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Florida State V Georgia Tech Review Part 2/3
A quick reading of notes upon review. Part 2 of 3.
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you all welcome on in to the no cast, this is part two of three of our review episode. Graham and I are six hours part or five or whatever Ireland is. So we're going to be hanging out tomorrow doing part, part three of three. Here, get the likes up. Please, if you can, you need to get those likes on the video. Otherwise, not much point going live, right? I'll just kind of do it on my own time and put it out. So if you're watching, like the video. And once we get a certain number of likes, I'll kind of start talking here. I thought we were going to get the likes up a little bit more in, you know, before we went live, but not. All right, you know what, I'm just going to trust you to get the likes up. And I don't really understand. I don't know. I definitely understand. There's a lot of stuff that I have questions about after this. Then like two and a half rewatches, I guess, just. I have all 22. So I tried to batch watch, like all the runs, all the passes, you know, all the defensive runs, all the defensive passes, that kind of stuff, right? And there's some interesting stuff. I want to start a little bit bigger picture, though. And it's just rapid fire. These are just thoughts. I don't even know if I believe all these thoughts, but just things that popped into my head. As I was watching this stuff. First was a note to myself. Analyze the plays, not the result of the game. And I think this is pretty important, right? If Georgia Tech doesn't recover both of its pretty insane fumbles, you know, if Ford State doesn't have a guy drop a ball early in freshman, obviously, if they don't have a guy fall down on a wet field at times. Then we are probably sitting here as a fan base saying, all right, hey, week zero, weird stuff happens in week zero, as I noted on cover three, literally all four underdogs failed to cover and failed to cover by more than a touchdown. Like, there was just wild stuff going on in week zero, but FSU fans don't root for SMU or for, you know, Montana State or for, you know, Hawaii, right, the other teams who came out and failed to cover as, in most cases, bigger favorites than other than FSU was, they were for the Knowles. So that's what we need to focus on here. But I will note, like, this is not a result that has me freaking out. Okay, personally. All right, next note. The one downside, well, there's a couple of the transfer heavy approach that Ford State takes is that you don't really know everybody's going to mesh together when the lights come on. And the counter to that is obvious. It's that you don't really know how a bunch of players who had been in your system would mesh together when the lights come on if it's their first time starting completely agree. But if you build your team with high school recruiting and you miss on a kid, you get two bites at the apple, you can go to the transfer portal to fill that hole. If you miss on a transfer. That's it. There's no second chance. I was talking to people today and are like, it just looked like a team that hadn't played together with a lot of new pieces and those people who said that are correct. They have not played together in some instances and they do look like a team that has not played together a whole lot now that there's good and bad to that right like the good is they will play more obviously. They'll play more in practice. They'll play more in games that they do have so much more winnable games coming up and if you lose the bus college good God but I don't think that they will. But again, like I said, just kind of wanted to share some stream of consciousness stuff here. Certainly didn't play like a team, like a team, like trusting each other understanding and having the belief in each other that the other guy would do. Would do his job. I have to have to swap this up. Where are we at here? Okay, cool. Oh, boom. Look at that. So on my computer screen, I have this, this program that basically takes the whatever the sunlight's at which right now it's at zero and it kind of matches the blue light but I got late night tonight. It's probably about about a 1am shot. So I got other games. I got to watch. I still need to go back and watch Hawaii's defense to figure out what the heck they were doing. I know it sounds weird but Hawaii plays UCLA this week. That's a game on CBS so I will be seeing what they're doing. But this team did not play together. It did not seem like they trusted each other and I do think there's a chance that that improves as the year goes on. However, it's not improved right now. And just because guys are veterans does not mean that when the lights come on, when the bulls are flying that they're actually going to trust each other to be in the right spots. Alright, next stream of consciousness thought is maybe they maybe they needed this. I have thought this a little bit. I would have sensed the Georgia game. Now, that is not me saying that you know that opting out of the Georgia game like a lot of guys did was the wrong choice. I think it was the correct choice. That team was catatonic. They got totally screwed by the committee that that's that's not really the point what I'm saying is I think for Norville being on the other sideline