like it was trust the process with Napier for four years. But sometimes you've got to go backwards a little bit to go forward. And that kind of, you know, we're hoping feels that's the direction. It's like we're kind of having to eat ---- to realize, to turn the ship here. Quick questions on this offense, and then we'll get you up out of here, man. But what's happening? We were putting up 98 games, Brooks. Where's the breakdown? Two things that have to go for the Buster offense to go that haven't been going the last two weeks. Obviously running the football and the screen game. If we can't run the ball, and a lot of this is because Tramiel's out, or Vernell's out, but if we can't run the ball successfully and explosively, then we don't get the eyes dedicated to the box to open up all these tight end to the flats, to open up all these other things that come up, the deep overs, right, to open up these portions of the offense that are really explosive when the run game's going. and then you add on to that that we don't really have our best screen weapon right now or haven't the last two weeks and we get bundled up quite a bit um i also do think there's been like we we've lost confidence in the quarterback i think the confidence in the quarterback has lost he's lost it a little bit in himself and anytime i see third and seven quarterback draw calls with a like Philo is a good athlete don't get me wrong but if he were running the football against me, I wouldn't be terrified as a defensive coordinator. So anytime I see things like third and seven quarterback draw calls, I'm like, ooh, they don't trust him. They do not trust him to not turn the football over in automatic passing downs. That was a little bit concerning. But I ultimately think this offense, and Buster said this after the Missouri game, and I was shocked he said it. He said this offense is not predicated and not comfortable being in automatic passing situations. That is not what we are set up to do. So, I'm taking him for his word at that. And by the way, I agree with him, and you do too, Sheldon. If that's the case, then what do we have to do? We have to be able to run the ball, and we got to have great extension of the run game to get into third and manageables. And that, by the way, that's every offense except for Ty Simpson last year on the road at Alabama and Gunner Stockton this past weekend at Georgia. In this conference, if you're constantly in third and five plus, you will constantly suck on third down. It's just the way it is. unless you have elite, like one-of-a-kind quarterback play. And those are the only two examples I can think of in my brain right now that I immediately run to and I'm like, oh, Gunner was 9 for 10 on third down. Ty Simpson didn't miss a completion on third down until the middle of the fourth quarter on the road against Georgia a year and a half ago. So, like, unless you're that, you're probably going to be some poop on third down, which means you better be able to run and you better be able to have extension of the run game. You better get into third and manageable. So, that's where I would start with the offense. What has gone on the last two weeks? I think, first of all, Missouri put you in a locker. That's what that was. That was a physical ass-whipping at the line of scrimmage for Missouri's defensive line, first and foremost. Secondly, we ran it okay against South Carolina, but we got in a position where we had to start chasing. We're down multiple scores all of a sudden, and now it's like, well, crap, we don't only need to score. we need to score now because we can't stop a nosebleed over there guys so let's start to get into our passing bag and like that's that's not ideal that's not ideal yeah the game has definitely started collapsing on all aspects of the game over the last two weeks now there's obviously uh the news on Aaron Philo being questionable a lot of conversation about going to Tramell possibly opening things up giving you a different look your thoughts on on Tramell maybe getting to start do you like it indifferent i i'm indifferent because i haven't seen him with live bullets you know what i mean like it's it's so it's so easy to sit there and go well you look good in in practice or he looked good in spring scrimmages and that that's all fine and dandy but it's not it's not i hate to say it's not real football but it's not real football it's real football for everybody not wearing a non-contact jersey but we've seen it man like and this this isn't just you guys this is everybody i think there's there's one of two ways that this can go Tramell gets an opportunity to play and we find out why Aaron Philow won the position or Tramell gets the opportunity to play and they find out that they made the wrong choice from the jump that's the only two ways to go right um and history of football will tell us this and you don't have to look very far Ole Miss found this out last year when Austin Simmons went down they're like oh my god this Trinidad Chambliss guy wow right like I the only guy I've ever seen that actually made the decision didn't have the decision forced upon him due to injury uh was nick saban in a national championship game that's the only football coach i've ever seen thinking of when you're saying it he's the only football coach i've ever seen that's like hey we need to make a change and even that it took like 12 weeks of the dude out playing the other guy in practice over and over and over again i by the way i think tennessee's going through this right now in the middle of the season Phazon Brandon wins the shot wins the job in the regular season or in the fall camp and in the spring and then they find out oh my god he's shell-shocked oh my god he can't handle the fact that we can't block for him so let's put the other guy in and the other guy's like oh I got nothing to lose I'm gonna go in here and spin the hell up out of it I'm gonna throw it into all kinds of tight windows and I would imagine George gonna turn it over a little bit but George isn't gonna eat sacks to not get out get the ball out so like some of these things actually work to the betterment of our total outcome of our football team or it could be catastrophic I don't I don't think there's an in-between there yeah I agree I look I think the and I said I go there is a positive here you're going into this game tennis if we Tennessee Texas doesn't know what Trammell brings and we've seen that it does look a little bit different when Trammell is on the field Buster has a little more of a different arsenal how he calls the plays and if he's able to extend the expand the pocket use his feet some more get the ball out quickly then you get back to that run that you want and what Buster would love to have, which is obviously our bread and butter. So it'll be interesting. I agree with you. I feel like that's what it is. Either it gets proven or what I want is just to work out. And then he goes, oh, we've had to do it the whole time. Look, we heard it all offseason. It was close, right? I mean, I don't know if they were blowing smoke, but if it was genuinely close, here's your chance. Go prove that it was close, but not anymore. Brooks, I – That's what Jonathan and I said to each other this weekend. and I said, Philo was obviously struggling. He threw a really bad pick, and Jonathan and I looked at each other, and I said, well, I guess we're about to find out how actually close that quarterback battle was, you know? So we're going to find out one way or the other. And, look, it's a bad matchup. I think everybody's a bad matchup versus that Texas defense. It's really, really hard to run the football against those guys, really hard. So good luck. yeah a lot of people are not I mean also saying it's not fair to Tramel but look you're gonna get thrown in at some time and depending on the temperature you always don't get a choice so you're gonna have to play him in some facet get up and let's go Brooks tell me they can give you a follow man I appreciate you always tuning in hopping in with us and giving us a chat man no doubt all social media at Brooks Austin BA and over on the Film Guy Network on YouTube come join the party it's it's rocking pretty heavy right about now I love it y'all be good smash the like button peace and love baby