Syracuse Football: 5 things you need to know about the Clemson Tigers

2. People have been calling Trevor Lawrence ‘Touchdown Jesus’, but from the outside looking in he appears mortal in 2019? What’s the deal is the box score deceiving or has he had issues in his second season?

"I wouldn’t necessarily call them issues. Trevor Lawrence has had some problems early, but it’s more to do with timing and getting back in the flow of competitive games more than anything else. He was a victim of a couple of drops against Texas A&M and still threw for 268 yards. The Tigers have been really conservative in their offensive play-calling (against both GT and TAMU) and likely won’t open the playbook too much until they absolutely have to. He’s made a few mistakes that resulted in turnovers (three so far), which is something Tiger fans haven’t grow accustomed to. More than anything, I think Lawrence was putting too much pressure on himself early. When he just plays the game and doesn’t worry about the outside influences (Heisman, best-ever talk), he’s fine. He maintains a calm demeanor and there’s no reason to believe that he won’t continue to get better as the year progresses. Another factor in this is that teams have a year’s worth of film on Lawrence now. They are disguising coverages and giving him different looks. I don’t think he’ll have any trouble adjusting as the season progresses, but right now we just don’t have enough of a sample size to truly know. People expect Lawrence to come out and throw for 400-plus yards and three touchdowns every game, but that’s not necessarily going to happen every time he steps foot on a football field."