a terrible ending to a great season, my thoughts...

[MotoSniper]

Our OL is soft. We need a strong offseason program for these guys and we need to start recruiting out-of-state guys to play OL.

Do you think we have a coaching issue?

Yes. We need the Coach Kool equivalent for OL coaches.

No, we don't have coaching issues on the O Line...can only make lemonade out of lemons...we need talent infusion. Improvement is coming, darling & McDonuts graduate, which is addition by subtraction...Searels will prove if he has the coaching goods next season, when hopefully he gets our young O Line talent ready to dominate the LOS.

 

[SouthernM]

- Biggest sequence to me was after taking a 7-3 lead and creating a turnover, Rosier misses a wide-open Berrios on an out pattern on third down that would've not only moved the chains but gotten the Canes into scoring position. Those are passes that simply have to be completed at this level.
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Berrios stumbled out of his break and couldn't get his head turned in time to adjust.

Not a great throw (behind Berrios) but still would have been caught for a 1st down if he doesn't stumble.

If he doesn't stumble he's even more in front of it

 

[BiltmoreCANE]

Malik has been hot and cold in every game this year. His issue today was that was ice cold all day and never got hot. Oline can’t impose their will at any critical juncture. Feagles is really bad but if Malik ever got going we wouldn’t have seen him punt 9X!!! D got pushed around a bit but in all honesty the loss isn’t on them.


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[orange&green84]

"- Biggest sequence to me was after taking a 7-3 lead and creating a turnover, Rosier misses a wide-open Berrios on an out pattern on third down that would've not only moved the chains but gotten the Canes into scoring position. Those are passes that simply have to be completed at this level."

ball was tipped

I don't think it was. Berrios came out of his break at full speed on his route and Rosier threw the pass behind him.

 

[OBLIVION]

The fact that we have no sign of a ground game is sickening. Malik isn't going to carry you slinging the ball all game for entire season and we are lucky for our 10 wins with the lack of a ground game for 4 qtrs.

 

[JHallCanes]

Obviously there’s much more to the loss than penalties but for ***** sake, I am so ******* sick of the holding that doesn’t get called. Today was absurd, again.

 

[OldhamA]

Our OL is soft. We need a strong offseason program for these guys and we need to start recruiting out-of-state guys to play OL.

Or evaluate and recruit the instate guys better.

 

[datcaneguy]

Dead on about Rosier being hidden behind a run game and the defense. Gonna be a battle for him in the Spring to hold off Perry/Weldon. Not even gone mention that other guy

 

[cxl]

the season ain't over yet.

Yessir. Starting with Clemson. We play down to the comp but, we play up too.

 

[Gatorhater]

On the upside, I don’t have break open another expensive bottle of booze tonight. Still slim hope fro the NC 25 yr Scotch I have been saving. If Clemson beats usc and then we beat them, we have a chance to get on. We did accomplish a lot this year. Nation talking in fear about us again, mattering for first time in years, and maybe the most important thing, The Rock became our home and the crowd controlled home turf again. Our home crowd was championship level the last three games.

 

[RoboCane]

well, all good things have to and and it seemingly rang midnight for these Cinderella Canes and specifically for Malik Rosier. Some quick hitters:

- Yeah, as horrible as 12 was throughout(and once again he missed throws/reads) all over, I didn't agree with benching him for Sherriffs - but at the same time I understood it - Rosier was Kirby Freeman-esque this game. The problem is it's not like we had Don Strock(as Franchise would say) coming out of the bullpen, either. But for much of the year Rosier made a few big/key plays and he was hidden by an opportunistic defense. Today, it just wasn't there.

It doesn't help that many times you simply cant hide him behind a running game because that Oline once again got controlled at the point of attack and couldn't open up running lanes for Homer or Dallas. It was an awful performance for that unit.

But I do think(and again, just my opinion) the QB job will be open in the spring and N'Kosi Perry will be given every opportunity to put his name in the mix

- Biggest sequence to me was after taking a 7-3 lead and creating a turnover, Rosier misses a wide-open Berrios on an out pattern on third down that would've not only moved the chains but gotten the Canes into scoring position. Those are passes that simply have to be completed at this level.


- The only one who struggled worse than Rosier was Zach Feable. Seriously, how was this guy a high school All-American? I can't remember a more weak-legged punter at Miami?

- Overall, once again another bad outing by the special teams. Coach Hartley is Dave Arnold-esque. Yeah, that bad on all the units.

- Defensively, they gave in late but they were left on the field a lot. But the lack of holding calls is getting comical. There was one on Trent Harris in the red-zone that was a ridiculous non-call. But in the first half while they lost contain too many times and honestly were getting knocked back by ball carriers for much of the day. But again, they didn't have much help from the offense.

- Well, it was a horrible ending to what was a fun regular season. 10-1, ACC Coastal, top 10 ranking. At the beginning of the year I think we all would've taken that. But you see just how far this program has to go. Still have to address the Oline, QB and special teams. Depth will come with this incoming recruiting class but this afternoon was a buzzkill and a dose of reality. I honestly dont see Miami beating Clemson but regardless, see you guys in Charlotte next week.

This team and program under Richt came a long ways this season but today showed they still have a ways to go.

