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Speaker 2 (00:57):
Majesty, do your job.
You have to stay back, Allright.
Instant reaction time 2025,Alabama FSU.
In the books Holy shit and theNoles are victorious.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Holy shit 31-17.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You were wrong, Jimmy .
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I am here to eat my big week-long buffet of shit
sandwiches hey, hey no hey, hey,we're gonna dedicate this to
wilson pi down there in thetampa area.
He never stopped believing.
That is the reason why we won.
Holy, holy shit.
Everything he said came true.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Reno knows dick.
Well, you know, nobody knewanything really, but he was
optimistic, and I was, you know,and I believed that if
everything fell into place butwhen does that ever happen?
And it did.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Never, never, and the only one that was riding with
him win or lose was Wilson.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We're giving him his flowers right now.
Hey, we got to.
Just, I just love the.
It was the desperation.
They played like that Kind oflike.
What was crazy about it is youjust look at it.
It was the kind of opposite oflast season.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
They came out and didn't give a shit.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No, but they had the 16-play opening drive 16-play.
Beautiful opening drive Puresex on the field, that's all
they got.
Holy shit, man, you can seetheir fight in the defense,
making them earn it and theresponse to answer that long
drive and be like, oh okay,right now, what are you going to
?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
do.
Oh man, as soon as that, again,as soon as it was seven, they
were ready to fight.
No, they weren't.
It was fighting all game.
They weren't All game, theyweren't going to stay off to
Tony White in the defense.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
They get my game ball , like if I had to give it to
one.
They get my game ball.
If I had to give it to one,yeah, and what's great about
just the instant reaction tothis game is you could give it
to a lot of guys.
There was a lot of contributorshere.
There was a team effort.
This was a team win.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
This was everybody contributed.
I mean, there's plays.
You had a.
What the fumble that was pickedup by the running back.
You know that's not in thestack, column Right what the
fumble that was picked up by therunning back.
You know that's not in the statcolumn Right, that shit won't
show up, big time call on thirddown and long down.
Seven to nothing.
You're going to go deep, deepto squirrel, yeah, squirrel.
Wide showed up.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
One catch.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That's all he needed, but it was a big catch.
The final numbers for the gamefor Castellanos was 9 of 14, 152
yards, no touchdowns, no picksthrough the air, but he did have
a touchdown on the ground, aswell as 19 carries for 72 yards
and it was probably more.
He lost about 10 or so justtaking victory knees, which
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you'll totally understand.
It was just the.
They were in control.
There was a lot of differentthreats.
How about Dansby?
Three carries, 56 yards and atouchdown, and a big conversion
on a short.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I'm going to tell you right now that touchdown run.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, I mean the weapons, the weapons.
That's where I was just gettingat.
I mean, look at the carries.
Here you have Castellanos ledthe way with 19 carries, but
Danzy at three.
Croma, seven carries, 31 yards.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Keeping the sticks moving.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Saul, chuck, six carries, 28 yards and a
touchdown.
That touchdown man Keeping thesticks moving Jalen Lucas six
carries, 22 yards.
I mean nothing's great here,but they're just positive yards.
Gus Roy Williams six carries,14 yards.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That's what it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
But then Holmes two carries, seven yards, but a
touchdown.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Gus yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You just commit to the run.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You have an identity on offense now.
You have an identity on defensenow, holy shit.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Lucas also had two catches at 66 yards.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Hey, shout out to the crowd as well.
Yep, they brought it.
Yep May have reduced capacity,but they were in this game, just
I, good Lord.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, big time win for the Noles.
It had gotten to 14 and a halfthe line had, and FSU just said
no.
And dominated the line ofscrimmage.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, that was.
Uh, god damn it.
That that's.
The biggest takeaway for me isthe offensive line.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, they're like nothing was going backwards no,
I mean this is, I mean they.
We had 382 yard total, 382yards total, but they only had
341 and they had to get 254 ofthem through the year and that's
because they were forced to dothat and they only had 87 yards
rushing.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And then to 230 for Florida State.
There you go, ball game.
Yeah, 230 to 87.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Put it on that ass.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yards per play, 6.1 for the Nolls, 4.8 for the for
crimson tide right, the efforton defense was just outstanding.
It was fun to watch um theplays that they did have.
You weren't questioning things,you were just like, well, tip
your cap, make the tackle, getthem down, do the best you can
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and move on.
It was good to see they foughtthe whole game.
6-17 on third down for Alabama,5-12 for Florida State on third
down.
Fourth down 2-2 for the Noles,2-5 for the Crimson Tide.
Total plays Alabama had 71-63for for florida state.
Um penalties, we had eightpenalties for alabama, four for
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the knolls and uh florida statehad the one turnover on the muff
punt, but other than that, bothteams, uh, you know pretty
clean game there and the timepossession was pretty down the
middle, so it was just holy shit, it was one in the time
possession was pretty down themiddle.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So it was just one Holy shit.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It was one in the trenches, it was one by Florida
State against Alabama, the ACCagainst the SEC, and it was a
dominant performance.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, it was a dominant performance.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Simpson was on the run.
