Look so out-athleted? Our offense looked slow at WR. Nobody could get open. It was bad. I think our defense is pretty good. With Love out, it was a problem, so depth is an issue. We had NOTHING on offense. Another epic fail.
He's just aCB that appears to have zero confidence, which is not good. The WR was aggressive and made great plays. But the guy didn't run by him.
Gilman tried to jump what he thought was going to be a curl route and got beat. That was Clemson coaches putting their players in a great spot.
The long run was Coney guessing on the QB keep in the zone read. Lawrence had kept several drives alive doing that. Dexter has the same result if he gets that hand off.
Clemson has more talent for sure, but it wasn't shocking amounts. ND was poorly prepared and the players were scared once again in a big game.
Boykin had a couple of those opportunities and he wasn't aggressive.
Because I saw the same offense I've seen in every game this year. I didn't necessarily expect a complete overhaul of the entire offense for the playoffs, but with 4 weeks to prepare, you would think maybe they would throw a few wrinkles out there to keep Clemson honest on defense. Instead, it was a very vanilla, predictable offense for the entire game. Add in the fact that Book developed happy feet early and the defense still doesn't know how to properly defend the pass, and frankly the outcome that we got seems fairly predictable.
The question you should be asking is this: why is a fanbase that has seen its fair share of shitshows in the last 2 decades really so surprised about this outcome? This same fanbase was nearly unanimous in their score predictions that ND would win this game. What in ND's history over the last 25 years really suggested this fanbase should be that confident, excluding obvious fan bias?
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Claypool had a key drop, Mack had a key drop and his inability to break or run through one tackle with his supposed physical abilities still amazes me.
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