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Clawson Credibile! (will reconsider if he sits Newman for another scrappy gym rat QB)

thatguy2016 said:
The two-deep for Tulane showed starters Kemp, Strnad, and Taylor, with backups Simpson, Smenda, and Williams

The two-deep for FSU showed starters Kemp, Strnad, and Taylor, with backups Simpson, Smenda, and Williams

Strnad has started every game, Taylor has started every game, Kemp has started all but one

I'm not at practice or on the sidelines at games so I don't know to what extent these guys are playing through injuries, but they are playing
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Taylor and Smenda didn’t travel to FSU. Simpson and Kemp didn’t play much, if any,
 
Pilchard said:
DJ Taylor didn't record a defensive stat: https://wakeforestsports.com/boxscore.aspx?id=3116&path=football

Clawson post-game presser indicated that Taylor couldn't play. Maybe Taylor played in the initial series. Schools often fail to keep the depth charts current.
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the link you provided has a participation tab showing Taylor as a starter

Obviously if he didn't make the trip he didn't play (much less start); I don't think it's unreasonable to expect WF to correctly chart this
 
Agree the information on the WF official website should be accurate, but it's not. Here is Clawson's post game presser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBLS02qXdwY

Starting at the 7 minute mark: Luke Masterson started at LB. DJ Taylor got a severe illness on Wednesday, and did not play. Only one of WF seven scholarship LBs was available to practice before the FSU game.
 
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Pilchard said:
Agree the information on the WF official website should be accurate, but it's not. Here is Clawson's post game presser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBLS02qXdwY

Starting at the 7 minute mark: Luke Masterson started at LB. DJ Taylor got a severe illness on Wednesday, and did not play. Only one of WF seven scholarship LBs was available to practice before the FSU game.
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Dave Clawson has forgotten more football than I'll ever know and is a credit to WFU

you go into a game at FSU with one healthy linebacker, (and a true freshman qb who obviously has not acclimated to the speed of the college game) it's borderline malpractice to speed up the offense and expose your team to potentially lots of plays
 
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thatguy2016 said:
Dave Clawson has forgotten more football than I'll ever know and is a credit to WFU

you go into a game at FSU with one healthy linebacker, (and a true freshman qb who obviously has not acclimated to the speed of the college game) it's borderline malpractice to speed up the offense and expose your team to potentially lots of plays
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Except that we were up 10-0 after running 30+ plays in the first quarter. It was initially working because we were moving the chain.

I do think it took FSU three series to figure out that Dortch was a shell of his normal self.

I saw improvements from QB1 out there playing against elite borderline NFL defensive talent. He did start to throw the ball of his back foot some IMO, but otherwise, he was accurate and hung in there.

While I was on the Kendall Hinton bandwagon at the beginning of the year, I now fully believe Hartman is our answer today and for the next 3 1/2 years when he's healthy. Either one of two things has happened:

* Either Newman and Hartman were neck and neck and Hartman has simply pulled way ahead as he got game experience against inferior competition in Tulane and Towson

Or

* Hartman is simply a gamer and it was only in scrimmages and games that he established himself as clearly a superior option to Newman.

If we can get just a little bit healthy or figure out how to use some of our safeties at Linebacker, I do think we can go 3-1 over our next 4 games and be bowl eligible going into the Duke game. Going to be tight though.
 
You think this team is going to win 3 of at Louisville, home against Syracuse, at NC State, and home against Pitt? Dream on, because this is a bad football team.
 
thatguy2016 said:
Dave Clawson has forgotten more football than I'll ever know and is a credit to WFU

you go into a game at FSU with one healthy linebacker, (and a true freshman qb who obviously has not acclimated to the speed of the college game) it's borderline malpractice to speed up the offense and expose your team to potentially lots of plays
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Agree
 
BirdinBama said:
You think this team is going to win 3 of at Louisville, home against Syracuse, at NC State, and home against Pitt? Dream on, because this is a bad football team.
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It has been a bad football team against Top 10 talent and FSU. IF it can get better healthwise and otherwise, it is possible that the team becomes a decent team that is hard to beat the rest of the way. Just don't need any more decisions to go for it on 4th and 8 on their 34 when you're up by 10 and can either kick or easily punt. No need to get that aggressive. 4th and a couple, okay, but not 5 plus yards to go and you're up by 10. Reckless usually produces a smart response from your opponent.
 