I mean his numbers actuallylooked better than they were 23
of 42, 254 and two touchdowns 42pass attempts he had to throw
it 42 times and he missed a lotof them and that was due to
pressure.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, pressure.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
He missed on some throws, but the effort by the
defense you commend and it wasfun to see Florida State on
offense was an absolute joy towatch in identity.
Oh my God, I never enjoyedtwo-yard carries more than you
know what I'm saying Right, ohman, positive yards, just keep
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it moving.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I've been hating Gus Malzahn for years, I never
enjoyed two-yard carries morethan you know what I'm saying.
Right, oh man?
Positive yards, just keep itmoving.
I've been hating Gus Malzahnfor years and I don't dude.
Give me that shit every week.
Give it to me.
All I want is identity.
Man, that like oh man.
Yeah it was something to see,that first touchdown from Danzy,
perfect timing for it.
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Yep, just taking the lead intohalf was further than most
people expected.
I'm telling you, man, theeffort was there all game.
You can't.
The defensive scheme was In onegame.
They just rewrote everything.
There were zero big plays.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, for alabama, the biggest plays they had were
the timing routes, because theygave them they had that right.
You gave some, some yards up tobernard, but that was it you,
you make plays, you tackle, youswarm, and I liked, I liked what
I saw out of that.
Defense relentless, a lot ofeffort.
Defense, relentless, a lot ofeffort on the pass rush, yeah On
something that.
I thought would be a weakness.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
It's still up with sacks and they have pressures.
It's.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
On paper there is.
It was such a pleasant surprise.
Man On paper.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Not only should this have not been.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
You know the result, but it shouldn't have been
competitive.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Exactly.
That's why the game's notplayed on paper.
And you know it's a long seasonand I don't think Alabama
should.
They have a tough schedule, sothey'll have plenty of
opportunities to make up for it.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, I'm going to be honest with you.
It's a bigger win for FloridaState.
Yeah, I mean, alabama's goingto be honest with you.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
This is a bigger win for Florida State.
Yeah, I mean, alabama is goingto go to the mill.
You put the Paul Feinbaums.
They're going to say, oh it's aterrible loss and all that crap
.
But I mean it's not.
You think about it.
I mean, on the road at Doakwith a first-year quarterback
you lost, it's not the worstthing in the world he lost.
The win for Florida State, whatit meant to the coach and the
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team, it was way more important.
You could see that on the field.
It revealed itself.
The fight was there, thepassion was there and Alabama
did not answer that.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, I think what this highlights more than
anything is when you have aquarterback that is confident in
what he's doing.
Yeah, I don't.
Dj was confident at any pointlast season.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Nope it was.
It was look back and see what,what I can do instead of just
running.
Yeah, and you saw just playswhere I gotta run and get this
freaking first down.
Okay, I'll do it yeah, oh hedidn't play perfect, but he
didn't any.
There were some throws whereyou could even see him overly be
cautious, being overly cautiousand throwing it outside when he
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had an easy throw.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Right, he missed a couple throws.
He missed a few throws here andthere.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yes, he knew what he had to do to get the win.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Exactly, it comes down to being a gamer.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
This is holy shit, man.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's a good combo.
You know it's a if they canplay off each other.
I mean, even when alabamascored that first touchdown, I
was like you know that took alot of time right, 16 plays
you're taking.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
It's only eight minutes.
Yeah, it's seven and nothing.
All right, seven and nothing,we come down.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
That was, that was huge the response and in
response, and even before thatthird down conversion, they had
gotten a few first downs.
Yeah, and I said, even if theydon't get this, it was a
positive response.
In fact, they got multiplefirst downs.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Right At that point you're thinking all right, make
them take nine more minutes toscore, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
But then the first big play of the game was the
third and long, where they wentdeep to us.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Squirrel.
Hey, look at, their receivercatches the ball.
What, what, what happens?
Great catch, and then they ranthe hurry up next play, oh you
get close, dude Dude Thomas isTommy's running it in.
Yeah, Somebody's runningmultiple backs.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You have multiple backs that are big and that can
score.
And you saw, saw chuck.
You saw holmes tonight yeah, Ididn't even know, holmes was
still playing I didn't do it.
I didn't either.
I thought he was out ofeligibility.
I mean everybody when they hadtheir number called was running
and this is gonna be be other.
(12:34):
Well, you're going to probablyplay maybe clemson, but other
than that, there's not going tobe any tougher defenses that
you're going to play well, yeah,in terms of talent on the
roster that you know you'refacing, I'm excited nothing but
blue chips.
I mean.
Well, I'm excited about whatthe wins and losses now.
