Miami and the fellas were back at it again on Saturday. This time a chirpy little G5 brother from central Florida named South Florida came calling. How did it look on film? Well, it looked like an older brother playing little brother on the Nerf rim, only at Upon Further Review.
These route concepts anticipate zone coverage and look to pull the zone coverage outside the has marks and allow Daniels a two-way go on a flat-footed S. RB pulls the boundary CB, TE pulls the Mike, Toney pulls the field CB, and there is a wide-open space for the deep-in. And that pocket, oh little brother getting dunked on.
On this one, McCoy nearly got knocked down on the initial punch by the defender. Does a decent job recovering and keeping the rep alive but eventually gives up a pressure.
Feels like Fletcher needs to be another yard upfield and closer to the hash rather than standing right on the LOS and buried behind the C etc. for a better check-down look. Beck has enough arm strength to complete this to Daniels on a comeback route outside the numbers. Honestly, that’s an NFL play by Beck with pressure, bodies around him, arm strength to get it that far outside the numbers to field side and keep the drive on-schedule.
This is why McCoy is starting right now. He displaces this NT two yards downfield and gets him to give up his back like a slow dance. Becks keeps for the first down.
The USF stunt fools Miami up-front here as Cooper is “chasing” the looping DT here and Brockermeyer is engaged with the NT. Fletcher steps up to take the LB.
Beck has to release this one flat-footed with a DT hitting him in the ribs. Protection missed one here, as Cooper/Brockermeyer need to pass this one off with Brock sliding to looper and Cooper coming down on NT. Another Sunday throw as Beck hits Toney at the 28-yard line.
Absurd throw.
USF mugging the TE over-the-middle, but Beck has time to hit Tony Johnson on the deep cross.
Any Air-Raid offense will have some staple concepts in the passing game and one of them will always be Mesh. Here, RB Brown and TE Loften run Mesh against this Zone under look and Brown pops wide-open for a TD. Would like to see Cooper look for work here and punish the heck out of that NT for trying to bull rush the C. One of the ways you soften the interior of a defense is by burying their ribs on these side shots and make them think about it all game.
Nice play against this look by USF. Align the slot as an F TE in a sniffer look and then fast flat him. The actual TE has aligned in the slot and his entire job is to “block” that slot defender. This leaves Toure 1-on-1 against that WR who already has leverage to the flat. WR turns the wrong way as he runs or this would’ve been a nice gain. He turns towards the LOS rather than away from the LOS to get upfield and he has to spin back around to catch it.
On this 3rd down you see the value of a Mike who understands the defensive calls. USF sends the slot into motion and that leaves Toure uncovered to his side. Mike yells to get him to move and cover that B-gap, which is open in this alignment. The play is exactly what you would think it would be as they throw that bubble to the 3 v 2 look with the motion and pick up the 1st. Bain dropped into coverage to take the RB wheel on this play and I would like to not see that anymore.
87 getting absolutely bodied by 18 here and put on his back. 18 nearly made the tackle with the body of 87.
I wonder if they design this play for Daniels to crack back on this play or if he’s supposed to take his CB. 87 makes a nice block on this one and has his guy sealed. Marion needed one block to score and you wonder if 7 gets upfield and takes someone if this hits even bigger. I do not know the play call and this may be exactly what Daniels is supposed to be doing.
That’s your RB taking a shot from a LB and giving your QB time to throw deep to Josh Moore. Bell got beat upfield but is long he’s able to lunge and push his wide. You don’t want to see Bell in this position too often moving forward but sometimes playing OT is finding a way to make it work when you’re beat.
You want to talk about strong hands. This is after a full sprint to get downfield, turning back to catch a slightly underthrown ball, with the defender playing your hands perfectly. That is his arm between your hands and the ball trying to knock it out and you clasp it so tightly you hold on even as you fall on your back into the end zone. Big time catch by Joshua Moore. Say it with me, friends, “Never overthrow a deep ball!”
He’s a bad man.
Picture perfect shot from Jakobee Thomas. A lot of players get a targeting call here or a roughing call. One heck of a throw by Byrum Brown, but these hits add up over the course of a game. Damari Brown got caught peeking at Brown as he rolled and let his guy sneak behind him.
Bell let his hands get wide and got bullrushed into Beck a bit here and Beck rolled out when he really didn’t need to.
Frederique had the one thing show up on his HS tape at a times that gave me a bit of pause and gets cooked deep. Nimrod got his arm into him and created separation earlier and then makes a great catch. Frederique has to grow into using that inside arm to slide those long arm pushoffs by WR’s off of him and keep in phase. This ball was caught inside the 10, but this is where the separation happens with that right arm inside the left armpit of Frederique.
Bain stacks and sheds the T to make the run stop. He’s a beast.
Scott ran the slant for this guy and he ran right into his chest. Ball had no chance.
