Billy Napier Reacts to 41-17 Miami Loss | Florida Gators Football

give Miami credit um had a good football team they beat us today um and I don't have a ton of excuses you know I think we struggled to produce any running game outside of one explosive um you know obviously didn't create a ton of explosives and then obviously we had a key a couple key penalties then defensively outside of third down didn't do much I do think there were a few bright spots in the kicking game but overall Miami outplayed us they out coached us and um give them the credit I do think there are things that we can do better there's no question there were mistakes made um yeah I mean it's embarrassing to be quite honest with you you know that's how I feel that's how our kids feel um we've got a decision to make you know I me I think we have um it's what I just told them you know there's no excuses keep our mouth shut show up and work and um we had to do better and just keep it simple that's how I feel and I do think that our players will show up and they will respond where do you think the struggles on defense kind of began obviously cam W is tremendous yeah know obviously a good player I do think that uh in the first half in particular we've got a couple opportunities to get off the field the two roughing were critical um yeah and I think there's some Miss tackles I think there's a couple mental errors um but give them some credit I mean I think they were efficient throughout the day they did a good job of conversion Downs they scored touchdowns in the red area and they had some balance you know I think they have able to rush it and throw it so I'll I'll be able to tell you more but statistically um you know they were very successful throughout the day I strongly that we would perform better you know but I'm not here to to uh make excuses you know we got to get it fixed we're going to get another opportunity next week and we've got to play better and Coach better so um we got to give Miami some credit you know I mean they've got a good football team um yeah I mean I think they did they had a handful of wrinkles that were new there's no question about that but overall um you know I think the game comes down to fundamentals it comes down to good communication good execution um and at times out there we did not do that you know so um yeah I I was surprised and I do think that we have better football in us I think that's the message and I think our players feel that way you know I think um we got a lot of football ahead of us you know I think ultimately we'll prove over time that we can play better than that I really believe that we'll have to do that next week

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