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I'm glad I was at eight andfour.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Holy shit, man, you got to rethink it.
Yeah, dude, everything that guyjust said was bullshit.
That's what you take from allmy preseason.
Takes Everything, reno justsaid was bullshit.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You're living in a world where you came up looking
at recruiting stats.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, you're looking at recruits, You're looking at
guys that haven't playedtogether.
What did I say?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
What's different now and you can hear it is that you
can turn it around.
Yeah, you can also fall off acliff.
I will be honest with you.
I will be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Ex.
I'll be honest with you.
Exhibit A I did not expect theoffensive line to look that in
sync just right off the bat.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
No, Florida State looked like a great team.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Nobody would believe.
This is the epitome of thetransfer portal.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, shout out to Herb Hand for being that much
better than Alex Atkins at everyaspect of coaching.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Got embarrassed at Notre Dame last year yeah, and
it's like get the hell out ofcoaching.
Got embarrassed at Notre Damelast year yeah, and it's like
get the hell out of here.
Right, right.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
It was sink or swim time for some of his coaches and
he just let them sink.
It was time.
It was time to get the fuck out.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Because it was desperation time for Mike.
Yeah, even after such a greatseason, holy.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
In 23,.
You got to feel good if you'reMike.
Mike, yeah, even after such agreat season.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I holy In 23,.
This you got to feel good ifyou're Mike, just to validate
what you had done, but you gotto keep it rolling, which you
will in the next two games,because this is only.
You can feel the momentum, youcan feel it in the game.
You could feel the defensegetting fired up.
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You could feel it.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, I would go as far as saying this is probably
as much momentum as he's hadsince he took the job.
Even no, no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Even with the.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, no, no, yeah, yeah.
Even with the yeah, yeah, Imean you just took a top 10 team
.
After everybody's been tellingyou how much you suck, you told
them that you were going to beatthem too, For 18 minutes yeah.
And right, we'll see, Like yousaid, 3-0 going to
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Charlottesville.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, I mean now it's going to be a different story
because, as everything haschanged as quickly as the season
has, I'm sure that will changein the actual damn season.
Yeah, when all of a sudden boom, Florida State's all of a
sudden back on top.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, oh yeah, I mean you're going to be favored
going into the next three games,You'll be favored going up to
Charlottesville, Right?
I mean you know you're going tobe expected to be 4-0 and
hosting Miami in a top somethingmatchup top 15, top 20,
whatever it is, Plus 425 if hisshoe was.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, I mean like just just on not to even say it,
but just to just on the unknownalone it was worth the money if
he made that bet, because whatyou had was what you had was the
unknown, but what the potentialwas was something that could
beat alabama right, I mean it'sproven there's one guy that has
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been a thorn in the side of thetide.
Yeah, athletic quarterbackflorida state fans should know
this guy can run around and ohyeah, no matter how good the
defense he, he can infuriate you.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, that's exactly what he did.
The.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Alabama defense does not suck.
No, it's a real good defense.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
No, yeah, they've got NFL guys on all three lines.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
There was NFL talent all over the field on Alabama
and our defense was making playson their line.
Our offense was making plays ontheir line, our offense was
making plays on their d-line andthey, they got beat some plays,
but they, they fought theirasses off and yeah.
I was proud to be a Seminolegrad, proud to be FSU Fletch.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I mean I, I that, oh, ooh.
It makes you proud to be inthis city and just holy shit,
man it was a good win for thetown.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It was a good win for the university, especially
after the offseason, after going2-10, after all the you know
Everything, just the stuff withthe renovations, just yeah, it
looks great.
It yeah, it looks great now.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Right.
Oh no, the stadium looks great.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It didn't look bad on TV, sounded great yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I mean, you know they even as much as watching the.
You know, referencing back tothe snubs sucked seeing on TV.
When you win this game, it kindof Well they're never going to
change.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
No, and they're just going to totally, like, put the
whole season in three slides andone of them is that bowl game.
It's an embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I will give them credit.
They did say that we didn'thave anybody playing in it.
Joe Tessitore did.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Right, give him credit.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Well, yeah, I give him credit, that wasn't produced
, and that wasn't in theproduction.
Hey man he's.
You give him credit.
He's got his top two buttons onbuttons.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Well, that's because he talks to the coaches.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
He's wearing that Italian horn on that gold chain.
He's out here tomcatting.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Well, they know, I mean even in the bet, you talk
to the coaches.
They understand what's right,and that was a travesty.
What took place in 2020.
Yeah, and so what happened thisyear is a good sign in terms of
what I said about kind ofgiving Mike a pass if he can
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turn it around this year.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And it looks like he's on the right path.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
He's like you know what I gave too much I?
I gave too much leeway to gettoo much trust in the wrong
people yeah you know and I I wasnot, you know, overbearing
getting the people that I cantrust, and he looks like he went
and got people he can trust tomake those kind of decisions and
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he empowered them to do thesame in their decisions.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Well, he's had a history of he played like a
desperate team.
