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TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
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"the offense never adjusted" - Shocker***
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No adjustments anywhere, bad coaching, bad QB/Oline play
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Sep 1, 2025, 12:04 PM
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Cade missed Wide open receivers bc he never looked, went straight to target…..always has, always will….
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Re: No adjustments anywhere, bad coaching, bad QB/Oline play
Sep 1, 2025, 2:37 PM
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DJU 2.0
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Re: "the offense never adjusted" - Shocker***
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Sep 1, 2025, 1:14 PM
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Abandoning the run game and never adjusting is something of the norm for Clemson since that 2019 Title Game against LSU.
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
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Sep 1, 2025, 12:07 PM
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Quality poast, solid take.
Lots of potential to still have a great year but the offense has doomed us for years now.
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
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Sep 1, 2025, 12:08 PM
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Good take. But the pessimist in me says if we didn’t learn anything in an entire offseason, I don’t see how we get it all fixed in a couple of weeks.
But, we are paying big bucks for the staff to figure it out and for the players to respond.
Hopefully, that will be the case here…
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
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Sep 1, 2025, 12:12 PM
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Well said!
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
Sep 1, 2025, 12:28 PM
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Clemson is stuck with this pass happy game plan and it is not going to change. LSU knew this from the get go and game planed to defeat Clemson. It worked. Other teams will follow. We will win some games but not beat the top tier teams.
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
Sep 1, 2025, 12:33 PM
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Film breakdowns from Aaron Murray and Dan Orlovsky show Cade just outright missing many open receivers for big gains. Nothing new. If he hasn't learned by now, he never will.
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
Sep 1, 2025, 12:43 PM
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Where is the film. I would love to watch it.
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Check the "Cade is the problem post" for Aaron***
Sep 1, 2025, 4:44 PM
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
Sep 1, 2025, 12:45 PM
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Duh
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
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Sep 1, 2025, 12:51 PM
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Totally agree with playing fast. Once again if you think long you will play wrong.
Would be nice to see a 4 to 5 wide receiver set and Man on Man blocking. Let the running back run over, through or make a move on the defender.
Have more roll out option for the QB to pass or tuck and run.
Make the defense play the entire field.
GO TIGERS
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
Sep 1, 2025, 12:51 PM
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Maybe the coaches should ask qualified and sometimes unbiased media what they’re seeing. Good article.
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
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Sep 1, 2025, 12:52 PM
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Mr Hood, I think your analysis is pretty much spot on. I agree with establishing a running game but wonder if we have the studs to run it. For whatever reason we abandoned it and need it back. Yes, yes, yes, get back to up tempo. Be more creative. Design more runs for Klubnik. Run more screens. Hit the TE on the corner. Take more chances down field. And for goodness sake, block!! My gosh this offense Riley's putting on the field looks timid. Please, Dabo, step in and do something!!
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
Sep 1, 2025, 3:38 PM
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Yes we need a running game and not a predictable one- dimensional offense. A couple times when Cade rolled out he was able to complete a pass (ver few times though). I agree with speeding up the tempo also.
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
Sep 1, 2025, 12:56 PM
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So are the pumpers going to start calling Ryan and David coots after these two articles today? Solid analysis and criticism of the coaching staff is normally met kindly around here
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Amen re: tempo.***
Sep 1, 2025, 12:59 PM
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
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Sep 1, 2025, 1:00 PM
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I agree with most of what you say here. I do wonder if the offense can get better though. Cades not going to all of a sudden have some big growth curve. I hope the line can do better. Cade has to stop running backwards when he’s rattled. He was doing this two years ago, bowl game I think it was. And I hoped he had stopped. But it was right back at it the other night. The run game or lack thereof is inexplicable. You have an oc who has been here for several years now and a senior qb. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised but why would there be an expectation they could improve some. Again maybe the line. Playcalling is poor. If we are going to struggle and lose anyways, open it up and let them run wild. I don’t know if Dabo limits Riley’s calls or not but this offense is not fun to watch. As for the defense, I think it was better and can get even better and maybe they keep us in most games.
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
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Sep 1, 2025, 4:26 PM
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I wonder sometimes if it is Cade’s maturity that is limiting the calls. When I saw his face pregame I was concerned. Nerves are expected before big games, but his face said he was experiencing more than just the usual pregame jitters. I can’t be too critical of him. I played quarterback the same way I think he is playing: All-American in practice; head case in the games with some break out games that were good. I know he should be better bring a senior, that’s why I suspect he might practice better than he plays. Just a humble opinion coming from someone who practiced better than he played.
