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5 Clemson Defenders / 1 Clemson RB invited to Combine
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Feb 21, 2024, 10:11 PM
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And 2024 Tiger Defense is again projected to be a team strength while Tiger Offense remains a question mark. Speaks volumes about BV, recruiting and Dabo's need to recalibrate the coaching staff.
https://www.nfl.com/news/full-list-of-prospects-invited-to-2024-nfl-scouting-combine
Makes me believe Clemson-UGA could be another low scoring Game 1 matchup.
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Re: 5 Clemson Defenders / 1 Clemson RB invited to Combine
Feb 22, 2024, 9:13 AM
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It certainly helps UGA is losing 11 players to the draft, including most of their offense. They also didn't use the portal that much. The only clear starter I see on offense is Lovett. I hate the fact that they're returning 4 starting offensive linemen and 3 of their defensive line. We'll see. I like our defense next year, but the secondary is going to have to play much better than they did against Kentucky. Back in 2020, they had a bad QB to start the season and had a grind it out style offense. That fed directly into our strength, so we shut them down. This year, the bigger question marks on UGA's offense are in the running game. Their offense was pretty good passing the ball, 11th in the country. But yeah, if our secondary can fully step into the shoes of last year's, I think we could keep it fairly low-scoring.
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Re: 5 Clemson Defenders / 1 Clemson RB invited to Combine
Feb 22, 2024, 10:01 AM
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"Clear starters on offense", assume you're referring to the skill positions, they still have Beck @ QB1, Vandy portal @ WR, and they are deep @ TE talent w/ pt(Bowers injury & sets)(SC Native name escapes me). Fwiw, we will be breaking in a new center (yet to be named: Assume Linthicum or Howard).
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Re: 5 Clemson Defenders / 1 Clemson RB invited to Combine
Feb 22, 2024, 10:45 AM
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It certainly helps UGA is losing 11 players to the draft, including most of their offense. They also didn't use the portal that much. The only clear starter I see on offense is Lovett.
Most of our offense??
We are returning 8 guys who started the Bowl Game. In addition to the 4 OL starters you referenced, TE Oscar Delp started 10 games, including the Bowl; WRs Dillon Bell and Rara Thomas both started 8 games, and of course we return our QB Beck. Yes, we're losing our top 2 rushers from last year, but a lot of guys got carries last year and we have a pretty deep corps. And Kirby typically doesn't use the portal that much, but he probably got more guys this year than he has in every previous year combined - including one of the top RBs. Our running game will be fine.
Overall, this 2024 offense will be a more complete team than the one we opened the season with in 2021.
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Re: 5 Clemson Defenders / 1 Clemson RB invited to Combine
Feb 22, 2024, 10:13 AM
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Georgia's offense is going to be pretty good next year.
Carson Beck is back at QB
Trevor Etienne transferred in at RB
Thomas, Lovett, Smith, Bell, and Humphreys transferring in from Vandy
Delp at TE
Their OL is always elite
Our defense will have their work cut out for them.
Does anyone have any confidence that our offense can score on them though?
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Re: 5 Clemson Defenders / 1 Clemson RB invited to Combine
Feb 22, 2024, 11:09 AM
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If Clemson offense resembles anything like they played in that Kentucky game or USUC game….Nope
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Re: 5 Clemson Defenders / 1 Clemson RB invited to Combine
Feb 22, 2024, 10:50 AM
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Shoot BV did well but we haven’t missed a beat recruiting defense since he left.
Offensive on the other hand has missed on many players.
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