Yeah. It would be dangerous to write off BC's defense as overrated and assume VT just isn't that good on offense. I look at it this way: Does anybody believe Bammer's defense isn't really good? Well, they just gave up 40 something to a team on a day where they also scored in the 40s on offense and possessed the ball some. It isn't real hard to see how a team could be a good defense and still give up 40, especially when your offense mustered 6 total first downs. Weird things happen in this game we love.
That's funny.
We played the same scheme today that we played the first two games and played it just as effectively. We still rushed 3 and 4 and dropped 7 and 8 in zone most of the time. We didn't give up the one run like we did against BC and we didn't allow the screen passes like we did last week. We got better like well coached teams do. Now I don't know if we've played very good offenses so far and evidence points to them not being very good but our defense has played pretty well so hopefully we're developing. We didn't change to a magical scheme we simply are getting better.
That gives an interesting perspective, which I think is important to balance the discussion, but there are those who will say Clemson is not nearly as good this year. I think we will not know how to interpret Thursday's game until we see how everyone's season plays out.
The Duke Qb against nd looked like a much better passer than the Watson.
Mike DuBose
