Comments on: ACC BLOGGER ROUNDTABLE, WEEK 12

By: Navy Chief

Navy Chief — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:09:46 +0000

I think right now we are trying not to overlook Virginia. Do you seriously think we would overlook the ACC championship game? I think you really made my point in fact. Wake Forest, NC, Miami and Va Tech held you to 30 points or less. I believe our defense is better than all of those teams. While you did hang 30 on us, I believe our defense only allowed 2 tds. I said we would hold you to 21, I think that is very reasonable to say. I don’t think you will go up and down the field all day like you did with Vanderbilt and Duke.

I didn’t watch the games, but it is not surprising that you didn’t punt in the second half. I watched PJ go for it on 4th down against LSU on his own 25 yard line or so early in the game. While he didn’t punt, he certainly didn’t get the first down. You will not run the option up and down the field on Kevin Steele and your defense will certainly not contain our offense. So you will pass the football, we do have 20 interceptions this year against far better passing qb’s than Nesbit. Clemson’s offense is on the a five game stretch right now that is the best in its history. Pretty impressive when you think back to the years when we used to run a train on shitty teams like GT every year. Those days are just around the corner again.

Paul Johnson is a good coach. He is going to be great when he goes to one of the big boy schools after the couple of years he spends at GT. Because if you don’t think teams like Michigan or Notre Dame are going to come calling you are sadly mistaken.

By: Winfield Featherston

Winfield Featherston — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:10:31 +0000

@12 While you may be correct in the fact that our defense is not very good, you are going to have to consistently score points throughout the entire game to beat our offense. Only twice since the Miami debacle have teams scored 14 or more points in the 2nd half against us (VPI and Wake Forest). While on the other side of the ball we’ve only been shut out in a 2nd half quarter twice (UNC and WF and both in the 3rd quarter). In addition, we went on a 6 game streak of NOT punting the ball in the 2nd half. So, you’re going to have to do something about that as well.

It will be a good game. It will be something the ACC desperately needs and yall will come out swinging that’s for sure. But don’t quite overlook us yet simply because you’ve “seen us already”.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:29:53 +0000

Also, hopefully we won’t have Lambert blocking their stud DE.

That’s at least a 14 point swing.

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By: Navy Chief

Navy Chief — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:17:31 +0000

I think what most people are overlooking is the fact that GT’s defense is not really that good. I think its fair to say the offense has improved, but the defense has certainly not (see Fla State vs GT). This is the same defense that we scored 27 points on when our offense was quite frankly borderline awful. We will score at will on GT. With the exception of a couple of busted plays we have shut down the option attack two games straight. But their offense has improved slightly in that they have found a couple of receivers and Nesbit has found a little success passing. I think it would be a Kevin Steele wet dream for GT to have to resort to passing the ball to beat us. While he has had some success Nesbit is nowhere near the passer that that Ponder or Russell Wilson are. They will probably score 21 points on us. We will hang no less than 30 on them. Save turnovers we beat them handily.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:54:39 +0000

@10 No one said it can’t. I’m referring to the people who are more interested in beating scar than going to and winning the ACC championship.

By: penthouse tiger

penthouse tiger — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:45:49 +0000

@9, everyone else

Why can’t we have both?

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:56:19 +0000

Clemson fans who worry more about beating SCAR than the ACC are hilarious.

Ten years from now people will remember going to the ACC CG and maybe even winning it. They won’t remember whether or not we beat SCAR.

By: dwight_clark87

dwight_clark87 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:50:56 +0000

@4 -Looking forward to it!

@5 -It’s not just you.

@6 & 7 -Clemson versus Pitt would be an excellent game. Cincinnati is overrated, but we’ll see what happens in the next couple of weeks in the Big East. I honestly do not care if Clemson beats USC as long as they win the ACCCG. In fact, if God Himself said, “DC87, you must choose between winning the ACCCG or beating USC,” I would say, “the championship game, please, sir.”

By: William.Brown

William.Brown — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:52:02 +0000

We must beat South Carolina. Period.