All right, so the good news is the special teams was better this past weekend.

But other than that, not a lot of reason for optimism as Florida State failed at NC State,

27 to 21.

Welcome to the Knowles 24-7 podcast.

I'm Brennan Sonone.

Join with me today, Bob Ferrante, Chris Knee.

Guys, obviously not good for Florida State right now.

They're sitting at Owen 2. The

offense doesn't have a lot of reason for hope. The defense didn't really carry

Florida State like we expected them to this season with De'Ande Francois out.

So there's a lot of concern and right now at this moment it's tough to find silver linings.

As we look at what happened, how things went kind of arrived for Florida

State against NC State, let's start off by looking at what your guys' thoughts were

on the most disturbing or negative aspect of the loss from Saturday?

I think the most disturbing to me is that Florida State's defense gave up 27 points on a day

when you can't do that when you have a true freshman starting

quarterback when you still have a still developing running game receivers who are

a thin group now with audentate injured you know this is this was a game we're

going in if you thought Florida State was going to score 21 with James Blackman making his first start

He'd say hey that's a win it's gonna be 21-17 it's gonna be ugly but but they got the W and instead they didn't I think the one real negative from the offense was the red zone. When you go back and

look at the replay there were opportunities after opportunities to not settle for three and this is what what Florida State did in 2015. They

settled way too often for three and didn't get seven points. For me it was that

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