Podcast: Predictions for the 2021 football season for the Florida Gators

GatorCountry brings you a new podcast as we give you our predictions for the 2021 football season for the Florida Gators.
Andrew Spivey and David Soderquist give you a game by game prediction for the football season for the Florida Gators.
Andrew and David look at the tough match-ups for the Gators and give you the games to watch for the Gators this coming season.
TRANSCRIPT:
David:​What’s up, folks at Gator Country? This is your boy, David Soderquist, here along with Andrew Spivey. Gearing up for Week 1 of real actual college football this time in the SEC. A huge slate of games comes to you this Saturday, as Florida gears up to face the fighting Willy Taggarts of FAU in the Swamp. Today we’ll be doing a little season preview here for you folks before we officially are in game week, where we will preview FAU on next week’s episode. We might get a little bit into it today. Andrew, before we start this season preview, there’s some injury news on the cusp of Week 1. Would you like to go ahead and just give us the 411 real quick on that?
Andrew:​Kamar Wilcoxson looks like he’ll miss a good amount of time. Down with a meniscus tear. Probably the second biggest injury, the second most significant injury of the fall with Kamar going down and Jaydon Hill going down before with a torn ACL. Two big injuries out of fall camp. We’ll see how long it keeps Kamar out. Some are saying six weeks. Some are saying eight weeks. I don’t want to say it was a successful fall that only two guys got hurt, because that’s downgrading those two guys, but a successful fall in that you didn’t have a lot of injuries, and that’s a good thing. That’s what you want out of all camp. It was good.
There’s several small injuries. Jaydon Hill’s dealing with the famous high ankle sprain. We know how that is. That could be two weeks, six weeks, twelve weeks, two years. Then Daquan Newkirk, some are saying it’s a growing injury. Some are saying it’s a little bit of a hamstring injury. Both of those guys are probably questionable for the FAU game, at best. It’s FAU.
David:​Right. I was telling fans on Twitter. It’s like, don’t worry. We’re against FAU, Willy Taggart, and a quarterback that’s throwing for 52% for his career. I think if Florida struggles in that game I’m going to be really optimistic about what the rest of the year is going to look like, if that happens. It’s nothing to worry about really, especially this early in the season. I would say if Daquan Newkirk’s injury isn’t as extensive as reported I would say you rest him and get him ready for Week 3 against Alabama. I just don’t think it’s time to start worrying all of a sudden. Hopefully Kamar Wilcoxson will be good by that LSU game.
Andrew:​With Newkirk, you worry about him, because of his injuries in the past. That was always the thing at Auburn was he was always had a nagging injury that bothered him. If he’s not fully healthy, don’t risk in Game 1, potentially have something tear or something else, and then you’re looking at three, four, five, six weeks down the road. You don’t want that to happen. You need Daquan Newkirk against Alabama in the Swamp.
David:​Right. You think we see big meat Game 1 then, Desmond Watson.
Andrew:​I think so. I think so. That new three game rule for the redshirts helps Desmond. The way I look at it is this. Des has Game 1 and Game 2 to show everybody in the world that even though he’s 30, 40 pounds over what Dan Mullen wants him to be, he can still be effective in a game.
David:​Right.
Andrew:​If Des goes out there and wreaks havoc in Game 1 and Game 2, the redshirt rule won’t matter to Des. If Des goes out there and looks slow in Game 1 and Game 2, rule will matter for Des, and he’ll be on a redshirt rule losing weight the next six, seven, eight weeks.
David:​From all the videos I have seen of Desmond Watson, he does move really quick for his size.