Why we lost

Being an athlete and being a HS coach I don't like to point fingers and I tend to have short term memory and try to learn from our loss and move on. Of course accountability has to be held! But we have a long season and we all know that a lot can and will happen in college football this season. I hope our team and coaches grow and learn from this tough loss just like we did last season against SC!

We have a game that means everything next week and I honestly believe that we will grow from this loss and we will be a better team because of it. We played a pretty darn good team and it could have went either way, yea I'm an optimist because I still believe in our program! The fact is we got out played by a a very good team. Yea the penalties, turnovers and lack of protection and push from our O line in the first half hurt us. So can be said by what I think was bad play calling by Bobo in the first half and the fact that Gurley was non existent in the first half after his injury. But at the end of the day we just got out played and out coached by a very legit team!

My final thoughts on this game... I don't think I underestimated Clemson as much as I overestimated our Dawgs! I thought for sure our O would set the tempo and that would allow our D to settle in. We had that chance in the first half but we didn't convert! I don't think we were outmatched but just out played by their players and coaches. It's hard to say where we stand in the Nation right now but I still believe in this team and our chances to win it all. Sometimes it takes a loss like this to make you realize who you really are, I'm speaking mainly about our players here. I think they will grow from it and it will make all of them stronger! It's not over! We lose to SC then yea we are toast as far as a run for a MNC goes...

GO DAWGS

Does anyone know a website where I can watch the post game conference? I really want to see what Richt has to say ab this loss

As sflanagan21 said, this was a legit team and it was right out of the gate as we all knew it would be.

However, the offensive play calling was horrible. My 5 year old knows he can only stack Legos so high and figures out he needs to try something different to get them higher. Bobo's play calls were the same and my worst fear came true tonight.

Bobo does not know how to adjust on our weakness and the other team's strong points and vice versa. He doesn’t have the ability IMO.

Yes there were other things that contributed to this loss. But play calling, IMO, was the clincher in this game.

The last drive was play calling that should have been played on the first snap.

Next, the chickens and hopefully the O line learned their lesson tonight. If not, Murray will get killed next weekend.

Oh and 1 more thing down by 3 points 1st and goal at the 5 yard line and we come away with ZERO points. 2 of the best running backs in the country and Hicks being the beast, enough guys who can catch the ball, and we cannot even score a TD, let alone snap the ball to get 3 points.

I said this offense had too much talent even for Bobo to screw up. Sorry guys I was wrong in that statement.

Going to be tough going against the Carolina D. Really possible after the end of September that this team is 1-3 and 0-2 in the SEC.......

It was the same old song and dance as it usually is after one of our patented early season failures;

A bad performance by our O-line, our run D, and of course - special teams.

We used to be able to at least use inexperience and a lack of depth to explain the patented O-line failure, so what do we say now, Friend?

Changed all the names on D, and the results stayed the same as well.

STEP AWAY FROM THE EDGE, DAWG FANS. I think we're going to be okay. Yeah, it hurts to lose and as this board proves, that brings out the boo-birds glass-half-empty commentary.
I find it interesting that nobody seems to point to the positives from this loss. It's early season, and if you're going to lose, lose early. We had 6 freshmen on D. Everybody knew that, yet it seems everybody was expecting them to play like and experienced unit and handle a damned good Clemson team. For what it's worth, I think they played like champs. In other years, our team would have laid down, but this group didn't quit. They got behind, they scrapped their way back.
Yeah, play calling was a little disappointing, but only because we found something that wasn't working and stuck with it for too many series. When we worked the good stuff, we scored. Yes, the O-line was in trouble most of the night, yet we still put up Madden numbers on offense.
Herrera. Hicks. Gurley. Justin SW...beasts.
I think this game is one we'll improve more from than any this season. Murray's play was solid, although he did hold on to the ball a little long on a few plays. Of course, he wasn't expecting to have the left side of the line collapse and get killed in the process. The kids on D got their first taste of full-speed play. I'm sure they walked off that field better men than when they walked on.
I'm pretty sure the O-line will hate Monday's practice.