Florida Gators wide receiver Chimere Dike said it best after Saturday's 34-20 loss to No. 2 Georgia.

“There are no moral victories. We’re at the University of Florida,” he said.

However, his full citation describes the entire history of Jacksonville.

“There are no moral victories. We're at the University of Florida. We're not saying that, but I think this team is taking steps in the right direction. We can kind of be proud of that and move forward with it,” he said.

I firmly believe that there are no moral victories in football. You either win games or you lose games. However, that doesn't mean there aren't certain lessons to be learned from a loss like Saturday's loss to Georgia, and it's clear that the team that played Saturday isn't the same one that started the year.

For one thing, it wasn't a stereotypical Billy Napier loss. There were no massive coaching errors, Florida had all 11 players on special teams, the offense in the red zone (when they were able to get down there) wasn't terrible. Some might even argue that it was one of Napier's best-coached games of his time in charge.

Florida led the nation's No. 2 team at halftime, forced three interceptions and even tied the game in the fourth quarter. Now consider how the Gators, who have struggled in recent weeks despite a poor start to the season, did so without the following players, who either missed the entire game or were injured at some point on Saturday:

Not to mention, here are some players Florida was without for almost the entire season who were expected to make significant contributions:

Injuries happen. It's football. Strength and conditioning are to blame. Guilt coaching. Blame it on the field at EverBank Stadium (I'm praying the upcoming $1.4 billion renovation to make the stadium the “stadium of the future” includes new turf…). Again, injuries occur in a violent sport.

In the face of all this, Florida struggled. It was a fight not present since Napier's first game, a 29-26 win over Utah, then ranked in the top 10.

Remember, this is also the same season in which the team looked like it gave up against Miami and Texas A&M, struggled against one of the worst teams in the country in Mississippi State, and made costly blunders against Tennessee.

It wasn't pretty, but despite all the odds, the team fought bravely. After the game, Napier gave one of his most passionate and honest quotes about his team's fight:

“I think we have really impressive kids. I think we have some incredible people on our team. We won't allow ourselves to be distracted. We don't have a single guy who is non-compliant. We don't have any problems with discipline. We have a group.” that comes on time; I think the leaders on our team have done a great job of holding people accountable.

“Ultimately, when it starts to click and you start playing on a level playing field with some of the better teams, you start to believe. For the first time since I've been head coach here, we showed up and believed we could beat this team.”

They believed. They believed before the game when everything seemed fine. They believed during the game when injuries occurred faster than first downs. They believed even after the game, as “what ifs” echoed across social media and in the stands.

However, faith only goes so far. Faith doesn't automatically give your team a win. At the end of the day, Florida simply lost. And the losses have become far too normal in a program with expectations of conference and national championships.

Now there has been much debate about what Saturday means for Napier's tenure as head coach. Honestly, both sides of the argument have good points.

Pro-Napiers see a team playing for a head coach, a much-improved defense, an unfair situation with two starting quarterbacks missing and an inexperienced quarterback situation remaining. They're looking at narrow losses to the top ten programs outside of The Swamp, where a game or two (or an injury or two) could mean a 6-2 Florida exit from Jacksonville.

Injuries are not Napier's fault, especially contact injuries on unusual plays involving quarterbacks. Give Napier time while Lagway leads his offense.

Valid points.

The Anti-Napiers have a 15-18 record in nearly three seasons, just one win against rivals in three seasons, the aforementioned questionable coaching decisions, a seemingly poor recruiting class, and possibly the third straight season of Napier losing.

They also question whether Napier even deserves a chance to turn things around after what has been a miserable tenure on the pitch so far.

Valid points too.

I'm not here to influence myself one way or the other if Napier goes. I wrote down my thoughts on this topic after the loss to Texas A&M, and honestly, the team has improved a lot since then. This team with a healthy Mertz and Lagway has probably beaten the Aggies now. Nevertheless, this game goes down in the books as a defeat and remains arguably one of the most questionable defeats of Napier's tenure.

Despite reports of an informal Board of Trustees meeting, rumors of opt-outs or violations on social media and nationwide calls for Florida to leave, Napier remains.

We thank Napier and the Gators for staying the course. We thank Napier and the Gators for ignoring the outside noise, the boos in the Swamp and the cries for a new coach. They played their best football since the loss to the Aggies.

Still, the performances weren't perfect and the losses to Tennessee and Georgia were winnable.

There's also no guarantee that Florida would have won had DJ Lagway not injured his Achilles tendon in the second quarter, but the impact it had is beyond question. There's no guarantee that the Gator defense would have been able to shut down Carson Beck and the Georgia offense in all four quarters had they not lost three corners, but they had done it without those guys for three quarters.

Who knows what would have happened if Florida had had even three of the men it was missing?

Hindsight is always 20-20. Think about what if the results didn't change. That includes Saturday's game and a decision by the University of Florida about Napier's future. Time will only tell. Lagway's injury may have given him another season, but missing a bowl game due to Lagway's injury could cost him his job.

But time will tell, and with four games left, Florida will need every bit of fight it showed against Georgia, and perhaps some luck, to have a chance at success the rest of the way .