Everett Dawkins up to 276 lbs.-Q & A
Q: What are you doing as a defense to keep everything fresh that you learned in the spring?
A: As far as the defense as a whole, we get together and we just meet up and watch film and stuff. You can go up there [to the film room] any time of the day and watch film because you know we’ve got a lot of new plays, new schemes. I’ve seen players go up there at different times, going up to the film room and just watching stuff and remembering – and plus we’ve got a playbook that we keep on us at all times.
"Last year, the ball was snapped and [it was] go after the quarterback. This year, [coaches are] teaching us that [in] different plays, different situations you’ve got run downs, pass downs…"
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"[P]lus we've got a playbook that we keep on us at all times."
I’m still amazed that they didn’t have this in the past….I mean, we had one for high school, not even considering what we had when I was in a crappy D3 program.
"I think so, Brain, but how are we going to get the bacon flavoring into the pencils?"
As I posted on the Chopping Block, another quote caught my eye...
"Last year, the ball was snapped and [it was] go after the quarterback. This year, [coaches are] teaching us that [in] different plays, different situations you’ve got run downs, pass downs…"
So, the defense makes adjustments depending on the down and yardage, time on the clock, etc.?!?! Who woulda thunked it?
So we expect Dawkins to be plus 280lbs by the time the season gets here...as a 3-tech! He
Bring. it . on.
Giddy-up!
That's a huge peice of the puzzle IMO.
This and new additions mean we will have 3-4 300 pounders, and 2 280pound guys. Inside.
We Add size at DE and LB…running may not be as easy for opponents to run.
tough running and bend but don’t break secondary, with a dash of multiple looks and you might we a top 50’s D sooner in the year rather than later.
Giddy-up!
Remember Dawkins played DT much lighter than that and held his own.
While simultaneously not being happy playing DT.
Dawkins is a difference maker the next couple years, imo.
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Really he's shown
that he’s a great team player in making the DE => DT transition. Do we really have him for that much longer? Would have figured 2 tops.
Any chance they bounce him back to SDE next year with added depth?
or do you think he’s too short to look over the top?
Giddy-up!
Could happen!
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by Bud Elliott on Jun 16, 2010 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions
Fingers crossed.
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I'd like to see him there
on run downs or as a DE in a 3-4 package. Don’t know what his height is though.
I've always thought that your front 3 in a 3-4
should be NG and two 3-techs as your “defensive ends.”
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That is ideal.....but I don't see a single lineman who fits the definition of what is needed for a 3-4 NT
…At least until Amp McCloud rounds into football shape.
NT is the post critical position in the 3-4 defense…..if the nose isn’t doubled on every play, the defense doesn’t work.
Oderint Dum Metuant
Listed at 6'2" so probably really closer to 6'1".
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I'm not so sure this Jimbo fella is the right man for the job.
So you get a step on them … for the players that we’ve got, it helps out a lot, being undersized … it’s all about quickness.
You think he is saying that he is undersized, or our whole line is undersized?
What was the question?
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Q: You mentioned having some new schemes on the defensive line, how do you adjust to those and what has changed?
A: Last year, the ball was snapped and [it was] go after the quarterback. This year, [coaches are] teaching us that [in] different plays, different situations you’ve got run downs, pass downs – and it’s helped me out a lot because we’re doing mote reading. So you don’t just have to attack all the time. You’ve got to see what the offensive line is doing and you can see where they’re stepping before they even step. So you get a step on them … for the players that we’ve got, it helps out a lot, being undersized … it’s all about quickness.
Hard to tell if AC got the punctuation right.
It could have been:
for the players that we’ve got, it helps out a lot. Being undersized, it’s all about quickness.
Or
for the players that we’ve got being undersized…getting a step helps out alot (paraphrase)???
I have the full video of this. Will let you know.
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You're wrong, the old regime wasn't written.
No playbook, remember?
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There's that play book comment again...
Its just maddening… Why wouldn’t they have had playbooks in years past. That they have them now gives hope for the future, but good Lord that makes the past quite frustrating.
Is that normal?
Like as a security thing so they don’t lose them or they end up in another team’s hands somehow?
They weren't made to keep them with them
I do not believe we ever were entirely sans a playbook.
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I posed this question back when we first got the news and got run outta the building.
I think that’s what they were implying.
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by Randall W. Spetman on Jun 15, 2010 8:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, you shouldn't have been. Color me skeptical
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People want to believe the more dramatic option.
Justification for our terrible 2009 D.
I mean, c’mon. No playbook whatsoever? No way
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by Randall W. Spetman on Jun 15, 2010 8:39 PM EDT up reply actions
There was a playbook: it was full of motivational pictures & quotes.
