I need to see some fire in the belly, some unbridled passion. Get after someone, anyone, and shake up a listless program.

I need some oomph from the Florida Gators, when all they’ve shown in 18 games under coach Billy Napier is a whole lot of ooof.

“Tired of talking about it, so at this point it’s all about action, and it’s about our attitude,” Napier said earlier this week. “We can talk about all these things until we’re blue in the face. We want to see actions, and we want to see the right attitude.”

Guess where that starts? Right at the top.

A team is a direct reflection of its coach. And right now, the Gators are patiently plodding through games, week after week — with the unshakeable belief that 1 day soon, it will all click.

Watch Napier on the sidelines during games. He’s measured, he’s patient. He’s unflappable.

And that’s the problem. This sport is fueled with emotion and motivation, with energy and fear.

It’s a physical and mental war play after play, one that demands close to perfection for 4-5 seconds for any play to be successful. And when that perfection isn’t met — over and over — there must be accountability.

Ladies and gentlemen, let me show you accountability.

Alabama cornerback Terrion Arnold got an earful last week from Tide coach Nick Saban after a busted play. It was classic Saban: screaming and teaching, and coaching hard.

No one is safe from it, and — here’s the key — everyone grows from it.

Arnold was asked this week how he deals with Saban screaming at him in the middle of a game. Does he ignore it and move on to the next play, or does he take it?

“He was telling me I missed the timing of the blitz on the motion,” Arnold said. “I know y’all saw him saying, ‘How many times do I have to tell you’ — y’all know the words. When he said that, it was one of those things where you just have to not hear how he’s saying it, but hear what he’s saying.

“I feel like the relationship I have with him, he knows I can take coaching like that. It’s hard coaching. And when you choose to come here, you never know when he can chew you out. It’s like people say, you should be worried when he’s not saying something.”

Players need hard coaching. They need a coach who demands perfection, instead of one who accepts mediocrity.

We’re 18 games into Napier’s tenure at Florida, and we’ve seen what happens when he’s The Stoic One on the sidelines. He coached under Saban and Dabo Swinney, his 2 biggest coaching influences.

He knows the value of the passion and fire they show on the sidelines game after game. He saw firsthand how players deal with it, and how a majority rise and meet the challenge.

Look, football is a brutal sport. What unfolds every single play on the lines of scrimmage is unspeakable. Every play, everywhere on the field, is a fight.

When your head coach — not assistant coaches, the head coach — isn’t coaching hard in the heat of the moment and stoically stews no matter the results, a player and a team lose their edge.

It’s not every minute of every game, it’s knowing when to do it and why. It’s teaching and setting examples and motivating at the right time and in the right situation.

Arnold said he was running off the field last week, and saw the look on Saban’s face. The look no one on the Tide roster wants to see.

“I was like, dang, he looks mad. He’s fixing to give it to somebody,” Arnold said. “Then I’m like, ‘uh-oh, it’s me!’ You gotta ask questions, because you’ve got to see what he wants so you can make adjustments on the field.”

Failure is a good thing, everyone. If you don’t fail, you don’t learn.

The worst possible thing is to insulate players from failure. There’s no accountability, no growth. No ultimate success.

In football or life, insulating from failure encourages the same mistakes. Over and over and over.

A false start on 3rd-and-short. An illegal procedure on 4th-and-short.

A personal foul on an special teams play — a blatantly illegal move that presumably has been coached not to do — that negates a punt and returns the ball to the offense. A play later, a 75-yard touchdown run guts your team.

These are the ways you lose 9 of your first 18 games at the meat grinder that is Florida football, where the last coach was fired after leading the Gators to 3 New Year’s 6 bowls in 4 seasons.

These are the ways you lose to Kentucky (twice) and Vanderbilt. How you’re 1-4 vs. rivals Georgia, Florida State, Tennessee and LSU, and how — after 9 months of preparation — you play the worst game of your tenure against a team playing 2nd and 3rd-team quarterbacks.

How it’s not a given that things will get fixed Saturday against SEC tomato can Vanderbilt.

“I would like to think my standards and our standards are more demanding than anyone from the outside,” Napier said.

I’d like to see Napier show it on the field, on game day. For all to see.

And shake up a listless program.