pacusmc
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Not a ton we didn’t already know here, but Jesus Christ that was a terrible football game.
Things that stand out:
1. Obviously the red zone determined the entire game. 9 red zone plays….ZERO SUCCESS RATE
2. We got beat by a team who didn’t even ATTEMPT a pass 20+ yards downfield
3. We completed 2 passes against man coverage all night
4. They had 0 sacks and TVD was only pressured on 20.5% of his attempts, yet we still only completed 56.5% of our passes (adjusted) for only 5.3 yards per attempt. Absolutely awful.
5. Only 10.3% explosive play rate
6. This is good….0 three and outs. And averaging 8.3 plays per drive is very good, although if you’re going to be methodical, you have to finish drives.
7. Yards before contact per rush....3.0!! That is excellent. REALLY encouraging for the OL going forward. And we only had 16.7% of our runs stuffed, another great number.
8. Defense was generally very good. But A&M went completely in a shell offensively. Honestly, they didn't even try most of the night. It was evident that the gameplan was to make absolutely no mistakes and make Miami's offense beat them. They ran the ball 75% of the time on first and 10. And we think Gattis is conservative. That's an abortion. Jimbo is the worst. And they faced 3rd and 7+ on 7 different plays. They averaged 1.1 yards per play on those and converted one. To lose to a team this inept and conservative on offense in 2022 really makes me ill.
We will see what this defense is made of in 3 weeeks vs unc at the rock.
I’m not crowning any position group yet. Just like we shouldn’t have applauded the offense against Bethune we shouldn’t be saying our defense was good because we stopped TAMu. They haven’t been able to do anything in their first 3 games.
Take the short field away and that was a one point loss.
At this time I don’t see a UM defense that can hold a legit top 10 team to 17 points. TAMU sucks and we couldn’t convert it’s just that simple. We score one more td and at least one field goal and that team would’ve folded.
If we don’t start scoring points we might have a very long season.