You know he brings guys along.
You know you look at DanLanning, you look at Kenny
Dillingham those are two headcoaches now Arizona State, at
Oregon, guys that wereassistants under Mike.
That's been something he's donethroughout his career.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
He's let guys earn their keep, kind of make their
own way, and this time it bithim in the ass.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
You know he wanted to do it with Fuller, he wanted to
do it with Atkins and theyfailed him.
Yeah, so he said, screw that,I'm going back to what I know.
I got an opportunity to get Gus.
I'm going back to what I know.
I got an opportunity to get Gus.
I'm going to get Gus.
I'm going to get Herb.
You know I'm going to go hire aguy that's been a defensive
coordinator at different spots,has had success, and we're going
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to see if we can run this shitback and dude holy shit.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Castellanos was the right pick.
I was happy when we got himjust because what we needed,
based on how bad it was In termsof how do you replicate what
Jordan Travis could do?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I mean, he's probably the closest thing you could get
.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
It's true, you know, with his legs he's going to have
the ability and the touch, thatTravis and the procedure.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, but he's going to be running a different
offense.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Oh yeah, but oh man, it's fun to watch.
Yeah, it's fun to watch, kindof like the unexpected, and you
had a feeling that it was in theback of your head.
You know that.
You know when you do, when youfollow the sport like I do.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
If only, if only.
Yeah, just that, and I refuseto let myself believe it.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Well, no, and then you're like well, you know, I
like the center, I like thecombo, and we talked about the
coaches at Tulsa and the recordsthat they set.
And then the ground game, andthen, you know, credit to Wilson
.
I mean, hey, offensive line manit lined up into a big win for
Florida State.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I can't say enough about the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
The offensive line and the effort on defense.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, Earl Little
coming down filling on thoserunning.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I mean, they're so Barker on safety 27.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yep, I just hey Blake Nicholson.
I've shit on you for two yearsnow.
I'm telling you, man, that guywas making plays out there.
The team played desperate.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They played like their coach wanted them to.
It looks like they were allbuying into the message, so that
tells me that he did his job.
That's what I mean.
That's your job as a coach isto get buy-in Connecting with
the players.
And if they're not buying in?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
yeah, and there was more of that than I think that
we've seen out of that, we sawout of Adam Fuller, until you
know year three, right, oh manHoly shit, there you go.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
There's your instant reaction.
Week one in the books.
What is that?
Is that a hero?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Is that the shuttle?
Are they bringing more beer?
You got us a cold pop.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You got to get on out of here.
I ride you, but Brian Kellygoing to give it a shot tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
God, I hope he beats Dabo.
Is he going to bank the table?
You going to bang it?
You going to lose another seat.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I don't know what else I have to do to get these
guys ready.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
God, do I have to stop playing golf every Sunday?
I don't want to.
What am I?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
even doing here, guys ?
Brian Kelly and the Tigers willtake on Dabo and his Tigers in
Death Valley, in the fake DeathValley or in the real Death
Valley.
I think the real Death Valleyis LSU.
Is that right?
I mean, everybody knows that,yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, come on.
Come on, dude.
Nobody was scared to go toClemson for like 40 years.
You know what?
Nobody was scared to go to LSUin the 80s either.
I remember William Floyd's.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Let's see if you only do one.
I mean you can call it both.
It's the Battle of the DeathValleys in South Carolina
tonight.
Tomorrow night, we got Miami,we got Notre Dame.
That's going to be a battle.
That's going to be a battle.
I'm pretty sure we'll have ashow after that one too.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's going to be a battle, I'm pretty sure we'll
have a show after that one too.
That's going to be a battle.
We'll request for one.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah, fantasy drafts.
It's heating up.
Nfl starts Thursday.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Hey, listen, man Cowboys, 50 home runs from Big
Dumper 50 home runs.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Micahper 50 home runs , micah Parsons traded to the
Packers.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Michael.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That's all smiles at glory holes, man.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I love Kirk Herbstreit talking about culture
.
Dude, they won a Super Bowlwith Charles Haley punching
people on staff In the lockerroom.
You're talking about culture.
Fuck that.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Jerry Jones put him in a home.
How about dominating?
Yeah, it's like getting thebest players dominating.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Right, dude, it's about getting that right.
We got to stop the run.
Well, how about you get aquarterback that doesn't suck
yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
How about you get players that don't suck?
Exactly, we got two first picksfor them.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
We're going to take a tackle let me move to guard and
then a kicker.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Knowles.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Knowles bitch Big win over Alabama.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
We'll react to that more next week.
We got more games to watch andwe'll talk to you next time
right here on the North FloridaSports Network.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Holy shit, talk to you next time right here on the
north florida sports network.
Holy shit.
Majesty, do your job.
You have to stay back, Allright.
