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Instant Reaction: FSU's Upset Loss to Georgia Tech · North Florida Sports Network Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: What do you think you are?
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: I am, hey.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to North Florida Sports Network 2024.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Instant reactions underway and it's not a good one for no fans, but we're going to tell you what we think, what I think no fans.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: But we're going to tell you what we think, what I think.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: And it's not all bad as the yellow jackets come on top 24 21 to top florida state.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know why the clock didn't stop when their back went out of bounds.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: The refs seem quick to keep running the clock.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: But well deserved win for the yellow jackets.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: Haynes king was the difference in the game.
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: The quarterback willed the georgia tech offense to keep the chains moving, making the right decisions, and hats off to georgia tech.
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: They come up with the big upset win Florida State back to the drawing board.
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: Big loss conference loss.
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: There's a few plays that we'd love to have back.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: Looking back at it now, but my gut reaction might surprise you.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: We're gonna react to everything in the game I am.
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you right off the key.
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: The game just ended.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: The kick was made by Georgia Tech when they ran the clock down to zero because they said his forward progress was stopped inbounds, which I don't know about that.
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: He went down out of bounds.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: It was but Florida State Uphill battle this year now, but in a season when, if you're ever going to lose one I mean If it was last year it would be over it's not over, it's not.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell you why.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: The first and foremost is the opponent and when the game was scheduled.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, first and foremost.
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: That is number one.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: This is coming off the first game of the year.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: You have a team with a veteran quarterback, a son of a ball coach in Haynes.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: King, who played lights out in terms of decision-making, did not make any mistakes and I told you, if he does not turn the ball over, this is going to be a close game.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: And a couple of missed throws were just one, really one by dju had a chance to make a play to chakai douglas and he missed him.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: But other than he did what was asked of him.
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: Now the argument could be made that what was asked of him was not much.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: And why was that?
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: But I think you're discrediting Georgia Tech.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: I think this was set up to be Florida State huge, huge, you know Goliath, they're the big, you know favorite in this game.
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: But if you really look at it and look at the rosters and, based on when the game is played, not so, and that's why the line came down.
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: You know, and I remember we were I was talking to jeff voice of the knolls um, and he was mentioning this game is going to be one of the toughest on the schedule and it's right there, right at the beginning of the schedule, coming off a new you're going into a new quarterback, a new losing a lot of key players and you could kind of tell the game plan was a little cautious, if I had to say the least.
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: The game plan was a little cautious.
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: I don't think it was executed wrong or badly.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: There was a misthrow but other than that, dj played pretty well, came up with some huge fourth down throws.
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: I would say not, not a lot was given to him early on to go out and understandably, uh, the big thing I take away is georgia.
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: Tech's good and they made a statement last season at the end of the year.
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: Haynes King was a great.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: He's a good quarterback.
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: His teammates say he's the most underrated player in college football, which is to be expected by the teammates, but this is a former Jimbo recruit.
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: This is a guy who's come up with big wins, upsets before, and if he wasn't going to turn the ball over, we said that this was going to be right down to the wire and you, you gotta make that, you gotta make that throw.
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: And I was just saying I like DJ, you, I think we're going to.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: I still think the season's going to be good.
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: I think the season's going to be good.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: I think the team played Defensively is something that worries me a little bit, but Georgia Tech's offensively, I think, is a lot better than people are giving them credit for.
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: This is a team that led the league in rushing last year, had the quarterback returning, a guy that transferred, already had another year and this was scheduled.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, this game was circled by them and then just led into the hype and they came out ready.
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: As you saw, florida State came out ready as well.
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: After that there wasn't really anything and I thought that was a chance maybe to open up the playbook.
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: It got a little conservative in the first half.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: I would say, um, it got a little conservative in the first half, I would say but you know, I'm not going to sit here, and other than that, throw to Chakai Douglas, which I think he should have made.
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: You had clutch field goals by Fitzgerald to keep yourself in the game.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: The defense got pushed around a little bit that that was going to have one thing, but you're going off an experienced offense that runs all kinds of different options and concepts that you have to be aware of.
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: First game it was a bad matchup.
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: Last year's team was ready for a playoff at at the beginning of the year.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: This year's team is ready for a playoff at the beginning of the year.
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: This year's team is going to take time and there's a lot of good things I saw.