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Sep 1, 2025, 1:02 PM
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Really disappointed in the lack of development at QB DJ and now Cade . Cade didn’t appear to make any better decisions Saturday then he did two years ago. He was extremely fortunate twice on more than one occasions just throwing it up for grabs. One of those was a pick six had the defender held onto it. These are the same things we’ve seen time and time again. I hold out hope that maybe it’s Garrett Riley hasn’t got his type of QB in there yet. Hopefully Reynolds will be what he needs to run his offense. I’m not sold that the QB is the sole issue. It may be time to seek another OC with a new scheme. This one ain’t working against top caliber competition. I see 4-5 losses on our schedule this year. At some point you’ve got to quit living on your past accolades of 2012-2020 and realize. We no longer can beat top competition outside of the ACC. I anticipate 2-3 losses in the conference this year. Until we get some players back on both sides of the ball that play with an attitude and absolutely can’t stomach loosing (Bouleware for example) I don’t see us getting back anywhere near the top. LSU and its coaching staff rubbed it in our faces before and during the game on our own field. Yet We lacked intensity from the time cannon sounded and we ran down the hill. There’s a lot that got to change but …we’ve said that now for 3/4 years. It’s getting old !
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Sep 1, 2025, 1:17 PM
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It's amazing how these guys type this stuff up & just act as if nobody saw it coming or like we haven't seen this movie before (several times).
"The dog ate our playsheet".
Utter garbage when you consider how much that staff is making.
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
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Sep 1, 2025, 1:17 PM
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Spot on again David. The problems on offense are worrisome.
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Sep 1, 2025, 1:19 PM
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It’s crazy how David Hood knows how to call the offense better than the actual offensive coordinator. I vote for David Hood getting the job.
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Sep 1, 2025, 1:23 PM
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Have not been impressed with the high paid OC since he got there and now we're in year three of his play calling and it looks no better than year one. Had we not backed into the ACC championship and into the playoffs last year it would be a different story. HC has to man up with these decisions.
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
Sep 1, 2025, 1:37 PM
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A predictable offense is a flat offense. You don't just line up and play football against a Top 10 team. You have to have window dressing that creates a pick your own poison scenario. Clemson has fallen flat in that regard since Elliott and Scott left. It's true and I think we need a new coach on the offense that understands that. The Clemson playbook is fine and the talent on the roster is embarrassing due to the amount Clemson has. No, the football IQ needs to improve, and it begins with the coaches.
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
Sep 1, 2025, 1:46 PM
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According to the PFF breakdown, LSU blitzed 67% of the time. You can’t expect the OL to hold up very well against this for an entire game. Adjustments have to be made to make the defense pay when they do this. The amount of blitzing tells you the story; they were not threatened.
As I responded in another post, you can’t abandon the running game as early as we did yesterday. DH listed 2 great examples of this.
LSU knew coming in that we were going to come after their QB and were ready. They got the ball out of his hand quickly and decisively. They also continued to run the football in the 2nd half even as we tightened it down significantly.
Adjustments can be made and they are in our offensive scheme. The question that has be addressed is what do we hang our hats on from week to week as our offensive philosophy? Tweeks will always be made during the season based on our opponents, but you always have a base offense/defense that doesn’t change.
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Re: TNET: Let's just state the BLATANTLY obvious
Sep 1, 2025, 1:52 PM
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We are MUCH better as an underdog than as a favorite.
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Re: TNET: 4th and Hood: Clemson offense needs to find that running identity
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Sep 1, 2025, 1:59 PM
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Did I miss the part where you gave credit to LSU's defense for seemingly being inside our playbook and shutting us down. Only 31 yards rushing seemed to be about both teams and you cannot allow your opponent to over and over impose their will or you will not like the outcome. LSU is good, say so.
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Sep 1, 2025, 2:05 PM
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I remember when we were excellent at halftime adjustments. Tony Elliott, Jeff Scott, and BV gave us so much confidence for Q3 and Q4. The past several years it seems the opposite. We rarely change anything coming out of the half, whether it’s working or not.
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Sep 1, 2025, 2:37 PM
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I don’t understand why we think Riley would be persistent with running the football. He was raised up on Air Raid. Sticking with the run would not seem to be his DNA. We haven’t seen commitment to run since Dabo blistered the staff after the 4-4 start. Mafah and the Oline went out and destroyed ND on the ground that next week. Seems like that could have been a point of emphasis from Dabo at halftime. The last RB carry was Randall with about 13 mins left in the 3rd quarter.