and seeing Georgia close up. That's what we thought man. Our guys don't look like their guys right. I have thought like hey, you can win a lot of ball games through the team building approach that they take. Can you win the 14th and 15th and 16th ball game when all the teams that do it. Build it the traditional way. Now, here's the problem. What we saw in Ireland on Saturday. I know it's a week zero game. We're not trying to win the 14 to 15 ball game there. That's game one against an ACC team with a win total of four and a half that still has quite a few problems and I think probably will make a bowl because they beat you now, but they're not a team in my opinion that's going to challenge for the ACC crown. When you gave Mike Norville the contract extension. To me it came with I thought it was a really smart contract extension one because Bama was coming after I think. Number two. I do still believe that he runs a pretty high floor operation and that he knows what the heck he is doing. No coach is perfect. No coach is unable to lose ball games at times right or no coach can really avoid losses. All the time. I think for the players. I wonder if they need this too as a bit of like a hey you can't just roll the ball out and the logo on the helmet does it for you. I think about some of the guys who other big time programs wanted to poach off your roster in the off season. And they're really important players for you, but I'm not sure all of those players are the best leaders you know that team look like a good player led team. To me it did not now that may or may not be something that shows up in a scrimmage or in your practice habits because it actually is kind of hard to simulate game conditions right. We talked about this couple weeks ago coaches routinely picked the wrong guys not if she's coaches just everybody at certain really important positions like quarterback. Right. Think about it Nick Saban got the quarterback thing wrong multiple times Kyle Whittingham is going to be a Hall of Fame coach. He got it wrong multiple times but you taught lost the game because they couldn't figure out to play camera rising instead of Jake Bentley. They also like San Diego State at home. Bobby Bowden I think got the quarterback thing wrong at least twice in his career you can kind of go back and like oh wow how did you not notice that so practice is not always indicative of how a team is going to play. And in critical moments I don't know that the team had great player leadership. And I don't necessarily have great transitions here. I don't know if you guys are enjoying this approach these are just kind of things off the top of the dome that I wrote down that have either come up when I'm watching this or in the back of my mind for a little bit. I also. There's a lot of good that can come from staff continuity. But if you have some guys on your staff who are zeros in recruiting. I need those position groups to play a heck of a lot better and a heck of a lot smarter than they have been. If you're a guy who can't recruit who doesn't connect well with the crew doesn't put in a lot of effort with recruits. I thought Randy Shannon did a nice job last year finally getting Kailen Deloche to pull the pen and go. I didn't see that from those linebackers on Saturday you know that. That's a higher that Norville made. I first guessed it Florida people and Miami people laughed at the higher. And I think they're laughing pretty hard still to be honest I mean like I'm not trying to just go negative here but. Again. If you're not going to recruit well you really better have a position group that is high floor that plays smart consistently I don't know. That they have that there. Do you have some dead weight on this staff that had you not gone 13 to no. Let's say like maybe the close games last year don't go your way right. Maybe you lose to Boston College. Maybe club Nick keeps the ball and doesn't pitch it out there on that fourth down in Clemson. You know do you have a little more critical look at your staff right. Just because you got the big contract and just because you went 13 to no. Does not necessarily mean that everything you do is the right thing and I think it's important again just like I had to remind myself. Judge the plays not the result of the game because there were certainly a lot of good plays and there were certainly a lot of bad plays. That's kind of the same thing just because you're doing good numbers as a podcast doesn't mean all parts of your operation are great. The same deal applies right it's sort of the process over results thing so. I don't know if last year's record was a little bit of confirmation bias of approach and process. I think the results process overall is really good like I mean clearly. I think I had him. I definitely had him in the top 10 on coaches and had him highest of all the CBS sports people. And I wouldn't move that based on one game right. But holistically do you have the right balance of. Relationship people on your staff and coaching and do you have dead what dead weight on your staff and do you need to take a look at that. I don't know. I have my suspicions. All right more stuff here. Biggest strongest fastest. I wrote this down over the summer in my notebook and Norville had mentioned that this was probably like the strongest and fastest team. Which is provably true by their GPS numbers and by