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TNET: Athlon predicts Clemson football's ACC finish
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Jul 1, 2024, 12:29 PM
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Paw Warrior [4838]
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Dont get the DJ hype. Dont get the FSU hype. Dont get the portal critiques.
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Jul 1, 2024, 12:35 PM
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Clemson has everything it needs to finish the season 10-2 or even 11-1. Even slight improvement at the OL & QB position will propel this team to the playoffs. Further, this constant shock of Clemson not taking portal players is getting old. It’s who we are. Clemson is ranked with the 15th best roster AFTER transfers. We will be fine.
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Re: Dont get the DJ hype. Dont get the FSU hype. Dont get the portal critiques.
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Jul 1, 2024, 12:52 PM
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I just hope our cheerleaders get helmets for the fsu game.
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I understood that reference.***
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Jul 1, 2024, 1:00 PM
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Be honest - you said the EXACT same thing before last season...
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Jul 1, 2024, 2:38 PM
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didn't you? I'd like to be optimistic as well, and I was optimistic from 2015-2021 when we had the talent and the coaching to get it done. It all started going south in 2021 with the big miss at QB.
At this point I'd be lying to myself to say I have a good feeling about next season. Truth is, we've reached the point where it's a crap shoot. No one can predict whether we'll go 11-1 or 8-4.
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Paw Warrior [4838]
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Re: Be honest - you said the EXACT same thing before last season...
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Jul 1, 2024, 4:06 PM
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Sure I did, but it became very evident early on what deficiencies we had all over the field. What’s taken place since last season?
1) New OL coach with a proven track record
2) Got two new studs at WR
3) Year two with a new OC & QB connection
Is there the potential to identify new issues as the season progresses? Sure. Probably will be at RB. But we’ve answered last season’s questions.
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Until we see evidence on the field...
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Jul 1, 2024, 4:09 PM
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we've answered nothing.
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A lot of folks said a lot of things ahead of last season. Know what nobody
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Jul 2, 2024, 4:20 PM
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was talking about? Place Kicker.
We're a 10-win + team heading into 2024. Where the "+" winds up is the only question I have at this point.
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FSU favored despite only 8-returning starters + new QB who lost job to Klubnik?***
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Jul 1, 2024, 1:44 PM
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National Champion [7595]
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For much of last season Klubnik sucked. Last season for Clemson...
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Jul 1, 2024, 2:34 PM
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was a shameful disgrace compared to what we had gotten used to seeing until DJ Uke came along. No doubt he started us down that slide, but last year was beyond awful. Do you really blame anyone for doubting us coming into this season? Be realistic and reasonable. Obviously the OL recruits aren't buying the hype over our new OL coach - we're missing left and right.
Dabo and his staff REALLY FffEffed up our offense, and it started showing in the 2021 UGA game. They blew it BIGTIME and it's been a nosedive to mediocre oblivion ever since. The DL is a far cry from what it once was too. Overcoming the tremendous downfall and getting us back to being even NEAR competitive with the best in the nation is a tall order to say the least.
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Re: For much of last season Klubnik sucked. Last season for Clemson...
Jul 1, 2024, 4:50 PM
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Lots of teams blew it against that 2021 UGA defense, which was one of the best ever.
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Re: For much of last season Klubnik sucked. Last season for Clemson...
Jul 1, 2024, 5:50 PM
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you do have to give the devil his due... Our defense did really well, kept us in the game.
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Re: If Trevor Lawrence had stayed for his senior year...
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Jul 1, 2024, 9:56 PM
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fact
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Re: If Trevor Lawrence had stayed for his senior year...
Jul 2, 2024, 6:03 AM
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So, if Clemson had different players they would have won?
Maybe if Stetson Bennett plays instead of JT Daniels UGA wins by 24.
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Do you really think Stetson Bennett is = Trevor Lawrence?
Jul 2, 2024, 12:11 PM
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You were lucky Dabo effed up and recruited the wrong guy to replace him. Our defense in 2021 was as good as yours.
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Re: Do you really think Stetson Bennett is = Trevor Lawrence?
Jul 2, 2024, 12:27 PM
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In no way is Bennett = Trevor Lawrence. Bennett won 2 national championships and won 4 cfb playoff MVP awards.
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And which NFL team has franchised l'il Stetson?
Jul 2, 2024, 3:35 PM
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Go ahead, look. I'll wait.
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Re: And which NFL team has franchised l'il Stetson?
Jul 2, 2024, 4:11 PM
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So we've moved from Clemson TL to Jacksonville TL? I never said Bennett was physically more talented than TL. Be he is a more accommodate college QB and if someone's going to bring up what "would" have happened had TL played, seems reasonable to speculate about how Bennett would have performed. That's the magic of playing what could have happened instead of what did happen.
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Re: And which NFL team has franchised l'il Stetson?
Jul 2, 2024, 5:00 PM
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Accomplished not accommodate
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National Champion [7595]
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And would you like to compare the LSU team...
Jul 2, 2024, 3:52 PM
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that came back in the second half to beat the Trevor Lawrence-led Clemson Tigers to that joke of a Horned Frog team that barely weaseled their way into the worst CFP lineup since its inception?
Joe Burrow and the LSU team he played for in 2019 would have given you a real game, not the pushover you got in 2021. The Bama team that we smoked for the 2018 championship was better than the Horned Frogs in 2021. UGA was a great team that season, but that national championship was a gift.
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At most it will be a one loss season
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Jul 1, 2024, 4:47 PM
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We were so close to a one loss season last season. If we hold on to the ball and don’t have massive injuries to our WR, OL or DL I have us going into the playoffs undefeated.
What did FSU do before they bought 💰 last season? Last time they made the playoffs for real. The media is crazy!
No way we shouldn’t be the favorite team in the ACC by a long shot.
Playoff bye and I believe we will be in a position to win the whole thing!
Let’s go Tigers 2025 National Champions.
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Re: At most it will be a one loss season
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Jul 1, 2024, 4:55 PM
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No way this is a one loss season with the oline. Yes we have a new coach but the same personal to work with.
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Re: At most it will be a one loss season
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Jul 1, 2024, 6:35 PM
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I wouldn't say no way, but I'd have 11-1 as the ceiling for the regular season. I don't think we beat UGA. We'd then need to go 11-0 to accomplish 11-1.
I think 10-2 is most likely, followed by 9-3, then 11-1.
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CU Medallion [19495]
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Is the O-Line personnel truly any worse than the 2015-2020 seasons?
Jul 2, 2024, 4:55 PM
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Serious question as I have no idea. OL isn't an area I've learned nuance about. I'm of the 'you know it when you see it' category but that fails the recency bias test.
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