Joe Sloan...Last night changed my opinion of him in a big way.

Committed to the run, and creative play calling. We didn’t see that last year.

Yeah the play calling the last 2 drives drove me insane. But I loved the 3 bubble screens in a row

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utilized the speed of our WR’s

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This is my only disagreement. Maybe Clemson was dropping two deep to stop this though.

It was a better 2nd half in play calling. Getting a rhythm and creating mis direction and mismatches that wssnt happening in 1st half.

I was really mad about the last 2 drives for putting the pressure on our D instead of trying seal the deal. I understand burning clock and sticking ground plays but it was way too conservative.
But i think that is more on Kelly for that decision

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Absolutely hated the calls on the last couple drives, essentially conceding giving them the ball back.

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Don’t necessarily think we conceded, one drive took about 5 mins off the clock. Did we not see that defense? You lean on that unit when they are playing like that. We haven’t won that type of game in the BK era ever.

Nuss was brilliant imo, protected the ball and played within the team. The WRs gotta get separation, they were getting blanketed at times.

The first half was disappointing and had me thinking it would be another brutal year of terrible play calling.

But they made adjustments and the second half was inspired. Multiple times getting Clemson defense moving one way only to move the ball the opposite.

That little decoy/delayed screen where the slot receiver dummy’s a block then runs a drag was great.

Beat them for big yards twice and the third time it would have been a TD, but they had a late whistle for a false start.

Agree

Night and day difference between halves. Maybe Sloan went conservative in the first half to determine how well the new line could perform?
I HATED the first half calls. LOVED second half calls...particularly the same play three times in a row to take advantage of personnel mismatch.
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Disagree on first half. I thought play calling was good most of the game. We occasionally played it safe in both halves. But you could tell this was a statement of committing to the run. I think he challenged the Oline to make running lanes and they did. I hope some stud high school Oline guys were watching. This is how a good Oline wants a game to be called.

The delayed screen pass to Aaron Anderson in the middle is a money play. I’m pretty sure we had a TD using that play but a timeout was called.