Instant reaction time 2025,Alabama FSU.
In the books Holy shit and theNoles are victorious.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Holy shit 31-17.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You were wrong, Jimmy .
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I am here to eat my big week-long buffet of shit
sandwiches hey, hey no hey, hey,we're gonna dedicate this to
wilson pi down there in thetampa area.
He never stopped believing.
That is the reason why we won.
Holy, holy shit.
Everything he said came true.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Reno knows dick.
Well, you know, nobody knewanything really, but he was
optimistic, and I was, you know,and I believed that if
everything fell into place butwhen does that ever happen?
And it did.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Never, never, and the only one that was riding with
him win or lose was Wilson.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We're giving him his flowers right now.
Hey, we got to.
Just, I just love the.
It was the desperation.
They played like that Kind oflike.
What was crazy about it is youjust look at it.
It was the kind of opposite oflast season.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
They came out and didn't give a shit.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No, but they had the 16-play opening drive 16-play.
Beautiful opening drive Puresex on the field, that's all
they got.
Holy shit, man, you can seetheir fight in the defense,
making them earn it and theresponse to answer that long
drive and be like, oh okay,right now, what are you going to
?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
do.
Oh man, as soon as that, again,as soon as it was seven, they
were ready to fight.
No, they weren't.
It was fighting all game.
They weren't All game, theyweren't going to stay off to
Tony White in the defense.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
They get my game ball , like if I had to give it to
one.
They get my game ball.
If I had to give it to one,yeah, and what's great about
just the instant reaction tothis game is you could give it
to a lot of guys.
There was a lot of contributorshere.
There was a team effort.
This was a team win.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
This was everybody contributed.
I mean, there's plays.
You had a.
What the fumble that was pickedup by the running back.
You know that's not in thestack, column Right what the
fumble that was picked up by therunning back.
You know that's not in the statcolumn Right, that shit won't
show up, big time call on thirddown and long down.
Seven to nothing.
You're going to go deep, deepto squirrel, yeah, squirrel.
Wide showed up.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
One catch.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That's all he needed, but it was a big catch.
The final numbers for the gamefor Castellanos was 9 of 14, 152
yards, no touchdowns, no picksthrough the air, but he did have
a touchdown on the ground, aswell as 19 carries for 72 yards
and it was probably more.
He lost about 10 or so justtaking victory knees, which
(03:57):
you'll totally understand.
It was just the.
They were in control.
There was a lot of differentthreats.
How about Dansby?
Three carries, 56 yards and atouchdown, and a big conversion
on a short.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I'm going to tell you right now that touchdown run.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, I mean the weapons, the weapons.
That's where I was just gettingat.
I mean, look at the carries.
Here you have Castellanos ledthe way with 19 carries, but
Danzy at three.
Croma, seven carries, 31 yards.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Keeping the sticks moving.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Saul, chuck, six carries, 28 yards and a
touchdown.
That touchdown man Keeping thesticks moving Jalen Lucas six
carries, 22 yards.
I mean nothing's great here,but they're just positive yards.
Gus Roy Williams six carries,14 yards.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That's what it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
But then Holmes two carries, seven yards, but a
touchdown.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Gus yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You just commit to the run.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You have an identity on offense now.
You have an identity on defensenow, holy shit.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Lucas also had two catches at 66 yards.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Hey, shout out to the crowd as well.
Yep, they brought it.
Yep May have reduced capacity,but they were in this game, just
I, good Lord.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, big time win for the Noles.
It had gotten to 14 and a halfthe line had, and FSU just said
no.
And dominated the line ofscrimmage.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, that was.
Uh, god damn it.
That that's.
The biggest takeaway for me isthe offensive line.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, they're like nothing was going backwards no,
I mean this is, I mean they.
We had 382 yard total, 382yards total, but they only had
341 and they had to get 254 ofthem through the year and that's
because they were forced to dothat and they only had 87 yards
rushing.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And then to 230 for Florida State.
There you go, ball game.
Yeah, 230 to 87.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Put it on that ass.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yards per play, 6.1 for the Nolls, 4.8 for the for
crimson tide right, the efforton defense was just outstanding.
It was fun to watch um theplays that they did have.
You weren't questioning things,you were just like, well, tip
your cap, make the tackle, getthem down, do the best you can
(06:37):
and move on.
It was good to see they foughtthe whole game.
6-17 on third down for Alabama,5-12 for Florida State on third
down.
Fourth down 2-2 for the Noles,2-5 for the Crimson Tide.
Total plays Alabama had 71-63for for florida state.
Um penalties, we had eightpenalties for alabama, four for
(07:01):
the knolls and uh florida statehad the one turnover on the muff
punt, but other than that, bothteams, uh, you know pretty
clean game there and the timepossession was pretty down the
middle, so it was just holy shit, it was one in the time
possession was pretty down themiddle.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So it was just one Holy shit.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It was one in the trenches, it was one by Florida
State against Alabama, the ACCagainst the SEC, and it was a
dominant performance.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, it was a dominant performance.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Simpson was on the run.