“Attitude: A positive attitude is a powerful force.” Now have a positive attitude and go get that quarterback!!!
"God is good. God is great. Now go out there and sack that Gate!"
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Invictus mentioned it on AC's Blog
But this is by far the best quote and should be put on here:
"Last year, the ball was snapped and [it was] go after the quarterback. This year, [coaches are] teaching us that [in] different plays, different situations you’ve got run downs, pass downs…"
That first part of the comment pretty much sums up the entire defense last year. Ball snap. Get QB. Boy was that frustrating to watch.
Not an alcoholic, just an FSU grad.
That theme continues...
see ball. attack. chase. intensity.
of course, if you read too many of these threads we still have a good many folks who think the ONE missing ingredient is that stupid-ass concept, swagger.
Lol
Does swagger come with winning or does winning come with swagger?
MiNDSET? SWAG-ER-ISM!!!
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"Trick is right."
"Wherever you are, Trick, you are wise, indeed."
by tricknole on Jun 15, 2010 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
It's actually in aisle 13 of the Wal-Mart grocery, right next to 5 Hour Energy
Little known fact.
Bring back Jeff Bowden...as a pińata.
by TheNole9Yards on Jun 15, 2010 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
You know, the coaches signed a new contract with old spice to provide hygiene products for the team.
That replaces the Speed Stick contract that Coach Andrews negotiated back in ’89
I thought you were going somewhere completely different after reading the first sentence
Wants to live in a world where Batting Average goes the way of the Dodo!
Amazing...
I honestly can’t believe a college football team would have that instruction. That’s basically what you tell the fat kid in 6th grade when you’re playing two-hand touch in the street. “Ok, Tubby, just count to 5-Mississippi then run after the quarterback.” I mean, I know Bud Thacker was the equivalent of the 6th grade fat kid, but still…
by TonySopraNOLE on Jun 15, 2010 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions
True.
He was 2nd team All-ACC in the “Piss off old people that want to sit down the whole game” category.
by TonySopraNOLE on Jun 15, 2010 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Who was first string?
Some frat guy?
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
"But How will I know limits from lies, if I never try."
by geoffissiffoeg on Jun 15, 2010 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
it's more than bathe.
[I had a facebook picture of the current “gold” guy eating a hamburger with his whole body painted and everything except his hands and face glittered in the gold, but I don’t think facebook is letting me post the pic by itself and I don’t wanna just give up the guy’s profile to you guys]
I’ve been around where they get ready pre-game and wash off post-game… you see glitter in the urinals for a week.
Wow
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by Bud Elliott on Jun 15, 2010 11:33 PM EDT up reply actions
That doesn't look like the current guy
Pretty good friends with them. I think it costs them $80 or so a week to do it.
Florida State Seminoles
by basbalstr101 on Jun 16, 2010 2:36 AM EDT up reply actions
First string
goes to the perennial favorite – an enlarged prostate.
by TonySopraNOLE on Jun 16, 2010 12:05 AM EDT up reply actions
For some reason, the 40k made me bust out laughing. I feel like that should have the opposite effect
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by TitanNole on Jun 15, 2010 6:17 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
awesome
our defense was derived from the movie waterboy.. perhaps adam sandler could’ve made it work
And before I read your post, I said it again above (replying to the first post a moment ago)
That really is a weiirrrddd quote to read… wow.
LOL!!! How apropos...
I’ve been searching through the Chopping Block for a quote to post on the “Who Will Captain FSU…” thread, and I found this Jimbo quote that very much applies to what Dawkins said:
"We’re not a very situation-smart football team. We play situation-dumb football. We play football, we don’t understand situations we’re in. That’s why we’re constantly trying to put them in it and educate them in what we do. And we’ve got to get better at that."
The bad news: Dawkins’ quote supports Jimbo’s assertion (from April); ugh. Things were really, really bad.
The good news: it also indicates that players seem to be getting the message! This whole concept of a better coached/prepared team just might get realized…
Bingo...
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I know UM
Used to measure Swagger by the ounce…
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by onebarrelrum on Jun 15, 2010 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
You are correct sir,
Seized Miami Swagger:
http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2008/03/12/1111115/780726-cocaine-bust.jpg
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by onebarrelrum on Jun 15, 2010 5:00 PM EDT up reply actions
That explains the inflated swagger scores for Miami players...
It’s amazing how high they always score on the kellyLexy (kL) index for Swagger.
And then they snorted it.
Swagger is white, powdery in its refined form. At least the UM variety.
Curses!
And now I see onebarrelrum’s linked photo!
Swagger... The missing element of FSU through the Lost Decade.
