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Inside intel on Tua Tagovailoa from opponents speaking candidly about Alabama QB
Posted on 8/21/19 at 10:29 am
Posted on 8/21/19 at 10:29 am
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“It was a great experience,” former Mississippi State safety Mark McLaurin said. “He’s a very good quarterback. A lot of accuracy, a very high IQ quarterback. His knowledge of the game is great.”
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“Really, we knew that he wasn’t reading the defenses that well in the backfield,” former Clemson defensive lineman Bert Huggins said. “So, we were disguising the defense pretty well and then we would move into a different defense. He just couldn’t read the defense.”
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Clemson linebacker Kendall Joseph credited defensive coordinator Brent Venables for exhausting game planning.
“We understand what he wanted to do and we wanted to exploit it,” Joseph said. “It started with trying to knock him off rhythm and get some pressure and get some hits on him and try to rattle the quarterback and I think we did a good job of that.”
The 14 game tapes provided the blueprint.
“What they did all year,” Joseph said. “They were a big RPO team -- a deadly RPO team so we had some plans in place to knock out the RPO and break off his rhythm. That’s how their first downs and just moving the ball. The RPO was the biggest thing we saw.”
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Posted on 8/21/19 at 10:49 am to AHM21
If Clemson figured that out then hopefully somebody in the SEC can this year
Posted on 8/21/19 at 10:54 am to AUlock54
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If Clemson figured that out
I find it strange if SEC defense didnt figure this out too. I mean who would have thought it was beneficial to disguise coverages...
This post was edited on 8/21/19 at 10:57 am
Posted on 8/21/19 at 10:57 am to AHM21
Well it's one thing to know what he's going to do. It's another thing to stop it.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 10:59 am to AHM21
The problem is Clemson had the front 7 to affect him. Not many teams on Bama's schedule can say the same. LSU will be the closest this year but it won't be on that level.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:02 am to MightyYat
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The problem is Clemson had the front 7 to affect him
And 3-4 of them are in the NFL now.....
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:03 am to MightyYat
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The problem is Clemson had the front 7 to affect him. Not many teams on Bama's schedule can say the same. LSU will be the closest this year but it won't be on that level.
^^^this. A lot of DC's in the SEC could game plan for Bama if they had Clemson's D talent. That was an NFLesqe D last year. Especially the front 7.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:03 am to Tigerbloods
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I find it strange if SEC defense didnt figure this out too
I'm sure some teams did but either didn't have the intelligence to have a good game plan or didn't have the players to run the plan.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:07 am to TideFaninFl
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And 3-4 of them are in the NFL now....
Yep. LSU was doing an Ok job at containing him in the 1st half last year. If the offense wasn't complete dogshit and could actually stay on the field it could've looked different. The problem was Aranda had to start sending Delpit and the nickel on blitzes to create pressure and Tua just picked that shite apart.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:14 am to AHM21
Water is wet.
Everyone knows the key to beating Bama is disrupting their RPOs but the problem is stuffing their running game first and foremost.
Plus they have probably the most dynamic playmaker at WR this year so, unless you have a front seven like Clemson had last year, doing all of this is easier said than done.
Everyone knows the key to beating Bama is disrupting their RPOs but the problem is stuffing their running game first and foremost.
Plus they have probably the most dynamic playmaker at WR this year so, unless you have a front seven like Clemson had last year, doing all of this is easier said than done.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:15 am to MightyYat
Clemson had an all-time DL and spent half the season prepping for Tua because they play in the ACC and could sleep walk through their regular season opponents with grad assistants coming up with their game plans.
Auburn has the only DL on paper that is potentially ultra elite. They on the other hand have to deal with Oregon, A&M, UF, LSU and UGA all before they play Bama. If they take the same approach to game planning they’ll have a new coach before they get to the Iron Bowl.
Auburn has the only DL on paper that is potentially ultra elite. They on the other hand have to deal with Oregon, A&M, UF, LSU and UGA all before they play Bama. If they take the same approach to game planning they’ll have a new coach before they get to the Iron Bowl.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:16 am to Tigerbloods
quote:nobody in the sec except Georgia got to play Tua with 2 sprained ankle and a sprained knee. Also, nobody else got a month to practice for him. Comments the Clemson players have made since the championship game made it clear they were repping Alabama instead of Notre Dame, who they knew they could beat easily just on talent. Tua not being mobile made it so much easier for them to defend us, as locksley was very sold on the rpo stuff. Honestly we probably should have started Jalen for that game, don't know if we could have won it without tuas passing ability, but Jalen sure would have caused problems with his legs. Having zero running that from your dual threat qb in an offense doing rpo simplifies your job quite a bit on defense
I find it strange if SEC defense didnt figure this out too. I mean who would have thought it was beneficial to disguise coverages...
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:17 am to AUlock54
Only problem is Clemson has better players than every team in the SEC to execute that game plan
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:17 am to Tigerbloods
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I find it strange if SEC defense didnt figure this out too. I mean who would have thought it was beneficial to disguise coverages...
SEC teams have to actually plan for their next game. They can't take time to dedicate all resources to studying a game 4, 5, 9 games down the road.
Clemson didn't have to worry about their next opponent all season. A near scare at A&M, but that was it.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:18 am to MightyYat
Clemson had a month and a half to get ready too. They'll have the same advantage this time no matter who they play. I have been pounding away at that point for months and I see others are coming around to how I saw it.
If Bama gets a shot at Clemson again, God help Pretty Boy. I can tell you right now what's going to happen from last year's game. The few times Bama was able to get pressure on him, he didn't handle it very well. With the schedule they have, he won't be accustomed to it. They are going to send everyone but Big Al after him, muss his hair and see how he handles getting knocked on his keister.
If Bama gets a shot at Clemson again, God help Pretty Boy. I can tell you right now what's going to happen from last year's game. The few times Bama was able to get pressure on him, he didn't handle it very well. With the schedule they have, he won't be accustomed to it. They are going to send everyone but Big Al after him, muss his hair and see how he handles getting knocked on his keister.
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Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:19 am to skrayper
Who was Bama's real scare?
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:21 am to scrooster
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Everyone knows the key to beating Bama is disrupting their RPOs but the problem is stuffing their running game first and foremost.
I think that "is" is going to turn into a "was", at least a lot more of the time.
Last year everything was built off that base RPO play. I don't think that is going to be the case this year.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:21 am to cyclingout
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Who was Bama's real scare?
Georgia
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:22 am to antibarner
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If Bama gets a shot at Clemson again, God help Pretty Boy. I can tell you right now what's going to happen from last year's game. The few times Bama was able to get pressure on him, he didn't handle it very well. With the schedule they have, he won't be accustomed to it. They are going to send everyone but Big Al after him, muss his hair and see how he handles getting knocked on his keister.
Sunshine doesn't hold onto the ball long. And is deadly accurate. Bama better have an NFL D backfield
Posted on 8/21/19 at 11:22 am to TideFaninFl
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And 3-4 of them are in the NFL now.....
Depending on who's numbers you use, Clemson is losing about 45% (and change) of their defensive tackles and 71% of their sacks from last year to the NFL/Graduation. That's alot.
(And Phill Steel says it's only around 30%. But I crunched the numbers myself, and Phil's wrong.)
This post was edited on 8/21/19 at 11:23 am
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