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Auburn Fans: Maybe Clemson's Defense Was Just that good?
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:39 am
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:39 am
I think your fan base is overreacting too much. That is another characteristic that both our supporters have. We push the picnic button too soon.
Recent history shows this series has been damn close. We have been playing each other early and both teams have some rust to be worker off.
To believe that your offense (or Clemson's) won't be able to move the ball based on this one game is foolish. Both teams played what could well be the one of the best, if not the best defense you will face all year.
Sometimes a team just runs into such a tough offense or defense that you get beat.
Because this game was so close, it is almost a mulligan for Auburn. If you guys take care of business for the rest of the year and learn from this lost you will be fine.
As Kevin Bacon from Animal House said:
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Recent history shows this series has been damn close. We have been playing each other early and both teams have some rust to be worker off.
To believe that your offense (or Clemson's) won't be able to move the ball based on this one game is foolish. Both teams played what could well be the one of the best, if not the best defense you will face all year.
Sometimes a team just runs into such a tough offense or defense that you get beat.
Because this game was so close, it is almost a mulligan for Auburn. If you guys take care of business for the rest of the year and learn from this lost you will be fine.
As Kevin Bacon from Animal House said:
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This post was edited on 9/11/17 at 9:41 am
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Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:40 am to CU_Tigers4life
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We push the picnic button too soon.
Having been up to Tater Tech I can confirm this. Buncha fat fricks up there.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:41 am to atlgamecockman
Do you really want to go there slick?
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:42 am to CU_Tigers4life
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Maybe Clemson's Defense Was Just that good?
Clemson's defense is certainly a VERY good defense, of that there is no doubt.
114 yards of total offense, though, is terrible for a top-flight FBS team.
They've also been held under 200 yards in 3 of their last 6 games.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:42 am to CU_Tigers4life
Auburn did not have the receivers to exploit any weakness in the Clemson secondary. Pettway played hurt too. Don't get me wrong, Clemson's front is tough. But there were yards to be had and the Barn did not have the weapons to have them.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:43 am to CU_Tigers4life
Clemson has the best interior DL combo in recent history. Those two guys will win them a lot of games.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:43 am to CU_Tigers4life
I go wherever I want but I doubt much of your fanbase could keep up without their Rascals.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:43 am to CU_Tigers4life
11 sacks. Their QB has ptsd..it's not like he looked good in his other start.
Their offense has sucked for a while.
That said Clemson is a great team.
Their offense has sucked for a while.
That said Clemson is a great team.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:44 am to CU_Tigers4life
First, congrats on the win.
Second, yes your defense is good.
However, don't fool yourself. Every team with decent athletes on defense has done this to us since Nick Marshall left 3 seasons ago. That's why we are melting. We tried to convince ourselves it was the QB but it's not, it's Gus. 100% Gus.
Second, yes your defense is good.
However, don't fool yourself. Every team with decent athletes on defense has done this to us since Nick Marshall left 3 seasons ago. That's why we are melting. We tried to convince ourselves it was the QB but it's not, it's Gus. 100% Gus.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:44 am to CU_Tigers4life
It was a combination of the CU defense being good, and the AU offense being bad. Apparently it was AU's worst offensive performance in around 40 years.
I don't think it's an indication that the AU offense will be bad all season. It's early and there's plenty of time to improve. Besides, a lot of the bad was Stidham holding the ball too long and not throwing it away. That's easily correctable.
I don't think it's an indication that the AU offense will be bad all season. It's early and there's plenty of time to improve. Besides, a lot of the bad was Stidham holding the ball too long and not throwing it away. That's easily correctable.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:45 am to CU_Tigers4life
It'd be one thing for them if this was a one time thing. But this is how their offense has performed against good defenses post-Marshall.
There isn't much reason to expect it to magically improve. They will still be an ok overall offense because they will move the ball on teams that can't tackle, but they'll struggle against elite run defenses with decent coverage guys. They will get better though. Stidham specifically. He's basically a true freshman when it comes to reading defenses and decision making, so that will improve.
There isn't much reason to expect it to magically improve. They will still be an ok overall offense because they will move the ball on teams that can't tackle, but they'll struggle against elite run defenses with decent coverage guys. They will get better though. Stidham specifically. He's basically a true freshman when it comes to reading defenses and decision making, so that will improve.
This post was edited on 9/11/17 at 9:46 am
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:45 am to atlgamecockman
Clemson struggled much of the night against the Auburn defense. IF they play a team with a good O and half a D they might have a problem.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:46 am to antibarner
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Auburn did not have the receivers to exploit any weakness in the Clemson secondary.
Yes we do, we just don't give them a chance.
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But there were yards to be had and the Barn did not have the weapons to have them.
We have the pieces just not the coach to put them in position.
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Pettway played hurt too
Meh, he's just not good unless the other teams front 7 is weak. No vision needs a big hole to gain yards.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:46 am to CU_Tigers4life
Auburn isn't pissed that they lost to the champs on the road by 8 points. They are pissed that Gus abandoned his mobile QB offense and has been horrible since Marshall left.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:47 am to SummerOfGeorge
I don;t think it was so much a Stidham problem as it was a WR and TE problem. He would drop back with time, and then buy a little more, and either he can't see downfield or they are not getting open. I think it is the latter.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:49 am to antibarner
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I don;t think it was so much a Stidham problem as it was a WR and TE problem. He would drop back with time, and then buy a little more, and either he can't see downfield or they are not getting open. I think it is the latter.
Eh, it was a little of both. By the 2nd half he was bailing on plays after 1 quick read. Now, the scheme didn't help him at all (it was awful), but he wasn't helping himself either.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:49 am to antibarner
The problem is all the routes we were calling were downfield routes and Clemson had two deep safeties all night and blitzing the LBs the whole second half. On probably 6 of the 11 sacks our receivers hadn't even finished their routes before Stidham was finished.
A coach with any level of understanding would have called more underneath or crossing routes or had some sort of check down option for the QB. We did none of those things.
A coach with any level of understanding would have called more underneath or crossing routes or had some sort of check down option for the QB. We did none of those things.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:49 am to CU_Tigers4life
No defense is 11 sacks in 1 game good, their offense was in meltdown mode
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:51 am to thunderbird1100
Yea, it takes ineptitude at every level for that to happen but it all starts with Gus.
Posted on 9/11/17 at 9:51 am to RandySavage
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The problem is all the routes we were calling were downfield routes and Clemson had two deep safeties all night and blitzing the LBs the whole second half. On probably 6 of the 11 sacks our receivers hadn't even finished their routes before Stidham was finished.
It truly was incredible. The middle of the field was just a giant bubble of green grass, and not once did Auburn sneak a back, tight end or WR into that space.
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