their lifting numbers. But there are some there's things he did not say. He never said best. And we pointed this out on the show at the time. He also definitely never said smartest and this team does not play smart. Like last year's team or even in some cases like 22's team. Now let's circle back to that first point. Could this be because there's a lot of new pieces playing together. I certainly think that is a part of it. Yes. Biggest strongest fastest doesn't necessarily mean the best. I remember back when I was first running Tomahawk in '09. We got so much crap for basically just going completely against the grain. When Mickey Andrews who is, you know, Hall of Fame coach or should be. You know, when he had said this is the fastest defense that ever she's ever had. And I was like, it also looks like the worst defense I've ever seen. And it was. And I didn't know it was going to be that bad. The thing is a lot of really smart people have watched this team in practice. And come away thinking like, that's a pretty decent looking team. You know, we said the offense would be kind of clunky and it was, but. I mean, Nick Saban gets on game day and says to him, it looks like a top five roster. Like if anybody knows personnel, it would be the guy who, you know, put talent acquisition and personnel over everything else consistently. Right. If Pete Thamel is talking to NFL scouts to the point where. I mean, he's not a guy who wants to throw out a bunch of hyperbole. I don't think you know, ESPN guys got a good track record as a reporter. You know, certainly no FSU, FSU bias. I don't think either for or against, you know, if he's. If he's saying that NFL scouts are telling him that this is the best defensive line in a, in the country. Period. And then he says he thinks, you know, four of them are going to be in the top 100 picks and the upcoming draft. As a reporter, that is not something that you're going to just take FSU's coaching staffs or word for it. Right. I know multiple different people who work in personnel who have been through Tallahassee. Who really like what they see too. Like it's not just some, you know, FSU media hyping to step up. But the game will certainly doesn't, you know, work for FSU. But yet again, it can be hard to predict how they're going to play in games, especially in week one. And that's not a cop out. I was wrong about the game. I had 31 20. I thought it would be a lower scoring game. But honestly, I thought that would be because of more stops, not because of the pace being quite as reduced as it was. All right, a stream of consciousness needs to end here for a second because I need to thank our friends at the legendary team. Chad does an awesome job, 844 FSU loan. They were closing in on 600 null cast loans. So that is fantastic. I've done it twice. I mean, just, it's an awesome experience. Chad's going to work and butt off for you. You know, can close to 600 null cast listeners be wrong. I don't know. I mean, I was wrong about the game. I guess they could be in theory, but I think you should call to find out because I think you're really going to enjoy the experience that you get. With Chad. All right. Did they whiff on all four of the Bama transfers? Just what I wrote down. You know, I watched Keandre and he's very limited athletically, but they have been happy with his power and the physicality. And yet, like, he didn't blow guys off the ball consistently. And Ferguson, you know, couldn't get on the field at Alabama. And there's no real shame in that one. I get it because Bama has two like really high guards like Roberts and Booker are legitimately highly rated. I get the NFL draft grades that the teams buy, both of them, and both those guys have really high grades, like the preseason stuff that the NFL, somebody leaked it to me. But I mean, none of those guys have had an impact for you. Rodel can pass pro some, but he didn't make anybody miss, right? Little doesn't seem to be acclimated to the defense yet. So, and Murphy can't get on the field at all. The transfers they took, I mean, at this point, I am left, but only to conclude that they have missed on a higher number than they had in previous years. And we said that was not a sustainable hit rate. Like, eventually, you're going to miss on one. But I do think that they were expecting more out of Ferguson, more out of Roy Dell, and more out of little. And so far, through one game, it's just one game, like they could play a heck of a lot better. I think they still have probably long term hopes for Ferguson. And Roy Dell is not bad. He just, he had a couple chances to make people miss and he went down on first contact. You know, it's not like, I think he does make the correct reads in the run game. I didn't see him miss holes, but, you know, like, several times the line blocked it up. You play running back floor state, I kind of need you to make somebody miss and, you know, get a little more out of the run. Alright, let's go and transition to offense. This might be a little bit shorter than I thought because I just have a lot of notes, but, you know, I'm just, just talking. Scroll the chat here real quick. Take a sip. Yeah, guys, I'm pretty sure that dude was in bounds for Georgia Tech. I don't, I think Danny canal was actually joking about that when he was tweeting and how the clock should have stopped. Personally, like I don't think that's a