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TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 1:39 PM
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ESPN is always flaunting the strength of the SEC, but the number of elite teams is limited. Same for B1G. LSU, UGa, 'Bama, Texas are tough, but there are a lot of mediocre teams in the SEC. B1G has Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, but there is a fairly rapid drop off from there. Both conferences are stronger than the ACC, but they are not elite.
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I call BS on the ACC having a down year.
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:20 PM
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GT better than the past. Louisville is better, SMU is still in the hunt. Miami is better. Me thinks the ACC is tougher this year.
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Re: I call BS on the ACC having a down year.
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:30 PM
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I concur. There will be better depth this year. GA Tech and Louisville are sneaky good, SMU and Miami will also be pretty good. Don’t forget Syracuse, maybe not as good as last year but pesky. I would say third best maybe even second this year. Think Big10 will be overrated, and SEC totally overrated by propaganda, but still the best.
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Re: I call BS on the ACC having a down year.
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Aug 17, 2025, 10:50 PM
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Worst take ever...our LBs are definitely elite for starters. We don't face any gauntlet SEC teams but face 2 ranked SEC teams with one being top 10? Not making sense. We will play atleast 4-5 ranked teams this season if not more. ACC being weak is a tired take. ACC has won 3 nattys during the playoff era only trailing the SEC. ACC has the best QBs in college football, period. Gonna be a special year. Go Tigers!!!!
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Re: I call BS on the ACC having a down year.
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Aug 18, 2025, 6:41 AM
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It’s not true that the ACC won three nattys during the playoff era. They only won two, both by Clemson. You’re probably trying to include FSU’s 2013 natty, but that was the last year of the BCS era.
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Didn't Louisville lose their QB to the Draft? Did they get a portal hopper again
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Aug 18, 2025, 8:30 AM
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I figured they would be a little more manageable this time around. Unless they're still stealing our signs. I swear that game last year it felt like they knew our play before we ran them. They woudl be overloading the side we ran to every time or switching out to the correct coverage whene we called a pass play. It was either that or they called a magnificent defensive game plan.
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 3:25 PM
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I agree with that statement, but it seems that the sports media always has their eyes shut when it comes to talking about just how strong an elite Clemson team can be. It is my opinion that the top 3 teams in the 2025 ACC could give the SEC and Big teams a run for their money on any given day. I mean it's not like the 3 top teams in the Big or SEC are named King Kong, Super Man, or Iron Man that are in most cases unbeatable...
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 1:45 PM
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What’s with this effort by sports networks of pushing women into talking football?
No issue with them talking womans basketball or something like soccer, but please do not expect most college football fans to take anything she says seriously
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Her points are valid.***
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Aug 17, 2025, 1:46 PM
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Which ones?***
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:04 PM
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Re: She had points of her own, sitting way up high...Bob Segar***
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:36 PM
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Re: Her points are valid.***
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Aug 17, 2025, 3:46 PM
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She lost me at “BIG10 gauntlet” lol
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Oh, yeah. Carson Beck is polished.
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Aug 17, 2025, 5:22 PM
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Jawja is lucky to have him. Long as they keep him around, they’s going places!
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She needs to make sandwiches and let the men talk***
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Aug 17, 2025, 1:51 PM
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There are more significant flaws on the other top teams, including QB
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:03 PM
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Clemson has as good of a chance as any to win the title.
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Re: I think I heard Walt say that. I believe you are correct.***
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:37 PM
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all this media hype is just to help the $EC's LSU. If we win, they say
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:05 PM
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well, of course, we said they were awesome so don't drop LSU in the rankings, and if we lose they say ZOMG!!! LSU is so incredible to beat such an amazing team. I expect us to win and I expect e$ECpn to emphasize over and over and over that it's not a big deal.
That's all this is. Nothing personal, strictly busine$$.
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:12 PM
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I agree with her points on our Defense, we need to improve greatly to be an elite team OMHO. Not sure I agree the ACC is down this year and that our conference schedule is easy. Time will tell, and that is why we play the games.
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 3:39 PM
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Our defense improved the very second that Dabo hired Tom Allen to take command over our defense than having an unproven inexperienced Goodwin running our defense. IMPO, having Goodwin as our DC was no different than us having Ben Boulware as our DC...
