My biggest take away was this team looked out of gas. The team was not hyped, not energized to the level they need to compete. They were playing in a championship game but were flat as ****. The only explanation is the gas tank was empty. I watched freshman Deejay Dallas try to hype the team up several times. There was very little response. Playing 12 straight games caught up with them.
Clemson is a dink and dunk offense, and somehow we could not stop it. Poor initial game plan from Diaz and a worn out defense made that high school offense look unstoppable. They literally ran three plays the whole game: Read option, bubble screen left, bubble screen right. That was it, 80% of their plays. That was the most frustrating thing to watch. If we got slaughtered with big plays, so be it. But they literally beat us 4 yards at a time, with a few bigger plays here and there.
Thomas needed to step up and had the worst game of his career. He will learn from this and get better.
Langham needed to step up and he was a dud. We need him but he blew his limited opportunities.
The Clemson OL is what our line needs to become. It proves that if you have a really good OL, you can run a super basic offense and still win.
Clemson fans are super annoying. The fake chains and upside down U were out in full effect. We better get revenge on those clowns next year.
Respect to Dabo. He is the only reason I can tolerate Clemson.
Opposing kickers still 100% FG against us. They trotted out a walk on to kick a 45 yarder. In my mind I was thinking, finally they miss one. Nope, he nails it and the Clemson fans party harder then when they scored a TD. Yet our all ACC kicker misses his kick of the same distance. We literally got beat in every phase of the game, and they used a walk on.
Anyway, I refuse to believe that was the same team that beat ND and VT. No Richards, no Herndon and a QB that suddenly has become what we all feared at the beginning of the season. We also missed Walton in a game like this. You add all that up and we had no chance against a Clemson team that has all the experience in the world in these types of games. The old saying is you have to crawl before you can walk. Football is all about progression. We needed to get to this game to get the experience needed to play in these games. We also need to load up on depth and get stronger in the trenches. And can we please get a real ST coach. Next year we will be back. I strongly believe Perry will win this job in the Spring. Richt needs an accurate QB to run his offense and he simple will never have that with Rosier.
Props to all the fans that showed out. The team had really good support. A friend of mine who went to the game was very impressed by the turnout. He said he went the ACC championship game 2 years ago and UNC fans did not show up. The team definitely had our support. Let's give them that same support at the Rock later this month!
Clemson is a dink and dunk offense, and somehow we could not stop it. Poor initial game plan from Diaz and a worn out defense made that high school offense look unstoppable. They literally ran three plays the whole game: Read option, bubble screen left, bubble screen right. That was it, 80% of their plays. That was the most frustrating thing to watch. If we got slaughtered with big plays, so be it. But they literally beat us 4 yards at a time, with a few bigger plays here and there.
Thomas needed to step up and had the worst game of his career. He will learn from this and get better.
Langham needed to step up and he was a dud. We need him but he blew his limited opportunities.
The Clemson OL is what our line needs to become. It proves that if you have a really good OL, you can run a super basic offense and still win.
Clemson fans are super annoying. The fake chains and upside down U were out in full effect. We better get revenge on those clowns next year.
Respect to Dabo. He is the only reason I can tolerate Clemson.
Opposing kickers still 100% FG against us. They trotted out a walk on to kick a 45 yarder. In my mind I was thinking, finally they miss one. Nope, he nails it and the Clemson fans party harder then when they scored a TD. Yet our all ACC kicker misses his kick of the same distance. We literally got beat in every phase of the game, and they used a walk on.
Anyway, I refuse to believe that was the same team that beat ND and VT. No Richards, no Herndon and a QB that suddenly has become what we all feared at the beginning of the season. We also missed Walton in a game like this. You add all that up and we had no chance against a Clemson team that has all the experience in the world in these types of games. The old saying is you have to crawl before you can walk. Football is all about progression. We needed to get to this game to get the experience needed to play in these games. We also need to load up on depth and get stronger in the trenches. And can we please get a real ST coach. Next year we will be back. I strongly believe Perry will win this job in the Spring. Richt needs an accurate QB to run his offense and he simple will never have that with Rosier.
Props to all the fans that showed out. The team had really good support. A friend of mine who went to the game was very impressed by the turnout. He said he went the ACC championship game 2 years ago and UNC fans did not show up. The team definitely had our support. Let's give them that same support at the Rock later this month!
