Charmin Tigers Struggle to Defeat Wofford

Offensivly Boyd simply needs to read blitz better which he will unfortuantly have plenty of time to do this year with this O-Line and that very O-line is playing horribly! The one big question mark comign in this year with this line was Price but he’s playing better than any of the other starters! It makes no sense and I must call for Caldwell to either step up and prove that the hype about him was well deserved.

Defensivly, we simply lack the same efficent intensity that we had the past few years. Branch, Thompson and Moore, at time at least, show that they are good players but more than naything I blame Steele for this. He has seen the triple option more than most especially since GT carved us up with it all 2009 and yet he still is unable to drill into the players’ heads the assignments they are supposed to have and follow through with it? If the 1st string can’t get it done then send in the freshmen, they’ve proved that they can outplay the starters at times, at least Anthony has, but I don’t remember seeing them almost any freshmen LB play. Is it really that difficult to slow our D down and make sure that they stick to their assignments?

All in all, we won, but it was a nasty, dirty win. However, I think we need these kinds of wins. Nothing shows you who going to step up and who breaks under rpessure more so then being put down at the begining of the game, barely tying a weaker team at half time, and getting your butt kicked by an offensive scheme that we shoule probably be able to run in our SLEEP! I’m calling for a overhaul on our defense this week in practice. I don’t care if they are the starters, if they aren’t practicing embaressed and angered, like Branch and Thompson were, then I don’t want them on the field. I want players that have pride and that get mad when they realize that a loser is on THEIR field and acting like they are going t win the game!

that the OL is aware that everyone says they are a soft unit, but wait til the end of the year before judging them too harshly. Some how I doubt there are going to be any fundamental changes in the next 2 months to create a tough, physical OLine that has been missing for the better part of 20 years.

Freeman says the odd fronts have been confusing, and they have not prepared well enough to offset these schemes. Walker says they prepared for something totally different than what Wofford employed. It shouldn’t have mattered when they are playing a team that barely beat Presbyterian last week. Wofford should hit on a few plays if they are going against their tendencies, but they are physically, athletically, and numbers inferior.

Four quarter game my ass. Talk that bullshit all you want Swinney, Boyd, etc. but the team performance today was an embarrassment even though we did not lose. The fake field goal attempt just totally exposes what kind of program Clemson currently has. CU was so inept and incompetent that Swinney relented to attempted trickery to put away a mighty school of less than 2000 students.

Swinney proclaimed before the start of the year he was a better coach than in years passed. That attempted fake field goal and/or the necessity to attempt to resorting to trickery to beat a team like Wofford exposes the fact that he is not a better coach. He is just less of a cheerleader.

speak after the game. He said it. It is a mental issue. It’s all in the head. It doesn’t matter how much talent you have if you’re not mentally tough you fail. Our O-Line is not mentally tough. In fact most of our team is not mentally tough. To me the younger players, Watkins, Bellamy, Nuke, Brown, Anthony are the mentally tougher players. It’s sickening when the seniors can’t out perform the young players from a purly mental standpoint

"It wasn’t necessarily guys getting beat one-on-one. It’s was just miscommunication," said Clemson tackle Landon Walker. "If they played us one-on-one all day, they couldn’t hang. That’s just common sense. It’s Wofford and Clemson. They don’t have the athletes to match up, so they do a lot of different things defensively strategically to throw us off. That’s what they did with blitzing linebackers.

"It’s was more of a chess game in the first half. We didn’t have the right answer for what they were doing. We came in at halftime, made the adjustments and got it fixed."

In the second half, Clemson averaged 3.8 yards per carry, went 4-for-7 on third down and allowed only one sack.

How is 3.8 yards per carry “getting it fixed”?? Didn’t he have some BS last year about how his side of the line was essentially kicking major ass? We do not have a physical OL, period.

Everyone here knows it. Guys, start getting used to this shit now, we will be 2-3 3 games from now. We are going down, and going down hard. Maybe this new staff can pay off in a couple of years, but Dabo doesn’t have that, and we are gonna fall flat on our faces HARD over the next few games. These games were decided in recruiting 3-4 years ago and in spring camp this year, and we just don’t have it. Forget any return to glory anytime soon. Auburn, FSU, and VaTech already beat us, and they did it 2-3 years ago.

them, that will make 63-17 look like a close game.

This team is attrocious. I dont care what kind of gimmicky offense or “complex NFL defense” they run, football comes down to blocking and tackling and this team cannot do either.

Its going to be a long long season. Unless they can magically flip a switch and get better this week, Auburn is going to whip their asses.

Im starting to think it’s not there anymore. We’ve masked decencies up front on O with fast guys running around at the skill sets.. On D a NFL line and a continuously solid secondary masked a weak LB Corp. Now the speed on O is young, and the secondary and dline are regrouping right along with the LBs. I still think we’ll squeeze out 7 wins.

1 – The D is replacing 5 guys who are now on NFL Rosters. We’re in the middle of the learning curve
2 – The sweatshirt is loyal to a fault with nonperforming players – lest i remind you of the PT that Clear, Ashe, and Dye got and the fact that AE was splitting carries 50-50 with a guy who was averaging 2 yds a carry. McClain needs to sit his lazy fat ass on the bench.
3 – We’re talking about 18-19 year old kids who have seen Aub, FSU, and VT on the schedule for months now. It’s human nature to look past the first 2. My only prayer is that the fundamentals that have been lacking for 2 games were mostly due to lack of focus and not due to some inherent laziness.

I will always pull for Clemson regardless of the coach, and I have no problem with Dabo the man – hell, I don’t even know him, so I certainly can’t have an opinion on him as a person. But I’m tired of him as a coach. He fails to field a FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND football team year-in, year-out. The only reason we went to the ACC championship game in 2009 was because CJ and Jacoby were ridiculous playmakers and we play in a sorry ass conference. The inability to punch Wofford in the mouth yesterday put me firmly on the blow it up and start over before we fall any further. I still feel like this is a program that would rather get a Sportscenter highlight than catch the ball away from your pads, or keep your feet moving, or play to the whistle. I don’t care if Wofford had won the past 10 FCS titles, there is no way, no how they should play with Clemson. The sad thing was, we were playing WITH THEM. That was a really, really tight game – it’s not like we were just loafing or asleep; they could have won. If that had been a flag football game Clemson would have dominated…unfortunately this is real, big boy football and we’ve just gotten physically beaten (or at least matched) by Troy and Wofford. “Enter Sandman” is the perfect anthem for what Virginia Tech is going to do to us….I have a feeling there will be several of our players ‘exiting the light’ in that one.

obviously not what we want from the 0-line or the defense, but you know that these guys have got to be looking ahead to this three week stretch. I am excited to see us line up against AU. Sammy Watkins is a really good player, and I am really excited to see him keep developing. Apart from game management, Tajh seems to be getting better. Hopefully they coach them up this weekend and the guys come in pumped. I still feel pretty confident in our chances next weekend.

I think we need to ease off Dabo and the assistants for wearing the military pants at the Wofford game. As a Clemson cadet for 4 years and current military personnel I have no problem with them wearing the military pants nor do I think it was inappropriate/unprofessional. I for one enjoy the enthusiasm that Dabo has brought to the military appreciation day game and think that the coaches choice of sideline apparel only helps to shine a positive light on the event.

 As for the coaching and current level of our football team you are right on the money. Dabo has not prepared this team to be able to handle two weak opening game opponents and has left us in a terrible position heading into the toughest stretch of the season. If Wofford’s running game gave us this much trouble Michael Dyer is going to have a blast on Saturday.