Cant See Us Losing
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Their offense "peaking" has come against some of the worse defenses in the country. Basically their OC decided to run the ball against these terrible defenses and made things much easier for DJ. Now they may have improved some because they have gotten 4 games in a row to practice against bad defenses, but we can hold them down with no penalties and our offense not giving them the short field.
Clemson's Defense is better than TX A&M? LMAO Have you seen this team against their garbage ACC competition.
FSU and Wake scored a lot of points on that Defense.
I covered all of this, as well as others in this thread. Their resurgence has coincided with 4 consecutive games against defenses all ranking in the 70s or below. Also, do you think DJU is closer in talent to Nix or Finley? I'm saying with confidence he's closer to Finley in talent.
We played really well against Auburn and Clemson's OL has looked worse than ours against lesser competition all year. They only passed us in offensive rankings compiled by the NCAA site last week against Wake Forest, the 4th in 4 consecutive defenses ranking 70 or below by those same stats. Their defense is also their worst statistically in years, again against lousy competition.
I can't see the response but someone made they aren't as good as TAMU defensively, very true! Clemson and TAMU have very similar defenses statistically but with TAMU doing it against far better competition. After all the improvement from our OL, playing at home, their level of competition to this point it would be a huge shock if they do anything similar to what TAMU did to our offense.
Nah, it won't be that bad.
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When we went on our 5 game run, I remember the spreads to be very close, Clemson won at least 2 or 3 ACC's during that run, but hadn't faced a schedule anywhere close to what we were playing and it always showed on the field, I hope that is the case tonight. It has to make a difference when you're comparing team statistics!
Seems like in the CU run they have hit a lot of deep balls and just killed us with the slant, bubble screen and YAC.
I hope we have learned to cover those better, I really think our tackling is better, it would be nice to make them more one-dimensional with Shipley, again can they be that much better than Auburn's Oline and Bigsby, I don't see it!
Seems like in the CU run they have hit a lot of deep balls and just killed us with the slant, bubble screen and YAC.
I hope we have learned to cover those better, I really think our tackling is better, it would be nice to make them more one-dimensional with Shipley, again can they be that much better than Auburn's Oline and Bigsby, I don't see it!
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Congrats on the Auburn win but that was due to terrible play calling by Auburn. If they stick to the run, they likely win. Clemson's defense is ranked 15th. Not world beaters but not shabby either.
Hell, you might remember they were ranked in favored going into '09, and the commentators even said we played a tougher schedule and were likely the better team.
And another thing, it's a dumb narrative that all Auburn had to do was run more. Tank had some long runs and we also stopped him a lot and he took himself out plenty too and the rest of the team didn't have a lot of success running. The only thing that claim can really be made for is the 4&1 before the half and at the same time, we got the ball back in the red zone at the end of the game just before we killed the clock. No reason to say they score instead of us and no reason to think we don't get the opportunity to score to make up for the lost touchdown.
Every game stands on its on merit. They are favored BUT we only need to make more plays and be better than them on this particular DAY!
They can stop the run. Can we pass on them is the major question
We are seeing mid way through the 1st quarter Clemson's defensive line dominate our offensive line. They are much quicker, and much more stout than any defense we've played since Georgia.
Our offensive line, except for a few stretches, has been very underwhelming all year- even against average - at best- defenses.
Our defense is playing as well as they can.
But Clemson's defense is overwhelming our offense.
But Clemson's defense is overwhelming our offense.
Dude what the hell were you seeing. We will be lucky to score a touchdown against them.
If you can't see us losing. You better turn off the TV
You gave our offense way too much credit.....
I knew there would have to be a reckoning for this thread one way or another.
Jesus man delete this thread before you go viral
This aged well.
If it makes you feel any better, I tried to be optimistic in a local pick 'em thread and called it 34-30 for the good guys. At least I was half right (but too bad it was the wrong half).
If it makes you feel any better, I tried to be optimistic in a local pick 'em thread and called it 34-30 for the good guys. At least I was half right (but too bad it was the wrong half).
Exactly - all the way through.
Our defense might look bad statistically tonight, but they played decently though overmatched. You can't lay a loss on a defense when you score nothing. Scoring points not only gives a team a chance to outscore the opponent, it does so partially by taking up time that the opponent would have at its disposal to score.
Got any predictions on the NFL games today ?
SC running the ball was never gonna happen but I thought Brown, who had been able to scramble and create some big plays with Vann in recent games, would find a few of those. Tough loss for you guys but when you refect on it, I think it was a good year.
I’ve never seen a team less prepared and motivated than we were. You could see it from the jump even before the game started; we were bobbing and jiving, Clemson was like a military unit.
This team doesn’t believe in itself, and you can see AND hear they have not particularly been encouraged to do so by the staff; lot of criticism, not much of anything else. You can see it in Brown, you can see it in both the OL and DL, you can see the timidity and uncertainty in the faces.
This team doesn’t believe in itself, and you can see AND hear they have not particularly been encouraged to do so by the staff; lot of criticism, not much of anything else. You can see it in Brown, you can see it in both the OL and DL, you can see the timidity and uncertainty in the faces.
Well there’s your answer.
Beating an Auburn team that had just lost its QB created what happens often here, unrealistic expectations. I saw a lot of predictions that we would actually win this game yet anybody who follows football could see Clemson easily had the second best defense we would face all year. Combine that with Dabo always getting his team to play their best against us and it was obvious it would have taken a miracle last night to upset them. We have one of the worst offenses in college football, going against one of the best defenses, this was easy to see coming.
Lol, we lose a game and the prissy little dorks that have been awol since we turned into a semblance of a team are out in force to get in their sniggling juvenile pokes and emoticons. That’s cool, knock yourself out; at the end of the day you’re still what you are. Works for me, punkin’.
Lose a game, how about get dismantled! Wasn’t like these predictions were even in the realm being even close to coming true. Missed your mark their bud, bad. Just hope you didn’t put any money where your mouth was!
Still feel Clemson isn’t markedly better than Auburn, man some of you get sucked into the hype so bad I feel for ya.
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