De'ja Vu All Over Again

Excerpts From FSU Sports Information:

It was déjà vu all over again for the 19th-ranked FSU football team on Friday. For the second day in-a-row, the team was forced off the practice fields midway thru due to lightning. On Friday the Seminoles worked on special teams and kicking and then jumped straight to period 13 to get in pass skel, 11-on-11 and 2:00 offense before the dangerous weather rolled in. After making it to period 21, they rolled the clock back and started at one but that didn't last long. By the time the practice moved to period two the squad was being rushed off the field once again. The offense and defense were right back in the turf room and Tully Gym finishing another practice. The team will have a closed walk through Saturday night before departing for Clemson on Sunday.

In 7-on-7 Drew Weatherford started off with completions to Rod Owens, De'Cody Fagg and Richard Goodman. Weatherford then put the ball into the end zone with Greg Carr and Fagg on the receiving ends. Xavier Lee completed a pass to Bert Reed and also connected on a TD with Josh Dobbie. The catch was a thing of beauty as the tight end reached up and grabbed the pass with one hand. For the defense Lawson broke up a pass.

In pass rush Paul Griffin and Neefy Moffett both had great drills winning multiple battles. Everette Brown also got to the QB. On the offensive line the victories were spread out as Caz Piurowski, Brandon Davis, Shannon Boatman, Jacky Claude and Daron Rose all got wins.

In 11-on-11 the team worked on down and distance situations. The biggest offensive play came on a short pass from Weatherford to Fagg that the senior turned into a big play. For the defense Geno Hayes had a quarterback pressure that easily could have been ruled a sack and Derek Nicholson picked off a pass dropping back into coverage and making a great read.

In the 2:00 drill Weatherford and Fagg once again proved to be a deadly combination. After an incompletion on the first play, Weatherford found Fagg across the middle and the wideout took it the length of the field for a TD. The defense had its revenge versus the two's. Alex Boston recorded back-to-back sacks on the first two plays, McClure and Toddrick Verdell pressured Lee into an incompletion on third down and then Eli Charles finished the offense off with the D's third sack in four plays.

Head Coach Bobby Bowden:
Opening statement:
"We needed to get out. Now we did go ahead and get in our kicking, thank goodness, that is something you can't do inside. We also got in our pass scouting we went ahead and did that first so at least we got that in. So now I guess what we'll do is go to Tully Gym. Offense will go then the defense will go. Just check, be sure we know our plays and who to get and all that. But I think this is the fourth time that we've been driven off the field with lightning. It's not raining, it's lightning. Rain doesn't hurt us because we can go to that band field. It's really a problem. Coach (mark) Richt was complaining about that up in Georgia last week about not having a place to practice. We're gonna have to solve it one of these days."

Offensive Coordinator Jimbo Fisher
On his first game
"There is no pressure. We just have to go and do what we are supposed to do and that is play hard, play with toughness, effort and discipline and let the other things take care of them. Don't worry about the things we can't control. The only thing we can control is ourselves. Clemson is one heck of a football team. They are coached very well. They have good players. It's a tough environment. We have to focus on ourselves and control that and then see what happens."