From the ultimate seminal sports source comes another original live content production. Trench Talk with Devante Love Taylor. You bring the live rounds, he'll bring the pancakes. And now number 58 in your programs, the number one in your heart, here's the man of the next half hour. Devante Love Taylor. There he is, y'all. It's Devante Love Taylor. It is Trench Talk. Thanks so much for being here with us, Devante. How you doing, man? It's Monday. It's game week. You made it, man. How excited are you for this, your last opener in the college game? I'm too excited. I can't wait. You know, the days are moving slow right now. Like, yeah, are you sleeping well, though? We need you to sleep well, Devon. Yeah, yeah, for sure. You got to get your sleep. You got to rest. Okay, right on, man. Yeah, I talked about before we brought you on, but the depth chart got released today, saw your name there, starting at right guard. You know, I'm sure you knew kind of where you stood in the pecking order, but how does it feel

being a kid from Florida, the path you took, you're here now, 2021 going through what you went through last season, and you're starting for Florida State University against Notre Dame primetime Sunday, man. Can you put that into words for us? You know, it's a dream come true. you know you dream about this stuff all the time as a little kid you know not even just being a start

with being a part of the team to words for us? You know, it's a dream come true. You know, you dream about this stuff all the time as a little kid.

You know, not even just being a start with being a part of the team. You know, I came, I was sitting next to Darius, Washington another day, and we were just sitting there and we looked at our helmets. We're like, we're really at Florida State right now. You know, it's just little things like that. like you see you see the the logo on your helmet. You see, you see your jersey. You see your name on the back of your jersey and your number. And it just means a lot. You guys are so much about routine. Obviously playing on Saturdays. You have your sort of set schedule. How is it trying to get ready for a Sunday opener? And is it better that you guys are having to do a Sunday game if you're going to do a Sunday game that it's actually the first game of the season to kind of get prepared for? Yeah, I feel like it's better to do it early on because, you know, let's say we played a Saturday game in the season and then had to get ready for a Thursday game, you know, a quick turnaround or having to adjust the schedule completely in the middle of the year but you know coach norville he preaches response and everything like that so I think if we had to play it on a wednesday night he'd have us ready absolutely all right well I know you're ready as always man let's get to some of these questions let's start over at warchant.com's travel council. This comes

from FSU's biggest fan. Can't confirm whether or not he is, but he is a self-reclamer.

Who's the most competitive gamer? I think he means video games, competitive gamer on the team.

We have a few. My roommate, Brady, he's really competitive. You know, he's always in here yelling with his headset on. Jermaine Johnson, he has a nice little game set up. I think those are more like the war zone type of guys, but like the Madden guys. I hear DJ Lundy's pretty good. Kierre Thomas, they're always playing. There's a lot of guys. I don't really play video games, but I hear them talking trash about it. But Marquishton, he's a 2K guy. But I don't say we just have one competitive gamer. Do you guys call Mark Houston Biscuit, or is that just the name that Coach Dillingham gave him? I don't call him biscuit, but a few people do. So when's the last time you did pick up the sticks, the Fontenades or not a gamble, but have you played a video game lately? Actually, I have a PS3, but it broke. I like to play NCAA. Okay, all right. I haven't played. It broke a while ago. When was the last NCAA game they made? I know it's been way for a while.

I forgot what the last one they made was. Fourteen, but they had like a thing where you could

update the rosters. So I did that. Gotcha. All right. Definitely. All right. Let's get things

started right here on a trench talk with Devante Love Taylor. Oh, I need to pull this up.

Noel Yacken says he loves your drawing of Coach

Askins. I got to pull this thing up. So you folks don't know, Jacksonville was a pretty

grind, pretty grueling sort of time for this football team in Jacksonville. But they were

able to share some kind of cool behind the scene stuff that they've been putting on the Twitter account for FSU football. I'm going to try to pull it up here for everybody. I wasn't expecting this when I saw somebody link to it, Devante, but I just want to kind of you walk us through it as I'll pop it up here on the screen. We'll play it first, and then we'll just kind of have a good laugh about it, I guess.

Let me make sure I have it prepared so we can actually hear the audio and everything going

on with it.

But are you an artist after all Devon?

Like, how did that happen?

No, not at all.

You know, they kind of, they knew I could take the backlash from it.

You know, they, especially from my teammates.

So they kind of just let me do what from it, you know, they, especially from my teammates.

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