My take on tonight

Jan 2, 2018, 6:01 AM

No one in their right mind couldn’t see that running the ball against Bama without keeping them honest with some pass plays was a smart game plan. As much as I love our staff I have seen a bit of stubbornness in them on more than one occasion this year.

When we finally started to throw the ball some it seemed to open up the run game a little. Everyone and their mama knows that Bryant is a better runner than passer. Guess what! That includes Alabama. Their game plan was to load the box and let us try to run and we played the game right into their plan. Look! If you’re gonna go down, go down swinging!

And the coaching! Look at Saban. He knew the strength of our defense was our front 7. What did he do? He brought in an extra offensive lineman to equalize our strength. So what if we are doing what they are doing. Bring in an extra OLman.

My take on Kelly and his passing game. You can only here the same negativity about yourself before you start to buy into it and lose your confidence. Our refusal to call more pass plays does nothing to help Kelly’s confidence. The OCs should have been working on pass plays to build his confidence. If Kelly could have gotten some completions his confidence would have gone up with every pass completed. Then the Bama defense couldn’t just zero in on the run up the middle or the bubble screen.

The loss tonight was as much on the coaching as it was on the players.

Now we turn the page to 2018. We don’t lose a ton and the result of tonight’s game may the reason that a good bit of players come back. Not much was done to improve anyone’s draft stock. I would love to see Wilkins stay. Would love to see all of the DL stay. We got a lot of nice recruits coming in as well. The future is bright and will stay that way if we continue winning and recruiting well. Thanks for a great year Clemson!!

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This is exactly right, tabraha. This loss in no way should fall on KB2. The OL got beat everywhere. You can watch the high number of poor snaps to know that our center was on his heels all night. KB2 was fielding snaps like he was taking ground ball infield practice. That's one thing he doesn't need to be worrying about for sure. KB2 runs as well as any of our QBs on the team this year and last. The RB blocking is awful. These guys run straight into a pile at the LOS. Too often I saw an unblocked defender squirt through the line and our RB was going the opposite direction to help block someone already being blocked. The TE blocking? A waste. May as well bring in another OL and bench the TE. This year the TE hasn't been a threat either passing or blocking - waste of a man on the field IMO. Hats off to our D. If not for the play on that side of the ball, this score would have been embarrassing.

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we have been working on KB’s pass confidence all year

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