re: How would you guys feel about Ryan Shazier?

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I would say something like "I think the coaching staff knows more about football than you do."

Did Shazier sleep with your gf? That's a classic.

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Nah, I used to coach with a high school in South Carolina. We run a very similar offense to Clemson and have a very strong relationship with their coaching staff.

As such they received numerous tapes from them of Ohio State games they were using during bowl prep as well as the entire cut-up after the fact of their Orange Bowl film against Ohio State. We use it to try to guage our abilities to scout an opponent and compare it to what a college staff actually does, see what we thought would work that did and vice versa. I asked to be forwarded these tapes just as a favor and they obliged.

I don't pretend to have watched much of any film on all the prospects, but I've seen alot on Shazier. He has a ton of potential athletically, but he can be exploited at the point of attack and with misdirection.

As I've said before, Clemson's gameplan was predicated upon exposing Shazier. I'm just not comfortable with our first round pick being someone that college coaching staffs think they can consistently attack and beat (and they did, they made him look like a clown in the Orange Bowl).