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FSU Stays Unbeaten, Next Is Duke · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  It's the third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott, Monday, October
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  the sixteenth. Good to be with you this Morning Show, fivey twenty eight.
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  That's Grant Allen. I'm Preston Scott and this is the managing editor of
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  war chant dot Com, Iras chafelle Ira. How in the world are you.
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  I'm great, Preston, How are you? I'm doing terrific. It
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  was fun being at the game. Florida State wins. What was Mike Norvel's
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  feeling after that game? He was very upbeat about that game, you know
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  he I think he was. He felt like this was the most complete game
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  they've played. He was really excited about the defense, the fact that the
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  defense held Syracuse to three points. They really only had two drives where they
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  even threatened to score and they missed a field goal, and the other one
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  they had one where they an interception at the very end of the game against
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  the backups. But really, I think he thought it was a very complete
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  game, even though they weren't efficient in the second quarter where they had a
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  couple of stops on the fourth downs. He blamed himself for those. He
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  thought they were either poor decisions or poor play calls, and so yeah,
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  I think he came out of that game feeling like that was maybe the best
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  game they played all around all season. Correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't
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  this quarterback give us fits running and throwing before? Yeah, I think two
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  years ago he did. Last year they dominated them, But yeah, two
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  years ago he did. And it's kind of been a weird career for him.
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  Grett Trader, he transferred from Misissippi State to Syracuston. Early on,
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  he had a lot of success, but for whatever reason, I think they've
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  had some injuries at receiver and maybe on the line, so he doesn't have
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  as much talent around him. But the last few weeks he has not played
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  real well and he certainly couldn't do anything on Saturday. It would be fair,
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  I think, to say that we have yet to see the best of
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  the Florida State offense. Why do you think that is? You know,
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  I think if you look at the circumstances, you know, it's just been
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  kind of a weird season. You know, they they obviously you had,
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  you know, some really good opponents early in the year. That Clemson defense,
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  I still think is one of the best in the country. And then
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  you had the injuries on the offensive line where Robert Scott was out and where
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  he Smith was out, and then you got other experienced guys playing, but
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  they're new to Florida State. And then you know, I think you've had
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  a couple issues with you know, just working you know, the running game,
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  getting the running game going. I think they've had a hard time with
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  that. This is not the same offensive line as a year ago. You
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  know. I think we all when they went out and got three veteran transfers,
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  three guys who played a ton of college football, we figured, Okay,
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  well, they'll just replace Dylan Gibbons and they'll just come in and and
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  and they'll be, you know, exactly what you had a year ago.
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  And also the jazzon turning time was another veteran starter they had last year,
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  and we thought they wouldn't miss a beat. Well, that hasn't been the
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  case. And so I think they're starting to figure out the running game.
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  I think they've had to take a different approach with it. And I think
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  in the second half, I think we're going to see this offense really start
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  to click. You know, I think some of us that watched the best
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  of the Bowden years have this expectation that might be pretty unrealistic of just beating
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  teams down every single week, And I don't know is that possible in this
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  day and age. For the most part, I don't think it is.
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  Yeah, you might have a rare team, you know, the twenty thirteen
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  team obviously had that ability, but it's pretty rare if you look across college
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  football. I mean, Georgia, you know, is in a fight for
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  a while against Vanderbilt. You know, they had a game earlier this year
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  where they were trailing late. You know, I just think it's it's the
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  talent is so spread out. I mean back then in the nineties, and
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  you know, that's when so many of us just loved the way the state
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  of Florida played football. Florida State, Florida, and Miami. All of
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  the talented kids in the state wanted to play at those three schools. You
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  know, if they went to a team outside of the area, you didn't
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  They didn't know if they'd be on TV or not. Well, now everybody's
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  on TV, everybody's got an il money, everybody's got good facilities, and
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  I just think the players are going there. It's all spread out. Now,
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  So I just think the parody is, uh, it's too tough to
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  to dominate every week. But I think this, you know, this team,
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  the way that they these last couple of weeks, they're starting to show
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  they have that ability. Well. I bring that up because I feel like
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  for coach Norville and the staff, this still shakes out as best case scenario.
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  You're winning games, but you're still not really clicking on all cylinders,
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  so there's plenty to coach up heading into Duke Oh. I agree completely,
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  and I think that that's you know, I also liked after each of these
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  last two games, I've really liked what we've heard from FSU's players that they
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  feel that way. You know. It's not like they've you know, there
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  have been times even the last few years where Florida State has you know,
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  won a game and looked good and the players kind of were maybe boastful or
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  felt good about themselves after the game. You're not seeing that. I thought.
