Duke must contend with FSU team that protects their QB and rushes the opponent’s

QUESTION: Florida State creates a lot of challenges especially with two book ends that can protect the quarterback. What do you expect to see from the Seminoles?

COACH DAVID CUTCLIFFE: Yeah, that’s what
you start seeing in this league now more and more,
which has been kind of my career having to deal
with teams like that. You know, the most critical
thing you do is throw the ball on time. We’ve tried
to adapt a little bit on our quarterback throwing
spot to help alignment.

You certainly already mentioned some
things. We take shots at guys and slow them
down, but it makes you work on those things.
Then they do a good job of moving Jenkins
around, standing him up and putting him in
different places, so you kind of have to hunt him a
little bit.

They’ve got talent. They’ve got interior
people that can rush. They have now multiple —
what FSU’s been, they’ve got about eight of them,
so they can keep them fresh and that helps them a
great deal. So against a team like us that throws
the ball a good bit of the time, I expect we’re going
to see all of them.

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