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Clemson OL
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Clemson OL

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Jul 12, 2023, 5:47 PM

I see a lot of chatter about the OL

Sure it needs to improve like all the offensive position groups, but this old buzzard thinks they were pretty good last year

They became a really good run blocking OL

Pass blocking has the most room to improve, but I think anyone that knows first thing about football X’s and O’s will tell you it’s hard to pass block with the box loaded on defense. 8 guys inside the the hashes within 3-5 yards of the LOS is really hard to block with 5 guys

Decent QB and WR play is going to make defenses play us honest and will make these guys look much much better (even though they will actually only be marginally better)

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Jul 12, 2023, 5:57 PM

Agreed!
The scheme didn't help the OL play either.
If you don't have all 5-star starters across the board; and you play a dominant D. You need something to neutralize that defense that's "built in". Tempo did that for us.
The principles that Chad Morris brought were: *built-in answers to what the defense is doing. *get the defense on it's heels and keep them there. *press the middle of the field a few times again to make sure the safety doesn't get comfortable getting in the box. *Gameplan to the defense you're playing(Scott and Elliott excelled here).

I think Scott/Elliott/Streeter kept to the formula for the most part, but after the years rolled on and we had success: "I get the sense the offensive staff maybe started feeling themselves a bit". We dropped some of those key principles and ended up "lost in the forest of offense"! Having a QB that was hard to figure out didn't help the last two years either.

The OL will be much better in short, as you said, because they will be put in better position.

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personally , OL is fine. They now have a DLine

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Jul 12, 2023, 7:10 PM

to practice against

i can't recall how many times i saw the Breese defense never actually get to the QB . Every QB that played aclemson looked like a Hesiman candidate (only vs Clemson)


This new era of defense will a risky require the offense line to practice hard and get elite

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Re: Clemson OL

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Jul 12, 2023, 7:41 PM

Agreed. They did a good job run blocking. Much of the pass protection problems were due to the scheme. Plays took to long to develop, to many out patterns and not utilizing the middle of the field. The WR screen game doesn't work when D backs play close to the LOS. You need the threat of a WR going deep to get the secondary to play off of the ball. They tried it over and over when it wasn't there. Hopefully with the new scheme this O line will look awesome.

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Jul 12, 2023, 9:02 PM

Agreed

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