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FSU/Bucs/Titans: A Positional and Divisional Preview

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       The wait is almost over! We are less than 3 weeks away from the first FSU game and less than a month away from the beginning of the NFL season. Training camps are in full swing, preseason games have begun, fantasy football drafts have been scheduled, and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. As we enter the home stretch, I felt like it was time to begin previewing the teams we root for. And in the interest of time and efficiency, I felt it was best to make this a 3-in-1 feature. Initial Storylines      FSU and Tampa, perhaps more specifically Mike Norvell and Todd Bowles, find themselves in very similar boats. Boats that perhaps are taking on threatening amounts of water, with the captains doing all they can to keep them afloat. I think most would agree that Norvell is the college coach on the hottest seat entering 2026, and you could argue Bowles is the same at the NFL level, though that one is probably more debatable than Norvell. Reg...
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Annual Noles/Bucs/Bolts/Magic Offseason Check-In

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     Here we are again. Another year in the books, another year where none of my teams could advance beyond round 1 of the playoffs (despite Orlando holding a 3-1 lead over Detroit and the Lightning also being a Game 7 win away).      When the 2025-26 seasons began for each of these teams, expectations were different. Florida State expected to have a big bounce-back season after its worst season in 50 years, the Buccaneers expected to win the division and return to the playoffs for a 6th straight season, the Magic expected to be one of the top team's in the East after making a splash trade for Desmond Bane and the continued growth and development of their young stars, and the Lightning expected to continue to be a perennial contender primed to get past the first round for the first time since 2022. But as we know now, none of that really panned out...      FSU opened the year with a true stunner defeating perennial powerhouse Alabama by two t...
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Noles/Bucs/Bolts/Magic: A 4 in 1 Season Recap and Offseason Preview

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      Another football/basketball/hockey season has come and gone, and the long wait to Labor Day weekend now commences. I wouldn't say it was the worst year possible, 3 of the 4 did make the playoffs after all, but "disappointing" could be a fair adjective considering FSU had one of its worst seasons in school history and the other 3 all suffered first-round exits. I feel like if you have 4 teams, at least one of them reaching the second round of the playoffs is not an unreasonable ask.       But that's life sometimes. For the Seminoles, everything that could go wrong pretty much did, as they followed up a 13-0 regular season with a horrendous 2-10 season. The Bucs managed to win the division for a 4th consecutive year, but then saw their season end in heartbreaking fashion as Washington barely squeaked in a game winning field goal in the final seconds (it hit the post and bounced in) to sink Tampa's ship. Orlando had bigger goals in mind when the season b...
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