Clemson Football: Paul Finebaum thinks John Simpson’s comments were ‘stupid’

SEC Network Analyst Paul Finebaum took to his show to blast Clemson football OL John Simpson for comments he made at ACC Media Days.

Nick Saban gave Paul Finebaum the biggest load of excuses we’ve heard in quite some time Tuesday afternoon when he talked about his team not being focused for the National Championship game back in January.

For those that don’t remember, Clemson football blasted Alabama 44-16 that night in Santa Clara.

Saban told Finebaum that his coaches were ‘distracted’ and that the Crimson Tide just were looking ahead against the Tigers. That’s what led to the bully beat down.

If that wasn’t enough, Alabama Linebacker Dylan Moses told SEC media that he didn’t believe that Clemson was the better team. Instead, the Tigers were just more prepared. In all actuality, Moses said he believes Georgia was undoubtedly the toughest team he’s ever faced in college.

As a result of Moses’s misguided comments, ACC media members asked Clemson football player John Simpson about what Moses had to say.

Simpson told the media that Notre Dame was the toughest team he’s faced in his collegiate career.

"“Those guys are really, really talented over there,” Simpson said. “If that is how they feel, then that’s how they feel, but Georgia didn’t beat them by 28 points. It is what it is. It’s all facts. That’s his opinion, and that’s how he feels.”"

Clemson football safety Tanner Muse said the idea that Alabama didn’t have enough time to prepare was ridiculous because both of teams get the same amount of time to prepare.

Though everything the two Tigers said was right on point, Paul Finebaum took exception to Alabama not being named the ‘toughest team Clemson has ever played.’

"“I’m not in the business of criticizing college players,” Finebaum said via 247 Sports “but that is easily one of the stupidest comments I have ever heard. Alabama was a phenomenal football team last year. Notre Dame was good, but they were not as good as Alabama. Alabama would’ve destroyed Notre Dame, and what you get there in John Simpson’s comments is just the pettiness of a program that is unaccustomed to being at the epicenter of this sport.“And Clemson has won two championships, and they deserve them. (Dabo Swinney) I think is a phenomenal coach. It’s a great program. But when faces of a program like that say stupid things like that, it’s demeaning to what the program has accomplished. And I’ve said this couple of times, I’m gonna say it again, Clemson just doesn’t know how to win yet. Maybe they will at some point, but not yet. And I hope that they can learn to deal with being No. 1 and being in the spotlight. Because so far, a lot of their comments and their behavior, both the last time two years ago and today, have been really embarrassing.”"

It’s so funny that Finebaum, and many other members of the SEC media can’t see their own hypocrisy. You say that Alabama would’ve boat raced Notre Dame? Well, Clemson would’ve boat raced Georgia.

That 2018 Clemson football team was better than any and every team in the country by a wide margin. There was more talent. There was more depth. And there was more skill.

In the mind of SEC media, it’s okay to say that Georgia was tougher than Clemson because they’re an SEC school, but if you choose another team over an SEC team, you just made a “stupid comment” and you “don’t know how to win.”

Well, to all the brainwashed SEC media out there: Clemson proved pretty handily it knows how to win when it handed Alabama a 44-16 shellacking that, mind you, could’ve been worse if Dabo Swinney didn’t call the dogs off.

Honestly, what does Finebaum want the Clemson football players to say?

Should John Simpson just bow down and say: “yes Georgia was better than us, Alabama was also better, we just had more time to prepare.”

Notre Dame put up way more of a fight against Clemson than Alabama did and it the margin of victory was indicative of that. So, at least Simpson’s comments were based in facts instead of feelings like Moses’s comments.

But, I don’t see Finebaum questioning anybody other than Clemson.