Well it was nice keeping it respectable while it lasted.
Duke vs Clemson 7 PM
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just dont want anymore injuries. that looked bad for humphries.
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Man, if would be nice to see how we would fare against Clemson if our defense was at full strength. I do believe we could compete!!!
OFC
OFC
Played a good first half. Not great. We'll never have a legitimate chance to beat the greats with our receivers. If it weren't for our QB being tough as nails, we'd be talking about what a terrible job the o line is doing. It is what it is, hopefully we can address this with our future recruits.
Him and JGH out meaning Clemson about to RUN up the score. Oh dear God, just saw him get carted off.
Crap. Just what we didn'the need to happen. Humphrey gets hurt and Clemson goes in on the next play. Is it too early to pull Jones? He 's been taking some shots this half. Don't want to just give up but the Clemson D is going to be coming at full blast. OFC
just too much depth on that clemson roster. duke played hard but really had to play a perfect game to win. to many self inflicted wounds against a team like them. why dont we play bobo more? at least he catches the ball.
During the recent era of CFB, too much is made of this team or that team being "better" than everybody else. Until this year, and Bama's relative domination, most of the recent powers have won games through the genius strategy of "arbitration." By that, I mean that the winning team simply throws too many talented bodies at the opposition. Even though the losing team's starters are relatively close in talent/ability to the those of the winning team, the losing team cannot employ as much depth. In a game like FB, a team can win by simply grinding down their opponent with more talented players, and more players who are talented, than the loser.
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It is why Bama has been so great, despite their QBs and RBs being relatively lackluster in the pros. Depth. Especially along the offensive and defensive lines. Bama's starters are a little more talented than their opponents. But bama's backup linemen are nearly as good as their starters, and the third teamers are typically incredibly talented players in their own right who are simply younger, less experienced, and less developed than their older peers. It isn't Bama's starters that kill you. It is the backups, and the fact that there is essentially no drop off.
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Today, we played the first great CFB that Duke has faced in years, possibly back to the height of the Bowdon years in a round robin ACC schedule.
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And we did fine. The staff can show recruits a game program that isn't a pushover for anyone. Potential recruits see a decent team, and probably a role for themselves.
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Watching Clemson's DL is what opposing BB teams see when Duke's frosh wings start rolling.
You know what makes it worse? For the first time this season, and since I don't know when, we lost and UNx and won. I seriously can't remember when the last time that happened was.
Look at Clemsons schedule and how many points they have been putting up.....and look what Duke held them to AT Clemson .....good showing in my opinion.
Well.. they did play Western Carolina
True but a meaningless bit of trivia when opponents are considered. No credit for beating a lower division opponent lol
Let's be honest. We didn't expect to win this game. We wanted to compete, and did at least for a half. Nothing to be ashamed of, time to beat Wake!
LETS GO DUKE!!!
LETS GO DUKE!!!
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Can;t compete if you can;t catch the ball,
Defense did their job for a half. They kept us in the game for a bit, offense didn't do their part. Semantics.
We dropped far too many of DJ's throws. Had we caught more in the first half especially we could have been up at half....OFC
Extra incentive for next weeks game with Wake Forest. They have to win to become bowl eligible. Duke really needs to play well to finish 8-4.
I think it will be a good week of practice, Cut was less than pleased in his post game interview. He was basically calling out everyone not named Daniel Jones.
Yeah, but they dropped a few passes as well, and if they'd made those catches, we could have been down big at the half as well.
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