I mean his numbers actuallylooked better than they were 23
of 42, 254 and two touchdowns 42pass attempts he had to throw
it 42 times and he missed a lotof them and that was due to
pressure.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, pressure.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
He missed on some throws, but the effort by the
defense you commend and it wasfun to see Florida State on
offense was an absolute joy towatch in identity.
Oh my God, I never enjoyedtwo-yard carries more than you
know what I'm saying Right, ohman, positive yards, just keep
(08:17):
it moving.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I've been hating Gus Malzahn for years, I never
enjoyed two-yard carries morethan you know what I'm saying.
Right, oh man?
Positive yards, just keep itmoving.
I've been hating Gus Malzahnfor years and I don't dude.
Give me that shit every week.
Give it to me.
All I want is identity.
Man, that like oh man.
Yeah it was something to see,that first touchdown from Danzy,
perfect timing for it.
(08:37):
Yep, just taking the lead intohalf was further than most
people expected.
I'm telling you, man, theeffort was there all game.
You can't.
The defensive scheme was In onegame.
They just rewrote everything.
There were zero big plays.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, for alabama, the biggest plays they had were
the timing routes, because theygave them they had that right.
You gave some, some yards up tobernard, but that was it you,
you make plays, you tackle, youswarm, and I liked, I liked what
I saw out of that.
Defense relentless, a lot ofeffort.
Defense, relentless, a lot ofeffort on the pass rush, yeah On
something that.
I thought would be a weakness.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
It's still up with sacks and they have pressures.
It's.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
On paper there is.
It was such a pleasant surprise.
Man On paper.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Not only should this have not been.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
You know the result, but it shouldn't have been
competitive.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Exactly.
That's why the game's notplayed on paper.
And you know it's a long seasonand I don't think Alabama
should.
They have a tough schedule, sothey'll have plenty of
opportunities to make up for it.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, I'm going to be honest with you.
It's a bigger win for FloridaState.
Yeah, I mean, alabama's goingto be honest with you.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
This is a bigger win for Florida State.
Yeah, I mean, alabama is goingto go to the mill.
You put the Paul Feinbaums.
They're going to say, oh it's aterrible loss and all that crap
.
But I mean it's not.
You think about it.
I mean, on the road at Doakwith a first-year quarterback
you lost, it's not the worstthing in the world he lost.
The win for Florida State, whatit meant to the coach and the
(10:18):
team, it was way more important.
You could see that on the field.
It revealed itself.
The fight was there, thepassion was there and Alabama
did not answer that.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, I think what this highlights more than
anything is when you have aquarterback that is confident in
what he's doing.
Yeah, I don't.
Dj was confident at any pointlast season.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Nope it was.
It was look back and see what,what I can do instead of just
running.
Yeah, and you saw just playswhere I gotta run and get this
freaking first down.
Okay, I'll do it yeah, oh hedidn't play perfect, but he
didn't any.
There were some throws whereyou could even see him overly be
cautious, being overly cautiousand throwing it outside when he
(11:00):
had an easy throw.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Right, he missed a couple throws.
He missed a few throws here andthere.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yes, he knew what he had to do to get the win.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Exactly, it comes down to being a gamer.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
This is holy shit, man.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's a good combo.
You know it's a if they canplay off each other.
I mean, even when alabamascored that first touchdown, I
was like you know that took alot of time right, 16 plays
you're taking.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
It's only eight minutes.
Yeah, it's seven and nothing.
All right, seven and nothing,we come down.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
That was, that was huge the response and in
response, and even before thatthird down conversion, they had
gotten a few first downs.
Yeah, and I said, even if theydon't get this, it was a
positive response.
In fact, they got multiplefirst downs.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Right At that point you're thinking all right, make
them take nine more minutes toscore, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
But then the first big play of the game was the
third and long, where they wentdeep to us.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Squirrel.
Hey, look at, their receivercatches the ball.
What, what, what happens?
Great catch, and then they ranthe hurry up next play, oh you
get close, dude Dude Thomas isTommy's running it in.
Yeah, Somebody's runningmultiple backs.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You have multiple backs that are big and that can
score.
And you saw, saw chuck.
You saw holmes tonight yeah, Ididn't even know, holmes was
still playing I didn't do it.
I didn't either.
I thought he was out ofeligibility.
I mean everybody when they hadtheir number called was running
and this is gonna be be other.
(12:34):
Well, you're going to probablyplay maybe clemson, but other
than that, there's not going tobe any tougher defenses that
you're going to play well, yeah,in terms of talent on the
roster that you know you'refacing, I'm excited nothing but
blue chips.
I mean.
Well, I'm excited about whatthe wins and losses now.
(12:55):
I'm glad I was at eight andfour.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Holy shit, man, you got to rethink it.
