My biggest takeaway from FSU win….

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MoverofFridge2

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Was how fast we played and how much our team speed has improved over the last several years. Whether by recruiting, portal, weight room and workouts we are a faster team than we have been in quite some time. IMO, this showed up especially on the defensive side of the football.

You can’t coach/teach speed and it showed yesterday. This group can run as a whole and I think it will pay dividends in the future.
 
MoverofFridge2 said:
Was how fast we played and how much our team speed has improved over the last several years. Whether by recruiting, portal, weight room and workouts we are a faster team than we have been in quite some time. IMO, this showed up especially on the defensive side of the football.

You can’t coach/teach speed and it showed yesterday. This group can run as a whole and I think it will pay dividends in the future.
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While accurate that you can’t coach and teach speed, you can coach discipline and preparation, which can raise the feel of team speed. I think our defense was in position far more often than they have been in the past. Very excited for Santucci. There’s no way Duke had better overall team speed than many teams, and yet they had one of the very best defenses in the country. Defensive coaching has improved immensely.
 
We have a walk on running back that is one tough SOB

Haynes is also a stud

Tough wr group

OL, Defense- Tough-
 
What I was most impressed with was how we played on outside zone and outside runs, throws in the flats, slip screens, etc. Our O-line moved their feet well and got outside and made crisp blocks without holding. TE’s blocked great all day. WR’s blocked almost up to CPJ standards. And, the players with the ball in their hands found the open space and ran hard and fast. On the other side of the ball our defenders were much better defending those same kind of plays.

FSU may have more raw speed and strength, but our agility and athleticism was better than the Noles on Saturday. That was impressive.
 
GTCrew4b said:
While accurate that you can’t coach and teach speed, you can coach discipline and preparation, which can raise the feel of team speed. I think our defense was in position far more often than they have been in the past. Very excited for Santucci. There’s no way Duke had better overall team speed than many teams, and yet they had one of the very best defenses in the country. Defensive coaching has improved immensely.
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I think you nailed it. Football is a game of inches, so if a defense takes even one step in the wrong direction, they can look slow. If they're quickly identifying the play and all moving to the right place immediately, they'll look a lot faster
 
GTCrew4b said:
While accurate that you can’t coach and teach speed, you can coach discipline and preparation, which can raise the feel of team speed. I think our defense was in position far more often than they have been in the past. Very excited for Santucci. There’s no way Duke had better overall team speed than many teams, and yet they had one of the very best defenses in the country. Defensive coaching has improved immensely.
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I'd add that tackling improved a lot after the first 2 series. In the 2nd half we were wrapping up on first contact across the board, and that skill is coached.
 
What stuck out most in the run game was patience. The willingness to trust that your blockers will do their thing and let the play develop. Most college RB and mobile QBs just dive right in. On Saturday, ours took a beat to let the hole open. If FSU truly does have an all-world DL, then it's all but unstoppable.
 
Now that the magnitudes of the victory is settling in, it's becoming clear just how damn good our coaching staff is.

From Key to Weinke, Faulkner & Santucci to the group and position coaches who got our young men to commit to the preparation and develop the physical and mental toughness required to beat top ten teams.

Bravo.
 
goose said:
We have a walk on running back that is one tough SOB

Haynes is also a stud

Tough wr group

OL, Defense- Tough-
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As long GT keeps putting stud OL groups on the field they should also have stud QBs and RBs knocking down the door to play there.
 
Said this to some others - reviewing film will be more beneficial for FSU than it will be for us.
We knew we could run the ball. They knew we could run the ball. We ran the ball.
FSU has a lot more pieces they have to figure out how to use best. Like their QB.

But there is one attribute that you can coach into a player but it's better for a player to have that internally - will. There is a mental toughness to this team. That showed from the first drive, after FSU ran through us like hot chili, and we answered, and it showed when Singleton somehow stayed inbounds and got just enough yardage for Birr's kick. If Singleton gets stopped at the line of scrimmage on that third down play, or even right after it, we don't make that kick. We may not even try that kick.
He knew where he needed to go, and got there.
Key talks a lot about toughness and he points to physical toughness. But he knows mental toughness has to be part of the equation. So far, it is.
 
This game reminded me of the 2014 team in the second half of the season when everything was meshing. We had an unstoppable read option with an OL that can get to the second level and block inside line backers before they can get to the perimeter. We had experienced A backs and wide receivers that laid down perfectly timed blocks. We had a QB that could execute to perfection and make great reads. It took Paul Johnson years to recruit and develop depth for that season and he didn’t have a good defense. Coach key has better recruiting and the portal, and seems to be doing it much faster. Hopefully we develop depth to maintain a dominant read option offense for consecutive seasons.
 
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