I don't care who the opponent is. When a team is averaging 66 points per game and 9.99 yards per play on Offense like Louisville is then that opponent is awesome on offense. I know we have a lot of talent on Defense even with Derwin James out but Louisville will score plenty of points. What I am interested in seeing is the Noles' game plan on defense. What are they going to do scheme wise against Lamar Jackson? The guy runs a 4.2. He's basically a better College version of Michael Vick in my opinion. And I remember what Vick did to our defense in the 1999 National Championship game.
Do we rush the passer carefully to keep Jackson in the pocket and risk not getting any pressure and Jackson picking us apart from the pocket? Or do we have our rush guys tee off and trust a spy to clean up the mess if Jackson breaks the pocket? How do we scheme against the Zone Read? Couple with that Louisville has great receivers who can get open against man to man coverage. And Brandon Ratcliff is a great running back as well.
I feel good about our Offense being able to score points even though Louisville has good defense.
But we not only have to score but we have to match what Jackson and Louisville's offense put up. And that is kind of an unknown for me.
There are so many unknowns heading into this game. FSU has been more tested in terms of playing elite competition with the game against Ole Miss while even though Louisville has only played inferior competition so far you simply can't discount them putting up Video game numbers that are awesome no matter who the opponent is.
The cool thing is I don't think this game is a one year wonder. This is the kind of situation where I think every Louisville/FSU, Louisville/Clemson and FSU/Clemson will be this kind of hype filled game every year. I don't think any of those three teams are going to fade at all moving forward.
Do we rush the passer carefully to keep Jackson in the pocket and risk not getting any pressure and Jackson picking us apart from the pocket? Or do we have our rush guys tee off and trust a spy to clean up the mess if Jackson breaks the pocket? How do we scheme against the Zone Read? Couple with that Louisville has great receivers who can get open against man to man coverage. And Brandon Ratcliff is a great running back as well.
I feel good about our Offense being able to score points even though Louisville has good defense.
But we not only have to score but we have to match what Jackson and Louisville's offense put up. And that is kind of an unknown for me.
There are so many unknowns heading into this game. FSU has been more tested in terms of playing elite competition with the game against Ole Miss while even though Louisville has only played inferior competition so far you simply can't discount them putting up Video game numbers that are awesome no matter who the opponent is.
The cool thing is I don't think this game is a one year wonder. This is the kind of situation where I think every Louisville/FSU, Louisville/Clemson and FSU/Clemson will be this kind of hype filled game every year. I don't think any of those three teams are going to fade at all moving forward.