Yeah, dude, everything that guyjust said was bullshit.
That's what you take from allmy preseason.
Takes Everything, reno justsaid was bullshit.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You're living in a world where you came up looking
at recruiting stats.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, you're looking at recruits, You're looking at
guys that haven't playedtogether.
What did I say?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
What's different now and you can hear it is that you
can turn it around.
Yeah, you can also fall off acliff.
I will be honest with you.
I will be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Ex.
I'll be honest with you.
Exhibit A I did not expect theoffensive line to look that in
sync just right off the bat.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
No, Florida State looked like a great team.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Nobody would believe.
This is the epitome of thetransfer portal.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, shout out to Herb Hand for being that much
better than Alex Atkins at everyaspect of coaching.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Got embarrassed at Notre Dame last year yeah, and
it's like get the hell out ofcoaching.
Got embarrassed at Notre Damelast year yeah, and it's like
get the hell out of here.
Right, right.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
It was sink or swim time for some of his coaches and
he just let them sink.
It was time.
It was time to get the fuck out.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Because it was desperation time for Mike.
Yeah, even after such a greatseason, holy.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
In 23,.
You got to feel good if you'reMike.
Mike, yeah, even after such agreat season.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I holy In 23,.
This you got to feel good ifyou're Mike, just to validate
what you had done, but you gotto keep it rolling, which you
will in the next two games,because this is only.
You can feel the momentum, youcan feel it in the game.
You could feel the defensegetting fired up.
(14:38):
You could feel it.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, I would go as far as saying this is probably
as much momentum as he's hadsince he took the job.
Even no, no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Even with the.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, no, no, yeah, yeah.
Even with the yeah, yeah, Imean you just took a top 10 team
.
After everybody's been tellingyou how much you suck, you told
them that you were going to beatthem too, For 18 minutes yeah.
And right, we'll see, Like yousaid, 3-0 going to
(15:13):
Charlottesville.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, I mean now it's going to be a different story
because, as everything haschanged as quickly as the season
has, I'm sure that will changein the actual damn season.
Yeah, when all of a sudden boom, Florida State's all of a
sudden back on top.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, oh yeah, I mean you're going to be favored
going into the next three games,You'll be favored going up to
Charlottesville, Right?
I mean you know you're going tobe expected to be 4-0 and
hosting Miami in a top somethingmatchup top 15, top 20,
whatever it is, Plus 425 if hisshoe was.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, I mean like just just on not to even say it,
but just to just on the unknownalone it was worth the money if
he made that bet, because whatyou had was what you had was the
unknown, but what the potentialwas was something that could
beat alabama right, I mean it'sproven there's one guy that has
(16:21):
been a thorn in the side of thetide.
Yeah, athletic quarterbackflorida state fans should know
this guy can run around and ohyeah, no matter how good the
defense he, he can infuriate you.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, that's exactly what he did.
The.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Alabama defense does not suck.
No, it's a real good defense.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
No, yeah, they've got NFL guys on all three lines.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
There was NFL talent all over the field on Alabama
and our defense was making playson their line.
Our offense was making plays ontheir line, our offense was
making plays on their d-line andthey, they got beat some plays,
but they, they fought theirasses off and yeah.
I was proud to be a Seminolegrad, proud to be FSU Fletch.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I mean I, I that, oh, ooh.
It makes you proud to be inthis city and just holy shit,
man it was a good win for thetown.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It was a good win for the university, especially
after the offseason, after going2-10, after all the you know
Everything, just the stuff withthe renovations, just yeah, it
looks great.
It yeah, it looks great now.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Right.
Oh no, the stadium looks great.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It didn't look bad on TV, sounded great yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I mean, you know they even as much as watching the.
You know, referencing back tothe snubs sucked seeing on TV.
When you win this game, it kindof Well they're never going to
change.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
No, and they're just going to totally, like, put the
whole season in three slides andone of them is that bowl game.
It's an embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I will give them credit.
They did say that we didn'thave anybody playing in it.
Joe Tessitore did.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Right, give him credit.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Well, yeah, I give him credit, that wasn't produced
, and that wasn't in theproduction.
Hey man he's.
You give him credit.
He's got his top two buttons onbuttons.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Well, that's because he talks to the coaches.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
He's wearing that Italian horn on that gold chain.
He's out here tomcatting.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Well, they know, I mean even in the bet, you talk
to the coaches.
They understand what's right,and that was a travesty.
What took place in 2020.
Yeah, and so what happened thisyear is a good sign in terms of
what I said about kind ofgiving Mike a pass if he can
(18:48):
turn it around this year.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And it looks like he's on the right path.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
He's like you know what I gave too much I?
I gave too much leeway to gettoo much trust in the wrong
people yeah you know and I I wasnot, you know, overbearing
getting the people that I cantrust, and he looks like he went
and got people he can trust tomake those kind of decisions and
(19:12):
he empowered them to do thesame in their decisions.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Well, he's had a history of he played like a
desperate team.
