Re: TNET: Swinney says there's no leash on Garrett Riley, Clemson offense

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Oct 9, 2023, 9:44 PM [ in reply to Re: TNET: Swinney says there's no leash on Garrett Riley, Clemson offense ]

If teams are taking away our deep threat with two high safeties.... you do one of two things. One, run the ball b/c you have numbers in the box if the LBs are hanging back or go right where the LBs came from with slants and the TE.

That forces the safeties to cheat up and viola.... the deep ball is open.

I don't like admitting openly how to defend us.... take away the deep ball, keep everything in front until they make a mistake which we have proven to do this season.

Playing offense against a team that takes away the deep threat with two or three high requires patience and continuing to run the ball until you make the defense adjust to respect it. Patience that we have not consistently shown this season in both our ability to run block when the numbers favor the run and in the play calling to keep running it. I can not remember when we committed to the run teams being able to stop it. I can remember many times when we were running the ball very effectively when we would abandon the run and kill drives.

That defensive scheme worked very well for the Pats for a very long time. We also have shown extreme difficulty in blocking a 3-3-5 defense both in run blocking and pass protection.

All that being said.... we will figure it out this season I am confident.

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I’ve missed the part where the other teams have been scheming against the deep pass.

Remember last week against Syracuse on B.Collin’s long TD pass? He was in one on one coverage by the Syracuse CB. He beat the CB badly. Where was the safety? Watching for the middle range pass.

Syracuse also gave up deep balls to T.Brown. Some had help from a safety, but T.Brown caught the ball anyways. At least one in that situation when Brown got beyond the S and CB, the pass was well defended. Another such situation Brown got open anyways, but the pass was inaccurate. Yet on other occasions, Brown was in single coverage and open on deep routes; he caught one of those and another pass was inaccurate.

WF, from what I recall, didn’t have Safety help on deep balls. It didn’t matter. We were never a threat because either our WR still could not get open, or CK2 didn’t see the WR, or the pass was inaccurate.

(*). Both Syracuse and WF schemed their defenses to stop the short to intermediate routes, and to stop the run. In other words, their safeities were close enough to the LOS to come up and help on run plays.

(?). Does anyone know why play-action calls are rare as Big Foot?

TNET: Swinney says there's no leash on Garrett Riley, Clemson offense