After losing to Georgia 36-17, Florida WR Freddie Swain calls Gators better team
Players are supposed to believe in their team. When they don’t, play on the field usually suffers to the point it is hard to watch. But when believing in your team gets in the way of good sportsmanship, it’s also a bad look.
WR Freddie Swain was one of the Florida players to speak to the media after No. 7 Georgia beat No. 9 UF 36-17 in Jacksonville. Despite the fact that UGA had the clearly superior passing attack, ground game and defense on Saturday, Swain told reporters he believed that the better team did not win.
Florida wide receiver Freddie Swain: “I don’t think the better team won today. The execution part is what gave (Georgia) the lead and the
momentum.”— Brandon Sudge (@brandonsudge) October 28, 2018
While it is fair to say that Florida had uncharacteristically poor execution in the game, Georgia still deserves proper credit for taking advantage of miscues and making more big plays in the game. The Bulldogs were clearly the better team on Saturday and deserving of the victory.
By all accounts, Swain represents Florida well and is well-thought-of by teammates, coaches and the media. The above postgame quote, however, comes off as poor sportsmanship.
What do you expect? Gators are trash. Fans and players.
GATORS WEAR JEAN SHORTS!!!
Wow, that’s hateful.
It’s true…
Just looking at the game with no preference for either side, UF looked like the better team most of the game. It honestly just looked like they beat themselves for 5/6 plays.
Go back to the kids table and await Fat Phil’s eventual backstabbing of Pruitt sometime next year, Orange Turd.
Corch – i guess nobody can have an opinion but you unless they agree with you. Do you ever have a comment for your opponents that isn’t full of degrading insults.
You’re confused. The orange turd’s in the White House. Though Gators do suck….
Georgia looked the better team against LSU. They just missed 3 different touchdown passes on 3 different drives. Doesn’t change the fact they lost, does it?
UGA lead for the entire game except for 3 minutes of game clock. Florida had some offensive success, but UGA outscored Florida 23-3 after the gator’s final TD. Florida did not look like the better team.
So the team with 275 total yards on offense and 3 turnovers looked better than the team with 429 yards and 0 turnovers! I will admit that UF has a better D-Line than UGA but that’s it! UGAs QB, WR, and Secondary was better than UFs O-Line and Linebackers were a push IMO.
Yeah, but you’re not the better team if you can’t sustain that for 60 minutes.
Truevol…..I just finished watching the game over again for about the 10th time. I’m sorry BUT YOU ARE A LIAR!!!!! If we were in person I would call you a LIAR TO YOUR FACE!!!!! Exactly what part of the game made UF the better team???
Was it the SO-CALLED GOAL LINE STAND THEY MADE??? I say SOCALLED because we did score it just wasn’t counted. Secondly, Florida was offside on half the snaps and never called!!!! I mean lined up offside to!!!!! Lastly it was CHANEY and his dominate goal line calling that helped florida look so great!!!!! Well he is YOUR PROBLEM NOW!!!!
Truth is that IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WORSE LIKE THE 42-7 BEATING WE GAVE THEM THE YEAR BEFORE!!!!!
Now I know that you vol fans are upset that the Richt era of losing to you when we were better IS OVER!!!!!
But learn to live with it!!!!
Florida has been afraid to take that game out of THE GATOR BOWL IN FLORIDA ever since it was first proposed!!!!
Florida has had home field advantage since I’ve been alive!!!!! Don’t give me that neutral field garbage either!!!! Because their is nothing neutral about it!!!!!
They might as well play the game in the swamp!!!! Just split the tickets up and it would be exactly the same!!!!
Georgia has played bad in Jacksonville for longer than I want to remember!!!!!
Certain teams play badly certain places!!!!! The jinxed mentality is VERY REAL!!!
It took a lot of GREAT PLAYERS AND COACHING TO BREAK THAT MINDSET!!!!!