thing that's that's that I think that's a joke by Danny. Okay. Alright, do you want to tell you about our friends, Matt Lewis, who can grew it, he does an awesome job. Any of your business solutions needs, but it's payroll, HR business systems, congruity has helped a lot of no cast listener businesses. And I think it can really help you. So make sure you hit him up. Link in the show notes as well, Matt, a strong supporter of the show. Alright, let's talk offense. And again, I don't think you should be panicking about this team. Right, personally, that's not something that I would do. I don't think, I mean, there's some correctable stuff here. There's some stuff that I think they probably misevaluated about their own team in the short term. But that doesn't mean that they have to do it in a long term. And nobody's perfect, right, like the only real way to avoid ever losing games to lesser opponents is to play on a video game. The second best way is to just have an incredible talent advantage, which recruit better from the high school level. Alright, offensively, to me, that looked like a game plan that was drawn up and implemented based on what you saw for the majority of camp from the passing game, which was poor. There are a lot of reports out there that they looked better passing the ball in the final stretch of camp, which is encouraging. But if I'm Mike Norville, I'm not believing in that in game one. Personally, I don't blame Mike for not going to the passing game more. I don't think they have great trust in DJ based on the way they called it. Okay, Georgia Tech clearly didn't think they did. You know, I think that maybe over the course of the season, he could get better and get more comfortable and acclimated into the process. But right now, it seemed like they were very limited in terms of the passing menu for him. And my guess here is that Mike formed that opinion based on what the practice looked like in spring, and the majority of fall camp. Yes, it's encouraging the passing game is improving in camp. Got to continue to rep that in practice, you know, maybe after the bi-week, they opened that up some, and it just, it didn't work that they needed more for the passing game in that game. Um, Georgia Tech did not respect DJ at all. DJ is not a bad player. He's just not, like, special. You know, people had asked us, like, why didn't you draft DJ and your cover three fantasy league? I said, like, to me, he's not a top 30 quarterback, and there's only four teams in the league. We're going to draft like, you know, six or seven quarterbacks each. And I'll expect him to put up huge numbers, especially not with some of the receiver options that they do or, or don't have on the field right now. But for a state did scheme some stuff up that he just missed. And by missed, I mean, that he didn't complete or didn't see, or in some cases just. It's what you feared when you watched it. Can't those strikes, right? Cool, like, it's not a pass ball, catcher catches it, but it's not in the strike zone that would allow a player to run with the ball after the catch. Now, I need Cam Davis to catch that ball. I think Cam Davis is going to have an awesome career for a state. Look, I do. I think that kid is a total stud. Could that ball have been a little bit better to him? Probably. Yeah. I think if I have a real disappointment because I'm not surprised that DJ was inaccurate, because that's what he's been for four years, right? To me, I was a little bit disappointed about sort of where he is in the offense in terms of like taking a profit, you know, just, hey, bang, guys, 23, 24 years old, whatever he is like, can you get to it, can you get to it fast. That is something that I actually was disappointed in. But again, it is a new offense for him. We talked about this in the quarterback preview. We were not sure exactly how good he could be, mainly because of his track record. But also, if you look at most of the good quarterback transfers, most of them, they made big time jumps in year two. You know, bonix, right? Heck, I thought Jaden Daniels, I mean, I'll own it. People get me crap for it all the time. I thought Jaden Daniels was going to get beat out by Nussmeyer last year, because in 2022, Daniels was turning touchdowns in checkdowns by being late or failing to pull the trigger. There is kind of an element of if you're in an offense for two years, you are going to play a lot better. And I think a lot of this, again, comes back to the first point we made on the show. A lot of these guys are new. We will see how well they acclimate. I think that's a thing. Honestly, I do. It's a lot of new guys. They know each other's names now, but I don't know if they know each other's tendencies. I don't know if they truly know exactly what they're doing together. All right. Tied in blocking like physically, they're just not special athletes, right? Like they, that's just not like a thing. But I will say, like some of the mental stuff you would expect to be better. And like some of those guys just blowing assignments blocking wise. I don't know. Maybe it's they're not transfers though, right? Like Morlock's been there for two years. I mean, he's a transfer, but he's been an assistant for two years now. You know, Courtney's been there Jackson West. I guess he hasn't really done the practice field much because he's been hurt so much. But like Dave, at least