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Update: Florida State Football Readies For VaTech · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  It's time for the third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott Grant Allen
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  running the thing over there, and I'm here doing the thing in here.
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  It's Monday, October two, Show five eighteen, and I'm joined by Ira
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  Chaffell, managing editor at Where You Ought to be. If you want to
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  know what's going on with FSU Athletics, it's war chant dot Com. Good
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  morning, Ira, How are you? I'm great, Preston, how are
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  you? So? What is a guy like you do on and off weekend?
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  Man? I overdosed on some college football and I don't know how.
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  I don't know how you guys do it, because normally I just focus only
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  on FSU. But this week I watched everything and man, I was worn
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  out. Let me ask first, kind of borrowing from a theme of your
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  colleague, Corey Clark, what did we learn over the weekend and thus far
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  in the first month of the season about what's left on FSU schedule? Uh?
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  You know, I think one thing is obviously Duke is is a legitimate
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  football team. You know this is not The clemsing game is a little bit
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  flukey. The fact that Clemson kept turning it over. But I think the
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  fact the way they played Notre Dame, the fact that they have a game
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  one until the last minute, you know, speaks volumes. This is a
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  team in one week earlier, you know Notre Dame had played to the wire
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  with Ohio States. So so that game, even though it's at home,
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  even though you've won, you've beaten Duke every time you've ever played them,
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  I think that's going to be a legitimate football game. I think I think
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  you feel a little bit better about I personally think you feel a little bit
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  better about the Clemson win because they looked I thought they looked really strong last
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  week last weekend against Syracuse who had been undefeated. So I think there were
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  some things. But there are also parts of it where I think you didn't
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  over not overreact. You know, a lot of people saw LSU give up
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  a thousand points it's all miss and decided that, Okay, well maybe that
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  second half you can tell us you wasn't that impressive. I don't know if
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  you can do that. I don't think you can overreact too much to that,
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  especially since FSU played LSU a month ago in a season opener. So
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  I think there are some things you can learn but I think you also can't
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  overreact. How good to Miami. I think they're good. They're They're much
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  improved on the on the line of scrimmage. They went out and really went
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  after some offensive linemen in the transfer portal. I think their defensive line solid,
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  and their quarterback has always been good. He just didn't have time.
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  So I think, you know what the question for when you talk about Miami,
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  though, is what are they going to look like in November, because
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  you know, they have a history of looking pretty good in September and maybe
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  even in October, but not always in November. So fortunately for Fulli's safe.
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  They played them later in the year, and I think we have to
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  see if this Miami team sticks together that long. What thoughts thus far on
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  the tenure of Billy Napier at Florida. Yeah, that's a weird one,
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  you know, I thought, you know, I have some close friends that
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  went to Florida and are huge Florida fans, and they're pretty much done with
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  him, and they they've been pretty much done with him. You know,
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  I don't know, I don't know if he's you know, I look at
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  the situation with Florence Satan, Mike Gorvelle and say, okay, well,
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  you know there are people in year two of Mike Gorbelle who felt like they
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  were done with him, and it's worked out, okay, So I usually
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  kind of encourage patients. One thing that's kind of weird. One thing that's
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  kind of weird to me, though, with with Napier is you know the
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  way they lost to Kentucky and he was so devastated afterwards because you know,
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  he thought Kentucky was more physical than Florida. They ran the ball better,
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  they stopped their ball run better and all that, and and I get it,
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  but you know, I think that's kind of a billy Napier wants to
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  be. He wants to be like a ground and pound, physical kind of
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  old school football team. And I get that, and I see the mayor
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  it's in that, But I also wonder if Florida fans really want that.
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  You know, I think Florida football fans want Spurrier. You know, they
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  want they want you know, they they want to they want to win.
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  I think they want to. They want to score a lot of points,
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  they want to be high flying, and uh, I'm curious to see how
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  that plays out. Even if he has some success. I'm not sure he's
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  gonna want to play the style of football that they want to play, and
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  uh so I'm not I'm not real sure that that's ever gonna work out.
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  Yeah, I mean, ask Brett Bielima how things worked out bringing that style
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  of football to the SEC. It just didn't right. Right, No,
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  exactly right. And it's tough. I mean, it's it's you know,
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  there's a it's not. We can laugh, we can laugh somewhat about the
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  SEC and how people act like it's a different league than everywhere else. But
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  the reality is there's a lot of great defensive lines in that league. There's
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  a lot of great, uh you know, individual players, and so I
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  don't know, I think you do have to throw the football. It's it's
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  not it's not nineteen eighty three. It's twenty twenty three, and I'm curious
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  I Napier is going to give a kind of quarterbacks he needs to succeed there.
