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[QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 1176289, member: 3201"]
This is just a fact of life with modern college football...it's not Clemson related, so don't make it out to be more than it is.  People are trying to make an evaluation on an injury from 80 rows up, which they shouldn't be doing, but they are.  Hell, Dave Doeren accused FSU of faking injuries, even though two of the three players didn't return to the game.

Sometimes players flop to slow down these offenses.  Sometime the injuries are legit.  In my opinion, you can't design an offense based on running 100 plays and exhausting the defense, and then question when defenders get cramped up.  After all, that's what you're basically trying to accomplish.  You can't say "We're going to run at a breakneck pace to debilitate you, but you need to stay on the field in your debilitated state so we have the advantage."

The only thing I would say is that coaches of these offenses should tell the fans:

"Listen, we know that players fake injuries to slow us down.  However, you need to leave that between the coaching staff and the refs and the league office.  You are not close enough to know the circumstances of the injury, and booing a player that may be legitimately injured is not acceptable in any case, and so don't do it."
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