Re: TNET: Stats & Storylines: Disaster in Death Valley, Clemson falls to Gamecocks

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Nov 27, 2022, 10:50 AM

Go watch DJ play in person. Every defense walks 7-8 in to the box and leaves our receivers in zero coverage. Zero coverage means straight man to man. Zero safety help. QB 101 says to kill a running play and call go routes. Our receivers have done his pretty well. From the stands, you can see two of three even, or one step behind the coverage. DJ stands there, afraid to pull the trigger. If a receiver is even, he’s leavin’! If DJ hits two of those per game, it changes everything. Safeties start to back away from the line and it opens everything up. The run game becomes more effective, bubble screens start working, slants become open, and the offense is diverse. The receivers get tired of working the butts off and not being rewarded; so they stop trying. Hence the spark when Klubnik has come in. TV doesn’t show tight ends running wide open across the middle. Football is a numbers game. When there are 7-8 in the box, you throw the ball. When there are less than 6, run it. Sure, zone blocking, pulling guards and tackles can overcome numbers disadvantage. But, we fail to follow offense 101 because they are trying to hide how bad DJ is. Against lesser talent, DJ can look pretty good at times. Against elite talent and good schemes, he looks like the worst QB in D1.
Nepotism has plagued Clemson for quite some time. Tony Elliot handcuffed the offense. The moment Scott left the numbers decreased dramatically. Goodwin is not a good coordinator. He has a NFL defense playing with poor technique. I screamed in preseason to hire Dan Lanning as defensive coordinator, or ANY coordinator with elite skills. We aren’t afraid to pay top dollar. Go get the best. Same on offense. Pay someone like Joe Brady or go get the hot, big name, proven coordinator. When the best is the standard, you go get the best. Not experiment on unproven developmental projects because you like them. This is a business. Hire the best if you want to be the best.
I don’t think anything in my lifetime has been as puzzling as the DJ debacle. He’s a 5* bust. I’ve been coming to the valley since I was in first grade back in the 1976 football season. My love for Clemson is one of the great loves of my life. Watching DJ has been frustrating to say the least. You can audibly hear the crowd grumble between plays trying to understand what DJ is thinking or seeing. Please fix it, Dabo. 10 wins doesn’t equal best is the standard. I want to compete for the Natty.

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Well all streaks end at some point but these should not have ended yesterday. Removing partisan politics, I said last year that Beamer would turn the Coots arounds and reminded me of a young Dabo and he has certainly showed that the way he ended the year. This was bad for us yesterday as he and his staff showed how to win with lesser talent and better coaching but in the end a stronger SC is good for us and the rivalry which had virtually ceased to exist - it had become a given that we would win this game and win it easily - look at the score predictions all over.
The problem is whether we (aka Dabo) will respond with the right coaching and player moves. Just ask yourself if Saban was our coach this year, whether Cade would have been developed and had some opportunities. This is not a game issue but a practice issue. I believe the coaches now that putting him in may not have helped on one of those days (ND as we saw or SC) but that is a development problem not a game decision problem. Watching the small sample size he did not progress and that can only be blamed on the coaches. I suspect that felt that they had to give DJ every single rep possible in order to help him and in the end may have set Cade back a year. Let's just hope he doesn't try to catch up elsewhere.
Did you watch USC - yes, the real USC and see where their productivity came from? Simply put, it came from NIL. I don't like the "NFL mentality" of it but it is here to stay. Can we be a "nice" and "good" team without it and win 10 games and compete annually for the Championship of the worst league in Power Five? Probably but we are from elite now and will only dip further if we don't adapt to the new world. Is "BEST" really the standard or is being "good" good enough? The next couple of months will answer that question.

TNET: Stats & Storylines: Disaster in Death Valley, Clemson falls to Gamecocks

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