After a heartbreaking 46-45 loss to Duke, a fifth straight setback that dropped the Tigers to 3-5, Dabo Swinney offered a window into a gutted locker room and a program searching for answers.

Players were in tears, the head coach was visibly shaken, and the theme was accountability, that Clemson must rediscover complementary football and close games that have slipped away late.

Jon Blau of The Post and Courier captured Swinney’s blunt self-assessment on X, with the coach saying, “Over 17 years, I think I’ve done a decent job. I’ve sucked this year. But I’ll be better.”

That admission, paired with a promise to improve, landed because it matched what the field has shown. Explosive offense has too often been undone by defensive breakdowns, and sturdy defensive stretches have been follo

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