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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1528230, member: 289"] - Because they are Florida State and we are not. They have some injuries but their replacements are still guys we wish we had. - Because they are Florida State and the game is in their place, not ours. We are a different team on the road than at home, like a lot of young teams. We can get pumped up by the home fans but lose whatever we had when the crowd doesn’t like us. - They aren’t just Florida State. They got stung by a Yellow Jacket last week and will be an angry Florida State, out to prove somehting. - Speed. - Coach Shafer’s description of their defense last night: “Matt had described cornerback Jalen Ramsey as “a future pro”, (they’ve probably got a lot of them). Coach said that Ramsey and his colleague Marquez White have “great skill sets, great feet. They walk up to you face-to-face and play bump and run. They have long arms. We call them ‘long levers’. They are very astute. Jalen directs traffic. He’s been tough enough to play nickle back. Their safeties are very sure tacklers. They play a ‘one high’ scheme, man to man with pressure up front. But they shift their tacklers form the low hole to the high hole. Their linebackers are still developing. They are not as dominating as in the past but they are on the verge. They bounce Reggie Northrup around. Their four down linemen create havoc. They have big, strong kids who can run. They are very athletic and can get after you. And watch out for Ramsey and Kermit Whitfield returning kicks. Florida State reloads every year.” - They have 16 quarterback sacks this year, one less than all last year. - Despite all the “playmakers” we are excited about, statistically, we have the 111th best offense in the country. (Our much-maligned defense is only 69th by comparison.) Imagine where we’d rank if we were facing the Noles each week? It won’t matter what else happens in this came: we aren’t going anywhere, so how can we possibly win it? - And if you want to compare playmakers, who wins that battle? They can score on any play- and any kick return. - Everett Golston. He embarrassed us by completing 25 straight passes last year when he was playing for Notre Dame. For the game he was an obscene 32 of 39 for 362 yards and 4 touchdowns. - A team that has turned the ball over only twice this season isn’t going to give you the opportunity to pull off an upset. - The problem on defense is clearly that we run out of gas. The last two games have ended with 19 play scoring drives by the other team, one to send the game into overtime where they opponent one, and one to win it outright. Even if we play well, we’ll still lose it in the end. - And if it comes down to a field goal, (that isn’t from an ungodly distance), they’ve got the best ever, Roberto Agauayo. - We’ll beat the Noles someday but it won’t be this year and it won’t be down there. - We’ve blown our chance at a good comeback season from last year with the poor performance against South Florida and that the textbook “How to Lose a Game”: losses to Virginia and Pittsburgh. We are now in the deep end of the pool and we’ve proven we don’t know how to swim yet. [/QUOTE]

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