SEC GAME THREAD: (1) Tennessee at (3) Georgia, Saturday at 3:30pm on CBS

1:09 - 3rd) Jack Podlesny kickoff for 65 yds for a touchback

 

• 2nd & 6 at TENN 29
  (0:50 - 3rd) Hendon Hooker pass complete to Jalin Hyatt for 15 yds to the Tenn 44 for a 1ST down
  
  
• 1st & 10 at TENN 25
  (1:09 - 3rd) Hendon Hooker pass complete to Bru McCoy for 4 yds to the Tenn 29
  

 

• 1st & 10 at TENN 44
  (0:29 - 3rd) Jaylen Wright run for a loss of 7 yards to the Tenn 37 Jaylen Wright fumbled, forced by Jalen Carter, recovered by Geo Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins
  

 

• 1st & 10 at TENN 37
  (0:29 - 3rd) Branson Robinson run for 3 yds to the Tenn 34 Branson Robinson fumbled, forced by Trevon Flowers, recovered by Tenn Bryson Eason
  

 

players and we had plenty of opportunities today to do what we needed to do.
Q. Just how difficult is it to manage and piece together --
COACH FISHER: It can be that way from a communications standpoint, just because finally we were
going to get the same line for a couple of games. And then Kam [Dewberry] gets it. He got it at the end
of the week. It was towards the end of the week when he got it, really started feeling bad.
But Mark [Nabou] came in and did some really nice things. Another good chance for a young freshman
to play. He's going to be a really good player, too. It is what it is.
Q. Jimbo, how tough was it second half, you could have got the ball, could have extended the
game. You always talk about last possession, first half versus second half.
COACH FISHER: It was disappointing. We got that drive in the first half. Went right down and got it.
Come out, we had a boot play. And they changed the coverage and doubled it and slipped and could
have made it so it wasn't there. Maybe could have gotten a couple on the scramble.
But felt good about the runs we had, come back, and got a yard. Then got a third and nine and they
got pressure. They could rush the pass. One thing they could do is rush, And they got some pressure
on us.
We had the third and longs. First half, we kept them more four and mediums to get the ball out quicker
and do some different things. And we missed a blitz on the second one that we didn't pick up. It was
disappointing.
We felt good about the adjustments, felt good what we were doing. And we still feel like the things are
there. We just got to look and see why they weren't, what we did do wrong exactly.
A couple of runs. There was a kick we didn't get a down block on, a seal we've been running the first
half really well. Just got to look and see where it was.
Felt really good about it. Guys were in good place. What we were doing, thought we had a good plan
coming back out. Got to execute and coach it better.
Q. Could you feel the momentum shifting their way late in the third quarter?
COACH FISHER: They did because they started getting control of the line of scrimmage a little bit.
Being able to run the ball on offense and us not being able to do it. Putting your line in a tough situation
because then you get in the dropback game. I don't care who it is, that's hard to do.
Evan [Stewart] and Moose [Muhammad] caught some really nice balls, I thought.

 

42, Max [Wright] did a really nice job. Caught some really nice balls. Like I say, you want to get it to a
chain as much as you humanly can, but go from there.
Q. So Moose [Muhammad] and Evan [Stewart], as you just mentioned, were the only two wide
receivers to catch a pass today. Was that part of the game plan, or was that just something that
kind of went down?
COACH FISHER: No, just the way it happened. Went down by the coverages or where it went to. We
had balls called to other guys that could have went to other places.
Tight end caught a bunch, didn't he? How many completes did he have? 23? 24? Could have been
more than that then. Who else caught balls then? Max [Wright] caught five.
ALAN CANNON: Devon [Achane], three.
COACH FISHER: Devon [Achane], use him. We always try to him in the pass game. We had balls
called to the other guys, just didn't get there. Or reads took us backside, depending on how they played
coverage.
Q. Coach, I know you're probably going to have to go back and look at it to get a true sense.
But how would you evaluate just your impressions of the offensive line, especially with
shuffling so many people once again?
COACH FISHER: I thought we did some real nice things, moved the football. We had 400 yards. We
had 300 in the first half, if I'm not mistaken, in the drives we had. Had good balance and runs and had
some guys nicked and knacked. But the line is getting better and better each week.
I don't care who you are as an offensive line -- and we've got to execute on offense or whether we
didn't get the run or why, we get in those third-down situations, quarterbacks are getting hit a lot, that's
a hard -- I don't care who it is, pure pass situations, you've got to get the ball down the field, that can
be very tough.
Q. When dealing with a mobile quarterback and some of the struggles y'all have had, do you
feel like it's more schematic or more just in the players not --
COACH FISHER: Well, I have to look and see what it was this week. Last week we had a couple of
guys that just got out of position or got their eyes in bad places and what we were trying to do. We'll
look here and see.
Some of it was on the run game, though. They had some of the run game, the quarterback run game,
I believe, come out early on in the first half some

