Re: TNET: Tiger defense not happy after mistakes in Miami

When sharing statistics about Goodwin’s quality defenses as being comparable (sometimes better) than BV’s defenses, there are many good Tiger fans that just cannot get past the differences in personality and body type between the two.

To the well meaning BV fans (BTW, is there a Clemson fan alive who is not highly appreciative of what BV brought to and left Clemson with as far as defense?), Goodwin’s doughboy physique and calm manner is what resonates to them.

These fans simply cannot get past the superficial factors in order to recognize that, with the exception of the first 4 or 5 games of the 2022 season, have been largely indispensable indistinguishable from BV’s defenses.

Let’s be fair here. BV was a great coach -&- provided entertainment via his personality. Clemson fans confuse the correlation between rah rah personality and results. There is no correlation, at least not for well prepared, well coached, mature D players who don’t need performance arts type of rah rah coaching.

Our players are beautifully coached. They know where to go and when to go there. They miss assignments on occasion, but recognize when they’ve missed their assignments, as opposed to making the same mistakes again and again and again.

BV was also great, but via the same basics of defense coaching as Goodwin.

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Oct 25, 2023, 5:13 PM [ in reply to Re: TNET: Tiger defense not happy after mistakes in Miami ]

^^^ This ^^^ is the key to our defense’s shortcomings in Q4 of games.

There are also personnel deficiencies (which have nothing to do with any coaching factors) that have impacted our late game defensive performance.

LB depth. We simply do not have LB depth to give Trotter and Carter the breathers that they need. Because of the failure of G.Riley ‘s Snail Raid offense, every game against a ‘real’ opponent, with SYR being the exception, was too tight to risk replacing tired Trotter / Carter with well rested younger players who (as of this moment) lack both the physical skills and game knowledge to be trusted in a tight game. I am convinced that the poor tackling by both Trotter and Carter is due in significant part to our LB depth problem.

DE depth. Our depth problem was glaringly evident in Q4 against Miami. With XT being absent due to team rules violation and Mascoll having gotten banged up, we had to rely on an already pooped TJ Parker (who played heroically again) and C.Denhoff (a still-developing player who is simply not yet physically capable of beating the block of a good OT or TE. In Q4 against Miami, we got next to zero production out of our DE unit against Miami’s run game.

Our secondary is terrific; both in starter quality -&- quality depth. Our secondary did not let us down against Miami, with the glaring exception opbeing J.Phillips blown assignment on Miami’s 80 yard TD run in first half. (J.Phillips is an excellent player. Even very good players make mistakes now and then; this happens in college FB.)

Our DT rotation is terrific. Our DTs did not let us down in Saturday.

DE and LB depth problems, which were exposed by the (typical) failure of G.Riley’s offense and by the play of our not-yet-ready-for-big-time QB, did us in on Saturday.

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TNET: Tiger defense not happy after mistakes in Miami