been in the system. So you would expect the higher level of play out of that. I, my next point here. I'm sorry these aren't totally in order. Like I tried to organize and basically just by like overall stuff, offense, defense. All right. I kind of think Georgia Tech took advantage of what they believe FSU would do with a brand new quarterback and a lot of new pieces with the helmet comms. If you watch how aggressive tech plays some of these runs in second law. And I can't show you on here because it's like I don't want to get the channel new because of copyright. But I'm telling you, if you guys watch the L 22. I don't think these are actually run blitzes. But I basically think like, okay, you got your look that you're showing on defense at 22 seconds, right? Text it into the two eyeshell. FSU got their call. It's like second and nine. They clearly don't want to be in long down in distance with this receiver room. They don't think really can win in those obvious passing situations. Those tech safety are screaming downhill. And the thing is, pre snap they're showing that two shell look. Okay. I think they're kind of gaming FSU in the headset and be like, Hey, all right, you got the run look. Let's go. They're not really showing it pre snap, but as soon as FSU shows any kind of any kind of run action. And those safeties are downhill like crazy. And I don't know that FSU had enough, you know, RPO encounters off that. And repeatedly, it was like, damn, like they baited FSU into that with that pre snap look again. So I have newness in college football. There's a lot of new players on this team. But also, like the whole helmet comms is a new thing. We don't know if FSU is good, bad, middle of the road at handling the helmet comm stuff. So, how Mike uses that. Right. I mean, he said in his presser, I got to be better. He didn't really say strictly at what, but in my head I was like, man, I, I wonder if that wasn't because the pre snap looks you're getting. Not every time. But in a lot of these second and passing down situations. You do have some numbers to run at the snap, and they very quickly change after you show any kind of run action. So that was interesting. Again, this is all kind of a learning experience. I actually like that we have the 12 team playoff. I know people don't want to hear playoff talk is like to see them win. But if you're at a 14 playoff, it would completely suck to just have your season ruined on game one. I'm excited to see how this team learns and improves because I do think Mike or Belkin coach, and I do think overall, this is a good coaching staff, but they have to find some answers for stuff that's plagued them now. For some parts of last year and clearly some stuff that they, they had to believe it would work come in this game, and it just didn't. Tech found some good ways to basically figure out what did they couldn't do. And I don't even want to use the word figure out. I just think they guessed. Because clearly the start didn't work right for say drove down the field. They gave a nice run looks. They remained in nice run looks. After that tech either blitz like crazy, they sent the backers. Sometimes they would just shoot the safety into the gap right. But at other times, I don't think those are blitzes. I just think they're telling them, Hey. Stay back. Give him a run. Look, you trigger hard. If they throw it over her head and ask to complete it, whatever. DJ has never been an accurate passer. We'll take the chance that he can't be an accurate passer against us. And they were correct, right? He could not make them pay. The, the ball he misses to to Chica is. I mean, gotta have that one, right? People are saying DJ can't read defense after five years, get him out. Guys, a lot of college quarterbacks can't read a defense. Okay. And you just got to find a way to win with them. But that's just kind of what it is. There's a ton of one read quarterbacks, you know. All right, receiver blocking. I can't actually use the word that I wrote down on my notes, but it's sort of a not nice setting them for small. And this is where I think you missed high came. I think you missed high came for the ability to be a physical threat in the past game, but also when high came has been in there in these limited sample set, he blocks his butt off. And like Jekai is small, Benson is skinny, you know, Kentron's not always been a great blocker. Jalen Brown really is small. You are small on the outside. And I do think that that the size at receiver is, you know, it's kind of a problem, right? Finally, my other note on offense here. Well, a couple. If you're going to play 58 snaps on offense, that is an NFL number of snaps. Okay. If you're joining a TV timeout, clock stops after first down. You are not snapping the ball, basically ever until the play clock is under 15. I mean, you don't need to rotate this many guys. They're 21, 22, 23 year old kids for the most part. You don't need to swap them out that much. Now, if you want to sit, you know, buyers down for a second because he needs a mental break or something. It worked pretty well at times last year in the Clemson game, specifically, but. And not all of these college games this weekend were played at a really slow pace. Part of this was because it's the ball never hit the ground. Basically, I mean, there was what? Maybe 10 in completion is total or 12. You know, that's