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Sep 1, 2025, 2:33 PM
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I was asked recently for my 2025 Clemson football win loss prediction. I said 8-4, because I could not point to anything that led me to believe Clemson's offense would be any different (better) than the last two seasons. So what happened against LSU? Clemson's defense is way better, but the offense hasn't changed at all. Coordinators get a ton of money to figure out what's wrong and fix it. The new defensive coordinator did that immediately in his first season. The offensive coordinator has not in his third. We need an offensive mastermind--until we make a change, it will be more of the same.
--ClemsonSteve TigerNet member for 27 years!
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I guess Dabo wants to avoid Tyler from Spartanburg now at all costs. Throws a fit when he has the most experienced team in the nation and blows it on national TV. Klubnik is a second rate QB and he isn's a kid! A fifth year senior who makes 3.4 million a year in NIL money? Oh the Tigers will "whip up" on the powerhouse Troy this weekend, but I will say we are going to lose at least 4 games this season and next year, YIKES, we are losing almost every starter. Does not look good. So, now Dabo is making a million per game. Where is the best is yet to come? All I hear are excuses from Dabo. I mean why did we not go into the portal and find a RB? The fantasy that Randall is another Henry is gone. IT is going to a LONG season.
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Sep 1, 2025, 2:38 PM
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I think a QB like Cade that doesn’t get hit at least 4-5 times in all pre season he then starts to see ghost when he plays a legit D in the first game (LSU, UGA ) after he gets tagged a few times. DJ never got over UGA game and it takes a scrimmage like app state and will take Troy for Cade to get his confidence back. Going into next year hitting the QB several times in the fall camp needs to be a thing.
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Sep 1, 2025, 3:08 PM
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It's The OC's 3rd Season🌞 1st?..IS His QB Better Over 3 Years...Certainly Debatable🎯
2nd? Even IF U Don't Have a RB...Rush Somebody😤 3rd? IF The OC Called The Plays In The 2nd Half...He Should Have His Paycheck Docked This Week...The OC Handed The Defense The Playbook on A Silver Platter😤 This "IS" The Biggest Letdown of Expectations Ever......I'm Optimistic Usually But...This Team May Have Athletes But They Do Not Have "A Champion's Mindset"
Brace 4 Impact 😤 This Team May Lose 2-3 More Times😤😤😤
Like I Have Said...This IS Coaching...
What We R Told and Have Been Told 4 Several Years IS How Prepared and Team Leadership Taking Charge...Well It Ain't Working😤😤😤
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Great read. Thank you, David.
Sep 1, 2025, 3:19 PM
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Sep 1, 2025, 7:28 PM
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Mr Hood that article demands my second ever “poast.” I have enjoyed your contributions over the years but that was top notch.
It took me until today but when I woke up getting ready for my golf tournament that pain that use to last almost a week was put to rest and I was just thankful to be playing golf on such a gorgeous day.
“When Klubnik is allowed to operate freely – and go fast – he just plays better.” That’s 100% accurate and we have all seen it. My orange glasses may be showing but I do still believe this team can make some noise. GO TIGERS!!!!
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As David points out, the offense needs to change...
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Sep 2, 2025, 10:16 AM
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And that's the issue in a nutshell. We were told we had hired an "offensive genius" in Garrett Riley, so why are we still running the same Dabo offense we've seen for over a decade? I can sit and call the plays, and obviously so can the opposing defensive coordinators. When we run the ball (which we didn't really try do in the LSU game), the defense is in the right place to stuff it. When we throw, our receivers are always covered (or doubled) like a banket. Cade is criticized for locking into the primary receiver and not going through his progressions... but when he's pressured on more than 50% of his drop-backs he doesn't have time to check down.
It's pretty obvious that we need to change... but it's also obvious that we're not going to.
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Re: As David points out, the offense needs to change...
Sep 2, 2025, 11:17 AM
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I would also like to see the tempo speeded up. I intentionally watched the play clock to see when we snapped the ball. Maybe the plan was to use as much time so to limit LSU's offensive time and plays. I don't see it that way. When Cade goes to the line with only 10 secs left, there's not enough time for him to change the play if necessary. Watching a team like TCU (who had some OC that left there 3 years ago) that played an up-tempo game that kept UNC and Billy on their toes. I really enjoyed those 80+ play games we had. I'm not expecting that, but, imo, just 58 plays just don't cut it.
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