This is the Unconquered podcast, unbiased, unrivaled, and unconquered coverage and analysis of Florida State football.

In Florida State, we won national championships and ACC championships.

We're back to some basics, consistency in what we're doing.

Guys get a little bang, the bruised.

We're working a bunch of different situations.

Making progress.

You have to have success, so you know something.

I can really do this.

Welcome to the Unconquered podcast.

I'm your host, Jason Staples, football analyst for Bold Digest.com.

Today in the program, we're going to look a little bit at the Florida State defense

and evaluate some of the struggles we've seen so far, in particular what we saw last week against Boston College.

We're also going to preview the Maryland game with a chat with Rachel Klein from

Turtle SportsReport.com, the scout.com affiliate for Maryland football.

And we're also going to take a brief look at Florida State recruiting toward the end of the program

and make our assessment, our prediction for what we expect on

Saturday. So let's get right to segment one where we're going to talk about the Florida State

defense so far this year. Okay, in this segment, we're going to talk a little bit about the Florida

State defense. And, you know, there's been a lot of concern since the Boston College game, where

Boston College was able to put up 34 points, was able to move the ball a little bit, especially early in the game.

Scores, you know, went out 17 to 3 in the first quarter.

And, you know, there's been some concern that Jeremy Pruitt's system isn't sticking at this point and that, you know, maybe some players are not, not being played in position,

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