Toure got away with one here. Not sure what the heck technique he is employing here. Golesh lost his mind, and I don’t blame him. He wasn’t going to catch the ball, but it was definitely a hold.
This throw is a dot. Nice catch as well by Marion. That’s good bracket coverage and Beck hits it in a small window.
This is just plain bully ball. Okunlola does a nice job of using his quickness to get level with the NT and use his right arm to turn him. Brock then rides the NT’s back all the way out. Okunlola gets to second level and Fletcher hits an explosive run.
And this WR blocking is the difference between a nice run and an explosive run for a TD. Malachi Toney is such a dude.
Toure is a menace when he’s moving forward. Aguirre was in as a spy on this play and Bain is so physical. Mesidor/Blount gets credited with the sack, but it was Toure who made the play.
This is a tough ask for Mauigoa as he’s asked to down block the 3-tech and then 87 is set to wrap and kick the edge. Mauigoa doesn’t get the block and it’s a TFL.
Mauigoa gets called for a false start and then Markell “Brown” is referenced by the venerable Thom Brennaman. Punt.
I can be pretty critical on our LB unit at times, so I want to point out when they do it right. Aguirre flows into the B-gap and seeks to maintain leverage on the outside shoulder of the QB so he can’t outrun him outside. Blay is just textbook right here as he’s using longarm to lock out and stay square to the LOS. That square to LOS and sliding down the LOS allows him to disengage and make a tackle. Heck of a play by Blay. Edge has reset the LOS and set a hard edge with contain.
Nice work by Frederique of closing the distance on an in-breaking route. Nice job by K. Scott to follow the QB eyes to jump the first window and make the QB hold into the second window and then it’s turfed for an incompletion.
It’s a heck of a play by Fitzgerald as he picks this off, but I want you to notice the complementary football that causes it. First, Mesidor recognizes that the QB is getting rid of the ball and gets his arms all the way up. Justin Scott notices it’s a screen and stops to look for the RB. He’s taken away the little dumpoff quick. QB has to try and layer this one to a spot and it’s an overthrow for the int.
This is a much better effort from Lofton against their edge rusher. His base is still way too wide (think about squatting weight, your legs aren’t way far apart, and they shouldn’t be when blocking either because you can’t roll your hips back and explode through contact), but he does the job. 0 doesn’t get his block and it forces Brown to have to cut back into the line.
The whip is becoming a patented route on 3rd down for Toney. He comes up just short on this one as USF employs a sticks defense of sorts but makes for an easy completion.
I know this is all power football and such, but punt this run play into the volcano. Fletcher gets this 1st down completely on his own as he cuts back inside penetration and runs over a guy for the conversion. Coincidentally, USF didn’t even cover Brown. Would’ve been a walk-in TD if they dumped it off to him.
This run was supposed to go outside and Fletcher saw all the penetration and cut it back and ran over 33.
USF was crashing hard on the read and Beck pulls it in the red zone two plays in a row for a TD. (Not pictured)
41 played a lot in this game and played well. He runs this guy down here and used his length to get him to the ground.
This is well played. Bain takes the QB and maintains leverage, Moten sees the RB trailing down the LOS and instead of running himself out of the play by going for Brown, he rides the RB and tackles him. You can see USF is trying to hold Moten out by pulling on his undershirt. Chase Smith takes on that blocker and actually pushes him back. His length is a weapon at LB.
That close to a TD. Just clipped up or he’s gone. Something we haven’t spoken about enough this season because the offense/defense has been so good, is that Miami’s special teams are returning to being a weapon. Moten just made a big play on the play before and is out there on punt return blocking downfield. Toure out there giving his all.
He’s draped all over his torso and Daniels makes this play anyway. Absurd.
This is a pretty absurd int as well, not gonna lie. Beck was pressured and made a questionable decision here. RB didn’t see the delayed blitz who looped after Bell engaged with edge. RB has to come across and take any pressure, but he releases instead and Beck forces one.
Needs to take Lofton or RB here and not force it. The int was worse than I thought it was watching live, when I thought Beck got hit as he threw and didn’t have a choice.
Having a running QB is a bit of a force multiplier in the advantages it can bring an offense and the safeguards a defense has to employ. Here, your LB can’t sink as much as would be typical here because of the threat of the QB running. Had an interesting coverage as Miami turned to an inverted Cover-2. Poyser is the low CB to the boundary and Scott drops into the deep safety. The WR is wide open in the hole shot here if the QB sees him, but luckily he didn’t. Brown throws to that WR breaking behind Toure and he gets his hand on it. If he sank a bit more, he could pick it (look at the depth that Bissainthe is at on the U for an example).
It stinks that the resolution is so poor on this play, as Lucas had incredible coverage. He gets the initial jam, lets the WR slow down, has eyes on QB with help deep. QB goes to throw and Lucas is playing the ball while the WR doesn’t know where it is.
