Clemson should stack the line of scrimmage

Jessy89 · 2025-11-15T21:07:26.483Z

Sell out to stop Sellers from running crazy on Clemson Defense. Make sellers beat us through the air I don’t think he can do it. Clemson wins 31-21

Re: Clemson should stack the line of scrimmage

This. Ole miss did this and it worked well

Re: Clemson should stack the line of scrimmage

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Re: Clemson should stack the line of scrimmage

Nov 15, 2025, 6:16 PM [ in reply to Re: Clemson should stack the line of scrimmage ]

First with B.Venables plan and now today with aTm, when blitzing, always send one right up the gut. This forces Sellers to commit to one side or the other, at which time Sellers has been contained to having only one half of the field for scrambling.

Discipline by the DL as far as pass rush lanes is a must.

Finally, LBs and especially DBs need to go low (knee area) or ankles to stop him. Hit his thighs and bounce off like a bird in the windshield.

Last year, most teams failed to have their DL maintain rush lane discipline and didn’t send one (or two) blitzers right up the middle. aTm got their ‘stop Sellers’ act together in 2nd half.

BTW, Sellers’ instinct when a blitzer comes up the middle has become to back up. It’s as if he subconsciously knows that his escapability is curtailed if he is forced to immediately run to one side or the other. Kind of like a squirrel - unpredictability in open spaces makes it darn near impossible for a bunch of kids to catch a squirrel in open spaces. Get him to run into a corner that cannot be climbed, then the kids got a chance.

Oh yes, when Sellers backs up instead of picking a side for scrambling, he becomes a ‘got sacked’ machine. I thought I heard the announcers saying that Sellers leads the nation in number-of-times-sacked and in sack-yardage.

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