Thank you for the replies on Twitter. I am now just beginning to get over this loss (Love rum and coke). I love my Canes and I believe they have exceeded all of our expectations this year. I know they gave exceeded mine. I love Malik and his composure but can you imagine a QB with better accuracy? I support Malik though. I hope him and the receivers are getting together in the off season to improve timing and accuracy. Lord knows we need it. I think we have the ability to beat Clemson but it is an up hill battle against poor ACC officiating and terrible O-line and ST play. I am hoping for better QB play. OL should just hold. Apparently the ACC officials don't know what that is.

I am happy that we are in a position to be critical of our 10-1 team. Just like the good old days. We are trending up fellas! I am excited about our position. Even if we lose, where do we go? Orange bowl?

I want to end with this: This is the most fun I've had in years with our team! I've been able to talk trash again and enjoyed these kids playing their hearts out.

Turnover chain! I've seen a lot of BS memes after our loss regarding the turnover chain. They hate us but want to be like us. Make em pay baby!

Show up with some energy next week. I'm with you either way! Go Canes!

 

[Jax Cane]

- Biggest sequence to me was after taking a 7-3 lead and creating a turnover, Rosier misses a wide-open Berrios on an out pattern on third down that would've not only moved the chains but gotten the Canes into scoring position. Those are passes that simply have to be completed at this level.
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Berrios stumbled out of his break and couldn't get his head turned in time to adjust.

Not a great throw (behind Berrios) but still would have been caught for a 1st down if he doesn't stumble.

Spot on...ball was not tipped...he definitely stumbled a bit and it prevented him from adjusting to yet a again a off target pass

 

[ChosenOne]

Couple things.

No way Richt is committed to Rosier. Rosier is a place holder for Perry, Weldon, or Williams (assuming he commits). When they learn the offense there is NO WAY Rosier will be able to keep up with them from a talent/accuracy aspect.

Sheriffs need to transfer. I've seen him for about 20 plays from him and I'm done with him. He is ***. 6'6 QB but gets his passes battled at the LOS on some Assweiler ****.

I'm so happy our entire OL will be different next year. Everyone but Donaldson and Gauthier will be start.

Again, our strength program needs to be in question. Even if we're half assing it we should still physically dominate Pitt, Duke, Syracuse, Virginia, UNC etc. Every time we stuffed the RB dude went forward. EVERY TIME. Even the QB.

I'm a fair person. I BASHED McCloud like no other the last couple of weeks but that dude played out of his mind. Dude played well.

 

[ddann]

Feagles didn't have nearly as bad of a day as Rosier, so that's kind of ridiculous to say. He could've done better, but he only had to punt 50 million times because Rosier and the OL were so horrendous all afternoon.

Calling out the punter when the team (and the QB and OL in particular) just blew the season to a lame 4-7 Pitt squad starting a freshman QB for the first time?

Come on.

 

[bobbydigius]

We could easily have 3 more losses. Eventually our luck was gonna run out. We have an OL where a freshman starts and another has already gotten playing time. Our QB while tough and gritty is terribly inaccurate and not Miami quality. Even though our front 7 is **** good our secondary sucks. We forget these things when we are winning and start chugging Kool Aid. The good news is that we are ahead of schedule and if either RJ or Norton come back, we will be much much better next year.

 

[BoxingRobes]

I posted about this in regard to Notre Dame...re: BODY BLOW GAME. IMO, this holds true for Miami-Pitt as well. Miami in a look ahead spot after a really emotionally intense few weeks (see Notre Dame's previous four games before Miami for a comparison) on the road on a weird scheduled day...we shouldn't be shocked they lost.

I didnt think Miami would cover against Pitt, but I thought the talent disparity and grit this team had displayed over the year would show another dog fight win against a sub-standard team with a strong second half after they got their head of out of their ***. Unfortunately, what we saw was a team that looked TIRED and the wear of the season was finally starting to show. They didn't seem hype at all and for a team that leaned heavy on emotion and hype all year, to see them come out flat was shocking. Even when Miami generated a turnover, the reaction by Pinckney and JJ to receive the chain was a bit weird. Big Mike didn't put it around his neck and just had it in his hand. JJ wanted to pass it off to Redwine (selfless, for sure, but different then what we've seen all year) and the team post-turnovers didn't have the same punch in them...maybe it was because they were on the road, but they just looked tired, too.

On the field, the OL looked gassed all game. We saw a lack of push all year by them, but this was horrendous OL play all year. Rosier, usually composed, was clearly not himself all game. The team never really rallied behind anything after being down, which wasnt like this team.

Anyway...my summation was this was a body blow spot and Miami got caught.

I'm not confident going into Clemson, but maybe this is the wakeup call the team needed.

Also, #RatPoisonTheory might hold true here.

Its tough to rally around this Turnover Chain concept (which was awesome) only to see bozo CACs like Paul Finebaum and Darren Rovell make a mockery of it and ESPN collectively jerk you off because of it. Maybe the Rat Poison was eaten. I don't know, but maybe.

Also, some damning statistics come home to roost. Lack of run game and TOP slanted way too heavy in favor of Pitt...horrendous on third down offensively...without checking, I am going to hypothesize this was Pitts best game on 3rd down offensively all year (if not their best, close to it) as well.

The inability to create an interception on a true freshman named PICKETT...I'm sorry, but thats gotta be a failure even though we technically won the turnover battle.