OPINIONS REQUIRED ( A MESSAGE THAT I SENT DAVID HOOD)

Dec 17, 2019, 2:31 PM

From the beginning of the season, I've taken notice of Ohio State. They're scary good this season. Not the paper tiger (no pun intended), that everyone may believe them to be. When you look at the metrics, it doesn't tell the whole story. I am not certain that Clemson will dominate them as we have in the past. In other words, the game as far as I'm concerned is 50/50. The reason I say this is due to the defensive scheme we are running this season. While Coach V is a genius in his own right, schematically we don't match up well with them. That's not to say that Coach V won't run a four man front during that game, but schematically using the three man front we just don't have the meat and muscle up front to set the edge and pressure Fields. Let's not forget that they have a solid TE and RB on the squad. I'm not saying that they will burn us, but they can certainly get chunk plays and extend drives. It will be a shootout for sure; in my opinion.

We've had many missed tackles in open space this season, and if we clean that up then we will be able to stop the run rather well. However, we haven't been stuffing the run in the back field as much this season, and that draws concerns from me.(Could just be me overthinking.) The positive is that we have the nation's best Red-Zone defense. Also, our secondary limits the pass game significantly. If we run a blitz package it would have to be a variety of Safety and LB blitz packages disguised as a different coverage package. Clemson's Defense would also have to account for the spy that we absolutely must have on Fields. Isaiah Simmons or Skalski will be busy for sure. Muse is too aggressive and tends to over extend the attack and miss tackles. However the violence of attack is there, and he can lay a lick on someone causing psychological effects of the game to set in. Logan Rudolph is also coming into his own at Clemson. In short, XT and the other DEs must be in beast mode all game to ensure that Fields is laying on his back all night long.

Our secondary is solid, and the pass game will be extremely limited. However, I've noticed the chink in the armor underneath in space or the short slants on the corner. We seem to have issues covering the bubble screen. It's almost like we must win by way of attrition in some match-ups, but this is the Playoff, and the teams that are here to play will have depth as well. We won't be able to wear them down as quickly as the Virginia team we played in Charlotte. Of course, this is why we play the game because in 2016 Ohio State was the team to beat, and we all know how that turned out. However, I'm not sure if it will be the same story this season. Coach V and Dabo are adjustment geniuses. They don't just make half-time adjustments, they will make an adjustment if they have two consecutive drives that don't pan out quite well.

On Offense we have our own concerns to consider. The best DE we've faced all season will be in that game. He's a beast for sure, and has faced some stiff Offensive Lines all season. However, our Offensive Line is possibly one of the best he will face all season. Add in the fact that Trevor Lawrence is most dangerous when he's scrambling in the pocket and throwing on the move. It's definitely pick your poison and I believe if the Tigers come out gelling then that will be the game winning factor early on in the game. Especially if our defense has to come out and adjust to early game surprises and tempo.

Why didn't I add in LSU and Oklahoma? It's because both of them run a scheme that plays right into the hands of Clemson. We will wear them both down to a sack of potatoes before Mid-Third Quarter. I'm not too concerned about them.

In closing I'd like to add that if we win it all this year, pencil us in for the next two to three years as well. The Best Is Yet To Come!

GO TIGERS!

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The Big 10 benefited GREATLY this year from lofty preseason rankings of a few teams and a terribly weak OOC schedule. The played 7 Power 5 OOC games and lost 4 of them. Penn State beat average Pitt 17 to 10 at Penn State. Ohio State did not play a Power 5 OOC game this year.

I am not sold that Penn State has played teams that are far superior to the teams we have played. Teams like Penn State and Michigan are good teams but not great despite their rankings.

Ohio State has not played a team anywhere close to Clemson and that my friends is a fact. Both offensively and defensively we are the best they have seen. Ohio State is the best team we have played this season, but nothing we have not seen before and our coaching staff will have our Tigers ready to roll on the 28th.

We will give up more points than we have this season but our offense will rule the day. Our offense has been waiting for this opportunity and now that the Tigers have been ignored on just about all the awards list it is time for the ROY bus to run over some people.

OPINIONS REQUIRED ( A MESSAGE THAT I SENT DAVID HOOD)

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