D'eriq King.... that's my quarterback(in my TO whimper). Nothing more really needs to be said. He willed UM to victory tonight in Raleigh. This is why he came to UM, do stuff like this. No, he isnt a prototype NFL signal caller, but what he is,though, is the consummate college playmaker. In my view, Lashlee understands that for this season, we needs to be a 'throw team' first and then loosen things up later with the run game as teams get tired. And NCST was faking more heart attacks than Fred Sanford tonight. It was obvious what they were doing.
- Mike Harley, lets give him credit, last two weeks, he's been our #1 guy, and making big plays downfield and being tough
- Great to see Cam'RUN!! Harris get on track. Showed good vision and feet tonight and ran hard. Im told he's a hard working kid, I know he got frustrated a couple of weeks ago. Glad to see him get his mojo back.
-- Now, that's the good part, the bad and the ugly was our defense and special teams
-I noted this in the first half, but just how many times are we going to be drawn offsides, or get baited into giving away our blitzes - all the while, the play clock is still at 15 to 20 seconds, where NCState never snapped the ball. That should happen maybe once, before our staff tells our guys to just hold their water. Our football IQ is very low and I suspect our staff doesn't help them out much in that department
- ONce again( and I'll let the board X-and-O gurus really break this down) but there is something very unsound about our defense. Those underneath routes on 3rd down were just excruciating to watch over and over again. Seemed like our guys were clueless in covering the flat.
- Alverage Blades, yeah, I said it. right now, Couch is our best pure cornerback
- Special teams, we had three flags on KO returns. I mean, what else can be said. Also, with a kicker like Borry, just bang the ball out of the endzone every **** time, no need to be cute. Let them have the ball on the 25.
- Roche got baited into a bad personal foul on 3rd down. I'll say this again, Manny Diaz is a swell guy, our guys like him -- but there is no fear of real discipline on this squad which is why they keep committing dumb penalties time and time again.
- Lastly Miami won, but for much of that game, I think we all saw alarming things that went far beyond just not having 2001 talent. I can't be the only one who feels this way. It's great to win, and it was an exciting end. But lets be honest, a King lead us tonight. Without him, this is a lost night at Carter Finley. I really hope my feeling about Manny Diaz is wrong.
But on the bright side, hey, these shootouts are sure more entertaining than those 17-12 slogs of last year.
