Ingram Smith, Bud Elliott back again for another episode, the Noelcast Bud.

Go look back on a victorious effort over Northern Illinois.

Pretty solid performance overall, not necessarily, you know, we'll have a nothing but Rosefield conversation as far as the level play, but also don't want to lose the fact that that was a very nice win over a decent team.

I don't know that we'll be able to say that all too often this year, but a nice little turnaround certainly devoted a real disaster of start and just look forward to getting your thoughts and kind of trying to assess the individual parts of the team where they sit after four games and who's kind of emerging in a positive manner and who maybe is yet to perform at a level that could have otherwise reasonably been expected prior to the year.

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So with that, we'll jump into a little look back at Northern Illinois and try to take stock as to where the team is a quarter through the season.

Yeah, man. So they are two and two on the you're not got their first FPS win, always good to beat teams that are in in the league that you're in or at least in the division of play that you're in.

I saw a lot of stuff I liked in this game.

You know, I know you and I had both been seeing things that we liked from prior games too and obviously some things that we didn't like.

Yeah, I just want to remind people you look like he said we try to evaluate the play and talk about the play winner or lose and that doesn't mean that if you win everything is going to be positive, it doesn't mean if you lose, everything is going to be negative.

It's look, you just evaluate good and the bad.

We'll probably go more traditional format tonight, talk about some things we saw from each position group and have a couple of major takeaways at the end. How's that sound?

Let's do it. Absolutely.

So on the offensive side of the ball, 5.3 yards of play is again a lot better than Iowa did against Niu and it's also better than Utah did against Niu.

Success rate of 43%. Again, at the stat will be using more and more success rates are really important.

So if you're not going to be able to see that, it measures sort of your consistency and offense. Right.

Your art to play is somewhat of an efficiency measure, but it also talks, you know, it also speaks to explosiveness.

Success rate is just your down and down consistency. 43% anchor. I'm happy to tell you is a market improvement for Florida State this year.

It had like low 30s and mid 20s, which is horrible earlier in the year. So now having a 43% on the board is a really good for state regardless of opponent.

And be by far the most that the Nord Illinois is giving up this year too. So I was extremely excited to see that.

Step in the right direction. Yeah. Now I tell you there's times where that 20% success rate felt more like 12 or maybe even in the single digits.

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