play your starters. Tighten up the rotation, you know, and basically just stick with the guys who you can really trust. So tech view says the know cast thoughts about the Boston college game. Well, I think we will have a Boston college for you. I can tell you that I'm feeling great about that game, actually. I think they're going to bounce back. I think you're going to kill Boston college. Maybe that sounds insane. I don't think it's blind faith. I'll explain why more coming up when we do the preview. The preview will probably be Friday since it's a Monday night game, or everything. So people say O line was the biggest point in Saturday. I don't know. Like the line definitely opened up a lot of holes in the run game. So, I mean, I'm not insanely worried about the offensive line. I need your running backs to be playmakers, right? Like the way they played. Like if you're an NFL scout, you're like, no, no thanks. Toe Philly because he can catch the ball like we get drafted, but like. Dude, they didn't look special. You know, so. All right. I also want to tell you about Madison social township. Of course, township has the dueling pianos coming up on August 30th. It's going to be awesome. And I cannot wait to check that out. I know Graham's going to be there as well. Long time supporter of the show, like 10 plus years. Definitely check those dudes out is awesome, awesome environment. The weather is about the term too. So I am excited about that. I don't know about how it is where you guys are, but. It is still is still really hot. All right, so defense. Let's talk a little defense here. All right. I understand the defensive plan. I don't. I don't necessarily hate the defensive plan. I don't particularly love how they played the defensive plan clearly, right? I mean, it. But damn it, do you hate how like how the defense looked in terms of. Physicality. Aggressiveness. And I would say trust, you know. And I wonder if the lack of physicality and the lack of aggression. Is related to the newness of this team, and I don't want that to be a recurring theme as a cop out, but I definitely think it's something that needs to be looked at. Are they trusting each other or guys trusting that with they do their job. The other guy will come in and do their job. Now, at times that lack of trust is justified for sure, but can't play that way. Right. You have to play your assignment. Defense is kind of a team game, but it's more of like a collective individual effort. Okay. You have to do your job. You have to trust that the other guy is going to do his job. So offense is more of a team game, because you got to have 11 guys working, like actually together, not just like, hey, 11 guys do their job. But defense is more of a collective individual effort. And the defensive plan after watching it was pretty clearly denied the explosive place. Okay. That is a justified and pretty smart plan, I think, based on how tech played last year. Don't allow the ball over the top. Don't allow the explosives. Of course, fuel goals, if they get in the red zone, maybe you'll get a tackle for loss or something to get them off schedule. Maybe we'll get an incomplete pass. However, the triggering that you got from the safeties and from the linebackers. That was pretty bad, man. Like, I don't know if they know what they're looking at. They didn't look very well coached. Okay. And that's not normally a thing that I have been saying about this defense over the past couple of years. So, I mean, at times, certainly, but not like every defense has good and bad games. It happens unless you have, you know, just dominant dominant guys. And they have some, but not, not, you know, a million. Back, back to the, the back of the notes. So the, I think the plan was for the defense line to dominate the backers need to aggressively trigger and, you know, you don't allow the explosives over the top. If tech can be good in an intermediate passing game and complete balls, you allow them to do so. Now, all of that, except for the last part and theory would have worked, but because they did not deny explosives. Or excuse me, they did deny explosives. What they did not do was win in the red zone when tech actually got into the red zone. Right? Like, okay, you did not allow explosives. You didn't allow tech to hit the big touchdown play. Never did. But tech still out executed you in the red zone. I do wonder if part of the, I wonder if part of the struggles were related to a plan that was really focused on containment of Hanes King. And if not over running plays and allowing some of the cutbacks and some of the misdirection stuff. Okay. Because I saw guys that were really, really hesitant to commit. And again, I do think those as coaching points, right? Watch for the misdirection stuff. Be sure and go. That's not a terrible coaching point, honestly. But they were so late at times. I don't think they trusted what their eyes were telling them. A lot of credit should be given to Georgia Tech here. Some of the motions and formations they used were very good to use against the team that has a lot of new pieces on defense. I think Florida was sort of limited in some of the things that they could play. Again, most likely due to some of the newness of the defense. But, I mean, you know, a lot of guys at times at linebacker like playing hero ball when they did trigger, so like they didn't come