I CANT COUNT THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT UGA WAS THE BETTER TEAM BUT STILL LOST TO FLORIDA BECAUSE OF OVERALL BAD PLAY OR FUMBLES, YOU NAME IT!!!!!
It didn’t matter how good we were going into the games. That field always brought the worst out!!! But somehow we still lead the overall series!!!
Either way. The truth is YOU ARE JUST A LIAR!!!
Your mad just like florida is. Why? BECAUSE UGA NOW HAS MORE 5 STAR PLAYERS THAN ANYONE!!!!
For the last 3 years straight. UGA has recruited as many OR MORE 4 and 5 STAR BLUE CHIP PLAYERS THAN THE ENTIRE SEC EAST COMBINED!!!!!!
That’s right vandy, Florida, Tennessee, Missouri,Kentucky and anyone I forgot. Put them ALL together and UGA still recruited more blue chip players than all combined. NOT JUST ONCE EITHER!!! For 3 STRAIGHT SEASONS and I’m pretty sure that 2019 makes 4 YEARS STRAIGHT ACTUALLY!!!!
I bet it’s real close either way!!!!! But any way you look at it.
UGA has been burying FLORIDA and TENNESSEE and all the rest of the east in recruiting including 2019!!! So that is why your mad!!!!!
RECRUITING SAYS THAT UGA IS BY FAR THE BETTER TEAM!!! Not to mention RESULTS ON THE FIELD!!!!!
2 STRAIGHT BLOWOUTS!!!!! No preference for either side??? WHAT A LIE FROM A LIAR!!!!!!!
It’s just that florida and TENNESSEE were both considered DUMPSTER FIRE PROGRAMS UNTIL THIS PAST YEAR WHEN THE GATORS CAME BACK A LITTLE!!!!
I predicted the gators would be much better!!! The 11 suspended players were back and they had a room full of UPPERCLASSMEN!!!!! Florida was not as bad as their record. They just have NO CLASS as a program!!!!!
They had a GAMBLER ON CAMPUS!!!! They had a near shootout on campus!!!!
Supposedly they painted pellet guns to look like real ones to chase the gambler off with!!!!!
Not the brightest thing to do in my opinion!!!!! The gambler was upset over something to do with FLORIDA and their performance!!!!!
HOW LONG WILL IT BE BEFORE THE GATORS START SHAVING POINTS FOR MONEY????
HOW LONG BEFORE A REAL TRAGEDY HAPPENS ON CAMPUS????????
Why do you think the best players in Florida are coming to UGA and other programs????
ITS BECAUSE THEIR FAMILY WANT THEM TO SURVIVE THEIR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE AND ALSO NOT END UP IN PRISON!!!!!
Those 11 players committed credit card fraud any way you look at it!!!!!!
But to say florida was the better team verges on INSANITY or a total LACK OF ANY KNOWLEDGE OF FOOTBALL OR RECRUITING WHATSOEVER!!!!!!
Truevol are you an adult????? Male or female??? I’m just trying to understand how you could make such a STUPID STATEMENT!!!!!
Fact is florida LOSES the core of their team this year and will be REBUILDING AS IS TENNESSEE!!!!
Tennessee has been rebuilding every year since the great flood!!!!
UGA is primed and ready to again be a true contender for a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!
If people want to hop on the Trevor Lawrence train with CLEMSON go right ahead!!!!
CLEMSON loses an entire NFL FRONT 7!!!!! If people think that’s not going to Hurt them again I say INSANE!!!!! Lots of teams can score points. But you have to be able to stop someone sometimes to. Otherwise you’ll lose eventually every time!!!!!
CLEMSON stole the UGA DEFENSIVE GAME PLAN and stopped Tua just as UGA did!!!!!
Bama had no answer on defense and nothing left in the tank in my opinion. UGA and OU exhausted them!!!!
I told everyone that bama would SLOWLY WILT WITHOUT KIRBY SMART!!!!!!