 

Scrambles, one big scramble I know that we had him and we lost contain -- there's one I think he scrambled and then he flipped the ball. We had that big stop right there, and he was able to make that.

And we got out of the pocket. Then the guy had to come off the guy to make the tackle, and he got the flip play. I thought it was a big play in the game, big momentum play in the game going down there.

We'll look and see. I can't answer that right now, but we've got to be disciplined in what we're doing and how we do.

Q. And Yulkeith [Brown] and Chase Lane, are those injuries or sickness?
COACH FISHER: Yulkeith is out for a while. He won't be with us for a while, will be unavailable. But Chase is an injury. He was banged. You saw he didn't come back in the second half of that game. I think Adarious [Jones] was out. LT [Overton] was out. ALAN CANNON: Jardin Gilbert.

COACH FISHER: Jardin Gilbert was out.

Q. And Yulkeith [Brown] is injury?
COACH FISHER: No. No, Yulkeith is not injury. But the others are. The others are all injury. And hopefully we'll get them back. I mean, it was just a string of that, plus, and then the flu hit and lost some other guys. So it didn't matter. We still had a chance.

 

QUESTIONS FOR LAYDEN ROBINSON AND EDGERRIN COOPER
Q. From a player's perspective, what was this week like? How many people were in and out of
practice with sickness and how did you all know who was going to be able to play?

LAYDEN ROBINSON: This week I feel like practice was pretty good. We had up energy. We was practicing the tempo really well. Some people we didn't find out wasn't going to play until literally the end of probably like the Thursday before Friday. So that's how that came along. But this week was really good in practice. I felt the energy. We had very competitive days against our defense. Because we start going against our defense at the beginning of practice now so we can get that fast tempo going. So I feel like that was positive for us.

Q. Layden, with two different style of quarterbacks in Haynes [King] and Conner [Weigman],
how difficult is it for you to go through the process of knowing what they're going to be doing on the offense, especially if you don't know if one is going to be playing before the game?

LAYDEN ROBINSON: You know, we really don't -- as an offensive line, you really don't pay attention to the style of quarterback you have. The thing about it is, you have to block for your quarterback.
That's the thing. That's your job. You have to block for the quarterback. You have to protect the quarterback so that he can get his job done.

Q. Layden, in terms of the success you all had as an offense in the first half versus the struggles in the second half, was it something that Florida did differently defensively? Or was it as simple
as getting behind the sticks?

LAYDEN ROBINSON: I believe both. I believe they came out of the half with something different and that we was just shooting ourself in the foot at so called making MAs, making mistakes, not bumping off some stuff in the run game. We had some plays that really could have hit for big yardage, but we just didn't execute the blocks or something happened, you know.

Q. Layden, I think I asked you last week about the disappointment. I'm sure it just continues to
build, but can you talk about just how you guys are able to keep your chins up, even though things aren't going your way right now?

LAYDEN ROBINSON: You keep your chins up by just the pride of yourself, you know? As a person, a face, of battles that you're going through. You know you're going through tough times right now. You never fold during tough times because that means you're a week-minded person. And I feel like this team is not a weak-minded team at all. That's why we keep fighting every single time we face adversity. I feel like that's the reason why we keep our heads up.