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  Eleven minutes past the hour, another segment here with Irisha Fellawar chant dot
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  Com. I don't know what kind of time you and your team have gotten
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  with Mike Norvell and any of the coaches on staff in the last week but
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  what are you hearing? How did they use the time. There's a lot
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  of focus on fundamentals, and I think, you know, in terms of
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  on the field with the players cleaning up some of the things that have not
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  been as sharp as they need to be. And I think from a from
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  a coaching staff standpoint, they've been doing a lot of time really trying to
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  figure out what they're what what's not clicking, especially on offense. I think,
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  you know, I think that that in the Running Game is trying to
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  figure out why things aren't kind of why why some of these players aren't hitting.
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  I don't think they feel like the Running Game has been a disaster,
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  but it just hasn't really clicked yet. And I also think they they're trying
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  to figure out what Jordan's you know, what's going to get him to take
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  things to another level with the offense, because Jordan's played fine, but he
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  but I think there's probably a feeling that it's not clicking to the way it
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  needs to. Whether that's him deciding when when to run the ball, him
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  deciding when to check down, it's just some of the decisions and getting him
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  in a higher comfort level. How much of Jordan Travis's injury, whatever it
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  was, was contributing to his accuracy issues. I think it was a big
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  part of it. I mean, I just think you look at and when
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  you go back and watch some of those throws he missed, you know he
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  was I think he was kind of favoring it and maybe not stepping into throws.
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  But I also think some of the credit or blame needs to go to
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  the receivers. You know, some of those passes, those guys have to
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  come back and fight for the ball. And and so it's not always on
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  the quarterbacks. Sometimes it's on the receiver, sometimes it's on the tight ends.
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  And I think that that's been emphasized as well, that those guys can't
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  just assume that the ball the offender's gonna let them catch the ball. They
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  have to fight for that football. And I think you'll see them do that
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  more going forward. Where is Jordan Travis, the offensive line, anybody else
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  who was banged up. I've heard good things about Jordan. I think he's
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  going to be back to full health. I think it was an injury that
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  you know, needs a little bit of time, but it wasn't necessarily something
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  that it's never going to be better the season. I think he's going to
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  be back to full speed. I think you're gonna see what Jordan Travis normally
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  looks like soon here. As far as the rest of the team, I
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  think they're in decent shape. You know, the a couple of the guys
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  I think are going to be dealing with stuff all season. You know,
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  Maurice Smith at center. I think you know, he came back and played
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  in that game against Clemson. I don't know, maybe he takes a limited
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  role, uh, you know, in the Virginia Tech game, maybe comes
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  back in place the ball game against Syracuse. I'm just speculating, but I
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  think with him, it's going to be a situation where you're you're trying to
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  get him back for were the biggest games, but maybe not really wear him
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  down in these other games. I think whatever he's dealing with is something that's
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  not going to be one hundred percent during the season. The big question to
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  me is Robert Scott. You know he I think he's your best left tackle.
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  I know there's a lot of speculation the offseason when you brought in some
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  of these other offensive linemen and Bless Harris coming back from his injury. Whether
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  or not Robert Scott really really is your best left tackle. I think he
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  is clearly your best left tackle, and so can they get him back he's
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  he really hasn't played since the opener. If he plays, I think that
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  changes a lot on your offensive line. Two questions for we wrap you up
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  and and let you go? I re number one if I were to suggest
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  to you that the reason the running game isn't really clicking yet is sure,
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  the offensive line is missing a couple of pieces, But also Jordan just has
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  to run the football for those lanes to open up for the rest of him.
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  He has to be a threat to run it. And I just see
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  a lot of opportunities for him to pull the ball and go to the sideline
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  and avoid getting here but making a lot of yards. Is that fair?
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  Oh? It's one hundred percent fair. But I also think you have two
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  things going on. Number one, you I think if you look back to
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  last season, they lowered his CHARAC total a lot last year too, I
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  mean, and the good part about that was he was able to finish the
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  season and play in every game. And I think that's the goal I think
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  they're gonna be. They're gonna give up some plays in the running game because
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  they just want to make sure he stays healthy. But he needs to at
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  least show it's a it's a possibility. I think it is. Particularly in
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  the Clemson game. He was so unwilling to do it, and I think
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  it was because he was injured that once Clemson knew that was not even a
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  possibility, it changed how they played. You at least need to pull it
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  every once in a while, not as much as he did three years ago,
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  but every once in a while for sure. Lastly, you're expecting a
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  comfortable win for Florida State this weekend, I am, although you know,
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  Virginia Tech did show some life. They got a man against Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh
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  not very good this year, and Virginia Tech does not look good. The
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  one thing that Virginia Tech did this weekend I think that you just kept to
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  kind of keep your eye on, is that they did really commit to this
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  younger quarterback and in his running ability. And he's a big kid. He's
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  six foot two, two hundred and thirty five pounds, transferred in this year
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  from Baylor, didn't start the first couple of games. Now he's been starting
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  and getting more comfortable, so I think he's again another big running quarterback.
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  I'm sure we'll have some positive plays, but Virginia Tech overall is not a
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  very good football team, and I think Florida State after the bye week should
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  come out, I think, and assert themselves. All right, thanks as
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  always for the time. We'll talk to you next week. Thanks Pressing,
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  Take care,