Florida State football's first spring scrimmage is in the book.
Offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn was pleased with his offense's performance Saturday. And Malzahn also confirmed he called all 100 plays.
He said, by design, 60 plays were rushing, 40 passing. The former UCF head coach, who led his team to a top-10 rushing attack every year during his tenure, said it was important to see how players performed and responded.
"Learned a lot about our guys individually with good and usually you learn more about scrimmages than you do any kind of practice which was good at opportunity," Malzahn stated.
"Our guys responded with success, and see how they responded to that adversity. That's very important as you're building the offense together.
Malzahn also praised defensive coordinator Tony White for giving his offense different looks with its 3-3-5 scheme.
"There's a lot of things that we can learn from them. That's what I told the guys once I brought them up," Malzahn said.
"You might have to improve in the areas that execution. You know, they're thinking about offense, that for the most part, it usually takes all 11 being able to execute."
Gus Malzahn's offense is slowly progressing
A positive first-week and scrimmage are always a step in the right direction, and Malzahn has learned this all too well in his 19-year coaching career.
Malzahn continued to evaluate his offense. His goal was to establish it for his players while they understood the concepts of his scheme. That meant even simplifying it so that it was easier for players to execute.
Malzahn liked that his running backs protected the football.
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