under control at all. You had guys like not using the correct shoulder to take on stuff. Some of the pursuit angles were, you know, were pretty bad. That was bad. Like that linebacker play will cause you more losses. I don't know where Juice Cryer was. That's a guy that I thought was going to play a good bit this season. I think he played a couple snaps on special teams. I don't see him getting hurt. Again, I'm not going to suggest anything here. I don't know like why you would play a guy like that on special teams and not play him in the game. You know, and as far as I know, like he's a good kid, like from Northwestern seemed like a smart kid, obviously. So I don't know what the deal was there, but something was for sure. A couple of you have clicked out the clip that I had when we talked recruiting, and I said Omar Graham is a fine take for FSU as a third linebacker in the recruiting class. But if he's your only backer, that's a problem. I mean, look, yeah. Agreed still. You probably need to play some more Lola here against some of these run teams than they did, ultimately. And Graham was not necessarily like always the worst linebacker, by the way, like not to just be all over the place here in terms of talking players, but. I mean, Riley would Riley knew what to do. He actually took on some blocks, but the triggering from him. Like, that's a guy that I think is still swimming. It doesn't really understand what to do in this defense, you know. So, sorry, some wild stuff in the chat right now that's just nowhere close to correct if you know what goes on behind the scenes, like at all, like the rotamaker stuff. No way, like that's not it. That was not going to be an option, like the player has to be bought in. Let me see. So the defensive line, I do think there is definitely some room for criticism here. They did not dominate. Okay, they're not quite as bad as some of the media commentators out there are going to tell you they were, but also you needed them to play better too. Like, you need them to blow up more plays, especially if the linebackers are going to be as hesitant and as soft as they were, and they work, right. And I don't think that they're going to start a soft players, but when you're not confident what you're seeing, you play slow, and you play tentative. Georgia Tech was okay making mistakes, but they play with their hair on fire. For states guys did not, right? They were not okay making mistakes. They was like, they were very kind of just tip toeing around. I saved this for pretty late in the show. I wanted to be to talk about other stuff first. I hate playing Haynes King on a wet field. Good Lord, like, I just have a thing. I don't like playing mobile quarterbacks on wet field like that like guys that are just kind of sneakily good runners. And he's not sneaky. He's just a good runner. To me, that's hard. It just, it just kind of is. They just kind of get behind everybody and that that's, that's tough. People in the chat saying that Fuller did not adjust at all. I don't think that's actually true that they did do different things in the second half. But one thing that was always consistent was that your backers and safeties really did not trigger and take on blocks almost regardless of scheme. So that's a problem. Were they too predictable in what they could run maybe due to like a lot of the new players? Possibly. Yeah. Tech seemed to be able to formation shift and motion them at times in a favorable looks like there's some of these plays. I'm just like, well, shit, man, they're just out gapped, right? There's not much that you can really do here. So, yeah, I think that tech had a better plan than you. And tech, tech's players had a lot more confidence in the plan. It's going to happen occasionally. If you're an old, you hope it doesn't happen often, right? You guys saw it. You know, can. Did they misevaluate Brown, right? The corner they took from Miami who they now have played in safety. He was terrible at that corner last year. They thought he'd be better in that safety role. I don't know. I mean, based on one game, absolutely. Is he still going to roll out there? Hussey didn't. It didn't crush it, I guess. So we'll see as they keep evolving. I would not freak out about this team. I still think this team is going to find a way to win a pretty good number of games. Some of the fundamental stuff on defense and some of the kind of just like the. Not dumb, but just like not team defense is not, is not great. I want to see who else they get in. I mean, I think you've got to play Nicholson more because he at least triggers. I mean, he's going to make some mistakes. At least he goes and that's. You know, he'll be wrong. Something like that. They will allow some explosives. If your guys can't trigger from depth, you probably just need to. To, I guess, again, some of these teams load the box a little bit more and we'll see. Yeah, I mean, a lot of pretty unhinged comments in the chat there. I'll try to take some ones that are like reasonable questions before we get out of here. I did bug cover the atrocious clock management at the end of the first with three time outs. We left the clock go from 103 to 39. Could have run two or three more plays. I did actually in the instant reaction and that was something we noticed immediately. I think that they were there again. I think this gets back to how much do they