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: I like what I saw from the drive where DJ had the 15-play drive to lead the Noles back to tie the game.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: You know, there's a couple of things that I wish I would have saw in terms of anyway, yeah, all right.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: No, I'm sorry, it's immediate, it's an instant reaction, but I I feel good about the team.
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: Um, there's going to be a lot.
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: You know the instant.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: You know the let's see Florida state.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: They're overrated.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: Last year Wasn't nothing.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: But you can't listen to that.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: What I'd tell you is Georgia tech's really good and they are having one step up in what is a tough schedule for them.
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: We'll see what they do from this.
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: But Florida State's got to regroup.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: They got BC coming in on Labor Day and then they got Memphis, who some say is the best Power 5 team available.
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: So it's not going to get any easier.
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: It's time to grow.
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: It's time to grow, it's time to come together.
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: Um, but let's pull up some numbers here.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: So we have a little bit to go off of.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: But I I mean losing the game you don't think.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: You know, if you win that game it's because of Fitzgerald and what he did in the first half.
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: Don't we've bashed him before.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: I want to give him his props and a losing effort he kept.
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: I mean those field goals combined with the special teams play in the opening drive.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: That's good coaching.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: You kind of expected it.
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: And the defense held up.
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech didn't score the lights out, you know, and Florida State needed to be more aggressive, if I had to say anything.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: I think they needed to throw the ball more and I think there was a little bit of hesitation to do that with dj.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: They wanted to ease them along.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: And again I go back to the bad matchup.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: So when you play a game close to the vest, as they did.
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: It can come down to a play or two and they had the ball last and they weren't able to make a stop.
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech was able to get first downs at will and they had the ball with over five minutes left in the game and they just went down and said, hey, we're going to go down and kick a field goal.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: And they did exactly that and you can't win a game when someone can do that to you.
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: So Florida State's got back to the drawing board on defense.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: Where was Darrell Jackson?
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't see him.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: The defense was pushed around a little bit.
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: First game of the year, a lot of different, a lot of multiple options.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: I think the Georgia State offense is a strength of theirs.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: I think they've been underrated.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: Their defense made a lot of improvements.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: With first-year defense coordinator coming over for Duke.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: They missed a kick.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: Fitzgerald made both.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: You got to give credit to Georgia Tech Dees is doing a good job over there and they had the quarterback, and quarterback means so much nowadays and you saw it last year with Jordan Travis.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: The offense completely changed and shut down and this offense hasn't grown the confidence in DJ yet.
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: At least the play calling hasn't, and that was on display.
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: I would say a little bit in the first half, but 24-21 is your final 0-1.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: 15 straight before this loss, when you're a double-digit favorite for the Noles.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: But how do you respond?
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: We had to go, we had to go.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, we got to get on out of here.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: All right, sir, I've been up since 3 am.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: That's right, working.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: I was all for you Hit.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: You know, as I try to hide sometimes my noble allegiance and try to be objective, this game scared me immediately Once the schedule came out.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: If you were watching Georgia Tech, which I was, at the end of last year, this team was hotter than jalapeno sauce man.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: They were doing their thing and Haynes King's a guy that was recruited by Jimbo.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: This is a guy that was at Texas A&M, transferred in Son of a coach.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: When you put them as your first game on the schedule, get ready.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a tough year.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: It might be a good year, but it's going to be tough.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: It's going to challenge everything that this team is made of.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: It's going to challenge your fan, and remember that we're suing the owners of the sport this team is made of.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: It's going to challenge your fan and remember that we're suing the owners of the sport.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: But other than that out of bounds call, I don't know.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think it played a role.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: Credit to Georgia Tech.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: Hats off to the Yellow Jackets and because I think they deserved it.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech, hats off to the Yellow Jackets and because I think they deserved it.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: You can kind of see it coming.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: But 12 teams are allowed in and note a lot of less room for error for the Noles.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Well, they got another home game Against BC Before we hit September.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Actually, it's Labor Day night.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Well, you know September doesn't really start Until after Labor Day.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: We got a huge reaction Coming.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: We'll get Jimmy Reno.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: He's holding the chains down in Tampa for a juniors game.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: He's going to react to this.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: We're going to look at all the film and come back at you early next week.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Until then, have a good time and we'll talk to you next time right here on the North Florida Sports Network.