1st Quarter Sequence

[HurikaneMarc]

I normally don't reduce game losses to one or two bad plays but that muffed punt and that Parrish drop were devastating to our cause. Destroyed momentum created by the defense and gave them great field postion which they converted immediately.

We actually moved the ball well enough to win but red zone offense is a thing. I don't know why we never tried to pass in down and goal situations unless Gattis saw a personnal advantage he thought he could exploit by running.

This loss, while not as bad as a blowout stings because the game was there for us. We outplayed TA&M on both sides of the ball when they were supposed to be more talented and more desperate..

 

[Pentagon Cane]

Arroyo is a solid blocker. Maybe even good. He was better as freshman at blocking than Mallory is right now.

Also put George at punt return. He’s also better than X even tho I’ll get downvoted. He’s not a burner but he’s shifty and makes guys miss and always catches it clean.

Tyrique isn’t that make you miss guy and drops them. Bad combo. Plus he’s probably tired from playing a defensive series

First job of a punt returner is secure the ball. Losing Restrepo was huge. He also would have bailed out TVD time and time again Saturday night. Would have had double digit receptions.

 

[hanna445]

I thought that sequence defined the game. It kept the A&M offense ahead and allow them to play more conservatively, without added game pressure.

 

[Angry Ibis]

heck of a coaching job, but the moment was too big at times.

Too big for the coaches???

 

[OrangeBowlMagic]

Post of the season for me because this is what I said verbatim to the group I was with watching game.

I just want to look competent again. If the other team beats us and we don’t beat ourselves I’m perfectly fine with that. Saturday night was a display of incompetence in 2 phases of the game

Always, man. It's so **** frustrating. To be honest, this is what I've said for years, but I've been so defeated for so long that I don't even ask for playing our best anymore. I know that's impossible. But can we just play pretty well? I went up to Clemson in 2020 and on the first drive we jumped offsides like 4 times in 6-7 plays. What in the fvck are we doing? It just never changes. Can't catch, can't think, can't play disciplined, can't perform basic fundamentals of football. It drives me insane. If we just play pretty well, we win that game.

I don't think a lot of people understand how absolutely terrible A&M is on offense. They are going to lose by 40 to Alabama, easily. They honestly might get shutout.

 

[blushrts]

I'm not gonna say that Parrish drop was the game, but when you're the underdog on the road you have to make some plays. And it seemed at every opportunity to make one, we didn't.

I still don't know how 4 of our guys went into a pile with one of theirs on the muffed punt and we didn't come up with the ball.

This is the first big road game in a while where we belonged on that field.

 

[Empirical Cane]

The entire game was lost in that sequence, and it was on the players. You cannot do this and expect to win.

I'd offer that sequence of events was a predictor of the entire game: missed opportunities.

That sequence alone, although frustrating, didn't cost Miami the game.

They left, what, 21-24 points on the table afterwards.

AtM has the roster to overcome the sluggish play. 2001 Hurricanes did the same in Chestnut Hill.

2022 Hurricanes can do it against So Miss, but not the AtMs of CFB.

 

[S.CarolinaCane]

We need a true dog that’s gonna catch it and run for yards
So many times they downed it way deep cuz he was too shook to even try to catch the ball

In that situation...you let the ******* ball go

 

[bornagaincane]

I dont think we have our best players in places to succeed. If me as a fan can watch and see Tyrique jump in air to get a punt the week before and leave him in there in this big game then hey what can you say. If you draw up a play for back out of backfield, I wanna run it with Rooster, if I want to run a qb play and I need to make sure the TE seals the block, Im gonna make sure its not Mallory.. Idk, sometimes its like we like to make things harder than they need to be..

It got soo bad after they left Ty back there to receive punts, I was happy when he wasnt even tryna catch them..

Who else should have received punts? I like to know. The coaches see these players in practice everyday. There is a reason why Tyrique is there fielding punts and the guy you have in mind is on the bench.

 

[jsy]

In that situation...you let the ******* ball go

yea if youre a jab punt returner
but i bet berrios fields those even if its a fair catch and saves us a couple yards

 

[skyman]

Who else should have received punts? I like to know. The coaches see these players in practice everyday. There is a reason why Tyrique is there fielding punts and the guy you have in mind is on the bench.

George is not explosive but he did good last year, ty upside is not high enough to justify taking the risk.. In a game like this you use him if restrepo not available

 

[S.CarolinaCane]

Just watched the game highlights. I know, I know.

So we trade punches early on, looking pretty good. Then we get a sack followed by the first stop. Momentum heading our way.

But Tyrique fumbles.

