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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 4012566, member: 874"] Look at the drives. The first one we handed off to him and he lost yardage. Then we were playing catch up and got bailed out by a penalty. What should we do in the next 1st down play, hand it off to Tucker again? Maybe but then Gilbert gets blamed for being predictable, especially when it's clear Clemson is focusing on it. We tried to loosen up their defense with the pass. That's not the wrong thing to do. We just have to execute so defenses have to play us honest. The second drive we got Tucker the ball on the first play with a pass and picked up a first down, so that doesn't show up in the stats you posted. The next 1st down play we handed off to Tucker who lost yards again. So now we were behind the sticks and punted. The third drive we AGAIN started off by handing off to Tucker for no gain and were behind the sticks. We went 3 and out. The fourth drive Shrader ran for a two yard gain. So yeah, we went away from Tucker. Probably not a bad idea to mix it up given the first three drives. Too bad nothing worked and we went three and out again. The next drive we picked up 5 yards on a 1st down pass and then handed odf to Tucker, who picked up the first down. The next 1st down play we handed off to Tucker again for a 2 yard gain. We were behind the sticks again and ended up punting. So on 4 of 5 drives we started off giving Tucker the ball. On 5 of 8 first down plays we got him the ball via either pass or run. It just didn't look like we got him the ball enough because we were getting stuffed and didn't sustain those drives. On the last drive, we still started off by giving him the ball. We had 5 first down plays that drive and ran him on 3 of those. We had a false start on one that put us in 1st and 15 so went away from him but still tried to pass it to him on 2nd down. Then the last set of downs we gave it to him on 3rd and 2 and he picked up one yard. This idea that we didn't get Tucker the ball is completely inaccurate. We tried to get him the ball on almost every set of downs and started most sets of downs by getting him the ball. [/QUOTE]

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