re: Chickins

Real dog... Clemson played a 3 and 4 deep zone and regularly had 7 plus in the zone. The open passes were in the 7 to 12 yard areas for the most part. Mason was smart enough to throw there and did not press on the down field plays. It has very little to do with stacking a box. It had to do with their LBs not dropping back due to PA. Clemson most certainly sold out on the run. Their issue, which Bobo clearly saw and conveyed, was that they were attackiing gaps and over pursuing. That is why we did so well on misdirection and cut backs. Once we mind fricked them with that, the toss sweep worked well in the 4th becasue they were tired and respecting the cut back lanes.

The only thing they could have done diffrently really was to play press man more, but we hit the slants when they did that and they were a missed tackle from a TD in a few of those plays.

Bottom line, you cant stack the box more than Clemson did without a pair of NFL level CBs . USC does not have that...