By Will Vandervort.

Chad Morris does not know if he will have Deshaun Watson back at quarterback again this season, and that is how is preparing himself and his Clemson offense for the last two games of the year.

The Tigers, who will host Georgia State this Saturday in Death Valley, know Watson will not play this Saturday and everything is day-to-day in regards to whether he will be back for the South Carolina game on Nov. 29.

Clemson announced Sunday night the freshman has a sprained LCL and he could be back before the season ends. Obviously, that is taking the bowl game into consideration as well.

“There is a chance… As a coordinator you try to cover every scenario possible,” Morris said from the WestZone on Monday.  “I’m preparing for him not to play. That’s from my standpoint. If he plays, he plays. But I don’t know that today.”

What Morris does know is that he has to have his quarterbacks ready to play. It was obvious Stoudt was not ready against Georgia Tech last Saturday. After coming in for Watson, the senior threw two pick-sixes and another interception that set up a Yellow Jackets’ field goal.

Stoudt finished the day 3 of 11 for 19 yards. The Tigers threw for just 65 yards altogether, the fewest passing yards by a Clemson team since Tommy West’s Tigers left Tallahassee, Fla., with 64 in 1998.

As an offense, Clemson totaled just 190 yards, the second fewest yards in one game by a Chad Morris offense.

“I was here yesterday and was ready to go to work. Here we go! This is what you do,” Morris said. “We have to go execute the plan. Just like we tell all of our players, we can sit around and feel sorry for ourselves and if we do, and as bad as we feel right now, we will feel even worse 12 days from now. Or you can be the competitor that you are and why you got into this game because you love to compete and you love the challenges.”

After such an embarrassing performance in Atlanta, plus the knowledge that his best player and quarterback may not be available, this is the time when Morris wants to see someone step up and take charge of the offense.

“Everybody is an All-American when it is 72 and partly cloudy. But when it is 100 degrees and the sun is bearing down on you, how are you going to respond? That is when the true character shows up,” he said. “So right now the character, the culture of our program is going to have to be at an all-time high. It is going to have to pull through this adversity that it has right now.”

With the possibility of Watson not being in the lineup in the immediate future, Clemson’s offense is going to have to pull together and become more productive than it has been in the last month.

“I can promise you if you walk down to those offices right now there are coaches all over from offense, defense and special teams and there ain’t anyone waiving a right flag,” Morris said. “We are working harder than we have ever worked and we are trying to find a way. But when our players show up today, they are not going to be waiving a white flag and saying the season is over with. If they are, they don’t need to show up.

“Again, nobody is feeling sorry for them outside this building and no one is feeling sorry for them in this building.”