Stevo365 said:

Spring Game Film Review: Canes pull up to Broward County! Very Vanilla game plan( by design) however playmakers stood out when given the chance on both sides of the ball! My biggest takeaways are the overall physicality & execution in situational football #GoCanes
@CanesInSight

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Enjoyed learning from this breakdown video, thanks @Stevo365

Stevo365 said:

Spring Game Film Review: Canes pull up to Broward County! Very Vanilla game plan( by design) however playmakers stood out when given the chance on both sides of the ball! My biggest takeaways are the overall physicality & execution in situational football #GoCanes
@CanesInSight

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Great stuff dude. I watched all 40 some-odd minutes of it.

Nice work.

I noticed the same thing you did with the OL. They're so much more disciplined with the fundamentals. And while LT got a few licks in, he was man handled a bunch of times, too. Sagapolu may not be a tall kid, but he's a Mack Truck, and he may not even start. I think we're going to be good at the OL, very good if we get a portal RT.

Avantae is better than a couple of our safeties playing in the NFL right now were as Canes. Kid has some serious upside.

Hurricajun said:

As long as we don't have to endure a "waiting to open the playbook" during the season I'll be fine.

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Yeah, I think it’s fair to keep it simple this early on when teaching a new offense. As you say, we just need to not be having this convo in October.

Billy D Williams said:

Appreciate the efforts to provide content, but this guy talks too much for me.

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What do you expect him to do during a game break down?

Stevo365 said:

thank you bro for the support appreciate you tuning in!

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Great breakdown btw, i started yesterday and I'm going to finish today.

Stevo365 said:

Huge fan of the formations i didn’t mean for ppl to take vanilla the wrong way. They were not showing anything they showed in the closed scrimmages

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That's nothing New....

AtlAtty said:

I think TVD and this offense should be perfectly fine matriculating the ball downfield 5-10 yards at a time. QB's have to learn how to do this to be uber successful at this level and the next. And then take 3-4 shots a game deep. But an efficient offense keeps our defense off the field, (very, very important) and wears teams down in the Florida heat. For this season with less proven talent at WR, and no proven talent on the d-line, I think a ball control offense makes a lot of sense. Even if it is boring to watch.

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Good points, but we did not become the U with the dink & dunk approach. Have you ever heard of Jim Kelly, Bernie Kosar, Vinnie Testaverde, Gino Torretta? Go big or don't go.

Swampcity said:

Good points, but we did not become the U with the dink & dunk approach. Have you ever heard of Jim Kelly, Bernie Kosar, Vinnie Testaverde, Gino Torretta? Go big or don't go.

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Especially since the focus of offense is to score points. Teams with more big plays tend to score more points. It’s really hard for offenses to consistently put together really long scoring drives. It’s why a lot of teams employ “bend but don’t break” defensive principles. You’re asking your offense to execute perfectly on almost every play if you’re trying to move the ball 5 yards at a time. At the college level, that’s asking a lot. Chunk yardage plays will cover up for a lot of the missed execution you get in college.

ThomasM said:

One of my few concerns with the O. I don't expect us to be operating on all cylinders early on, but man it's going to be hard to stomach if our O is average, at best. The last two seasons, while not perfect, at least showed we could score points. To take a step back would be very, very hard to stomach.

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I don’t like our OC. I don’t think he’s a natural play caller and I believe he will struggle. He had 1 good year, and that’s because Michigan brought in a guy from the Ravens last season and because Harbaugh had a hand in calling plays last season.

Michigan fans hated this OC before last season

The Svengali said:

I don’t like our OC. I don’t think he’s a natural play caller and I believe he will struggle. He had 1 good year, and that’s because Michigan brought in a guy from the Ravens last season and because Harbaugh had a hand in calling plays last season.

Michigan fans hated this OC before last season

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”Don’t miss the forest through the trees…” This is the best array of coaches assembled in our recent history. I gotta believe the “Culture” Mario talks about, the kids playing for each other, applies to the coaches as well. If not, your assertion might be valid. I’m getting ready to invest in an 85-inch tv screen, up from my 48-inch screen to watch Mario Magic at work, good or otherwise.

Based on what we saw in @Stevo365 breakdown, I think some are going a little overboard on the, "dink and dunk" stuff. I get why that's a concern given past experiences by us and the "other" UM, but he did not have TVD at QB.

Unless he is a complete fool, and totally ignores every drop of film on TVD from JR year of HS through the end of last season, he will have an intermediate and downfield element to his offense. TVD is at his best when teams are afraid he is going to chuck it. That's all over every game last season from NC State onward.

We passed from multiple formations and all personnel groupings, from a bunch formation with trips through trips way the **** spread to the field side. In at least 50% of the passing calls we are sending, or at least threatening downfield. Now, unfortunately, we bungled a ton of those with some crappy stuff from the WRs. I think some of you are forgetting how bad it is when you don't have a short and intermediate passing game.

You saw it with Richt, everything was a downfield throw or an RPO, there was no intermediate passing game. With Lashlee, the guy almost never had a RB in a primary pass catching role even when the defenses were completely giving that to us. Remember that pass to the RB that FSU ripped off for 40 on the go-ahead drive? We had that open for US all **** day. It's all a trade-off.

Whether you want to run to setup the pass, or pass to setup the run, you need to be a threat to do so out of all your formations, so there will be some
'dink and dunks" to keep teams honest when they are cheating heavily towards the run. Not all of what Gattis will run is my cup of tea. I hate, hate, hate those unblocked run concepts. They just don't work as much as OC think they do, and if they get you 1 yard on the first try, you lose 3 to 4 the next three times you try it. It becomes a major advantage to the defense to crash those every time and come out ahead. Edge players have gotten way to fast for that anyway. I do like how varied his running game is overall. Between Richt and Lashlee, if I see one more inside zone I am going to puke. We have to be able to manufacture some run game.

Looming in the background is everyone's concern about the Justin Herbert experience, and I share that one, too. I highly doubt Cristobal has had some philosophical change where he's now an Air Raid guy. He wants physicality first and foremost. If there is one thing consistent about Alabama, they are built to run the football when all else fails. I think he shares that view. He also shares the view that he needs South FL athletes, and I hope he is perceptive enough to realize he needs this year's team to buy-in or eventually, there is no more next year. If he allows his offense to be put in a 10 yard box, a la Enos, he will lose both groups fast. Pay attention, Mario, and we're all good.

one thing i noticed during practice videos and during the spring game was combo blocking. i dont recall seeing so much of it during the last two or three regimes. maybe it is more pervasive with Gattis/Mirabal because we use so many TEs?? but in the spring game it opened up great running lanes.

https://thedraftnetwork.com/articles/tyler-van-dyke-miami-hurricanes-quarterback-2022

Good article with QB1

The Svengali said:

I don’t like our OC. I don’t think he’s a natural play caller and I believe he will struggle. He had 1 good year, and that’s because Michigan brought in a guy from the Ravens last season and because Harbaugh had a hand in calling plays last season.

Michigan fans hated this OC before last season

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I'm not willing to go that far and predict failure but I am concerned.

I understand we have Mario now and everyone is super excited but if Manny Diaz had hired an offensive coordinator who had three years experience calling plays and two of them were bad, people here would be losing their ****.