00:00I guess the most eye-popping performance took place in Tallahassee, Alabama, eighth-ranked in the nation.
00:07They go on the road as a 13-and-a-half-point road favorite and get smacked around by Florida State.
00:13Florida State pounded the rock coach for 230 yards and limited Ty Simpson in that high-octane offense in Alabama.
00:21The Seminoles win the ballgame outright by 14.
00:24Yeah, the big thing was the performance of the quarterback, Tommy Castellanos, running a Gus Malzahn offense.
00:32And my question was, how was Alabama so unprepared to stop that offense?
00:37Now, if you've been coaching anywhere in the South for the last 15 to 20 years, I could tell you what Gus Malzahn was going to run at Springdale High School, Arkansas, Arkansas State, Tulsa, Auburn, UCF.
00:49He runs his offense.
00:51Every big play hit, you've got to find a way and work.
00:54I would have worked all summer.
00:56I would have watched every game.
00:57You know what?
00:58They probably watched too much of Florida State last year because that's not the team you were going to play, Florida State, last year.
01:05You need to throw that video away because those players probably watched too much of last year's Florida State
01:11and didn't watch that offense from other schools that Gus Malzahn has coached at because he's 6-6 against Alabama when he calls plays.
01:21Another thing, as a play caller, he gave up the head coaching title.
01:25Much better play caller when he can focus on his job as an offensive coordinator.
01:31Coach, if I would have told you prior to the game on Saturday that Alabama would average 3 yards per carry and only 87 rushing yards against that front 7 in Florida State,
01:42a defense that allowed opposing offenses to pound the rock for 184 yards per game last year, would you have believed it?
01:50And then secondly, this is the first loss for an Alabama football team in week number one since 2001 when the Crimson Tide lost to UCLA in Tuscaloosa.
02:02They've also lost the last four games they've played against unranked teams.
02:08They've been double-digit favorites and lost the last four times, and it's because they can't run the football.
02:13If you're going to be a great Alabama team, you look at the championship teams they've had and the Heisman Trophy running backs that they've had in the last 10 years, you've got to run the football.
02:23They expect you to, a physical Alabama team, has to play defense and run the football.
02:29No matter what kind of team you've got, you've got to run it.
02:32They can't do that.
02:33And I will tell you now, the negativism around Tuscaloosa, around that fieldhouse, around those coaches,
02:41you know, their wives and their children go out there.
02:44That's a brutal place to coach if you're not winning football games.
02:49Now you've got to fight for the morale of your staff and the morale of your football team because already people are jumping ship on you.
02:56You've got to show what you really got.
02:58I believe the head coach has shown it in the past.
03:01He's really got to show he can do it now is keep his team together.
03:04But when he does, make sure you can run the football.
03:06How big of a change is Ty Simpson from last year's quarterback, Jalen Milrow?
03:12Ty Simpson throws for 254, two touchdowns.
03:16But we talked about his elusiveness and athleticism nowhere near Jalen Milrow.
03:21It had 20 rushing touchdowns last year and took games over with his legs.
03:26How big of a change is this offense with Ty Simpson compared to last year with Jalen Milrow?
03:32Night and day.
03:33Night and day.
03:34Milrow could win.
03:35He could go out there when there was no running game and make the running game himself.
03:39That's not Ty Simpson.
03:40He's a guy that complements kind of like a Georgia offense.
03:44The quarterback has to be able to have a great running attack out of the running backs because he's not that type of dual threat quarterback.
03:51Alabama, I just, Ty Simpson, I don't want to say he's pedestrian, but he's not a dynamic dual threat quarterback.
03:58He's waited his turn.
04:00He's waited in line.
04:01He was a high recruit.
04:02But I watched, I said, you know what, this is not Milrow.
04:05If they expect him to run for touchdowns, not going to happen.
04:08They've got to have that tailback, that classic running back that they've had.
04:12They've got to have that running back oriented running game that they've had in the past.
04:18That's what they need to have to complement the passing attack.
04:21They did not have it on top of the fact that they never stopped FSU's offense at the same time.
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