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Reggie Merriweather.
Feb 28, 2013, 3:45 PM
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Specifically in the 4th quarter.
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Hall of Famer [21614]
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I meant over the course of a player's career.
Feb 28, 2013, 3:46 PM
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Merriweather got touches pretty often. I mean, he was our primary running back for a couple of years. Ben Hall barely ever sniffed the ball.
I agree on the one drive, it was a mistake, but overall...not so much.
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I'm aware. Sorry for derailing your thread, geeeez.***
Feb 28, 2013, 3:49 PM
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You didn't derail it, you just gave a more popular answer.
Feb 28, 2013, 3:50 PM
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How dare you! 
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Tommy was going with the "hot hand" over the guy ripping
Feb 28, 2013, 3:49 PM
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off 8 yards a clip...
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Bowden made some boneheaded decisions while coaching Clemson
Feb 28, 2013, 4:08 PM
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and the Merriweather debacle against $CU may be the biggest of them all followed closely by the decision to give CJ and James Davis a combined 13 carries in a bowl game against a team (Kentucky) with the nations 113th ranked defense against the run.
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come on, man... anybody would've put Davis in
Feb 28, 2013, 4:11 PM
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Davis was the better RB all year, and Merriweather was probably gassed. Anyway, it doesn't matter if Proctor can hit somebody in the endzone or if Dean makes the kick.
All of you saying Merriweather was underused must not have watched much football before James Davis came to the program.
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I didn't hear an ENTIRE stadium chanting DAVIS...***
Feb 28, 2013, 4:12 PM
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oh, right, so Davis wasn't better than Merriweather
Feb 28, 2013, 4:13 PM
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my bad
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Not on that drive he wasn't.***
Feb 28, 2013, 4:18 PM
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this is definitely one of those "hindsight is 20/20" deals
Feb 28, 2013, 4:26 PM
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because most all of us would've put Davis in the game if it looked like Merriweather was gassed. Davis was by far the better back, and probably the only reason he was in instead of Spiller or Davis was because they were both tired. We all loved Reggie because of his balance and effort, but he wasn't nearly the back that Davis or Spiller were.
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Did you hear anyone chanting James that day?***
Feb 28, 2013, 4:28 PM
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Not on that day.
Feb 28, 2013, 6:07 PM
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Reggie 3 carries for 23. Davis 11 for 19.
Numbers. They're like magic.
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James obviously didn't have his best game...
Feb 28, 2013, 4:36 PM
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http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=263290228
But I don't think you can say that Reggie was in beast mode, or that he definitely would've taken us closer to the goal line, based on the three carries he had. What's more unfortunate is that we couldn't have had CJ in at that time, given that he averaged over 10 YPC in the game.
You also can't really say he was "a shell of himself," since he had run for 166 yards against NC State the week before.
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Specifically when he was running the ball down
Feb 28, 2013, 3:50 PM
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the coot's throat.
"What are you doing Bowden"! "Leave him in"! I yelled.
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Merriweather***
Feb 28, 2013, 3:45 PM
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reg--gie***
Feb 28, 2013, 3:46 PM
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Ben Hall wouldn't block.***
Feb 28, 2013, 3:46 PM
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He was always on the field.. they just never threw it to him***
Feb 28, 2013, 3:47 PM
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Definitely Reggie Merriweather.***
Feb 28, 2013, 3:47 PM
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almost certainly not Reggie Merriweather
Feb 28, 2013, 4:14 PM
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You're telling me he should've gotten more than 30 rushes in a backfield with CJ Spiller and James Davis? And Merriweather was pretty much the feature back for a couple of years, and never had more than 800 yards rushing. We forget how bad of a rushing team we were before Davis and Spiller got to Clemson.
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Rendrick Taylor or Lateek Townsend***
Feb 28, 2013, 3:47 PM
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Re: Definitely Reggie Merriweather.***
Feb 28, 2013, 3:48 PM
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Specifically because of that drive.
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Tony Dorsett***
Feb 28, 2013, 3:51 PM
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Re: Stupid Jackie Sherrill. ******
Feb 28, 2013, 3:58 PM
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david Dunham on defense mal lawyer on offense
Feb 28, 2013, 3:54 PM
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david Dunham on defense mal lawyer on offense***
Feb 28, 2013, 3:54 PM
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Chad Diehl
Feb 28, 2013, 3:56 PM
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Maybe not most but I wanted to throw out a name no one else was
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Re: Chad Diehl
Feb 28, 2013, 4:24 PM
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It sucked that he didn't really have much of a place in Morris' offense, and that he had the medical stuff going on.
He was a good enough blocker and special teamer to make an NFL roster.
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No doubt about it. Ben Hall, RM a close second. Another
Feb 28, 2013, 4:01 PM
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reason to dispise TB
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Every player Ken Hatfield had***
Feb 28, 2013, 4:19 PM
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Re: Most underused player in Clemson history:
Feb 28, 2013, 4:27 PM
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Not all time, but right now I'd have to say it's been Martavis Bryant.
I know he's had issues with the playbook and that he's not much of a blocker.
But the guy is open deep every time we throw it to him. It's either on the money and a deep completion/TD or pass interference call.
No idea why we don't send him deep a little more often, especially when defenses had to account for Nuk and Sammy over the top, too.
I expect him to breakout this year and add the full-on Randy Moss element we've already seen glimpses of.
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Absolutely. Ben was wasted at Clemson. He was a big target
Feb 28, 2013, 4:30 PM
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with great hands. Every time you turned around he was standing 20 yards downfield without a defender in sight, jumping up and down and waving his arms while the QB tucked it and ran, or sailed one over a covered receiver's head 3 yards downfield on the sideline.
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Exactly. He could have been an All-American.***
Feb 28, 2013, 5:28 PM
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Dwight Clark
Feb 28, 2013, 4:34 PM
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Caught 30 balls at Clemson before All Pro seasons with San FRANCISCO
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He had it tough since Fuller's favorite.......
Feb 28, 2013, 5:30 PM
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target was Jerry Butler. Didn't leave a lot of room in the gameplan for Clark unfortunately.
Just remember that one of his catches is the one that set-up "The Catch" between Fuller and Butler - Clark caught a pass on the previous down right between two Carolina defensive backs - was not an easy catch to make.
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Re: He had it tough since Fuller's favorite.......
Feb 28, 2013, 5:33 PM
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If I remember correctly, Clark made several big catches on that drive that set up the "catch" !!
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Re: Chad Diehl
Feb 28, 2013, 4:50 PM
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Agree 100%!!!!!!
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cj, jacoby, gilchrist shoulda started all 4 yrs!!
Feb 28, 2013, 4:59 PM
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No one has said Michael Palmer yet?
Feb 28, 2013, 5:02 PM
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He was an absolute monster when we used him.
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Michael effffing Wade
Feb 28, 2013, 5:04 PM
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Not sure how good of a QB he would have been, but he was a beast on special teams.
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Tie, Jerry Butler and Perry Tuttle. It was a different time
Feb 28, 2013, 5:14 PM
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and different offense but could you imagine if they had gotten the touches of Rod Gardner or Nuk or Aaron Kelly or Sammy?
Not to take anything away from those four because they hold almost all Clemson receiving records. JB and PT would be up there too in the record books with more opportunities.
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The Ford brothers***
Feb 28, 2013, 5:26 PM
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Ben Hall, Ben Hall and Ben Hall, period***
Feb 28, 2013, 5:28 PM
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