Boston College Wrapup
The Tigers beat Boston College 25-7 yesterday in the longest football game in Clemson Football history. CJ Spiller had the only Tiger touchdown on the day with a long punt return and Richard Jackson scored the bulk of the points on 6 field goals including a long 52 yarder. The real story of the day was the Clemson defense which absolutely dominated the Eagles and held them to 55 yards. If our offense had managed to do anything noteworthy, the defensive numbers may have been even more staggering.
Unfortunately our offense was eerily reminiscent of Tommy Bowden run teams, with the exception of the use of the fullback. We seemed quick to abandon the fundamentals and our playcalling seemed panicked and gimmick-filled. When our quarterback started out a little shaky, we pulled him in favor of the fan-favorite backup. When our receivers dropped a few passes, we started running screens and junk plays. We showed in our third game of the year that we have a very inexperienced head coach and an even more inexperienced offensive coordinator.
Some other noteworthy events happened this week in the ACC, mainly Miami dominated Georgia Tech and Florida State dominated BYU. Both of these games mean that I may have underestimated Miami and FSU in my pre-season prediction. Then again, Miami did face a bad pass defense in GT as well as a complete lack of a pass rush due to Tech trying their all-star defensive end out at linebacker for some reason. FSU was a complete surprise but they were playing a bunch of slow Mormons after all.
If we can't turn it around on offense, we're not going to beat Miami or FSU, and our season will go from pretty good to pretty mediocre. We seemed to have something going against Georgia Tech in the second half, so maybe we just need our coaches to pretend like we're behind in every game and they'll call aggressive plays that stretch the defense. Our defense is very good against the pass so we'll be able to stop both Miami and FSU on a lot of drives, but without any offensive production of our own the sheer speed of those two teams will beat us.
Here's to hoping we have a turnaround game with TCU. Our offense needs to play very well if we want to win this game. Our defense just can't do everything for us, and if punting is our best offensive play again this week then this game is going to seem even longer.
Unfortunately our offense was eerily reminiscent of Tommy Bowden run teams, with the exception of the use of the fullback. We seemed quick to abandon the fundamentals and our playcalling seemed panicked and gimmick-filled. When our quarterback started out a little shaky, we pulled him in favor of the fan-favorite backup. When our receivers dropped a few passes, we started running screens and junk plays. We showed in our third game of the year that we have a very inexperienced head coach and an even more inexperienced offensive coordinator.
Some other noteworthy events happened this week in the ACC, mainly Miami dominated Georgia Tech and Florida State dominated BYU. Both of these games mean that I may have underestimated Miami and FSU in my pre-season prediction. Then again, Miami did face a bad pass defense in GT as well as a complete lack of a pass rush due to Tech trying their all-star defensive end out at linebacker for some reason. FSU was a complete surprise but they were playing a bunch of slow Mormons after all.
If we can't turn it around on offense, we're not going to beat Miami or FSU, and our season will go from pretty good to pretty mediocre. We seemed to have something going against Georgia Tech in the second half, so maybe we just need our coaches to pretend like we're behind in every game and they'll call aggressive plays that stretch the defense. Our defense is very good against the pass so we'll be able to stop both Miami and FSU on a lot of drives, but without any offensive production of our own the sheer speed of those two teams will beat us.
Here's to hoping we have a turnaround game with TCU. Our offense needs to play very well if we want to win this game. Our defense just can't do everything for us, and if punting is our best offensive play again this week then this game is going to seem even longer.
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For god's sake, can we please go out and hire an experienced offensive coordinator at the end of this season.
I like the defensive staff we currently have, but our offensive staff is a joke. That playcalling was beyond retarded.
Posted by
Thad |
September 21, 2009 3:38 PM
Agreed
Posted by
Tom |
September 21, 2009 9:44 PM
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