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  If you watch the interviews after this past game, Lawrence to Philly,
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  Josh Farmer, even Keon Coleman, who had a huge game, they all
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  came off as very humble and very hungry. They think they can be a
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  lot better than they've been so far. Another few minutes with Iraschaffelli's covered Florida
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  State football for years and is kind enough to make time for US weekly during
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  the season and now and then in the offseason. Ira. Before we get
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  to Duke, the ninety three team was honored. Leroy Butler was honored,
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  which of course was fun for me as a Green Bay Packer fan and the
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  inventor of the Lambeau Leap. But it seems like Mike Norvel has found that
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  that magic of embracing, learning about and making the former players feel welcome,
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  and they seem to be responding in kind. Yeah, they've done a really
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  good job with that. And you know, look, you know, I
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  don't want to say that Florida State has never done that or hasn't done it
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  in a while. Jimbo Fisher, there was a stre where I thought he
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  was pretty good about it, but then it seemed to kind of fall off.
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  Ye will Willy Taggert tried to do it, but then once the players
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  saw the product on the field, they didn't really want to come back visit
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  very much anymore. But now, no, I do think it's it's in
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  a good place and they've they've done a good job. I know that their
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  staff has a mailing list and they're emailing and they're constantly trying to reach out
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  to those more players and create opportunities like this to get those guys back.
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  And you know, they're they're they're welcome to practices and games, and it's
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  important and I think it's important to the current players. Again, it was
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  cool to hear Lawrence tow feeling some of these players talk about what it was
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  like being around those guys from the ninety three team, and one of the
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  things that really impressed them was how close those guys are still together and the
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  memories they have. And I think the current players want to be able to
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  have those kinds of memories to look up look back on as well. So,
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  yeah, it's it's one of the cool things I think about the sports
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  in general. But right now, this team Douke comes to town. For
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  those that don't necessarily watch a bunch of football, what should they know about
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  Duke? How are they winning games? Man, They've got an excellent defense.
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  Mike Elko is their defense, is their head coach, and he's a
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  defensive coordinator by trade. He's been at some of the top programs in the
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  country. Really one of the best defensive coaches in football, and he went
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  out and went heavy in the transfer portal. This is not your typical duke
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  football team. I mean, they got kids from Miami and other schools that
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  are transferred in and they've got a really good defense. I think they've only
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  given up fourteen points more than once more than fourteen points one time all season.
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  I think they've given up like fifty nine or sixty points in five to
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  six games, So they're outstanding. I think for of their games they've held
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  opponents to a touchdown or west, so they're legit on defense. The big
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  question on offense Riley Leonards, their quarterback, is dynamic. He's a guy
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  that can throw, but he's also a very good runner, extremely athletic.
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  He's sprained his ankle a couple of weeks ago against Notre Dame, and that's
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  going to be the big question this week is whether or not he's going to
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  play or not. He did not play Saturday State, but againstinc He State,
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  but they still won that game twenty four to three. They didn't ask
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  the offense to do a whole lot of defense, create a lot of opportunities,
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  but that's gonna be the big The high profile matchup is going to be
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  Florida State's offense against Duke's defense. And then the other question is whether or
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  not Riley Leonard that plays. If he doesn't, I think Duke's offense is
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  gonna have a tough time against that issues defense. Any rumor of a white
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  out, this is the perfect game for it. Yeah, I'm with you,
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  man, if they do it, I just hope they do it and
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  announce it and everybody knows it, because it seems like that's always the big
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  issue in Florida State is when they do try to do something like that,
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  you don't see one hundred percent participation like you do at Penn State or somewhere
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  like that. Let me look ahead to the Duke game and you mentioned the
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  offense versus Duke's defense, and do that by looking back at the Syracuse game
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  for just another moment, it seemed as though we finally struggled inside the red
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  zone. Was it play calling, play play execution or did Syracuse figure out
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  something. I think it was more I leaned towards play calling an execution.
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  I don't think it was Syracuse's defense is decent, but it felt like to
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  me, I did not like either of the fourth down calls personally. You
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  know, first of all, the one time I would have taken the field
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  goal, the fourth and goal from the four, I think Mike Norvell just
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  he felt it looked like to me, he felt like Syracuse had no chance
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  of going ninety six yards, so let's go ahead and get the touchdown.
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  But the problem is, you know, now you don't score on the next
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  one, and now it feels like you're stalling on these drives, and so
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  the next drive they end up going on fourth and one. I didn't love
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  that play call. You go chaheen Bell in the Wildcat, and that's one
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  of those plays where you only have one option to score. With Jordan Travis
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  his ability to run and throw, I feel like you're much better off with
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  the ball in Jordan Travis's hands in those situations. So it sounded like Mike
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  Norvell was kicking himself a little bit for that play call. Well, I
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  always appreciate your time, and we'll talk again next week. Thank you,
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