FSU football: How coaches adapted the offense for its playmakers

Quarterbacks

Well, it looks like the coaching staff took my advice and have decided to go with one quarterback unless there’s an injury. That’s something I wrote about before the Wake Forest game.

They had to pick a quarterback and roll with him, but besides that, they needed to play to their strengths. That was the most frustrating part about coming out of fall camp and all of these people saying Jordan Travis had shown improvement as a passer.

I knew that wasn’t true after the Notre Dame game, but they wanted to continue to use him like he was a drop-back passer, and that’s not the case at all. We know Jordan Travis is injury-prone because of his big heart and style of play, and I understand they wanted to preserve him by developing as a passer.

That would open up the running game too, but they have finally trashed the idea of trying to use him as a drop-back passer, sticking to what he does best. What he does best is make plays with his legs and hit the occasional deep pass though he missed a couple of them against Syracuse.

They aren’t asking him to do too much by throwing screens out to the playmakers and using his legs to make something happen. One thing I want to note is Jordan Travis running the ball will take carries away from either Corbin or Ward.

It looked like the latter was the victim of that against Syracuse since he only had two carries. When McKenzie Milton played against Louisville, we saw some of the same things, except for him running as much. It was a lot of quick screens and feeding the ball to the running backs.

That style of play lowers the probability of turnovers, which in and of itself gives you a better chance of winning the game.