These route concepts anticipate zone coverage and look to pull the zone coverage outside the has marks and allow Daniels a two-way go on a flat-footed S. RB pulls the boundary CB, TE pulls the Mike, Toney pulls the field CB, and there is a wide-open space for the deep-in. And that pocket, oh little brother getting dunked on.
On this one, McCoy nearly got knocked down on the initial punch by the defender. Does a decent job recovering and keeping the rep alive but eventually gives up a pressure.
Feels like Fletcher needs to be another yard upfield and closer to the hash rather than standing right on the LOS and buried behind the C etc. for a better check-down look. Beck has enough arm strength to complete this to Daniels on a comeback route outside the numbers. Honestly, that’s an NFL play by Beck with pressure, bodies around him, arm strength to get it that far outside the numbers to field side and keep the drive on-schedule.
This is why McCoy is starting right now. He displaces this NT two yards downfield and gets him to give up his back like a slow dance. Becks keeps for the first down.
The USF stunt fools Miami up-front here as Cooper is “chasing” the looping DT here and Brockermeyer is engaged with the NT. Fletcher steps up to take the LB.
Beck has to release this one flat-footed with a DT hitting him in the ribs. Protection missed one here, as Cooper/Brockermeyer need to pass this one off with Brock sliding to looper and Cooper coming down on NT. Another Sunday throw as Beck hits Toney at the 28-yard line.
Absurd throw.
USF mugging the TE over-the-middle, but Beck has time to hit Tony Johnson on the deep cross.
Any Air-Raid offense will have some staple concepts in the passing game and one of them will always be Mesh. Here, RB Brown and TE Loften run Mesh against this Zone under look and Brown pops wide-open for a TD. Would like to see Cooper look for work here and punish the heck out of that NT for trying to bull rush the C. One of the ways you soften the interior of a defense is by burying their ribs on these side shots and make them think about it all game.
Nice play against this look by USF. Align the slot as an F TE in a sniffer look and then fast flat him. The actual TE has aligned in the slot and his entire job is to “block” that slot defender. This leaves Toure 1-on-1 against that WR who already has leverage to the flat. WR turns the wrong way as he runs or this would’ve been a nice gain. He turns towards the LOS rather than away from the LOS to get upfield and he has to spin back around to catch it.
On this 3rd down you see the value of a Mike who understands the defensive calls. USF sends the slot into motion and that leaves Toure uncovered to his side. Mike yells to get him to move and cover that B-gap, which is open in this alignment. The play is exactly what you would think it would be as they throw that bubble to the 3 v 2 look with the motion and pick up the 1st. Bain dropped into coverage to take the RB wheel on this play and I would like to not see that anymore.
87 getting absolutely bodied by 18 here and put on his back. 18 nearly made the tackle with the body of 87.
I wonder if they design this play for Daniels to crack back on this play or if he’s supposed to take his CB. 87 makes a nice block on this one and has his guy sealed. Marion needed one block to score and you wonder if 7 gets upfield and takes someone if this hits even bigger. I do not know the play call and this may be exactly what Daniels is supposed to be doing.
That’s your RB taking a shot from a LB and giving your QB time to throw deep to Josh Moore. Bell got beat upfield but is long he’s able to lunge and push his wide. You don’t want to see Bell in this position too often moving forward but sometimes playing OT is finding a way to make it work when you’re beat.
You want to talk about strong hands. This is after a full sprint to get downfield, turning back to catch a slightly underthrown ball, with the defender playing your hands perfectly. That is his arm between your hands and the ball trying to knock it out and you clasp it so tightly you hold on even as you fall on your back into the end zone. Big time catch by Joshua Moore. Say it with me, friends, “Never overthrow a deep ball!”
He’s a bad man.
Picture perfect shot from Jakobee Thomas. A lot of players get a targeting call here or a roughing call. One heck of a throw by Byrum Brown, but these hits add up over the course of a game. Damari Brown got caught peeking at Brown as he rolled and let his guy sneak behind him.
Bell let his hands get wide and got bullrushed into Beck a bit here and Beck rolled out when he really didn’t need to.
Frederique had the one thing show up on his HS tape at a times that gave me a bit of pause and gets cooked deep. Nimrod got his arm into him and created separation earlier and then makes a great catch. Frederique has to grow into using that inside arm to slide those long arm pushoffs by WR’s off of him and keep in phase. This ball was caught inside the 10, but this is where the separation happens with that right arm inside the left armpit of Frederique.
Bain stacks and sheds the T to make the run stop. He’s a beast.
Scott ran the slant for this guy and he ran right into his chest. Ball had no chance.
