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Clemson Downs Auburn, 38-24
Tigers Snap Auburn's 17-Game Winning Streak
Auburn Head Coach Gene Chizik
Overall Thoughts:
"Obviously,
we're extremely disappointed in our performance today, but I have to
start out by giving a lot of credit to Clemson. I feel like they
outplayed us pretty much from the second quarter all the way through
the rest of the football game. They have good players and good coaches,
and they have a really good football team. My hat's off to them and
their ability to execute pretty much all day long. We had a fast start
to the game and couldn't really sustain much after that.
"I felt
like from the second quarter on, overall as a football team, we were
not productive. We were not making plays when we had opportunities to
do so. It's very glaring that defensively, we have a lot of work to do.
"It's
very glaring that offensively, we can't turn the ball over going into
the red zone and we have to sustain some more drives. Time of
possession is becoming an issue with our team, certainly with the
number of plays we're playing defensively. That's really a combination
of both the inability to convert on third downs for ourselves and the
inability to get off the field on third downs defensively.
"The
first quarter is probably the best that we've played. After the end of
the second quarter, I felt like we were a very below average football
team. We got beat by a good team today. We have a locker room full of
young men that are very disappointed, but I fully expect us to bounce
back and work this week to be a better football team. We certainly have
a lot of room for improvement."
On what changed for his team after the first quarter:
"As
the game wore on, I thought tackling became an issue for our defense.
As the game wore on, I thought we were in position to make plays when
we went up for the ball and they went up for the ball, and we didn't
come up with the football. We had opportunities on third downs. We had
opportunities to stop them for a loss or at least for no gain, and they
out-executed us. It was all-around an extremely disappointing
performance defensively, and at many times offensively it was the same."
On bouncing back from a loss:
"There
are no options on that. They're going to handle it like men, and
they're going to go out tomorrow and practice again for the next game.
They
are going to have short memories and learn from what we didn't do well,
which is a lot of learning because we didn't do a lot well. I fully
expect them to be there tomorrow ready to go and ready to practice and
figure out a way to get better. That's not an option."
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