I think the targeting play angered the Clemson staff. Lawrence could have been badly injured on that play.
I do not see this as a weakness, but their DL is not the strength of their defense this year. Their LBs and DBs are all potential Sunday players. Does that help us? No.
Clemson is a great team, but they aren’t machines. We are way better than last year and they are still very good to great. We have some playmakers who will make some plays. When on defense I may close my eyes because Lawrence will shred us. But coming off the “big“ game with Miami and a noon start I see them playing down a bit. Our guys have nothing to lose. Choice and Moore will have the boys pumped to play. I think we cover due to lackadaisical play by Clemson.
Their stats aren't that impressive this year. Just saying
Clemson. Looking past the points that stats are not that impressive considering what everyone thinks and expects of them.Whose stats?
We will be lucky to gain 200 yards of offense.
Game finishes 49 Clemson, 13 GT. 7 TDs for Clemson. They will want to get away from this game uninjured. No point in getting guys hurt in a cupcake game. We score 2 TDs in the 4th when we play their 2nd and 3rd string.
They just put the hammer on a far improved Miami team. Us playing true freshman at key positions will kill us in a game like this.
I just want to see a clean game penalty wise. No injuries. Would love to see the defense cause some pressure. Don't expect much from the offense. Maybe 200ish total yards. 120ish coming from Gibbs Air and Land.
Defense will likely give up 500+ yards of offense and 6+ TDs. Hopefully we can get some turnovers and show we can get pressure on the QB. I don't expect sacks, just some QB hurries.
Hurries would be a huge improvement from last year. Clemson may not be hurried the whole game though. I'll say this, if we don't play Knight instead of Curry we will get TOASTED by Entienne. He will run for 200 yards on us. Curry will get juked out of his shoes. Need speed at Linebacker for this game.
We though UCF was fast... wait till both sides of the ball are faster than UCF was on offense.
If we do anything better than 13 points and 250 yards I will consider it a win.
Two years ago, Dabo pulled the starting QB for a true freshman against us. Technically true.When we play Dabo, he has most of his starters still in the game well into the 4th quarter even when it’s a blowout. He wants to beat the spread and he doesn’t care about “risking his players in a cupcake game”.
Well, The Coloradojacket is flying in Thursday and will be in the house, aka Grant Field....and that has to account for something.