When Tim Tebow speaks, Gator Nation listens.

Apparently, Will Muschamp does, too.

Following Florida’s embarrassing home loss to Missouri a few weeks ago, Tebow made an appearance on a Jacksonville, Fla. radio station and attempted to evaluate some of the Gators’ biggest issues.

“One of the biggest problems on the offense is the lack of leadership,” Tebow said. “I don’t think that the offense has an identity right now, and I don’t think they know what they want their identity to be.”

Nearly two weeks later, the Gators dominated the Georgia Bulldogs thanks to a punishing run game in which the Gators racked up 418 rushing yards. In his post-game press conference, Muschamp addressed the lack of leadership criticisms, although he did not refer to Tebow’s comments directly.

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“Don’t mistake leadership and effort for production. [Senior center] Max Garcia is one of the best leaders as a football coach that I’ve ever been around,” Muschamp said. “We have good leadership on our team.”

“When you don’t have production, the easiest thing for everyone to say is ‘Well, they don’t play hard. They don’t play like they used to play or they don’t have any leadership.’ Well that’s not true,” Muschamp added in defense of his players. “We got to have production. We had some production tonight. We got a bunch of great leaders in [the locker room] that played really hard. So don’t get those things confused.”

Saturday’s performance against the Bulldogs harkened back to the 2012 Florida Gators, a team idenitfied by a strong defense and physical run game. With true freshman Treon Harris at quarterback making his first collegiate start, the Gators stuck to an ultra-conservative game plan. Harris only attempted six passes all game and the Gators rushed 60 times.

The plan worked as the Gators gashed the middle of Georgia’s run defense and averaged seven yards per carry.

Coming into the season, the hiring of Kurt Roper as offensive coordinator was expected to bring an up-tempo offense with more big plays, especially in the passing game.

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But according to Muschamp, the identity of this team and its offense never changed.

“We’ve run the ball pretty well in some situations. We have got to continue to develop in throwing game,” Muschamp said. “We have always in my opinion been a blue-collar identity team, identity offense.”

Rather than a lack of identiy or leadership on the offensive side of the football, Muschamp attributed the offensive struggles more toward a lack of confidence.

“I think a lot of our issues have been confidence. We needed to have some success and we were able to do that [against Georgia].”

Muschamp’s will prepare to take his blue-collar offense on the road again as the Gators travel to Vanderbilt this weekend.