Defensive observations from Florida State’s win over Jacksonville State

Don Juan Moore While Tate Rodemaker starting at quarterback will dominate the headlines, Florida State Seminoles’ football’s defense still had a game they needed to show improvement in. The ’Noles also got edge rusher Joshua Kaindoh back from injury, but didn’t have Robert Cooper for the day.

We’ve got notes for the three levels of the defense below, but right away Jacksonville State didn’t hesitate to attack FSU’s boundary over and over. While they didn’t get a three-and-out, the defense did force a punt on the Gamecocks’ first drive. However, on JSU’s second drive the Gamecocks marched down the field and ran a well-designed jet counter run to, you guessed it, the boundary, which scored and…