After watching film, here's my Clemson offense game notes

Aug 31, 2014, 5:17 PM

QB
-Stoudt is a great QB. As we knew, he's not going to take giant risks (so not going to see the giant rewards either). The pick that Stoudt threw was due to the underneath receiver running the incorrect route (he was clearly supposed to run to the middle of the field to suck the safety over).
-Watson is GOING to be a great QB. There was a handful of plays that he knew for the UGA game, and he executed those and only those plays. The entire playbook is not in his head yet, so his capabilities are limited. He'll likely download a good bit more of the playbook after his execution this week. Overall, a great job.
-Right now, it's clear that Cole is our starting QB, and he very well should be.

WR
-Mike Williams can be DeAndre Hopkins part 2. He's a great receiver and has already showed what he can do. He has become a very technically sound player and is likely to be our top receiver this year. However, I'm still waiting on him to land a block.
-Germone Hopper is a Jacoby Ford part 2. He's got speed and can see the play developing. His biggest issue comes due to his size with blocking. He blocked his butt off last night, but there were a few blocks that he will have trouble making due to his leverage. The coaches have to find a way to adjust here if he can't hack it. It's possible though (see Adam Humphries), and he's ferocious enough with his blocking that he can make it happen.
-Kyrin Priester is Mike Williams of last year. Not going to be involved too much, but a good receiver to run in occasionally for a big play.
-Artavis Scott is going to catch a few balls per game this season. He has some yard-after-catch capabilities and may become a solid 4th option in the receiver corps (behind Williams, Humphries, and Peake).
-I have no idea why Peake wasn't open more often than he was. I think Georgia really keyed in on him, which led to other folks getting the ball. They may have memories of Peake scoring on them last year and decided to defend him well.

RB
-DJ Howard is not going to be our big play back and has some trouble maintaining a block. He is going to be the guy that can be counted on for 3-4 yards per play. He's small and gets banged around quite a bit on the field.
-CJ Davidson is our better option at RB. Capable of breaking a big play while agile enough to re-direct any play to an open area of the field. I see him getting most of the carries before the season is over with. Not our best option with blocking though.
-Wayne Gallman will have the same amount of playing time than CJ Davidson did last year. I see Wayne becoming more of a factor toward the end of the season once he has more experience under his belt and once the coaches have developed a good package for him. He isn't very good at blocking in pass coverage, which is exactly what they were using him for late in the game.
-It was great to see Kurt Fleming come in for a short yardage situation (esp on the goal line). He definitely throttled the kid that he hit (the play went about 2 gaps to his left, so his hit didn't affect the play too much). I'm not sure what the coaches will decide, but from this game it looks like Kurt will be the additional blocking power necessary on 3rd and short along with Seckinger or McCullough.

TE
-Jay Jay McCullough is our best blocker at TE, not too much ahead of Seckinger. However, McCullough is our worst receiving option at TE. I see his main role being the wing-back a lot this season for the bone-crushing hit on 3rd and short.
-Stanton Seckinger has made his blocking a lot better since last season (probably due to the weight gain). This is going to open up the playbook for Seckinger a lot more this season since he can be used as a receiver or a blocker. Staton is clearly our best every-down option at TE.
-Jordan Leggett is one of our better receiving TEs, yet, he's by far our worst blocker. Jordan got pushed around quite a bit and hardly ever pursued an on-coming defender with more than the backside of his shoulder. If you can't block, you're likely not going to get any receptions either (many of you thought he would be our top receiver in this game...check his stats -- 0 receptions).

OL
-Webster missed quite a few blocks and got pushed around quite a bit when he was in. He has a great initial contact, but has trouble maintaining the block for more than a few seconds. Sometimes he looks lost on the field. He is our weak point on most downs.
-Ryan Norton was up and down the entire game. He'd start off making great plays and then he'd completely miss a blitz. Guillermo wasn't better than Norton, so Norton is clearly our center. Guillermo wasn't bad, but kept getting torched on the blitz.
-Joe Gore did a lot better than I expected with the plate he was handed. Not too bad.
-Isiah Battle is good, but there are a handful of plays that he took off (one being the holding that was nearly a safety and another being the holding that turned out to be a sack on Stoudt to begin the 4th quarter). If he's supposed to be our foundation on the O-line, I'd be giving him a ear-full this week.
-Kalon Davis does great when he pulls down the line and has a lot of situational awareness with everything going on. He did a great job with adjustments during the play. His biggest issue is that he is not fast enough to get out to the flats on a screen.

Overall, I think offense was our weak point in this game (special teams is debatable), which caused the fallout on defense. I think the UGA loss might actually help our season more than it hurt it. UGA will win a lot of games this season, so the loss won't hurt as much as it would have in the BCS system. UGA will likely win the SEC East, and maybe even the SEC. FSU looks beatable based on the first game and everyone else on our schedule looks like we could take them.

11-1 is still a possibility this season (the hardest game obviously being @ Tallahassee).

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After watching film, here's my Clemson offense game notes

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You might want to re-check that

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How many passes did Mike drop, btw?

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I agree with Purple

Thanks for doing this for us.

Most intelligent and level headed post of the weekend!

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AikenC have fun losing to ECU with your god awful defense

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