Football camp is over so what’s next for the 12th-ranked Clemson Tigers?
Clemson still has a lot to get accomplished in the next 18 days before it opens the season at home against Wofford on Sept. 5, at least that is what head coach Dabo Swinney says.
The Tigers will scrimmage for the final time on Thursday afternoon in Death Valley, and the coaches hope they see a lot of improvement from last Saturday’s first scrimmage to now.
In the first scrimmage Clemson had way too many penalties, turned the ball over four times, linebackers were not fitting the gaps properly, and the secondary was missing tackles. As Swinney said afterwards, “Those are things that will get you beat, quick.”
Clemson’s whole mantra is, and we have heard it several times already this preseason, “We can’t let Clemson beat Clemson.”
“We have the potential, now we have to go prove it. All 12 games are versus Clemson. We are basically playing against each other,” quarterback Deshaun Watson said. “If we do what Coach Swinney and all the other coaches have planned for us and coached throughout the week, we can do something special. But we still have three weeks to get better before the first game so we are going to take it one game at a time.”
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