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3 Players With a Golden Opportunity

I think the plan will be, if we make the switch inside, to go Samson-McCoy-RR-Cantwell-Hawks. I don’t see us substituting out two inexperienced sophomores for two true freshmen.
 
edge said:
I don’t see how Wiley doesn’t get snaps. At the Wake game there were only 6 LB’S that traveled. Smith, Toure, Pruitt, Marcelin, Wiley and a walk on. Obviously Wiley is next man up.
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You’re missing Bonner who played against Wake, and Wiley didn’t.
 
mosthated305 said:
We will miss Marty Brown. He's a glue guy. Hate it for both these kids but we have enough depth in the WR room to navigate the loss of Moore.

Time for the young backs to grow up tho. Looking at you Lyle. I'm talking to you Pringle who ran kinda soft the other night. Mallory might take their lunch if they aren't careful.
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Mallory: 7 rushes for 23 yards (3.28 ypc)

Pringle: 4 rushes for 12 yards (3 ypc) and one 1 reception for 10 yards. Thus, Pringle averaged more yards per TOUCHES than Mallory.

RB who saved our season last year as a true freshman still gets disrespected all the time on here.
 
cookies said:
I think the plan will be, if we make the switch inside, to go Samson-McCoy-RR-Cantwell-Hawks. I don’t see us substituting out two inexperienced sophomores for two true freshmen.
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Hawks is not ready for prime time. Cantwell plays tackle before Hawks.
 
cookies said:
Mallory: 7 rushes for 23 yards (3.28 ypc)

Pringle: 4 rushes for 12 yards (3 ypc) and one 1 reception for 10 yards. Thus, Pringle averaged more yards per TOUCHES than Mallory.

RB who saved our season last year as a true freshman still gets disrespected all the time on here.
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And he left yards out there with a couple soft runs. Good player but when talking about replacing Brow , we will need more from him. That aint disrespect, it's just a hard truth.
 
Gables Cane said:
Hawks is not ready for prime time. Cantwell plays tackle before Hawks.
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I can only go off our coaching staff’s actions. The 3 reserve linemen who have played in every game are Woodrow, Cantwell, and Hawks. Woodrow is obviously our backup center. We aren’t going to pull RR. Hawks might not be ready for primetime which is why i said if we bench the two inside guys. Before benching two guys, we will likely bench neither of them.

McCoy played LG last year, so that’d be the natural spot for him to play at if Max takes a backseat. When we put Cantwell in against Stanford, it was at RG. Same thing for FAMU. It was Cantwell at RG and Hawks at RT. I don’t expect that to be the next step we take, tho.

Against Stanford, we saw Samson-Max-RR-Cantwell-McCoy in the 2nd half. RG is going to be his freshman season position, and they want him to master it before kicking him outside to tackle.

The most likely escalation is to move to 6 man starting platoon; with Max and SJ (who both will get snaps every game, even if they are reduced) substituting for each other at LG just like we did in the 3rd quarter of the Stanford game.
 
mosthated305 said:
And he left yards out there with a couple soft runs. Good player but when talking about replacing Brow , we will need more from him. That aint disrespect, it's just a hard truth.
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Lmfao, he already replaced brown last year bud, even had games where he had more carries than Fletcher.

If anything, Pringle’s problem against Wake was his lack of patience and trying too hard to force himself thru gaps that were not there. Still, OLine did him no favors.


All Mallory’s running ‘hard,’ as you describe it, was good for an extra 0.28 yards per carry despite having nearly double the rushing attempts.
 
FL Cane said:
We’ve had some rough injury luck these past few weeks. Thankfully, in areas where there is depth. Here’s three players who have an opportunity to break out.

(1) Jordan Lyle - sometimes we forget that Lyle was RB1 going into the ND game last year. He’s shown flashes of what he’s capable of. When Lyle went down, which was seen as devastating at the time, Marty Brown took that opportunity and ran with it. In a weird reversal, with Brown going down, Lyle now has that same opportunity.

(2) Dre Jacobs - WR1 with SCAR last year, Dre Jacobs has been WR5 this year. Miami still has a deep and talented WR room, but Jacobs has an opportunity for much more playing time.

(3) Soumarion Wingo - one of our best WR prospects in awhile, Wingo has had some great reps this year. He’ll have a great opportunity now to get more reps and make an impact.

Injuries suck, and we’re beat up right now but there’s a bright line here. We have depth and talent. Young guys need to step up. We also have a favorable schedule right now. CMU is a scrimmage and Clemson is terrible.
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The biggest thing Miami missing with Brown out is his blocking. His rushing yards can be replaced. As for the WR's if Barkate could get 1000 yards last year he should be able to come close to that this year. Time for Dawson to figure that out. Bodies at WR not a problem. Last the O line guard problem has to be fixed. Clearly time to make a change at guard. *** meet bench might help fix it.
 
go canes said:
The biggest thing Miami missing with Brown out is his blocking. His rushing yards can be replaced. As for the WR's if Barkate could get 1000 yards last year he should be able to come close to that this year. Time for Dawson to figure that out. Bodies at WR not a problem. Last the O line guard problem has to be fixed. Clearly time to make a change at guard. *** meet bench might help fix it.
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Im surprised we havent seen more 50/50 balls thrown Barkate's way. It seemed like him and Mensah made a living off that and backshoulder when Barkate stacks the DB. Mali runs to space. Barkate made his bones in close contact
 
cookies said:
Mallory: 7 rushes for 23 yards (3.28 ypc)

Pringle: 4 rushes for 12 yards (3 ypc) and one 1 reception for 10 yards. Thus, Pringle averaged more yards per TOUCHES than Mallory.

RB who saved our season last year as a true freshman still gets disrespected all the time on here.
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Nothing against Pringle but I had people on here telling me he was better than Marty Brown. There’s an argument there. Now if people are saying Mallory is better I think we have to put a TBD there for now.
 
Breakout Potentials:

Barkate/Upshaw - need one of these guys to step up

Lyle - NEED him

Pruitt - would love to see him get more PT given 17 is out
 
Shooter McGavin said:
Nothing against Pringle but I had people on here telling me he was better than Marty Brown. There’s an argument there. Now if people are saying Mallory is better I think we have to put a TBD there for now.
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They’re all good at different things. Marty is a vet tho. He redshirted year 1 at NDSU. He is the best redzone back and third down back.

Mallory is the most unknown. What i take umbrage with is the claim presented as a fact that one guy really showed out on Friday, and the other ran soft. When the numbers or eye test don’t back that up. How can one guy be soft for 22 yards on 5 touches while the other had 23 yards on 7 touches?

Moreover, Pringle is a weapon in the passing game so his runs aren’t his only use. This year he’s been the best receiving back and hopefully we use him more that way.

Against VT, we completely went away from both Marty and Fletcher in favor of Pringle for a reason. So it’s just funnystyle to act like these games never happened. Mallory and Lyle haven’t split 28 carries w/ Fletcher, Marty and themselves like Pringle did against Pitt and come out with nearly double the rushing yards.

If Pringle or CWH had the season Lyle had last year, no one would be expecting them to return and save our running back room. Pringle’s ypc, which was the highest in the RB room, nearly doubled Lyle’s ypc last season; and CWH had the same amount of rushing yards on 13 less carries.
 
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