"Overthrew at least one receiver..." = hmm, how many????***

I was wondering how many drops we had. Seven dropped passes is something that's almost impossible for receivers of our caliber to do. Add those with all the drops last week and think about all the points we could have scored if those balls were caught. In a way that's encouraging because there's no way that continues and when those balls are caught we are going to start lighting up the scoreboard again.

On a side note, DW4 is really struggling with the deep ball, obviously. This is going back to last year. Sure he connected on a few nice ones last year and you're not supposed to complete every deep ball, but he's overthrowing receivers at an alarming rate, pretty much every time now. I'm sure it's a mental thing with him now, as we know he has all the physical ability in the world. Hopefully the light comes on there, and with the drops becoming catches we will look like Clemson again.

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Re: New Story: Not clicking on all cylinders

Sep 11, 2016, 9:29 AM

Yes, I agree. That is the most concerning thing that I have seen in the first 2 games. At Auburn, I attributed the overthrows to the "Danny Ford Crest" that Jordan-Hare has. Apparently, like the old field at Clemson, you only see waist up on the opposing sideline because of the "run downhill" hump in the field. So, sitting in the stands at Auburn, I turned to the guy next to me and gave that as the excuse. Little did I know that on a perfectly flat field, DW4 would do the same thing multiple times. Granted, he was getting pressured, but that is no excuse for those crazy overthrows (how in the heck do you overthrow Mike Williams???). Hopefully this gets fixed this week and next Saturday because the next 2 after that are not going to be easy. And, here's a question for you - was Troy stealing our offensive signals yesterday or were they just that good at anticipating or playcalling or were we just that bad period (I think I know the answer). Every time we ran the ball, they had the box stacked; and then every time we threw the ball, they seemed to blitz or attack the gaps on a rush and our Oline couldn't do anything. That actually concerns me almost as much as the overthrows.