Dabo Sunday Tele-conference Recap:
Clemson looks to start ACC conference play this week as the Tigers head south down I-85 for the annual inter-divisional rivalry that is the Georgia Tech game. Sunday evening Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney held his weekly Sunday teleconference, below we synopsize the conversation between Swinney and the media assembled on the call.
Coach Swinney started off the conversation by stating “real proud of the team”. Making sure he mentioned the Clemson fans that showed up on Saturday with all the uncertainty that was last week’s weather Dabo commented “thanks to our fans for such a great environment yesterday” . . . “ Awesome to see”
Swinney then brought the spotlight back to his team and the week ahead of them as they prepare for Paul Johnson and his tech team and their potent option football . Mentioning that he told the team “1st quarter of season is over .. a lot of improving to do. got to get better in a lot of areas….. lot of work to do as coaches…” Swinney was quick to also remind all that Tech is a “Huge game this week … Big Challenge” and its the next step in his team goals as he explained it’s his and his teams “Next goal is to win the division”
Swinney then went over the performance from Saturdays 38-7 win over Georgia Southern exclaiming that “for us it’s about studying the positive, and continue to work on some details”.
Coach Swinney was sure to let everyone on this call know that regardless of the numbers on Saturday that “600 yards of offense and three consecutive drives and came away with nothing…. disappointing “
However, he did mention ho the team applied “tempo better” how much more “efficient” the offense was in comparison to the last two weeks. Offensive line play was brought up and Swinney mentioned “No Sacks….Protection was solid”. Piggy backing on to that he commented on the running backs and how they were “productive” but did mention “turn overs and penalties” as detriments he could point to as issues that came from “attention to details” .
Defensively Swinney seemed to be very comfortable when discussing their performance on Saturday, stating “defensively we got better and played four quarters” as this defensive unit held Georgia Southern to 140 total yards on the day.
Overall Dabo said he “Loved the effort” and hoped that they could “continue to get that type of effort”
Then Swinney brought up injured quarterback Kelly Bryant and said that “Kelly is doing good … doing much better, going to put him in green tomorrow” in other words Bryant would wear a “no contact” jersey but Swinney mentioned that they don’t hit their quarterbacks at practice, so it should not matter. On the status of injured lineman Cade Stewart Swinney said “Cade was a little better today” … and on any other injured mentioned “other than that we are pretty good shape”
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