really trust DJ right now. I think they're pretty. And this is not it's not excuse. Okay, there's an explanation as to why something happened. It doesn't make it okay for it to happen. But this is why I think and again, guys, this is all my opinion. I definitely don't think I'm a hundred percent correct on all this. Some of the stuff I'm not even really sure that like I, you know, I'm fully in on just. I wanted to share some thoughts that came with, you know, came to my mind as I was going through this up today. I think they're like really trying to talk them through each play on the headset. You know. I mean, they were taking a lot of time and then running the play with like 12 seconds, you know, so. Yeah, like that was poor clock management. Honestly, though, that's something that. That was one of the more shocking things in the game because Norville has always. Always done well with clock management like like he routinely scores among the highest scores in terms of like. Fourth downs, understanding the analytics, understanding managing the clock, and that was. That was not great. See, tech did not really respect the past game at all. Yeah, completely agree. They did not. They aligned pre snap at times. Like they did. But again, getting back to the kind of baiting you thing, you know. Do you think with more tempo who we have is a good idea or to exacerbate the offensive issues? Yeah, I don't think this is a tempo offensive line. Like this is a. You have like. At a lot of spots like Georgia size. Now you don't have Georgia like athleticism on the old line, but you got the size now. Like that was an narrative in the off season. They got a lot bigger. They didn't get bigger and more athletic. They just got bigger. So no, I don't think tempo necessarily works with an offensive line of that size. How concerned are you with the defensive line performance after the expectations were high? Not incredibly concerned because I saw I saw some of those guys have really good reps. I saw some of those guys eating double teams and when you'd like to see them win a little more off against double teams. But again, if test can hold some of these double teams as long as they are, the backers got a fire. The second level defender has got to make the offensive line and the offense pay for not getting off those doubles. Right? You know? Let's see here. Am I crazy that I thought the offensive line did a decent job pass blocking? No, if you're encouraged about this team, I think you're encouraged that the offensive line was not that bad for my physical standpoint. There's a couple like technical things in terms of like assignments that you would. I think you're pretty annoyed with given how old the offensive line is and how some of these guys have played, but not all of them, right? But they were not terrible at one time tech had a, first of all, tech had some really good blitzes in this game that kind of screwed to some of your protections. I don't think you saw a lot of guys getting totally whipped, you know? Yeah, I mean, sure, Scott, yes, I have a shoe 942, whatever the guy's name is, sorry. He points out the tackle, got honed a couple times. Yeah, I mean, to me, that was kind of when they put Scott in there and I just don't know if Scott's ever going to be back to what he was. I really kind of don't have any faith that he will. Let me see here. If she made a huge mistake not going after more receivers that are tied in, that's on the stat, but I don't really know who you wanted to go get. I mean, the like who in the, I don't think Sam Brown, the kid who went to Miami was going to come to play with DJ when he can go play with Cam Ward. Like, Cam Ward was clearly a bigger, bigger prize. Miami has a roster is more built to win and they went all in with it. Like, if I'm Sam Brown, I'm not picking DJ over Cam Ward, sorry. So you guys are answering questions still that are answered. So if you're late to the chat, just kind of watch the beginning of the show. Concern over Thomas Castellano's edge ability after dealing with Haines King, who's not as fast. Different concerns, I would say. I don't know, I'm not that concerned about that game. No penalties on the offense was a positive, no false starts. I totally agree with that. Thoughts on Cam Davis, I think Cam Davis is going to be total stud for you. Total stud. Do you think McCoy and Moore, the professional receiver should get some run later in the season? I do, actually. I definitely think that they'll try to work those guys more in through the end of the season. Cool. Well, we're at like 50 minutes here. This has been good. I think we're going to go again tomorrow. That'll be awesome. Enjoyed it and make sure you guys hit like on the video and yeah, hope you enjoyed it. I just, I don't know. I'm not married to a lot of these takes. But some of them I'm a little more concerned with than others and we'll see. Guys, look, I know Castellanos had 400 yards in FSU last year. If you watched the FSU team play last year, I mean, dude, FSU had the flu in that game, like legitimately. They warmed up. A lot of the players had masks on during that week and like in the pregame. So they played like it. Like they looked like they were stuck in mud. Cool. All right. I think the chat's just evolving in the madness now. This has been fun. Enjoyed it and I will see you guys again tomorrow for part three. [BLANK_AUDIO]