8-4

[JustAFanHTX]

Won’t fight you on it. I still have hope that when we face lesser defenses, the talent will show up more. But I certainly wouldn’t die on that hill. What I watched Saturday night was incredibly depressing.

UNC has me incredibly nervous. If we get into a pinball game where it’s just score for score, and neither team can stop each other, we’ll wind up stopping ourselves at some point. If we win that one, there’s really nobody else on the schedule outside of Clemson that I think can do what A&M did.

They’ll 100% find a way to stop us more than we can stop them. Be prepared for it

 

[Biscayne Buckets 8]

8-4 is sad. That’s how many millions spent on one additional win? That’s really, and objectively, not acceptable.

This team is more talented than all but 2 teams on its schedule. Most of the coastal has a new coach, new QB, or both. You’re telling me everyone isn’t dealing with change and growing pains? Better yet, we’re supposed to just roll over and accept year 1 growing pains with out regard for obvious mess ups?

8-4 would be a bad year. Mario could still be the guy even with a bad year. But I’d at least hope in year 1 Mario and the staff could at least change the narrative. Start to win the games you’re supposed to week in and week out. Dominate your division. Give yourself chances to play in big games and look prepared and show up in the big games. I think we were prepared this Saturday and handled it well, but there were a lot of errors from players and coaches in game that amounted to that failure. It happened. We move on. If at least expect that it doesn’t happen again and we use it as a building block to be better in all fronts. If we do that I don’t see 8-4 but 10-2.

Sorry, objectively, I don’t think all this money and resources should amount to 1 more win. Improvements also happen in season, not just the off-season. That’s what I expect.

 

[305_separatist]

This is comical.

We narrowly lost a game on critical errors where we outplayed and team everyone but a select few fans, who would have been considered homers, thought we lose to, and now the sky is falling.

I saw a tough team forging an identity that competed but came up short on the road against a talented team.

That all depends squarely on if A&M is a good team. They really don’t seem to be. That offense sucks, and we couldn’t score a TD even with 4 DBs out of the game. This wasn’t Bama or Georgia lol. It is another 8&4 team at best.

 

[UMinati]

That’s true but the refs killed at least 3 drives with calls they wouldn’t and didn’t call against aTm. I mean they held blatantly on **** near every offensive play they had and the refs could of called PI on **** near every UM pass play.

I like the way we played through the bs and that will help in games that don’t matter as much to Vegas/NCAA mafia.

 

[SWFLHurricane]

I would not be at all surprised to see us go 10-2. I’m not being a Sunshine Pumper. I think Gattis is going with what he sees will work given the WR room that we have.

Santana Moss is not walking through that doorway. That said, we have to run heavy like we’re in the B1G. Our WR room will get better over time, I just can’t see us winning in Death Valley.

However, that OL and DL is only going to become more dominant as the season goes forward. And FSU plays in Our House this year. I just see Mario fixing a lot of what we saw that went wrong Saturday Night and this very young team getting better as the season goes forward.

I'll take that 10-2 bet...for whatever amount you'd like.

 

[Pearson704]

That all depends squarely on if A&M is a good team. They really don’t seem to be. That offense sucks, and we couldn’t score a TD even with 4 DBs out of the game. This wasn’t Bama or Georgia lol. It is another 8&4 team at best.

Didn't they beat Bama last season and follow with a top recruiting class?

I'm not saying they're runaway playoff contenders, but they're far from being bad football team.

 

[Pearson704]

I'll take that 10-2 bet...for whatever amount you'd like.

$50. I got faith in our squad and the staff.

 

[DC3]

I still think this is at worst a 9-3 team.

 

[tdd]

We are 0-20+ in years being relevant.

 

[hoops156]

8-4 if things dont change. 10-2 is the Goal though. were not beating Clemson. we will drop a random ACC game bc there will be a dumbfounding loss.

 

[Canefancarlos2]

You see this offense scoring 61 points against anyone that's not Bethune? I'm not saying we're going to lose either, what I said was, if the defense doesn't come to play, and the game becomes a track meet, I haven't see anything in the 2 games against real athletes that we've played to give me confidence we can match someone score for score.

Just hope the defense brings it's A game that week and we can hold UNC under 30.

I get what your saying but 28 to g state and 24 famu we better be able to score near 40 or something's really ****ed up

 

[canes732]

So many of you on here said this was an 8-4 team. We are looking more and more like an 8-4 team.
However, I was also on record as saying it CANNOT be that because everyone would start to turn on the coaches/team and it would hurt recruiting because there narrative will be “new coach same Miami”.
Well, here we are! One loss, in a game we totally could’ve and should’ve won. Yet, we got the dang dudes that run this site, mods, insider’s et al just oozing with self pity.
Guys, obviously when you lose it’s going to look terrible. It’s a loss!
So don’t forget, it’s about jimmys and joes as much or more than X’s and O’s! We don’t have enough jimmys or joes at this point. It is what it is.
Is there improvement? Do you see improvement? I do. I saw a much higher compete level. I saw a greatly improved OL. Heck I just saw both DJ Ivey and effin Corey Flagg play really solid to great games!

I also saw our issues at WR. I saw our issues with Will Mallory, the worst blocking TE in the history of terrible blocking TEs. Give me a lot more of Arroyo please.
I also saw some bone headed plays, Al Blades going for the strip and allowing a bunch more yards. I saw some of the poor tackling show up here and there. It is what it is.

But all in all, I saw what I’ve expected from this team. Why? Because the jimmys and joes are who I thought/knew they were. And I still think this is a 9-3+ team.

Show your faces all you 8-4 voters and again, tell me which other 3 games your willing to lose and NOT be a ***** and jump ship and call for coaches jobs! At some point we need to take some lumps and trust a coaching staff. And if it’s not this one, then fold the fuggin program cause we ain’t Bama or UGA is even the bucknuts! So get behind this staff and give them the time a sane you knows they need to make it right.