Here's my take on this game after watching a lot of Clemson.
- Wofford and Appalachian St told us very little besides the fact that Clemson has better athletes than those awful programs.
- The Louisville game was on a short week and they were ugly for a large part of it.
- Watson is very accurate but threw 2 picks under pressure at UL.. He gets rattled with chaos. He rarely keeps the ball on zone reads and looks for the seam route constantly.
- This new OC loves quick WR screens too and Artavus Scott is very shifty with the ball. I see Clemson trying what UMASS did and even tossing in trick play or two because at least one is a gimme against us.
- Clemson's front 7 are basically all new names but their secondary is experienced and pretty damn good. They're going to load the box and force CJ out of the game plan until Kizer proves he can punish them.. Throwing short to a correcting Will Fuller probably won't be as successful this night. He's going to have to lead our WRs, be decisive and not halt drives with throws into the ground.
-Boulware, Kearse, Alexander are all solid players and will be all over the field.
- The atmosphere at this game is going to be unreal... I'm not kidding. Dabo and the leaders of this team are already taking the "us against the world", " no one expects us to win this game " mentality and the campus and town are buying in. The buzz is loud. “Most people expect us to lose, but we are just going to come out with a mentality that we got to get this job done, this is a win that we need to jump start this season,” Dodd said.
Kearse had this to say after Fuller tweeted that what NDs offense was going to do to Clemson would be SAVAGE.. “They’re getting a bit chippy, they’re talking a lot, all through the media and things like that so I’ll just say, I hope the ref lets us play football,” Kearse said. “It’s going to be a chippy game, I’m definitely going to be chippy so they can expect that from me, they can expect some trash talk and they can expect all that.”
- Our boys better keep their cool because Clemson will be riding so high we'll probably be able to steal some first downs with late hits or etc..
- After watching both teams there is no doubt we are superior in talent but we need Kizer to have his head on right and play a smart game. There will be yards to take just take them and move the chains. Clemson will not see an OL this deep, talented and aggressive all season
Get out of the first quarter alive when the atmosphere will be insane.. Quiet the crowd and wear their D down while pressuring Watson into mistakes..
Last Saturday midway through the second quarter against UMASS I screamed "same ol fukcing Notre Dame!!" and then they shifted into the gear I haven't seen since Kelly took the job. They squashed the bug. This is not the same Notre Dame.
Fukc the tigers and their rock.
