There’s A LOT of blame to go around at Florida State – Desmond Howard | College Football Live

Boston College made a statement last night running all over Florida State in an upset win and BC ran the ball 52 times for 263 yards and on the other side Florida state had just 21 yards on the ground now DJ UI angal struggled again for the seminal he completed only half of his passes throwing one touchdown and a pick and his qbr of 27 is his lowest in a game since the start of last season for Florida State fans this is becoming a little too common as it's the third time on Mike noral that the team is starting 0 and2 it also happened in 2020 and 2021 and neither season did they make a bow and well norell did not mince words post game for us you know I just sick to how this uh how the season started obviously tonight uh you know I failed in in preparing the team to to be able to go out and respond tonight you know I didn't put them in a in a position to to Showcase what I believe that this football team is um and it's it's extremely disappointing it's eerily similar to Coach norval's words after the Georgia Tech game and now we gave them the benefit of the doubt after that but now two weeks in a row it's a bit of a different story so Dez is it realistic to say that there is a real problem with FSU oh there's no doubt about that I mean week one you can try to you know put a spin on it make an excuse but week two home opener um against against a opponent that you're supposed to beat by double digits there's a lot of blame to go around when there is a lack of performance like we witnessed last night and as a former receiver I'm like focusing on the passing game and trying to see okay is dju going to make these throws are the guys going to make catches and he missed some throws there's no doubt about that but guys dropped passes too I mean there's a lot of blame to go around I'm listening to Lewis rck last night on the call who I think did a fantastic job and look at that's just a Miss touchdown opportunity those throws right there you cannot afford to miss but you have Kyle Morlock the tight end number 84 Lewis kept talking about how the offense wanted to get the ball into his hands at one point he was targeted five times and had zero catches so there is a lot of blame to go around when your offense actually when your team um doesn't perform up to their potential and Dez you talk about a lot of blame going around pass some this way because you talked about the offense let's go talk about the defense now if insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results then Mike Norvell and this Florida State Defense needs some help here's what I mean by that there's a few plays wheel routes is what we call them that this Boston College team ran over and over and over again and Florida State didn't change let's start with the one earliest wheel route in the game you see that down the sideline it's going to be a drop by the by the running back now I get it okay let's go let's go to the iPads on the sideline make an adjustment no same wheel route same result set this time instead of dropping it he bobbles it and runs about 40 something yards on the sideline you know what we'll figure it out no issues got to no we're not going to same wheel route same result and it wasn't just in the passing game where Florida State struggled Florida State struggled against the run you talked about it 52 runs well 42 of them to my count were design runs not broken plays 29 of those 42 runs runs about 69% were some form of power I.E bringing a puller around and running the exact same type of play three more of those plays were essentially a we call it a drill play a power with no puller the same exact kind of play that beat Florida State last week in Georgia Tech pulling guards and linebackers being out of position with bad eyes and so if insanity is doing the same thing over and over again some of these teams might be clinically insane yeah I agree with you 100% to me it Sam it starts up front with the defensive line I know the linebackers are out of place but if they're supposed to have such an outstanding defensive line then somebody at some point needs to make a play and you cannot have an opponent rush for an average of 5.1 yards per carry at the at the most they should average maybe 2.5 but Boston College was able to double that last night they controlled the line of scrimmage just like Georgia Tech did I think that the simos defense line came into this season with a whole bunch of hype and Fanfare but they have not lived up to it so far not at all it looks like FSU is gonna have to make a little bit of a DJ uturn all right Pete I'm done I'm done I swear Pete on the BC side of things the EES played an unbelievable game and their first opening win versus a ranked opponent since 1976 how big was this win Pete for Bill O'Brien and his Squad it's really hard to overstate Victoria how big of a win this is for Bill O'Brien to kick off his tenure at Boston College uh this is a program that hasn't won eight games in a season since Frank spaziani was the coach back in 2009 and here they are with a road top 10 win Bill O'Brien uh gives them right out of the shoot and look they developed a clear identity BC wants to win up front on the lines you obviously heard Sam and Desmond talk about how they dominated in those places and really what you saw the value of Bill O'Brien was was with Thomas castalanos the quarterback he played clean he played efficient and just like those wheel routes that Sam talked about he ran to just Acres of green grass every time he tuck the ball and ran it especially when it was designed there was just swaths of open field uh he tied for the Nations leading touchdown runs last year with 13 and it looks like he's a perfect fit as he's developed as a passer and it remains one of the nation's most dangerous Runners as a quarterback of course of course Pete thank you so much and of of course BC was also playing with heavy hearts over the loss of two incredible former BC hockey players Johnny and Matthew gdo who were killed last Thursday and we here at CFB live send our thoughts and prayers to their families cing down the good times staring down the clock some Hallelujah