Comments from the Gator staff and players on the game....

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Senior guard Carl Johnson was at a loss for words. “I don’t know what I’m feeling right now,” he said. “You fight so hard to come back, just to lose. I’d rather just get blown out and not have a chance than to be so close and have somebody hold you back from the finish line. But hey, it’s SEC ball. I signed up for this.”

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Gators coaches and players alike pointed to LSU’s blitzing defense as a key to the Tigers’ win. “They were blitzing their tails off,” Meyer said.

“They really pressured us the whole game.” “Based on film, they weren’t really a heavy blitz team,” Johnson said. “But today they came out blitzing on almost every snap, and we had to adjust.

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Gators quarterback John Brantley said he was impressed with the LSU defense. “That was a really good defense,” he said. “They blitzed us a lot and really gave us a lot of problems.”

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