Clemson makes it hard on you because they do a good job of moving people around and shifting in motion. We just have to go execute and we have to communicate well. They’ve had some good competition getting to go against our wideouts in the spring and our wideouts all of fall camp, but it’s time to go find out what they can do in the heat of the moment- what decisions they can make, what plays they can make. We just don’t have a lot of guys with a lot of playing experience back there and the only way to grow up is to go play. A lot of those guys are as talented as the guys we’ve had in the past but very rarely have we had lack of experience. I can’t think of a year ever coaching in my experience that we’ve had that many departures in the same unit. “We’ve never had that many holes to fill. On having to reload the secondary in the offseason and getting them ready for Clemson’s offense… At this point for the offensive line to get better they have to go play and they will certainly get to play against a very talented, twitchy, athletic group of defensive pass rushers and defensive linebackers.” We feel like those guys are healthy, available, and are excited to go see them play. Warren Erickson has practiced the last two weeks, he has been practicing, he is practicing again this week, so we feel good about him. Jamaree (Salyer) has kind of worked across the board of the offensive line. “Both of those guys have repped at center. On Jamaree Salyer, Sedrick Van Pran, and the offensive line… He has a single-minded focus all the time on being his best and being the best leader he can. The distractions of the outside world has they really aren’t distractions for JT. I am very confident in JT’s preparation up to this point and his preparation over the summer. Who those guys are, the experience level, do those guys play well, do they play with physical toughness, do they strain, do they do all those things. The concern is who we have to block, the players around JT, everybody puts everything on the shoulders of the quarterback but so much of the outcome of the quarterback is how the guys who play around him. “I am extremely confident in his preparation and his focus, that is not a concern for me. So when you talk about opening tests these guys are really good defensively.” These guys we are about to play are extremely talented on defense and extremely well coached, and have everybody back. But I will say this, a lot of the confidence you have in your offense comes from what’s earned right? You earn that by how you play and who you play. We have talked about that before, it was something that was beyond our control in terms of him being stable enough and able to go.
In terms of wishing JT (Daniels) started earlier last year the big thing was the confidence in his knee and getting him through rehab. Our spring was our fall camp last year, you don’t get enough body of work to see the guys play and see the guys start out and go do things. “There is a lot more confidence this year compared to last year not knowing for sure and a lot of it had to do with no spring.
On the confidence of going into this season knowing who is starting quarterback is… I think special teams will play a big outcome in this game.” Special teams wise they have always had good specialists and they continue to, that is a rich history tradition in that both teams have always had great specialists. I’s like every play it’s tough to defend when you play these guys, it’s like there is no time to rest. Then you know their quarterback got some experience last year when Trevor (Lawrence) was down, he has one of the biggest arms I have ever seen, he is very talented, very hard to defend. They are really talented, probably one of the best defenses I have ever seen returning in terms of number of starts and number of games played, the volume of experience is unmatched anywhere and anytime and I have been in college football a long time, just in terms of how much football those guys have played. We got a chance to watch them in the summer and we got a chance to watch them in the spring. We moved onto Clemson last week, Wednesday or Thursday we started working on these guys. We have had a good camp in terms of working on ourselves. As this hurricane makes it way northward, we are hoping for safety for all during this time…We are obviously excited about this game it seems like it has been a long time coming. We obviously have a few players from those areas and it is something that we are thinking of those folks and all that they are going through. “Thoughts and prayers going out to those in the Gulf Coast and New Orleans areas.
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