After looking at the tape of his bounce back performance against Savannah State, Miami starting QB Malik Rosier knows he still missed some throws and is working to correct some mechanical things this week.
“One thing we kind of figured out is sometimes when I miss I’m just a little off balance and that’s like the biggest thing,” Rosier said. “I think you saw it, and [quarterbacks] coach Jon [Richt] really harped on the really good ball that I had, was one across the middle to Jeff (Thomas).
“And he was like, ‘just look at your balance, look how your feet are set, and look how your body is in position to throw.’ And he was like, ‘when you are like that, you’re accurate. When you are all off balance, you’re not.’ He said as simple as that. Coach Jon is kind of just telling me it is up to me to fix myself. And if I’m conscious about it and I work on it, then my accuracy is going to go up.”
How does he work on that in practice?
“It’s a little harder in practice because you don’t get that live rush,” Rosier said. “We do the best we can versus our one’s and two’s when we do go 11-on-11. There was a throw today, I hit Evidence [Njoku] on and I had [senior defensive back] Jaquan Johnson running in my face. So those are when you kind of got to take your fundamentals to the game. But, in scout teams sometimes it’s just hard, because sometimes you don’t have that rush in your face. So the couple of times we get it in 11-on-11, is really big.”
The Canes have an “accuracy percentage goal” every week, which Rosier hit with his 8/12 (67%) passing day against Savannah State last week.
“Even since Brad [Kaaya’s] been here, we kind of have a thing that the goal is 65-percent or better,” Rosier said. “Accuracy and completion are two totally different things. So, like, you can throw an accurate ball, receiver drops, but it is still accuracy if it is not a completion.”
In heading up to Toledo to take on the Rockets this week, Rosier compared the game to what the team faced against Appalachian State two years back.
“It’s the same thing as Appalachian State. You know, I’m going in there and before we even got to the stadium, three or four hours before the game, the fans were literally waiting outside, hundreds of people. For us, it’s just going in there and winning, no matter if there’s a hundred fans there, a million fans. To us, it’s just 120 yards and football. So we are trying to go there and do our job, and we can’t let their atmosphere affect how we play.
“I think we did a great job versus Appalachian State. We had that first big run by Mark Walton, and it kind of killed the crowd. And so I feel like if we go out and we execute and we have a couple of good drives, I think the crowd will be taken out of it. And that’s our job, to take the crowd out by putting points on the board. They are going to be amped up because it’s versus Miami and everyone loves playing us.”
“One thing we kind of figured out is sometimes when I miss I’m just a little off balance and that’s like the biggest thing,” Rosier said. “I think you saw it, and [quarterbacks] coach Jon [Richt] really harped on the really good ball that I had, was one across the middle to Jeff (Thomas).
“And he was like, ‘just look at your balance, look how your feet are set, and look how your body is in position to throw.’ And he was like, ‘when you are like that, you’re accurate. When you are all off balance, you’re not.’ He said as simple as that. Coach Jon is kind of just telling me it is up to me to fix myself. And if I’m conscious about it and I work on it, then my accuracy is going to go up.”
How does he work on that in practice?
“It’s a little harder in practice because you don’t get that live rush,” Rosier said. “We do the best we can versus our one’s and two’s when we do go 11-on-11. There was a throw today, I hit Evidence [Njoku] on and I had [senior defensive back] Jaquan Johnson running in my face. So those are when you kind of got to take your fundamentals to the game. But, in scout teams sometimes it’s just hard, because sometimes you don’t have that rush in your face. So the couple of times we get it in 11-on-11, is really big.”
The Canes have an “accuracy percentage goal” every week, which Rosier hit with his 8/12 (67%) passing day against Savannah State last week.
“Even since Brad [Kaaya’s] been here, we kind of have a thing that the goal is 65-percent or better,” Rosier said. “Accuracy and completion are two totally different things. So, like, you can throw an accurate ball, receiver drops, but it is still accuracy if it is not a completion.”
In heading up to Toledo to take on the Rockets this week, Rosier compared the game to what the team faced against Appalachian State two years back.
“It’s the same thing as Appalachian State. You know, I’m going in there and before we even got to the stadium, three or four hours before the game, the fans were literally waiting outside, hundreds of people. For us, it’s just going in there and winning, no matter if there’s a hundred fans there, a million fans. To us, it’s just 120 yards and football. So we are trying to go there and do our job, and we can’t let their atmosphere affect how we play.
“I think we did a great job versus Appalachian State. We had that first big run by Mark Walton, and it kind of killed the crowd. And so I feel like if we go out and we execute and we have a couple of good drives, I think the crowd will be taken out of it. And that’s our job, to take the crowd out by putting points on the board. They are going to be amped up because it’s versus Miami and everyone loves playing us.”