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
Aug 17, 2025, 2:14 PM
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Is our game against LSU all or nothing, absolutely not, but is it a huge opportunity, absolutely yes. The game will be a street fight and if you go into the game expecting anything else, you will be in for a long night because the game may be bigger for LSU than for us.
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IF all goes as they say the LSU game is the difference in a Bye in the CFP
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Aug 18, 2025, 8:32 AM
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nah. Do I assume we jsut skip through our schedule. I don't. I will be tough regardless. Always is.
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:18 PM
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Thank you these comments. I don't care what she says so I will NOT read that article.
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
Aug 17, 2025, 2:26 PM
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A broad?!?!?
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
Aug 17, 2025, 2:31 PM
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Well our defense last season was lousy and we are bringing back basically the same players this season. Yes, Wes got all of the blame for their performance and, yes, we expect TA to field an improved defense even with those same players, but that doesn't mean it'll happen, at least not to the degree its gonna take for us to win it all. Im taking a firm "believe it when I see it" position on our defense. And the offense was pretty clunky at times the second half of last season as well. Could easily see us have a similarly good, but not good enough, type of year of offense. And dont even get me started on special teams which had many issues which none of us knows whether or not have been corrected for this season.
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:38 PM
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I stopped taking the analyst seriously after she mentioned Carson Beck...
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Re: I stopped reading when she said Clemson lost to 3 SEC teams.
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:43 PM
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Yeah, Texas is an SEC team. SMDH
Then she said the ACC is gunning for a down year. Was last year an up year for the ACC?
No, I don't think so, so up is the only way it COULD go.
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but we did lose to 3 SEC teams last year
Aug 17, 2025, 5:04 PM
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that was a sore spot
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Re: Well I still don't consider Texas an SEC team.***
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:51 PM
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I'm more certain that Tom Allen will field a good defense than I am that the perennial football powers sitting at the top , Texas , Georgia , Alabama , Ohiost have struck gold with their first year starting quarterbacks. Nothing to prove there i suppose. But I digress....
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:57 PM
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Looks as if she got the assignment of juicing the narrative after ESPN got called out for the blatant manipulation of their FPI ratings.
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 2:58 PM
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As soon as he said Carson beck was the most polished passer I quit reading
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 3:49 PM
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Well U Can Tell It's Almost Kickoff🦁
Talking Heads and Prognosticators 😂
No Offense 2 Some But How Many Have Endured 5AM Workouts or 100 deg August Days...Having Been Graced 2 Play 14 Years
With (5) Championship Seasons...This I Know
When Team Familiarity (aka Chemistry) Aligns with Experience and Talent...Champions R Born
This Team Has All Three🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
Let's Play Em One @ A Time....
I ❤️ Our Chances in Less Than 2 Weeks👍👍
Go Tigers!!!!!!
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X's and O's or Jimmies and Joes - only Aug31 will tell
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Aug 17, 2025, 4:27 PM
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🤷♂️
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 5:01 PM
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I quit reading as soon as I read “may be the most polished passer in the country behind Carson Beck”
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 5:03 PM
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I’ll share my thoughts—I don’t think I have heard of this Maldonado person so I don’t any stock in what this person says.
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Aug 17, 2025, 5:26 PM
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worthless drivel, nothing new. Talk season is worn out like an old carpet. We're at spot-the-ball, for sure.
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 6:27 PM
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Never heard of her…some good points, several a bit squishy…like the beck compliment/criticism…
I think she underestimates TA’s ability to take our D back up the line significantly. Maybe she’s right and I’m wrong….heck I’m a pessimist too until I see the evidence of my hopes and expectations…
Nevertheless…I see ACCCG…a win’ s a toss up from here but I think we are at least in that game.
CFP also more likely than not…but again we will see…
How far we go is as dependent on refs/health/chemistry/strategy and tactics…not worried about our run game…it has to be better between a healthy stable of backs and continued development of O line…passing game…was very good last year…receivers are very good hoping CK2 has as good or better year (fewer misses/mistakes) and this year will be very successful!!!
Go Tigers!!
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Re: TNET: ESPN analyst on Clemson: 'Good team, great quarterback, but still key flaws'
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Aug 17, 2025, 8:45 PM
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Who?
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Never heard of him.***
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