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On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network

OTB: Who's Addison? Onto ETAM, The Beard Is Back, And More

On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network

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4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Florida State turns its attention to an FCS opponent, East Texas A&M, and there's a chance for this team to show encouraging signs of maturity if it handles its business.


OTB focuses on this matchup, recruiting developments from the seismic win against Alabama, and why Tony White matching his actions with his words.


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0:00.0

Two, one.

0:15.2

Oh, that started really quickly.

0:17.7

What were you just saying, Zach, before we started?

0:19.6

There's like this setting on here you can

0:21.0

enhance skin appearance I'm all shiny now I like it really how do I do that I'm not telling you

0:27.9

Brett in the back end can you uh while you're producing this is Brett first first task as a producer

0:33.3

for on the bench uh can you make my skin shiny? Thank you. And then while we're here,

0:41.2

you guys are both wearing black. I know Chris hates it when we all match. So, wait, I don't know how to

0:46.8

take off my shirt. Oh, God, without showing myself. There we go. Back in black, baby. Welcome to On the Bench. I'm your host for this episode. Brendan Sinoon. I'm joined by Chris Knee, Zach Blasdine. And we have a pretty loaded episode to get to today. And that includes, stick around to the end, Chris. We're not talking about basketball. Basketball recruiting. Is that wet your appetite a little bit? Does that make

1:11.7

you happy to be here? Sure. All right. Before we get going, though, on a serious note,

1:18.7

the tragic unfolding of what happened, we haven't been on podcast since then over the weekend with

1:24.5

Ethan Pritchard was shot while dropping off a family member in Havana

1:28.8

outside of about 20 miles outside of Tallahassee, true freshman linebacker. Chris and Zach,

1:35.4

frankly, have worked with Ethan more than I had, and a good kid, a really sad thing that

1:42.1

happened. Yeah, and obviously thoughts are with him and his family.

1:47.4

Mike Mervel talked about it this week, and he got emotional in talking about it.

1:52.0

I know players around the program.

1:53.2

This is difficult for him to go through.

1:54.9

So I do want to say and make sure that we have people directed to the right place. There's a GoFundMe that his high school coach has put on, and it's going to go towards Ethan's family, his father, Earl Pritchard. And I think, where is it at, guys? Close to 100,000 right now. Yeah, over 100,000. That's awesome. And it had to up to, like, you know, Nation, you really, I get behind a great cause like that.

2:21.2

And, yeah, it's a really unfortunate, awful and tragic that it's happened.

2:28.3

And hopefully, you know, this is something that can make life easier for his family moving forward as they incur some medical expenses,

2:35.0

more so like travel and other things that are going to happen, taking time off of work, stuff like

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