Re: The OB was a disaster for Clemson, its brand, team morale..

I do not agree if your are suggesting that we had a balanced, effective attack. Shipley had 5 touches in the first half, and a total of 17 for the game. Mafah had 7. Cade had the most at 20, most of those running for his life. Streeter did nothing to protect Cade from a relentless pass rush from a mediocre defensive line. For example, he made no effort to establish the run early in the game to put the defense line back on its heals, and he made no effort to put a back in the back field later in the game to protect Cade. Streeter's offense under performed all season. You are entitled to your opinion and I am entitled to my opinion that Dabo needs to make a change and replace Streeter just like he did when he replaced Steele after the debacle of the WVU Orange Bowl. I do not care that we had more yards and more first downs. Last time I checked, there are no moral victories in football. It is not a successful Clemson season in my view any longer when we get beat by Carolina (because of poor coaching decisions), embarrassed on national TV at Notre Dame, and shown up in the Orange Bowl by a team that was without its starting QB and several offensive weapons. Like I said, you are entitled to your opinion, and leave me to mine.

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Jan 4, 2023, 11:42 PM

Disaster … that’s a bit much.

Nearly all us (including presumably you, and most definitely me) had over rated our chances this year due to a relatively easy early season schedule that provided the platform for our still-developing offense and re-juggled OL and new receivers to improve quickly as the season progressed.

Most us anticipated that our defense would quickly approach the standard of 2021’s defense.

Our offense did indeed improve, but not to the extent or consistency that it needed to in order to be within a binocular’s view of the elite offenses.

Our defense suffered mightily early in the season due to DB problems and ‘teething process’ for LBs who replaced Skalski and B.Spector. The LB play + DL play rose to the general vicinity of the elite teams. Unfortunately, our CBS (with the exception of Nate Wiggins and somewhat with Sheridan Jones) and Safeties (with the exceptions of R.J.Mickens and Jayln Phillips) did not improve at the pace which we had hoped.

Because of our overall DB unit, we did not anywhere near to the performance of the 2021 unit.

WR should finally get to a good (more than just respectable) level next year.

QB is my biggest worry … let’s hope that CK2 develops quickly, Vizzina turns out to be a quick study, and that Paul (forgot his last name … the portal guy who was brought aboard for depth purposes) can sustain us for a victory or two if CK2 gets injured or needs a ‘relief pitcher.’

(***). There are enough foundational pieces for our OL to become elite (I’m not kidding) in 2023. Our RB unit and TE units remain thin; barring major injuries our RB unit should approach elite status … our TE unit is a ??? mark.

(***). Defense should be elite at DT and LB.
(***). DE may surprise if our SRs (including XT) can play lots of snaps and 2 or so FRs can play a bunch of quality snaps.
(***). CBs will be very good (N.Wiggins elite, S.Jones excellent, T.Pride good)
(***). Safeties should also be much better assuming continued excellent play from Mickens and Phillips, along with experience related better play from the others.

Our young coordinators will be coming into their 2nd years. This is usually the biggest year for major improvement.

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Summary: We indeed have a chance to reach ~ top 10 status next year; most of will depend on how quickly CK2’s decision making improves.

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The OB was a disaster for Clemson, its brand, team morale..