I still believe it to!!!
Recruits still go to bama based on NAME ALONE!!!! But just wait until bama misses the playoffs for the first time, maybe in 2019 even!!!
As soon as that happens recruits will start to question just how good Nick Saban really is? They will see as I do that he has ALWAYS HAD A GREAT STAFF BEHIND HIM WITH EVERY NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!
MAINLY KIRBY SMART!!!!!! He is the one who really built the bama dynasty!!!!
Now if people want to DEBATE WHO IS BETTER BETWEEN UGA AND BAMA GO RIGHT AHEAD. BUT PLEASE LEAVE THE FLORIDA GARBAGE OUT OF IT!!!!
There is NO DEBATE!!!!! UGA IS FAR SUPERIOR TO FLORIDA!!!!! I’m saying it right now. I AM NOT LOOKING FOR THIS TO HAPPEN. BUT IF AND I MEAN IF FLORIDA GETS LUCKY AND WINS NEXT YEAR. I WILL STILL SAY UGA IS THE BETTER TEAM BASED UPON RECRUITING ALONE!!!! I will say EVEN A BLIND SQUIRREL FINDS A NUT EVERY NOW AND THEN!!!
MULLEN CONVINCED THOSE KIDS THEY WERE BETTER THAN UGA!!!! Then when UGA again STOMPED THEM IN THE DIRT!!!! Well hey they have to say something!!! AFTER ALL THEY ARE STILL THE FLORIDA GATORS. What are GATORS BEST KNOWN FOR???
Answer…..SITTING AROUND WITH THEIR MOUTH WIDE OPEN!!! They do it when they are babies to!!!! Plus they are BEGGING FOR SCRAPS!!!!
Go count the 4 and 5 star players on florida and then count the same on UGA. FEEL FREE TO INCLUDE 2019 since florida had a top 10 class. Don’t leave off the 2nd ranked UGA 2019 class!!! Then give Dominic Blaylock his 5th star back that he SOMEHOW LOST BY SCORING 2 TDS IN A ALL-STAR GAME. Then give T STEVENSON his 5th star that he earned according to 247 and their final ranking that was not counted for some reason??? Anyway those are also 5 STAR PLAYERS!!!!
Go count blue chip recruits on each roster. Then come back and admit your comment was CRAZY!!!! Otherwise stick to your folly if you like. UGA IS COMING IN 2019!!!! THEY WILL BE OUT FOR BLOOD!!!!!
PS. ENJOY YOUR REBUILD!!!!
KING NEGAN
Negan your only saying that because it’s true!!! LOL
Swain is an idiot for saying something so stupid. What’s your excuse?
If it’s the girls that is a good thing!!!!! LOL
Execution huh? If UGA executed at their best, this game would have been 44-17. Be thankful, Swain, that we aren’t talking about an even bigger thumping than we already are
I know! I love the comments that basically say everything Florida accomplished is because of their execution, not UGA missing something, but everything UGA did is because of Florida beating themselves, but because UGA was clearly the better team.
Yall are only saying that because ITS TRUE!!!!!
Go dawgs!!!!
KING NEGAN
Whelp, the team that executes better is the better team, so thanks for the contradictory point, chump.
Yep! That makes it two years in a row. Florida is a better team.
Kirby just keeps beating Florida? How does that happen?
Isn’t the definition of the better team the one who executes better than the other one?
Not to mention. These same UGA PLAYERS have been out performing these university of Florida players and executing better SINCE HIGH SCHOOL!!! Considering 3 or 4 years straight now including the 2019 class. UGA has recruited more 4 and 5 star players THAN THE ENTIRE SEC EAST COMBINED!!! But florida is still better!!!! Why???
I GUESS BECAUSE THEY SAY SO!!!!!
The year before they were saying. ” GEORGIA IS NOT A TEAM WE LOSE TO. ”
” They (georgia) can’t beat florida. ” 42-7 Enough said. THEY DO THEIR TALKING IN THE MEDIA!!!!
