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This post season Miami team reminds me of the early 70s Miami Dolphins. Very low passing output, great run game, and a lights out D. Freaking weird, being 50+ years apart, but here we are making a playoff run looking like the 72 Dolphins.
 
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JBCanes-NC said:
The ball to Marion on the 1st drive was not low. That ball should be caught every single time. Good ball on 3rd down.
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He had to slide to catch it. It’s a low throw. I’m sure if you asked 0, he’d tell you he should’ve caught it. And he probably should have. If you asked 11, he’d tell you he has to throw a better ball. It wasn’t terrible, it was an ok throw on the run but it wasn’t great.

No worries, he was clearly juiced up to start the game. The first play of the game was one of the worst throws he’s made all season. Sometimes it takes a minute to settle in. He sure as **** did, and then some.
 
Meast21 said:
Best 138 yard game you'll ever see from a QB. He was fantastic. 11 yard run where he trucked the OSU defender to get the 1st down is legendary stuff.

Was quoted somewhere that they had deep shots called but OSU was in cover-2 or a coverage he didn't like so audibled to a run play. Unselfish play, thats true leadership. Whatever it takes to win
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that is truly high level 'game managing'(which is something every QB has to do in every game)
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
This is the play on 3rd and 1 in the red zone. We’ve never run anything even remotely close to this on 3rd and short all year. It’s been this formation with straight a-gap all year.

Shannon, you tricky *******…

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didn't we run something similar to this in the Pitt game (and it was a bit too far out in front of Beck)...
 
BS85 said:
Shannon is done hearing critiques even though they were mostly deserved imo. He called an amazing ******* game.

And the kids were just tougher than OSU...and OSU kids aren’t pussies like they used to be so that was great to see.
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They were absolutely deserved. But as @OrangeBowlMagic points out he limited those opportunities for criticism to pretty much the borderline horrendous decision on the deep ball at the end of the half.

Trusting your money QB, putting him in opportunities to succeed and not being predictable is enjoyable to watch and OP outlined it well.

The natty is ours for the taking if we keep up this approach.
 
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Great write up & Beck played his *** off. Lowered his shoulder & turned into a dog - not a Dawg.
That said, Ohio State is not the best defense in America. May have more draft picks, but can’t say they are better than Miami’s collective group & scheme.
 
bacane said:
Great write up & Beck played his *** off. Lowered his shoulder & turned into a dog - not a Dawg.
That said, Ohio State is not the best defense in America. May have more draft picks, but can’t say they are better than Miami’s collective group & scheme.
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Statistically they were the best, and we averaged 4.62 a play, which is terrible. But we did what we needed to do to win the game. We were the more physical team. If you want to say Miami’s defense is better, cool. I’m good with that. But that defense we played is insanely good and they have about 6 kids who are gonna play 10+ years in the league. And we took it to them. That was more the premise of the post. Beck was surgical on 3rd/4th down.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Statistically they were the best, and we averaged 4.62 a play, which is terrible. But we did what we needed to do to win the game. We were the more physical team. If you want to say Miami’s defense is better, cool. I’m good with that. But that defense we played is insanely good and they have about 6 kids who are gonna play 10+ years in the league. And we took it to them. That was more the premise of the post. Beck was surgical on 3rd/4th down.
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No disagreement at all & get the point. Just don’t live & die on statistics as the ultimate indicator. Prefer head-to-head, if you will. Forget about advance billing, All-Americans & draft projections. If you remove names from back of jerseys & just take an eye test, Miami convincingly was the most physical & best defense the other night. Obviously kudos to Beck, OC & our entire offense.
 
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