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Florida State Open Spring Practice today.

It's Monday.

I don't even know the date.

But we're in 2026.

The year of our award.

March.

Yeah, it sounds good to me.

March.

I think it's March 9th.

Florida State Open Spring Practice.

We didn't get to watch it.

But we did get to talk to Mike Norvell and two of the team leaders after practice today.

It was very.

I don't think they took requests on this one.

I think they clearly wanted to put.

Deuce Robinson, senior wide receiver.

Daniel Lyon, senior defensive tackle.

That they've kind of been talking about the last several weeks about.

Yeah.

Being the leaders of this football team.

I think clearly on both sides of the ball.

We got to talk to both of them today.

It was kind of interesting.

Because they were here last year.

And you heard so much good things about Deuce Robinson last year.

But it was more about leading by example.

Right.

And he talked about the fact that last year was hard for him to lead vocally because he just got here.

Yeah.

He had just moved across the country.

He didn't know this offense.

Didn't know the players.

But now that he's been here for years.

He's invested so much.

He can be that guy.

And then Daniel Lyon.

I forgot that last year.

This time he was hurt.

He missed a lot of the spring in the summer.

And then as the year went on, he kind of stepped up as a big player in that defense.

So these are two guys that are.

The unquestioned leaders of this football team.

But they're kind of in new roles as leaders as well.

Yeah, especially you mentioned Deuce.

It is hard to be a leader when you've never done anything at this school.

Right.

You're the new guy learning the new system.

But then with Daniel, he had really, he had played.

But he had done much.

And then last year, yeah, it's hard for even though he's an older guy.

It was hard for him to be a leader because he was hurt.

And then he was learning.

It's hard to be a leader when you're still trying to figure out what you're doing.

With new defensive scheme.

With new defensive scheme.

Right.

So he feels much more comfortable.

Deuce does too.

And I think, you know, when you're covering up football team that has not been good.

Let's just say, let's be kind.

The last couple of years.

You throw a lot into leadership and what it means and what it does.

We both agree that leadership matters.

Like you've got to have player accountability for your team to be, to reach its ceiling.

Whatever the ceiling of that group is, you need player-led accountability, player leadership.

But at the same time, you know, Deuce Robinson's a leader because he's really good at football.

You know what I mean?

Like you need those guys too.

And a super hard worker.

Right.

They're proofs to those guys what it looks like, shows what it looks like.

But don't you, like we don't want to put too much into leadership.

Because then of the day, you've got to have guys that make plays that are good football players too.

But nice if you can marry them too.

Yeah.

Without a question.

But also when people ask, what does that mean or where does it come into account?

Where you need it is in the road trip to Virginia in double overtime or the road trip to Stanford.

Where the pit game where somebody steps up is like, this is not happening.

Yeah.

We're not losing this football game.

And that's where that team last year.

I don't think it was a bad bunch of guys.

And I don't think it was a lack of talent last year.

I thought that was a team that had enough talent to win eight, nine, maybe even ten games.

But it wasn't a mentally tough team, man.

That's what I'm saying.

Like when things went poorly in the second half of the Florida game where they just basically just shut it down.

Once Florida decided they wanted to win that game.

And Jane Ball came out for the second half.

They're like, oh, he's still playing.

He didn't beat it.

He knocked out here at the top.

He knocked out a half.

160 yards in the second half.

But yeah, I mean, that's where it does matter.

So I get that people will say, well, you know, I don't want to hear about that.

I've heard about that before.

If you do have it, it does matter.

And then it does mean.

And who were the guys last year on offense?

There were the leaders.

Perfect.

I know I come in every time.

But it really is.

I mean, that's crazy.

It's crazy.

That way we time this out.

But who do you think were the leaders last year on offense?

I mean, Tommy wanted to be a leader.

You guys talked about on Wake Up Workshop.

Yeah, we were the leaders.

But that's what I'm saying.

He wanted to be in like he was trying to claim that role.

But I don't know that that's, you know, again, they didn't have to be natural.

Yeah, but it also has to be somebody that can play and not that Tommy.

Tommy had moments.

That's fine.

And he was starting quarterback.

It really helps if your leader is one of your best or if your best football players.

Having doose.

And now it's not maybe the most natural to have a wide receiver build.

A team leader when you have a quarterback, the position is normally the position that leads.

You hope one of these guys, probably Ash and Daniels, but you hope one of these guys can be a leader too.

But they didn't have anybody on offense last year.

They had really done anything at this school.

They could be a leader, right?

Yeah.

They couldn't.

They didn't.

Pedabone is a natural leader.

But he was, he was here for one year and he was, he had been a wake force for five.

So now you have doose coming back for a second year, which in this day and age of college football,

he's a wily old Florida state veteran.

He's actually, this is actually his second year.

So the fact that you have him on one side lines on the other.

And don't forget the deciers, especially, I mean, I think Daryl is the more vocal leader.

Those guys have done it too, man.

You have guys that are trying to rally troop to try and prove how you're supposed to play, how you're supposed to practice,

that have actually accomplished something on a football field.

That's big too.

The Daniel line story is interesting to me because, you know, he did look him back last year

because Tony White was talking the other day and said that it late last season.

He was the, is good as any defensive lineman they had.

He actually had six tackles on the Florida game.

I don't remember six tackles by that defense.

I don't even know how to say they tackled six times.

But he did.

And I think he had three or four against NC State.