UGA DOES THEIR TALKING ON THE FIELD!!!!! Florida hasn’t woken up yet to realize ITS A NEW DAY IN ATHENS!!!!!
When UGA WINS the national championship in 2019 or soon after. Will they stop talking then???? HONESTLY I DOUBT IT!!! But you know it’s eating them up inside!!!!! LOL
KING NEGAN
Whether UGA wins 36-17 or 42-7, Florida players will evidently always think they’re better.
Some of Florida’s players admitted that they didn’t try very hard at practice during the week. They were over-confident and lazy, and the players said that translated into poor effort on the field. The better team is the one that is sufficiently disciplined to put the work in at practice. The better team is the one that has the coaching staff that can make sure the players put that work in. Is Florida talented? Sure. But tslent without hard work doesn’t amount to much. Bowling is still in his first year, so he hasn’t had a lot of time to get the culture turned around. I’m sure he will though, and the Gators will be a much more dangerous team when he accomplishes that turn around.
Mullen is in his first year, that is. Durn autocorrect.
Im quite pleased that every year UF players get cocky and lazy as their UGA game prep style. Keep thinking youre the better team Gators. We learned last game what that gets you at the end of a game against a talented and prepared team. Hopefully, Gators will continue to be slow learners.
Kansas may have the best team in the country, if only they would execute . . .
Hey they do have a good coach now. Personally I like Les Miles. I think he is a better coach than Coach O any day!!!
Whelp last year they didn’t have all their players and now it’s we made too many errors; come on guys you got whipped and that about sums it up. Enough with all the excuses please we’re tired of hearing them and until next year.
By his logic, LSU is the better team that just happened to lose to Florida. LSU’s poor execution is what gave Florida the lead & momentum. Don’t you agree UF fans?
UGA looked Sergio and beat them by 3 scores. Couldn’t tackle, couldn’t block, couldn’t manage clock, bad play calling, only 10pts off 3 turnovers and still managed to outgain them easily on offense and beat them by 4 scores. “Florida didn’t execute”. Does he think UGA did? How does he think teams win and lose games? What if UGA didn’t screw up and “executed”? They win by 40 instead of 19?
Sergio lol….”sorry”
I like it, and I think it could catch on. “Man, we were completely Sergio today!”
The Dawgs have taken 5 of the last 8 in this series, and outscored the Gators 78-24 in the last two. The two-decade Florida assumption that they own this matchup is now down to fantasizing about moral victories – and it’s a beautiful thing to see.
AMEN!!!!!
I agree completely with Freddie and I don’t think of it as poor sportsmanship. Even the announcers were saying that if you just looked at the play on the field without the score Florida was playing better. I do recall a 6 play drive that started at the Florida 1 and resulted in -1 yards and field goal. That being said UGA took what we gave them (gift wrap turn overs) and capitalized. My boys played great on Saturday and every UGA pooped themselves a little bit when we took the lead (for about a minute) in the second half. The Gators got in their own way on Saturday. The only reason why UGA fans don’t like this is because it’s true and UGA and Florida aren’t as far apart as they were last year.
I will say that the UGA O-line did play better than expected. Also the 4th quarter was clearly all UGA.
We are not a playoff team for sure, but UGA is not either.
Post your trash below.
You are a Champion of Life!! Maybe you can be a quality control coach at Bama like Butch Jones. UF won two statistical categories on Saturday. Total Punting Yards, 199-172, and Tackles for Loss, 5-3. Let’s see now. UGA won Total Yards, Passing Yards, Rushing Yards, Special Teams Points, Time of Possession, 1st downs, 3rd down conversions (Third and Grantham, best thing for Fromm all year), and turnovers. Oh yeah, and the scoreboard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Delusion is not a good look, but whatever helps you get through the day, bud.