OTB: Handling business, blasting into the bye week
On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network
247Sports, Florida State, Florida State Seminoles, Florida State football, FSU football, college foo
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Florida State showed maturity and growth in a 77-3 blasting of East Texas A&M this past Saturday. FSU enters its first bye week 2-0 and ranked No. 10 in the AP Poll.
This episode of OTB recaps the Dominant performance and highlights the early play of Tommy Castellanos. It also gives a few injury updates and an update on recruiting. Here is a full breakdown of the episode:
2:20-3:30: The FG that ruined the spiked baseball
3:30-8:50: What the dominance showed about this year’s team
8:50-13:30: Offensive recap
13:30-20:0p: TC1, the most accurate QB in CFB?
20:00-23:40: Injury report, Zach on Randy Pittman
23:40-28:30: Nitpicking from a blowout
28:30-32:55: Defensive Recap
32:55-39:20: Culture plays from the win
39:25- 44:00: FSU is a top 10 team
44:00-52:00: Recruiting update
52:00-57:40: What’s changed this season?
57:45-59:00: Gus Malzahn’s game plan vs. ETAM
You can subscribe to On The Bench, X’s and Noles, and Beyond The Bench on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify. As always, five-star reviews and comments on Apple Podcasts are appreciated!
Also, you can watch the show on YouTube now. We'll do live streams as well, and you can get notifications on when we're live by subscribing to our YouTube channel.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Contentful. |
| 0:03.0 | Marketers, you know that feeling when your creative clicks? |
| 0:06.6 | When that social post sends engagement through the roof? |
| 0:09.7 | When your outside-of-the-box campaign hits ROI positive? |
| 0:13.2 | When a personalized homepage turns prospects into customers? |
| 0:17.2 | It's utter marketing bliss. |
| 0:19.1 | Contentful helps you create tailored omni-channel experiences without working |
| 0:23.0 | overtime no stress no limits only possibilities get the feels at contentful dot com |
| 0:29.3 | welcome to on the bench i'm your host for this episode brend and sonode. I'm joined by Zach Blasdine, Chris Neff. |
| 0:55.3 | We got Brett Nevitt running the ones and twos, learning how to hit the record button. That was good. That was fun. How do we think you did, guys? Let's go one to 10. Seven is a little bit of work to do. All right, but, you know, both have above average. That's average of a six, got a composite six score, Brett. |
| 0:55.3 | Nicely done, it can only get better from here, I think. All right, but you know, both have above average. That's average of a six. Got a composite six score, Brett. |
| 0:58.1 | Nicely done, it can only get better from here, I think. |
| 1:05.6 | As we discuss a second Florida state win of the season, a tad lopsided. |
| 1:08.1 | Let's first give a shout out to our sponsors. |
| 1:13.2 | First off, Chattanooga Whiskey, absolutely crushing it in the craft distillery game. |
| 1:23.3 | Tis the season for brown liquor, I think it's nothing's better than pairing like a nice cigar and whiskey with beautiful fall weather. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm looking outside. |
| 1:28.8 | I got leaves falling from our Sycamore tree, but a lot of you north of where Zach is in Orlando are probably starting to feel a little bit of a chill coming through the air. |
| 1:32.8 | I know, not quite there yet by a dude, but maybe later this week. So for everyone else, |
| 1:37.2 | tis is this season for brown liquor, chandigrew whiskey, no one finer than them in the craft |
| 1:42.0 | distillery game. And then the Turner group, they sponsor buyers, Sanon, for us, Colin, Amy Turner, both |
| 1:48.3 | legitimately really good people, but beyond that, and that's all well and good, they're |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 247Sports, Florida State, Florida State Seminoles, Florida State football, FSU football, college foo, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of 247Sports, Florida State, Florida State Seminoles, Florida State football, FSU football, college foo and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.