This offense will be a problem for most teams
I watched the FSU offense and was amazed at how well they executed. The decisions made by Thomas Castellanos were sound, and there were not many penalties to put them behind the chains.
However, it was the feeling that Alabama was helpless trying to defend that FSU offense that gave me goosebumps. That’s one of the more talented defensive fronts they’ll face all season, and they made it look EASY for much of the game.
The fact that they had success on the ground AND through the air was refreshing, since the knock on Thomas Castellanos was that he was largely inaccurate. I saw a confident quarterback on Saturday with an arm stronger than most give him credit for. He threw a couple of dots that made me raise my eyebrows.
Aside from a couple of decisions to throw the ball when FSU had success running it and the need to keep the clock running, I thought it was nearly flawless. They were explosive, won in short yardage situations, ran it between the tackles, and attacked the perimeter. Gus Malzahn was in his bag for real on Saturday.