You know he brings guys along.
You know you look at DanLanning, you look at Kenny
Dillingham those are two headcoaches now Arizona State, at
Oregon, guys that wereassistants under Mike.
That's been something he's donethroughout his career.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
He's let guys earn their keep, kind of make their
own way, and this time it bithim in the ass.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
You know he wanted to do it with Fuller, he wanted to
do it with Atkins and theyfailed him.
Yeah, so he said, screw that,I'm going back to what I know.
I got an opportunity to get Gus.
I'm going back to what I know.
I got an opportunity to get Gus.
I'm going to get Gus.
I'm going to get Herb.
You know I'm going to go hire aguy that's been a defensive
coordinator at different spots,has had success, and we're going
(20:04):
to see if we can run this shitback and dude holy shit.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Castellanos was the right pick.
I was happy when we got himjust because what we needed,
based on how bad it was In termsof how do you replicate what
Jordan Travis could do?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I mean, he's probably the closest thing you could get
.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
It's true, you know, with his legs he's going to have
the ability and the touch, thatTravis and the procedure.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, but he's going to be running a different
offense.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Oh yeah, but oh man, it's fun to watch.
Yeah, it's fun to watch, kindof like the unexpected, and you
had a feeling that it was in theback of your head.
You know that.
You know when you do, when youfollow the sport like I do.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
If only, if only.
Yeah, just that, and I refuseto let myself believe it.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Well, no, and then you're like well, you know, I
like the center, I like thecombo, and we talked about the
coaches at Tulsa and the recordsthat they set.
And then the ground game, andthen, you know, credit to Wilson
.
I mean, hey, offensive line manit lined up into a big win for
Florida State.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I can't say enough about the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
The offensive line and the effort on defense.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, Earl Little
coming down filling on thoserunning.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I mean, they're so Barker on safety 27.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yep, I just hey Blake Nicholson.
I've shit on you for two yearsnow.
I'm telling you, man, that guywas making plays out there.
The team played desperate.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They played like their coach wanted them to.
It looks like they were allbuying into the message, so that
tells me that he did his job.
That's what I mean.
That's your job as a coach isto get buy-in Connecting with
the players.
And if they're not buying in?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
yeah, and there was more of that than I think that
we've seen out of that, we sawout of Adam Fuller, until you
know year three, right, oh manHoly shit, there you go.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
There's your instant reaction.
Week one in the books.
What is that?
Is that a hero?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Is that the shuttle?
Are they bringing more beer?
You got us a cold pop.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You got to get on out of here.
I ride you, but Brian Kellygoing to give it a shot tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
God, I hope he beats Dabo.
Is he going to bank the table?
You going to bang it?
You going to lose another seat.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I don't know what else I have to do to get these
guys ready.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
God, do I have to stop playing golf every Sunday?
I don't want to.
What am I?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
even doing here, guys ?
Brian Kelly and the Tigers willtake on Dabo and his Tigers in
Death Valley, in the fake DeathValley or in the real Death
Valley.
I think the real Death Valleyis LSU.
Is that right?
I mean, everybody knows that,yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, come on.
Come on, dude.
Nobody was scared to go toClemson for like 40 years.
You know what?
Nobody was scared to go to LSUin the 80s either.
I remember William Floyd's.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Let's see if you only do one.
I mean you can call it both.
It's the Battle of the DeathValleys in South Carolina
tonight.
Tomorrow night, we got Miami,we got Notre Dame.
That's going to be a battle.
That's going to be a battle.
I'm pretty sure we'll have ashow after that one too.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's going to be a battle, I'm pretty sure we'll
have a show after that one too.
That's going to be a battle.
We'll request for one.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah, fantasy drafts.
It's heating up.
Nfl starts Thursday.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Hey, listen, man Cowboys, 50 home runs from Big
Dumper 50 home runs.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Micahper 50 home runs , micah Parsons traded to the
Packers.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Michael.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That's all smiles at glory holes, man.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I love Kirk Herbstreit talking about culture
.
Dude, they won a Super Bowlwith Charles Haley punching
people on staff In the lockerroom.
You're talking about culture.
Fuck that.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Jerry Jones put him in a home.
How about dominating?
Yeah, it's like getting thebest players dominating.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Right, dude, it's about getting that right.
We got to stop the run.
Well, how about you get aquarterback that doesn't suck
yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
How about you get players that don't suck?
Exactly, we got two first picksfor them.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
We're going to take a tackle let me move to guard and
then a kicker.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Knowles.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Knowles bitch Big win over Alabama.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
We'll react to that more next week.
We got more games to watch andwe'll talk to you next time
right here on the North FloridaSports Network.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Holy shit, talk to you next time right here on the
north florida sports network.
Holy shit.
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