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Tennessee Volunteers Prepping for Well-Coached Clemson Tigers Team
DANIA BEACH, FL.— The Tennessee Volunteers are used to taking part in good defenses within the SEC. Nevertheless, once they tackle the Clemson Tigers within the Capital One Orange Bowl Saturday (8 pm, ESPN) they must depend on that have in going through among the best defenses they’ve seen.
“They’re an attacking fashion protection,” quarterbacks coach Joey Halzle mentioned. “They like to strain and get up in your face. They strive to change the appears on the quarterbacks, wideouts and the line. What you see is a protection that is clearly well-coached. They scheme properly and sport plan properly. They play actually onerous so they current a actually distinctive problem.”
The Volunteers are with out beginning quarterback Hendon Hooker, who suffered a torn ACL of their loss to South Carolina, that means the torch has been handed from the early season Heisman frontrunner to backup Joe Milton III.
Though the Volunteers are with out Hooker, based on Halzle, they’re nonetheless going to assault the Tigers the identical manner they’ve all season.
“He is been extraordinarily intentional in his preparation. It hasn’t been too massive for him,” Halzle mentioned. He hasn’t modified who he’s, however in the identical breath he understands his new function of getting to steer this crew. He is performed a very good job of not having the second be too massive for him. He is utterly dialed into what we’re seeing and what we’re anticipating and the way we’ll assault it. I am really excited to observe him go take the sphere on Friday evening.”
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Seventh-ranked Clemson received some excellent news Wednesday prematurely of its Orange Bowl date with No. 6 Tennessee on Friday evening.
Clemson cornerback Sheridan Jones didn’t apply Wednesday, because the seventh-ranked Tigers put together to play No. 6 Tennessee within the Orange Bowl Friday at Arduous Rock Stadium.
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