Florida State Seminoles quarterback Thomas Castellanos can’t stop giving Alabama bulletin board material
Thomas Castellanos and the Florida State Seminoles are giving Alabama more bulletin board material when it comes to the season opener.
Tommy Castellanos and the Florida State Seminoles are set to play the Alabama Crimson Tide in one of the biggest games to start the 2025 season, and they have already given their opponent more than enough bulletin board material.
This time, it’s the Seminoles downplaying how good the Alabama defense is.
Thomas Castellanos isn’t worried about Alabama’s defense
Alabama enters every single college football season with one of the best rosters money can buy, and that usually results in it having some pretty elite defenses with potential NFL players on it. That doesn’t bother Thomas Castellanos, the Boston College transfer quarterback.
“I think coach [Tony] White [Defensive Coordinator] and our defense is the hardest defense we will see all year, just schematically, and stuff like that, what they do,” Castellanos told reporters on-site earlier this week. “It’s hard to be back there, with a lot of moving parts on their end. But, it’s helped me a lot to be better and progress as a quarterback, or knowing when to hit the check down, or knowing when to just eat it, stuff like that. So, seeing them every day over the last three weeks has helped me progress a lot as a quarterback.”
Some may see this and mention that the Seminoles were 2-10 last year, and that would be a correct statement. However, this is a completely different staff, with only nine of the projected 22 starters being guys who were on the team last season. This is not the same team, nor the same defense that went out on the field and only won two games in 2024.
With that being said, because of all the new parts of this team, it’s hard to tell or even predict how good this defense will be. Last year, to start the season, the Seminoles were the favorite in Ireland, and the defensive line was supposed to be a strong point of the defense. That same defensive line ended up getting moved around by Georgia Tech all game long. So, that alone just goes to show that you never really know how things will go until you get some data.
Castellanos has seen and played against some good defenses throughout his career, though. But, Alabama usually feeds off things like this, where people doubt them, and they do it in public. It feels like this is Castellanos’ fourth time saying something like this and downplaying Alabama publicly. So, maybe he should stop doing that, or maybe he just feels that confident in his team.