After A&M scores, we start moving down the field. We’re responding again. 3rd and long, and DVD hits Parrish in the hands. Nothing but green grass ahead. Minimum easy first down and we’re in the red zone, and if we get a block or Parrish makes a guy miss it might be 6. Huge play.

But he straight drops it.

Then comes Borregales with the shank.

Woof.

I just don‘t know what to do with that. Drives me nuts. Guys drop balls, it happens. Guys muff punts. Less often, but it happens. And kickers miss, sure. But we have a pretty good one.

But all that in sequence? From some of our better players? **** is crazy. When will it end?

Guess I’m just venting after watching the highlights. Such a strange game last night.

I’m hurt dog!

What about our last two drives in the 4th quarter?

We get the ball with under 7 mins left, start what looks like another potentially good drive...then 2 holding penalties...whatever. Lou kicks a ******* beauty, and we down it at the 1...illegal formation...whatever. Lou kicks another beauty, and they ******* muff it, when we have two guys right there, but they still get the damned ball back!

Last drive
We complete a nice gain on 1st down. We run 3 wide, with Mallory, incomplete pass. Next play, 3 wide to the right, and we dont attempt to throw to the sideline, we throw it across the middle with under a minute left...incomplete. Next play, short pass to Rooster in the flat, somehow his face gets stuck on the A&M defenders ****, and we lose 30 secs between plays....and we all remember the 4th down play, and ball that should have been caught easily. I am not even upset that we rushed it, considering how much time we lost between 3rd and 4th down...just catch the damned ball.

 

[S.CarolinaCane]

yea if youre a jab punt returner
but i bet berrios fields those even if its a fair catch and saves us a couple yards

No, Berrios loses his job as a returner if he fields that ball.

The 1st defender was less than 1 yard away from him when he tried to grab that ball. Absolutely not!

 

[Brains]

I'd offer that sequence of events was a predictor of the entire game: missed opportunities.

That sequence alone, although frustrating, didn't cost Miami the game.

They left, what, 21-24 points on the table afterwards.

AtM has the roster to overcome the sluggish play. 2001 Hurricanes did the same in Chestnut Hill.

2022 Hurricanes can do it against So Miss, but not the AtMs of CFB.

This was a 17-9 game. I think that's exactly what many people expected. I didn't hear national or local pundits, fans of either team talk about a shootout. All the evidence pointed to a close, low-scoring affair.

A&M's punter was also excellent, meaning there would be some bad field position for Miami.

A&M's offense is a big zero outside of homerun hitter Achane and his speed.

All this adds up to there being relatively few chances- for either team- to put points on the board. If you want to win, you can't give them a short field. You can't drop a likely TD. You absolutely can't miss FGs.

We did that in sequence. We don't have the talent to just "make up for it" later on. We needed those points, and we needed to not give those points away.

What's most disturbing, is that even previously experienced and intelligent players like Stevenson will answer the call to implosion where necessary. I've lost any faith that coaching alone can address this issue. We simply need to out-talent the other side so that mistakes aren't as costly (even if they are just as ridiculous).

 

[AlexCane]

It was lost in the first quarter when we got down by 7. Do you realize how soft we have to be for that to be true?

It's not being "soft."

This roster does not know how to win big games. When was the last time we won a big game? Every opportunity the last few years has resulted in embarrassment. I think the mentality unfortunately at that moment was "here we go again." Yet, credit to the kids that they did not slide off the rails at that moment and continued to hang and it was a 1 possession game at the end. That is the opposite of "soft." IMO, if things go as you'd expect, we get more and more accustomed to these games and these moments and get more Ws than Ls.

 

[Pearson704]

Too big for the coaches???

nah...

I'm talking about the fumbled punt, dropped pass by Parish (that was house-call), and blocked field goal. Unforced errors in execution that were well within players' control.

Jimmy Johnson said you need to have the ability to overcome coaching at times, and our guys didn't do that very well. I'm sure coaches wish they had a few calls back, but to pretend they didn't prepare our players to compete or make good calls is ridiculous.

 

[SmokeyRone]

Not jumping on that fumble....like ND in Dicht's first year....

ONE play, or ONE less ****up, and we win. We gave absolute low IQ HC simpletons passes, even Manny in his "first big game".

Unless he is Mack Browns side *****, I am on board.

 

[edge]

The TS play is mind boggling. Nothing good ever comes from fielding a bounced punt. More harm then good can come of that. He got away with it last week but evidently no one told him not to do it again. So now he is feeling froggy and tries it again. This time the expected result happened and now we are hosed again. That result is just as much on the coaching as it is the player. Those are the plays that have set us back time and time again. And seemingly we still don’t have a coach to fix these types of problems.