Toure got away with one here. Not sure what the heck technique he is employing here. Golesh lost his mind, and I don’t blame him. He wasn’t going to catch the ball, but it was definitely a hold.
This throw is a dot. Nice catch as well by Marion. That’s good bracket coverage and Beck hits it in a small window.
This is just plain bully ball. Okunlola does a nice job of using his quickness to get level with the NT and use his right arm to turn him. Brock then rides the NT’s back all the way out. Okunlola gets to second level and Fletcher hits an explosive run.
And this WR blocking is the difference between a nice run and an explosive run for a TD. Malachi Toney is such a dude.
Toure is a menace when he’s moving forward. Aguirre was in as a spy on this play and Bain is so physical. Mesidor/Blount gets credited with the sack, but it was Toure who made the play.
This is a tough ask for Mauigoa as he’s asked to down block the 3-tech and then 87 is set to wrap and kick the edge. Mauigoa doesn’t get the block and it’s a TFL.
Mauigoa gets called for a false start and then Markell “Brown” is referenced by the venerable Thom Brennaman. Punt.
I can be pretty critical on our LB unit at times, so I want to point out when they do it right. Aguirre flows into the B-gap and seeks to maintain leverage on the outside shoulder of the QB so he can’t outrun him outside. Blay is just textbook right here as he’s using longarm to lock out and stay square to the LOS. That square to LOS and sliding down the LOS allows him to disengage and make a tackle. Heck of a play by Blay. Edge has reset the LOS and set a hard edge with contain.
Nice work by Frederique of closing the distance on an in-breaking route. Nice job by K. Scott to follow the QB eyes to jump the first window and make the QB hold into the second window and then it’s turfed for an incompletion.
It’s a heck of a play by Fitzgerald as he picks this off, but I want you to notice the complementary football that causes it. First, Mesidor recognizes that the QB is getting rid of the ball and gets his arms all the way up. Justin Scott notices it’s a screen and stops to look for the RB. He’s taken away the little dumpoff quick. QB has to try and layer this one to a spot and it’s an overthrow for the int.
This is a much better effort from Lofton against their edge rusher. His base is still way too wide (think about squatting weight, your legs aren’t way far apart, and they shouldn’t be when blocking either because you can’t roll your hips back and explode through contact), but he does the job. 0 doesn’t get his block and it forces Brown to have to cut back into the line.
The whip is becoming a patented route on 3rd down for Toney. He comes up just short on this one as USF employs a sticks defense of sorts but makes for an easy completion.
I know this is all power football and such, but punt this run play into the volcano. Fletcher gets this 1st down completely on his own as he cuts back inside penetration and runs over a guy for the conversion. Coincidentally, USF didn’t even cover Brown. Would’ve been a walk-in TD if they dumped it off to him.
This run was supposed to go outside and Fletcher saw all the penetration and cut it back and ran over 33.
USF was crashing hard on the read and Beck pulls it in the red zone two plays in a row for a TD. (Not pictured)
41 played a lot in this game and played well. He runs this guy down here and used his length to get him to the ground.
This is well played. Bain takes the QB and maintains leverage, Moten sees the RB trailing down the LOS and instead of running himself out of the play by going for Brown, he rides the RB and tackles him. You can see USF is trying to hold Moten out by pulling on his undershirt. Chase Smith takes on that blocker and actually pushes him back. His length is a weapon at LB.
That close to a TD. Just clipped up or he’s gone. Something we haven’t spoken about enough this season because the offense/defense has been so good, is that Miami’s special teams are returning to being a weapon. Moten just made a big play on the play before and is out there on punt return blocking downfield. Toure out there giving his all.
He’s draped all over his torso and Daniels makes this play anyway. Absurd.
This is a pretty absurd int as well, not gonna lie. Beck was pressured and made a questionable decision here. RB didn’t see the delayed blitz who looped after Bell engaged with edge. RB has to come across and take any pressure, but he releases instead and Beck forces one.
Needs to take Lofton or RB here and not force it. The int was worse than I thought it was watching live, when I thought Beck got hit as he threw and didn’t have a choice.
Having a running QB is a bit of a force multiplier in the advantages it can bring an offense and the safeguards a defense has to employ. Here, your LB can’t sink as much as would be typical here because of the threat of the QB running. Had an interesting coverage as Miami turned to an inverted Cover-2. Poyser is the low CB to the boundary and Scott drops into the deep safety. The WR is wide open in the hole shot here if the QB sees him, but luckily he didn’t. Brown throws to that WR breaking behind Toure and he gets his hand on it. If he sank a bit more, he could pick it (look at the depth that Bissainthe is at on the U for an example).
It stinks that the resolution is so poor on this play, as Lucas had incredible coverage. He gets the initial jam, lets the WR slow down, has eyes on QB with help deep. QB goes to throw and Lucas is playing the ball while the WR doesn’t know where it is.
