Respect from Venables

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Clemson game is by far my favorite. Great atmosphere, always ACC championship implications and get the most media love. They are also good for the ACC by great recruiting and preseason hype.
Additionally, I don't utterly hate them like I do UGA and I can drink beer with them before a game without wanting to commit a violent crime.
 
Hoffie7 said:
Clemson game is by far my favorite. Great atmosphere, always ACC championship implications and get the most media love. They are also good for the ACC by great recruiting and preseason hype.
Additionally, I don't utterly hate them like I do UGA and I can drink beer with them before a game without wanting to commit a violent crime.
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Some of my best memories have been with Clemson. Calvin's catch, the ACCCG in Tampa, been to most of the games at both stadiums over the past decade. Their fans are hospitable and nice except for one or two schmucks... but the same can be said of us. Tampa was a lot of fun with both fan bases out together at the bar scene.
 
“You do cut blocks everyday you’re in pads. It’s a year-round thing.” says Venables. How does Clemson expect to remain health with cut blocks in practice?
 
Classy Clemson fan response to stopping our offense...

"Knock the QB to the ground every freaking play...if he is carrying out a fake...knock him to the ground."
 
Hoffie7 said:
Clemson game is by far my favorite. Great atmosphere, always ACC championship implications and get the most media love. They are also good for the ACC by great recruiting and preseason hype.
Additionally, I don't utterly hate them like I do UGA and I can drink beer with them before a game without wanting to commit a violent crime.
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Have to agree with this. Clemson fans are some of the nicest and I always feel like this is closer to a competitive rivalry mixed in with a lot of sportsmanship where you wanna beat the other team because you acknowledge them instead of hating their guts because THWG
 
gtg970g said:
“You do cut blocks everyday you’re in pads. It’s a year-round thing.” says Venables. How does Clemson expect to remain health with cut blocks in practice?
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Magic is my best guess but I've also heard reports of Mr Miyagi on the sidelines to heal any wounds
 
Venables sounds like a smart guy.

The tigernet commenters, however, are some of the biggest morans in existence.

Duke and North Carolina beat them this year so they know how to do it too. Get them into having to play catch up and then you've got them by the throat.
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Neither really stopped the offense. They just out scored us. So try again.

Amen! The number one key to stopping this offense is making sure you knock the QB in the mouth EVERY SINGLE PLAY. Knock him on his #&$!!!!!!!! We've done that against them the last couple years, and I totally expect the same Saturday.
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Oh wow. We've got a football genius here. They've knocked our QB every play the past few years? How many times straight have we scored 30+ on them? Sounds like they might want to try something else.

Not knocking coach V, but I have a serious question. If the triple option is so dang wonderful, why did everyone quit running it 20 years ago? Why is GT the only power 5 conference team to run it? If it were so dang great, programs would be using it.
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It's better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt. I'd like to see a detailed description by this modern day Bear Bryant about the differences in what we run compared to Auburn's offense.

Nobody likes to watch that crap game after game, week after week. So boring...
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Yeah, I hate watching high scoring offenses too.

Hasn't beat a ranked team since they all graduated
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I assume he's talking about the Nesbitts and Dwyers of the past. Who exactly was on the team in 2011? Was Clemson ranked that year?

Get in their backfield every play and disrupt their timing will shut the option down.
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Thanks Madden! Should you also try to score more points than we do to?
 
white&gold said:
Classy Clemson fan response to stopping our offense...

"Knock the QB to the ground every freaking play...if he is carrying out a fake...knock him to the ground."
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So we should do the same. "I thought he fake passed it, ref."
 
Reading the comments to this article is just hilarious. Everyone seems to have a simple recipe for success. People suggested watching UGA tape since they know how to stop us. Maybe if you take the BB out of the option you shut the whole thing down... Clemson fans' lack of knowledge is atrocious. You'd think after six years of playing our offense, they'd know a little more about it... Then again, a limited avg. IQ across the fan base will only allow them to know so much...
 
white&gold said:
Classy Clemson fan response to stopping our offense...

"Knock the QB to the ground every freaking play...if he is carrying out a fake...knock him to the ground."
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What's not classy about it? That's part of how I would defend it if it were up to me.

He didn't say go after the QBs head and knees every play. This is still football, hitting ball carriers is still legal.
 
We've beaten ourselves on offense more than they've beaten us. VT is really the only team in the ACC to consistently play our offense well - but it comes at great cost to them.

Unless we are playing poorly I think we'll score plenty of points. Pitt last year had that super stud DT (who is lighting it up in NFL I think) who blew up a few plays but we still managed to put some points up.

I expect we'll see something a bit more like the Miami game - we'll have a few blown up plays and probably a harder time cutting off backside pursuit. That will mean lots of 3 and 4 yard plays with some "big" ones going for 6-8. The result will be DEATHMARCH and 40 min TOP. Clemson can't score when their offense is riding the pine.

Hopefully the defense can get us at least 3 legit stops and 1 or 2 turnovers.
 
ContactBuzz said:
What's not classy about it? That's part of how I would defend it if it were up to me.

He didn't say go after the QBs head and knees every play. This is still football, hitting ball carriers is still legal.
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I just don't see any sportsmanship in going after the QB just to put him on his ass - even if he doesn't have the ball. I'm all for rattling a QB. But the comment suggested to go after him even if he is finishing out an option play that he handed off.

On the flipside, if Clemson wants to commit defenders to JT when he doesn't have the ball, that is just less bodies in the way for the guy that does have the ball.
 
I like clemson fans too. especially when they're in tears.

I don't want to hear a single chant of them spelling their school name. we'll see if our D is up that challenge.
 
I am less worried about our offense finding a way to score points and more worried about our defense keeping us in the game until that happens.
 
white&gold said:
I just don't see any sportsmanship in going after the QB just to put him on his ass - even if he doesn't have the ball. I'm all for rattling a QB. But the comment suggested to go after him even if he is finishing out an option play that he handed off.

On the flipside, if Clemson wants to commit defenders to JT when he doesn't have the ball, that is just less bodies in the way for the guy that does have the ball.
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Eh, disagree. If we were playing an option team I'd say the same thing "Hit the QB as hard as possible at every opportunity." Not saying get called for a flag, but tackle him at every chance.
 
Just out of curiosity, has unnecessary roughness ever been flagged for someone planting one of our CPJ era QBs late after the pitch?
 
Deke said:
Just out of curiosity, has unnecessary roughness ever been flagged for someone planting one of our CPJ era QBs late after the pitch?
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I can't really remember one. Honestly JT's blindside hit last year from Miami when he was passing is probably the hardest I remember any QB getting hit since Johnson has been here.

There've been a few I thought warranted flags because defender hit QB in the chin with crown of helmet.
 
I used to enjoy posting on Clemson's Scout.com board, but it really went downhill. I can't do Tigernet, though. The level of ignorance and homerism is unbearable.
 
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