SWC75
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- Three years ago we were out-gained 397-624, so we gained 39% of the game’s yards. We also had four turnovers to 2 and lost by five touchdowns. Two years ago we were out-gained 170-375 by a Clemson team that didn’t have DeShaun Watson due to an injury. That means we gained 31% of the yards in that game. Four Clemson turnovers helped us stay in the game, which we lost by 10 points. Last year in the Dome, we got out-gained 322-570, so we gained 36% of the yards in that game. Three Clemson turnovers helped us stay in that game, which we also lost by 10. This year, we were out0gained 277-565, meaning that we gained 33% of the yards in this game. This time we had three turnovers and Clemson had none. Basically the last two years were an illusion. The Tigers have been better than us- way better, all along.
- If you are going to hang in there against a superior team, you can’t give them anything that they didn’t earn. Three turnovers, a 20 yard punt, a wacky play where the ball was tipped four times, including off of a player’s foot and winds up a pick six plus 10 penalties are a recipe for getting blown out.
- Those penalties were for 55 yards, meaning there were plenty of false starts, plus a couple of delay of game penalties. This is a continuation of a problem we’ve had much of the year but also a product of Clemson’s aggressive, stunting defense. Clemson came into the game having forced 33 such penalties and we added to the total.
- We are supposed to be a hurry-up offense but, while we don’t huddle, we sometimes take a long time to call the signals and the blocking assignments. It can give the opposition a breather and a chance to diagnose what we are doing. Again, Clemson should get some credit for that. But I think our success rate on plays proceeded by a lot of looking to the sideline and then shouting and maneuvering people around is probably not very good.
- The big thing, of course, was the injured players. The injuries were not the cause of the blow out. Eric Dungey was not playing very well before he got hurt. But most of the games over the years where we had multiple injuries were games where we got blown out. It’s a sign we’re getting hit harder than we are hitting and that was basically true in this game from the opening kick-off. Now we need to sweat it out this next week to see if we’ll get Dungey, Estime and the others back for a much more winnable game that will have much more to do with how this season ends than this one did.
- The problem with having only one running back in the backfield is that if you are going to have any deception at all in your running game, the quarterback has to become a running back. Dino Babers has said that he doesn’t like a running quarterback because he doesn’t his quarterback to get hurt. He wound up running Eric Dungey 125 times in 8 games and a quarter. The inevitable happened today.
- Cole Murphy has now missed 7 of his last 9 field goal attempts. We got down to the Clemson 14. On 4th and 6, instead of going for the TD down 0-37, Dino Babers decided to go for the “sure” field goal to break up the shut out. Murphy rewarded him with a shank. Was that the last straw?
- I’m always interested to see how a coach’s team plays after a week off. So far, so bad.
- We had a nice three week run. The upset of Va Tech, the Babers speech and all the publicity it got, a 2 game winning streak that lasted two weeks. Now we sink back into irrelevancy. When will we rise again?
- If you are going to hang in there against a superior team, you can’t give them anything that they didn’t earn. Three turnovers, a 20 yard punt, a wacky play where the ball was tipped four times, including off of a player’s foot and winds up a pick six plus 10 penalties are a recipe for getting blown out.
- Those penalties were for 55 yards, meaning there were plenty of false starts, plus a couple of delay of game penalties. This is a continuation of a problem we’ve had much of the year but also a product of Clemson’s aggressive, stunting defense. Clemson came into the game having forced 33 such penalties and we added to the total.
- We are supposed to be a hurry-up offense but, while we don’t huddle, we sometimes take a long time to call the signals and the blocking assignments. It can give the opposition a breather and a chance to diagnose what we are doing. Again, Clemson should get some credit for that. But I think our success rate on plays proceeded by a lot of looking to the sideline and then shouting and maneuvering people around is probably not very good.
- The big thing, of course, was the injured players. The injuries were not the cause of the blow out. Eric Dungey was not playing very well before he got hurt. But most of the games over the years where we had multiple injuries were games where we got blown out. It’s a sign we’re getting hit harder than we are hitting and that was basically true in this game from the opening kick-off. Now we need to sweat it out this next week to see if we’ll get Dungey, Estime and the others back for a much more winnable game that will have much more to do with how this season ends than this one did.
- The problem with having only one running back in the backfield is that if you are going to have any deception at all in your running game, the quarterback has to become a running back. Dino Babers has said that he doesn’t like a running quarterback because he doesn’t his quarterback to get hurt. He wound up running Eric Dungey 125 times in 8 games and a quarter. The inevitable happened today.
- Cole Murphy has now missed 7 of his last 9 field goal attempts. We got down to the Clemson 14. On 4th and 6, instead of going for the TD down 0-37, Dino Babers decided to go for the “sure” field goal to break up the shut out. Murphy rewarded him with a shank. Was that the last straw?
- I’m always interested to see how a coach’s team plays after a week off. So far, so bad.
- We had a nice three week run. The upset of Va Tech, the Babers speech and all the publicity it got, a 2 game winning streak that lasted two weeks. Now we sink back into irrelevancy. When will we rise again?
