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Everything Jon Sumrall said at Florida football's recent press talk

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Florida football head coach Jon Sumrall spoke with the sports media on Tuesday. Here's everything he said during that half-hour talk.

Florida football's spring practice is nearing a close, with the Orange and Blue Game coming up on Saturday. The annual intrasquad exhibition is the final salvo of an offseason schedule that includes 15 total workouts. On Tuesday, following the Gators' 13th practice of the season, nascent head coach Jon Sumrall held a press conference to discuss the program's status as well as other items of interest.

Among the topics were observations from recent practices, the philosophy of penalties, the status of the O- and D-lines, the new blind transfer rule, offensive line coach Phil Trautwein, and several more. Sumrall spoke for the full 30 minutes of the conference. Take a look below at an abridged transcription of what he said on Tuesday.

Jon Sumrall's opening statement "All right, practice 13 today. Went indoors — wasn't like we couldn't go outside, but they didn't want to be slipping and falling on the grass. There would be a time and a place to work, plenty of wetball — you know, weather-type practices — but with only getting 15 in the spring, I really wanted to take the time to make sure we were intentional about the work we got and not waste a whole lot of reps slipping and sliding.

"We're still very much at a foundational stage of installing, just base things, kind of recalibrating and kind of getting back to the ground level of some things this week as we close so that we can really have an idea of what we can build around and who we're going to be to some degree, it's really early. "But all in all, some good work today, a lot of different situational stuff at the end, that y'all weren't out there for, but a red zone period, two minute situational period where you're going to be thrust into action for his fast field goal or Toro field goal up, and when can we clock it and all this sort of things. " "But guys have been working hard.

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