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Miami, Philly, Giants all were games where the opponents put up points in large part because of the O.

Phins had 3 scoring drives Sunday where they didn’t travel even 25 yards. ST gave up 7 on top of that.

Again, Seattle’s LOB isn’t a historic D paired with Jimmy Clausen. and yeah, it takes words to showcase why Philly game and the AZ game….featured the same actual defense. One game the O allowed them to be great. One game the O screwing them. Same caliber D on the display. most defenses have holes. We have them. But you have to have to talent to exploit it. In large part though, it is our offense overall more so than the the opponent taking it to our D. defense isn’t our problem. Yeah, it still needs work. That defense is plenty good enough to contend in the playoffs paired with an actual offense. Which we don’t remotely have.

Defenses are weird. we have a top 5 D pending the O isn’t imploding on them. You still have to help a defense be great. I use the 85 Bears as the example. They aren’t a historically great D if paired with a O that screws them for 4 quarters. It is top 5 caliber in a vacuum IMO in today’s NFL. It is flawed. But it is still build to be a top tier D in today’s NFL. But it’s conditional on the rest of the team. Lot of the Ls have featured the D coming out strong. O has made that futile, pointless and not taken advantage of the position they were helping put us in. The rest of the team screwed them. Philly, NY and even to a point Miami. Ds eventually fold when asked to be it all. Miami - the D forced 3 straight punts to open the game. Then 4th time they take the field the ball is on the 9 yard line for them to defend. Defense basically gives up one actual drive in the first half. And they put points on the board for the team. The FG was the D. But Miami had 21 on the board. Even if you have a great D….if you hang them out to dry long enough they will suck. Defense showed up in the first half. I mean a big OL and good rush attack isn’t something they are built to excel against but most teams aren’t bringing that. You can’t be built to be great at everything.

I actually like Beamer. I’d rather SC be good than horrible. I just want Clemson to win the matchup. Should of gone that type route and never gone down the Muschamp road. If you couldn’t get it done with FL recruits you ain’t gonna work magic at SC.

What’s the better job? Gamecocks is the better gig. Plus they fit the mold and narrative of what the great Matt Rhule is suppose to be able to do.

that wasn’t Gamecock hate. They are local and an easy example of the type gig that should of come next for a coach like Rhule. That would have been a big jump for Rhule to land a gig like South Carolina.

college football because of early polls creates too many fraudulent narratives It’s like UGA getting to claim they beat the #3 team in Clemson to open up the season. Reality is they beat a top 20-25 caliber team. early polling misrepresents what Clemson was this year. That’s how Rhule got his 2 top 25 wins. Those weren’t actually top 25 teams when the dust settled.

I don’t see how you could sell Matt Rhule to Notre Dame alumni and fans. Really any school that views themselves a legit perennial contenders. Matt Rhule seems like a guy that could of jumped from Baylor to a SEC job like South Carolina.

you can't base things strictly on what a W/L column says. Right now, we have two wins against bad teams featuring rookies making their NFL debuts, a backup QB lead AZ team depleted of all their offensive star power, a win over a hurricane displaced NO team that had massive injuries and their coaching staff out with COVID, and an Atl team whose #1 WR walked away from the team the morning of the game and was missing their most productive weapon on the year. Those are the wins. Hard to feel good about those 5 when you really look at them hard. And all of our losses are basically a highlight reel of poor coaching or play in one aspect or another. You got to feel good about the direction more so than what the W loss column says.

Found mine from that thread. Everyone should have to go find their own and out themselves. I love CMC. But I have never endorsed paying RBs big money. Having the highest paid RB in the NFL never actually ends up being a good thing.

which basically means CMC could in theory still be on his rookie deal as we speak.... or we could of just not bothered with his 5th year and let him walk after his 2020 injured season.

I agree, the Fournette aspect of the article is weird. Are they arguing the correct move was to of traded up (and wasted draft captial) just to pick a different RB? One who has had a pretty pedestrian and disappointing career for a top 5 draft pick? Hard to argue the smarter move is to pick the well built but vastly inferior RB. Just don't draft a RB in the first. That's what the article should of said. Build a OL for your QB. Then you can go in the trash bin like Tampa did......and pick up a Fournette.

less than 4 months after signing the Baylor extension, he signed the Panther contract. very few college coaches practice what they preach to kids. I can tolerate NFL coaches being two faced liars easier than the college ones.

I'm not a fan of drafting RB in the first round. The only thing I hate more than drafting RBs in the first round is extending a RB having one of the highest paid RBs in the league. We did this dance with Double Trouble. You don't build NFL teams with RBs anymore. Yet we did it again. Who ran the ball down our throats for Washington? A converted WR. You get an OL. You can find a RB.

hard part about Andy Reid coordinators, is that overall, Reid has historically been the playcaller in Philly and KC. and you got to think Reid is still doing a lot of that today despite EB getting the credit. Unless, EB has the identical tendencies that Andy Reid does.

yeah, at this point, the staff likely has to be self aware of not doing things that could potentially highlight additional poor decision making. I mean, if they played him and he looked better than what we have had of late? That wouldnt' bode well for them. Got to think Rhule at least knows he has some heat on him. I still think he comes back next year (not that I agree with that). Win the Atl game. At least hang with NO. Guess you can accept getting bashed by Tampa. Rhule basically survives playing the CMC card two years in a row.

they probably save those questions for desirable coaches

as a Clemson fan I hope it doesn't happen. Venables is the key coach to Clemson's success. No clue if he will be a good HC. Different skill sets. But Venables is the best DC in college football.

I haven't seen that. That isn't what leads be to believe Venables is likely the guy

Play well or play better than who we have had out there? I mean the bar is pretty low after Sunday. Just for fan curiousity alone, I'd like to see if the current staff really has that right.

It isn't fake news their is a big Venables push going on from high profile OU folks. and Venables has OU ties.....and IMO is easily the best coordinator in college football. Which makes him a prime candidate. He also has one of his sons all the way out of the Clemson program and the other almost out. And his sons were keeping him there.

I hope he goes there. I like hating on Notre Dame. That just makes it even more fun too. I don’t see Urban making it two actual seasons in the NFL.

No point even talking about FL with Cam. He had like 6 pass attempts. You called him an average QB at Auburn. I disagreed. and Trevor sucking with Urban with the Jags.....doesn't really mean anything when talking about college. Trevor wasn't an average college QB either.