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Clemson Offense
RoadDawg55
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We are getting the big WR's and a playmaking TE, but we are missing the Wes Welker move the chains type like Renfrow is.
McClatcher plays that position but he's not really known for his hands. He's a weapon, but he looked bad when he had to adjust or catch in traffic.
For all the talk about Browning's strengths pre snap, Watson was better. If Alabama played man, they went to a pick route or slant/drag for Renfrow or let Williams man up and make a play downfield. And water is wet but a running QB that is able to get a few yards by running under duress really fucking helps.
Alabama played cover two and Watson hit the big TE in between the zone.
Alabama could play us straight up, get us in third and long and send pressure that the OL wouldn't pick up or Browning would simply crack. Clemson had Alabama winded but they also had them playing different defense that Watson was able to read and exploit.
McClatcher plays that position but he's not really known for his hands. He's a weapon, but he looked bad when he had to adjust or catch in traffic.
For all the talk about Browning's strengths pre snap, Watson was better. If Alabama played man, they went to a pick route or slant/drag for Renfrow or let Williams man up and make a play downfield. And water is wet but a running QB that is able to get a few yards by running under duress really fucking helps.
Alabama played cover two and Watson hit the big TE in between the zone.
Alabama could play us straight up, get us in third and long and send pressure that the OL wouldn't pick up or Browning would simply crack. Clemson had Alabama winded but they also had them playing different defense that Watson was able to read and exploit.
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Enough said about that.
The combination of pace, personnel and formations forces the defense to play fairly vanilla. The spacing also allows reads and RPOs to be keyed off a single guy in space, which makes it that much easier for a QB to make pre-snap and post-snap decisions.
A shitty spread offense is no better than a shitty pro-style, wishbone or whatever. But a really good spread offense is very tough to beat, especially now that there have been enough tactical innovations in spread football to achieve a real downhill, power running game out of those personnel packages and formations.
Clearly Petersen's offense incorporates some of these things, but doesn't really commit to them either.
A shitty offense is a shitty offense. Plenty of spreads are horrible dink and dunk bullshit.
Clemson and Auburn with Newton really had the only spread offenses I like. Oklahoma has a pretty good one too. Oregon's was good but didn't bring enough of the power element.
They were really good. They weren't powerful.
Oregon's O line was nails in the run game in those days. No they didn't run over you like Alabama does but it was purposeful inside running.
Hunter Renfrow (2016): 44 rec, 495 yds, 11.3 avg, long 35, 6 TDs
Dante Pettis (2016): 53 rec, 822 yds, 15.5 avg, long 61, 15 TDs