FSU Football: 3 improvements to expect from FSU defense
By Kelvin Hunt
Conclusion
It’s going to be interesting to see how the FSU defense performs in Barnett’s new scheme. They did lose impact players on all three levels of the defense with Derwin James, Matthew Thomas and Derrick Nnadi leaving the program.
The good news is there is a lot of talent waiting in the wings with that next man up mentality.
FSU can make huge improvements with simple tactical adjustments likes not lining defensive backs 10 yards off the line of scrimmage on third and five.
That was an all too common call under the old regime. The only other easy thing to do is just let your athletes who are better than most of the competition do their thing.
I expect FSU to improve quite a bit under Barnett as there is room to improve FSU’s No. 33 S&P defensive ranking from last season.
Barnett’s defense at Michigan State finished the season with a defensive S&P ranking of No. 4.
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Hopefully old FSU football swag will be coming back real soon, and it could be this Saturday at the spring game.