So he did like statistically even.

Yeah, stepped up.

You know, that's the position everybody has so many questions out.

That's more than Daryl Jackson probably had any game wash.

Oh, for sure.

Yeah.

I know they switched different positions at times, but yeah.

But you know, that's that position group is the one that we have the most questions about.

And for Daniel, if he is a guy, that's a big deal.

Because you do bring back into Sierra Twins.

You do bring back, you know, Kevin Wins is going to be a sophomore, but he's a guy that, well,

a richer freshman, but they have so much talk about his talent.

The McCray and Diggs are back and then you brought back the transfers.

So maybe that, because that's going to be the key to it.

And like Mike Norvell talked today about the linebackers.

He loves Chris Jones and McCuy Bay or the transfers and,

and they're talking about Blake and Omar.

Because they're always going to talk about Blake and Omar.

We'll see.

But if that Daniel right of passage, but this defense is chance to be good,

is going to rely on that defense in front.

Yeah. And you know, look, you're, it's not like I say this because I just saw

Renard Wilson's name down here on one of the Hall of Fame.

He was a big.

He's not talking about.

I was talking about Renard Wilson and Peter Bowler and Andre Wadsworth.

We know we're not talking about that kind of Florida State defense of line.

And those are good days, though.

Oh, man.

It was fun to come to this stadium and watch that.

Take a moment to just.

Yeah.

But it was those quarterbacks love facing that.

But so you're not, you're not talking about.

It's wrong.

The defense of line.

But you know, Kevin Winn might be a player.

Right.

The dissiers are good.

Lions might be able to build off what he did last year and become a consistent,

competent, decent college football alignment.

You could, again, you got a squint.

But you can look.

If you stay healthy, you might have enough bodies to have a good defensive line.

Not a great one, not a championship caliber one, not ever whatever they did in Indiana.

But you can have a really a, a competent, competitive defensive line,

which I thought I think three months ago, I was worried what in the world are they going to do with that position.

They're just not going to play.

They're going to have a, you know, a zero, zero, three, eight.

A dollar.

Bring back the power.

Yeah.

I forgot all about the prowler from 2009 early on.

So, uh, so yeah, when you mention those names, again, maybe not household names yet,

maybe not all American type guys.

But guys, they can play at this level.

These may be better than that.

Mike Norval gave some injury updates.

Information we had already talked about.

It's about to do longer than we did in Norval today.

Doose.

That was a healthy press conference.

Yes, it did well.

And this is a good guy to talk about.

Yeah, man.

He's, there's a reason he's going to be the face of the program, really.

And I don't know if he's going to have quite the same production as last year,

because it does sound like they're trying to spread the ball, spread the wealth a little bit offensively.

I screw that.

You throw it to him a lot.

But, um, injury-wise, uh, Mike Norval confirmed some injuries that we've,

we've reported, but we didn't know time tables.

Uh, Jay, no, Neil, the freshman quarterback is going to miss the whole year.

He had an e-surgery.

Basically, when he arrived, it was an injury from his high school senior season.

He played through it.

Yeah.

Tough kid.

Oh, yeah.

Had the surgery when he got here.

Uh, Cam Brooks, freshman defensive end who would really look good from what we heard in the,

in tour of duty.

He has an Achilles.

He's going to be out for about midway through the season.

Mike Norval said he should be back.

And Jordan Sanders, a defensive tackle that transferred in from Texas state,

I believe, um, will be back this summer.

So he's going to miss his spring.

So those are, and then he also mentioned kind of in passing later.

The Gibrali Rawls and Quindarius Jones to the top corners are going to be limited this spring.

That's probably out.

That's Norbellies for out.

He also talked about Danzee.

Uh, because Danzee's obviously track season, the outdoor track season.

I think they're doing the indoor nationals this week.

And then it switches over to outdoor track season.

I don't know if he qualified for indoor nationals.

Yeah, I'm not sure.

So it doesn't sound like it because he was here this week.

And he's going to be here this week practicing.

Um, and then he'll, he'll start focusing more on the outdoor track season.

Because he's one of the best in the country when he's healthy.

And then Jason Lopez, the wide receiver that's on the basketball team.

Norbell did say he hopes he's gone for a while.

The basketball team has their first ACC tournament game on Wednesday.

Because I keep winning.

They keep playing.

If they win on Wednesday against Cal, they have to play Duke.

But whatever.

Duke's not on me.

Yeah, man.

Duke's not on me.

It's exactly what you're just saying off the air.

It's like, man, I think the nose got some for him and Charlotte with the, you know,

8,000 Duke fans.

But anyway, um, but yeah, I, I, I do like that, uh, with, with douce, man,

it's just, again, douce and Danzee.

I know what you got there.

But the way he talked about Kelsey and the way he talked about bugs.

Because again, we didn't get to see anything, but apparently bugs had a nice day today.

And he's a guy.

Y'all heard a lot about last year.

Yeah.

And then it didn't come to fruition.

Now he did get hurt.

So don't blame us.

But, but douce said he's, he's even better now than he was this time last year.

And he's expecting really big things out of him.

He made a point say he's bought in.

He's all in.

Because that was a question.

Last year he did go on the transfer portal.

He decided to come back.

So putting more coverage at warchant.com, video interviews, those video interviews, he just

talked about, he's just hyped up.

You know, right about douce?

Yeah.

I don't know.

Sounds like you're exactly the first day.

All right.

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