FSU football: Three thoughts on how Adam Fuller coordinates his defense

Play Offense On Defense

An attacking FSU defense? Man, it seems we haven’t seen that since 2013, and the numbers back it up. The Noles had a measly 69 tackles for loss in 2018, and just 74 tackles for loss last season.

Adam Fuller’s defense will be attacking instead of reacting, meaning they want teams to react to what they are doing.

Fuller wants to make that as difficult as possible by making the opposing quarterback have to think as much as possible:

"“We want to be non-rhythmic in a way that when the ball turns over, we want a quarterback to say, well, I think they’re going to do this…but they could do this or that. Right, the moment teams can say hey, when this is on the field…when they line up like this…this is what you’re getting…then I’m doing the players a disservice. If the opponent knows exactly what it’s going to look like, it’s going to be hard.”"

In the past few years, opposing offenses could look at how FSU lined up and the personnel and had a good idea of how to attack.