OTB: “On the Concrete on the Bricks” | Thoughts on FSU’s acquisition of QB Ashton Daniels
On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Florida State landed its potential QB1 out of the transfer portal on Tuesday morning. Auburn transfer Ashton Daniels announced his commitment to the Seminoles after visiting Tallahassee on Monday. This episode of On The Bench discusses the addition of Daniels, how that affects FSU's 2026 outlook, and the recent portal announcements of three key defensive linemen (Mandrell Desir, Darryll Desir, and Amaree Williams).
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to On the Bench. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm your host for this episode. |
| 0:24.0 | Brendan Sinan. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm joined by Zach Blasdy and Chris Knee. |
| 0:28.0 | Chris Ney is out on the bench. |
| 0:29.4 | Chris, what bench is this? |
| 0:30.3 | You're not even on a bench. |
| 0:31.1 | What are you sitting on? |
| 0:32.5 | I guess it would be cement on top of bricks. |
| 0:35.8 | Cement on top of bricks. |
| 0:37.3 | Brett, put that down as a potential podcast title. |
| 0:40.4 | All right, he's got it there. |
| 0:41.9 | So Chris is out at the football league facility waiting out recruit. |
| 0:45.4 | So the audio is going to be a little different and probably just not as good as normal, |
| 0:49.4 | but Zach and I are in our normal setups here as we record a morning on the bench to go over Florida |
| 0:54.6 | State's quarterback for the 2026 season guys who we all had on our bingo card at the start |
| 1:00.6 | of this thing really really is what we were thinking when the transfer portal opened up and |
| 1:05.3 | we were hearing that Florida State was willing willing to really splurge on a quarterback and |
| 1:09.4 | I was going to be aggressive in the market. |
| 1:12.0 | And I don't think that's a direction they went and said they're going with someone who I think is maybe a little bit more affordable. |
| 1:19.3 | Has potential to be a solid scheme fit if we're trying to provide some nuance here. |
| 1:23.1 | But it was not the direction we were expecting. |
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