"FEAR is just the Opening ACT!!!" Coach Coley
Not at first. Our guys had swagger in the early years.
They thought that since they played for Florida State all they had to do was show up and they would magically win. Slowly the swagger got pummeled out of them.
I may be stepping outside the box on this one...
but I’m pretty sure a coaching staff was the missing element of FSU through the lost decade. see: Amato, Chuck
Nah those moobs gothellaswag
… when he wore a bra at least.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
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by geoffissiffoeg on Jun 15, 2010 8:47 PM EDT up reply actions
are we really doggin' a former coach fighting cancer?
Jeez … we all know the past, why continue to dwell when we have a helluva future in front of us?
by Cigar City Nole on Jun 15, 2010 10:26 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
He fought cancer.
He’s fair game again
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
"But How will I know limits from lies, if I never try."
by geoffissiffoeg on Jun 16, 2010 4:17 AM EDT up reply actions
FTR,
Former Florida State assistant Chuck Amato, who is recovering nicely from throat cancer treatment, is back doing what he loves.
His one-time assistant at North Carolina State, Marc Trestman, now the head coach of the Montreal Alouettes in the CFL, has invited Amato to the team’s training camp to serve as a "guest coach’’ for two weeks, the Montreal Gazette reports.
Said Amato: "Great therapy. It has been awesome. Just being around the people (and the game) I have a passion for. The coaches have all embraced me and it has been great watching these kids play. I’m having fun.I have the most fun in meetings with the coaches. My personality’s such that I speak up, even if you don’t ask anything. If you tell me to keep my mouth shut, I’ll shut it."
>-----:----:------>Spearing 'em and Scalping 'em like it's 1999
I'm not so sure this Jimbo fella is the right man for the job.
And if you're name happens to be Jimbo, I will tell you to shut it.
>-----:----:------>Spearing 'em and Scalping 'em like it's 1999
I'm not so sure this Jimbo fella is the right man for the job.
We all know that Weinke had 3.843kL more Swagger than Ponder after today's disaster of a thread
Weinke 18.276kL
Ponder 14.433kL
of course, no one has ever been close to Ray Lewis’s 27.605kL he recorded at Miami in ’95.
QUICK!
What’s pi minus the Golden Ratio???
taking heat out of a system?
pi – phi = -h (negative eta. eta is symbol for enthalpy)
/nerd
I see the offshoot site now
TomahawkThermodynamics
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I'm one of those who believes that math is not necessary and overrated. It's one of those subjects that is taught to kill time until phys ed and lunch.
>-----:----:------>Spearing 'em and Scalping 'em like it's 1999
I'm not so sure this Jimbo fella is the right man for the job.
Anyway, back to the original point poor Frank was trying to make,
Everette Dawkins sounds like he has completely bought that role in the middle. With the amount of turmoil last year and general distrust and dislike among the D coaches, we heard lots of uncertainty about positions. But this along with Demonte settling in at DT suggest that players are trusting coaches more and willing to do what is asked.
Now, all that is pure speculation, and I hate to use feel-good summer filler stories to prove a point, but I don’t recall anyone having a similar tone last year on defense.
I still wonder if he bumps outside once we build up dt depth in, say, 2011.
MiNDSET? SWAG-ER-ISM!!!
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"Trick is right."
"Wherever you are, Trick, you are wise, indeed."
I agree...SDE
But who know’s if he just blows up as a 3-tech nobody involved may want him to move.
Giddy-up!
Wait....
If our defensive scheme was to go after the QB….how come we never got him?
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we were just a tad too slow
i mean who can really get to the QB in 20+ mins he’s running around with the ball before he throws it.. no one can!
because
the defensive scheme was for EVERYONE go after the quarterback all the time. I’m sure you were joking but….just throwing that out there.
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what the...
I could swear I’m using the reply button. strange.
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by onebarrelrum on Jun 15, 2010 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions
This comment just gave me a mental image of BJ Daniels running all Tommy Frazier circa '95 on us...
Painful, heat-induced, rage-filled memories
"I got a PBS mind in an MTV world"...Jimmy Buffett
by The Ryno and I Know on Jun 16, 2010 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions
I will never forget that day
No matter how much shock therapy I put myself through.
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by onebarrelrum on Jun 16, 2010 9:46 AM EDT up reply actions
All Dawkins has ever done...
is ask “How high?” when coaches have told him to jump. I dont think any player on this team has moved from spot to spot like he has.. and never copped a ’tude about it. Need more guys like him.
"You're either carrying a spear, or running from it"
by BigSpearDiplomacy on Jun 16, 2010 1:51 PM EDT reply actions
Yep. Good attitude and good player who loves the team.
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