In my previous series, I suggested some possible answers to the question: How might Kelly Bryant’s exceptional skill as a rusher prompt changes in Derek Dooley’s run game? Today I ask the same question, but this time about possible tweaks to the passing game. In this series, we ask how Dooley might adjust his passing offense to suit Bryant’s particular passing abilities, looking at the pass game Bryant lead at Clemson and noting similarities to and differences with the passing attack Dooley employed with Lock.
To this end, I studied four of Bryant’s games at Clemson: The 2017 contests with South Carolina and Virginia Tech, the 2017 BCS Semifinal Sugar Bowl versus Alabama, and 2018’s game against Texas A&M.