Why can't the WF sports info dept maintain weekly updated depth charts? Doesn't seem like a significant ask.
 
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That game was terribly called by Ruggerio and Clawson. Hinton or someone else should have been given a chance after the offense was clearly unable to produce after those first two drives. And yet they threw the ball 40 times!!! Amazing.
 
Ball State Deac said:
That game was terribly called by Ruggerio and Clawson. Hinton or someone else should have been given a chance after the offense was clearly unable to produce after those first two drives. And yet they threw the ball 40 times!!! Amazing.
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Hinton was hurt and didn't make the trip.
 
WF did run the ball 50 times. WF runs more plays per game, averaging 100 offensive plays, more than all, but two of the 130 FBS teams. While throwing 40 passes seems like a lot, when you so many plays and you are trailing by 2+TDs, you are going to have a lot of pass attempts.

Don't see play calling as the cause of WF's struggles. Injuries and tempo (running a lot of plays per game) has caused the WF defense to get rundown and run over against talented teams.

Clawson quoted this hard to believe stat: through 7 games, the 2018 offense has gained more yards and scored more points than the 2017 offense. That said, the 2017 offense exploded over the last 5 games. Don't see that happening again. Also, WF has run more offensive plays this year through the first 7 games even though WF has an inexperienced QB, and a depleted defense. Questionable strategy.
 
Pilchard said:
WF did run the ball 50 times. WF runs more plays per game, averaging 100 offensive plays, more than all, but two of the 130 FBS teams. While throwing 40 passes seems like a lot, when you so many plays and you are trailing by 2+TDs, you are going to have a lot of pass attempts.

Don't see play calling as the cause of WF's struggles. Injuries and tempo (running a lot of plays per game) has caused the WF defense to get rundown and run over against talented teams.

Clawson quoted this hard to believe stat: through 7 games, the 2018 offense has gained more yards and scored more points than the 2017 offense. That said, the 2017 offense exploded over the last 5 games. Don't see that happening again. Also, WF has run more offensive plays this year through the first 7 games even though WF has an inexperienced QB, and a depleted defense. Questionable strategy.
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Much if not most of those runs came after the game was well in hand.

PhDeac said:
At the half:

Running backs:
Colburn 11 att, 45 yards (4.1 yards per carry)
Carney 9 att, 43 yards (4.8 yards per carry)
Beal-Smith 1 att, 6 yards

Passing:
Hartman 18/40 159 yards (4.0 yards per pass)

Clawson and Ruggiero ignored the obvious all half. Just atrocious coaching on offense.
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40 passes + 2 sacks = 42 pass attempts
21 runs by RB + 4 QB runs (IIRC) = 25 rushes
 
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Believe that Clawson would say that relying on run play numbers versus pass play numbers alone is a simplistic analysis. As WF ran the ball successfully, FSU began to crowd the LOS opening the passing lanes and leaving the outside receivers in man coverage. The offense philosophy is that when the defense tries to take away the run game and leaves the pass game vulnerable, you hurt them with the pass game. If the defense allowed for WF to exclusively or primarily run the ball, WF would have done that. Under Grobe, WF would often just run the ball even after the defense adjusted. You have to understand the gameplan wasn't to throw the ball X amount of times and run Y amount of times, but to take what the defense gives.
 
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We should have run more and threw less. Hartman was not effective throwing.
 
Pilchard said:
Believe that Clawson would say that relying on run play numbers versus pass play numbers alone is a simplistic analysis. As WF ran the ball successfully, FSU began to crowd the LOS opening the passing lanes and leaving the outside receivers in man coverage. The offense philosophy is that when the defense tries to take away the run game and leaves the pass game vulnerable, you hurt them with the pass game. If the defense allowed for WF to exclusively or primarily run the ball, WF would have done that. Under Grobe, WF would often just run the ball even after the defense adjusted. You have to understand the gameplan wasn't to throw the ball X amount of times and run Y amount of times, but to take what the defense gives.
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Exactly
 
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