From the EPR creation studio, this is Jason Staples, bringing you the Unconquered podcast, Hot Takes Edition after the first win of the Florida State season, 4124 over FCS Jacksonville State.

And to be totally honest, despite the start and despite how negative things looked early, my preview, I said 3424 and gave Florida State 75, 80% chance

of winning. So this actually went better than I expected. I knew going in that 18 would be the

starter. And honestly, I was not, and that's Tate Rodemaker, for those of you who are not going

by jerseys. I'm getting to my Bowden age where I don't always remember names anymore the way that I used to. And it's easier to

go by jerseys. But anyway, Rodeemaker was going to be the starter. And I knew that and was not

especially optimistic about how ready he is going to be, or he was going to be coming into this game.

As I'd mentioned on the prior podcast, I just, you've got to know that it's just such a

different game at the high school level versus the college level.

And coach's son or not, it's a lot of things move differently, move faster.

The windows are smaller.

A lot of things, you just, it takes time to adjust to that

sort of thing when, uh, when, when, when you're coming in as a, as a young guy. And we, we saw that.

We saw that on the first drive on the first throw of the game. And, you know, that's a,

that's a play where you can criticize a sprint out past going to a

quarterback, a right-handed quarterback's left off, offside, which is a tougher throw in general

than going to the to the other side. Although as a, as a guy with some experience making both

throws and also having coached both throws a good

bit honestly when you're thrown to the sideline going either way sometimes throwing to the

opposite side so going left for a right-handed quarterback right for a left-handed quarterback

sometimes that's actually an easier throw because it forces you to get your shoulders

and hips around so that you can actually drive that ball. Whereas a lot of times when you're running to

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