Beyond proud of these things

[hollyhood27]

From a coaches perspective. I don’t remember the concept but it was a run to the Boundary B gap and Fletcher got so skinny through the hole. Needed up picking 20 plus.

But too many young guys want to bounce that.

We used to teach our Bax to stick your head in there and get get three or 4 yards. And eventually, it’s gonna hit for 20.

 

[Ispyin]

The hit that pruitt had on the punt return and the one that Toure did on the goal line were two of the hardest hits I’ve ever seen in college football with almost perfect timing and so hard even I got a headache and I was happy watching them

 

[jtwist89]

Watching Andre Johnson walk all the way down the field to congratulate Tony after he scored a TD. Loved that.

 

[Jomama]

Cam Pruitt punt coverage play

Bryce fake punt awareness

Pruitt's tackle was perfect and Concepcion was not much of a factor after that....

 

[edge]

Here is what is super interesting about the Fitz game sealing INT. On the Toure play he wasn’t in. Thomas was. Fitz replaced Thomas. Whoever made that call has ballz of steel. I mean how do you take out your best safety in that situation and put in a freshman? Clearly they scouted the **** out of their goal line plays and they knew what they were going to run. So knowing what they are going to run they knew their best personnel for that play. And Fitz was the guy over Thomas. So hats off to Fitz. Players make the plays and that will go down in Miami lore. But don’t come talk to me about how we are getting out coached like in years past. That was some Belichek prime coaching right there.

 

[LuCane]

Here is what is super interesting about the Fitz game sealing INT. On the Toure play he wasn’t in. Thomas was. Fitz replaced Thomas. Whoever made that call has ballz of steel. I mean how do you take out your best safety in that situation and put in a freshman? Clearly they scouted the **** out of their goal line plays and they knew what they were going to run. So knowing what they are going to run they knew their best personnel for that play. And Fitz was the guy over Thomas. So hats off to Fitz. Players make the plays and that will go down in Miami lore. But don’t come talk to me about how we are getting out coached like in years past. That was some Belichek prime coaching right there.

It was on tape. They threw a TD from it earlier in the year. I mentioned it here:

Post in thread 'What I See With Texas A&M'
https://www.canesinsight.com/threads/what-i-see-with-texas-a-m.203877/post-8058413

 

[MedleyCane]

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My first two thoughts when I saw it:

1. That was one of the most perfect tackles I’ve ever seen

2. I know LuCane is smiling

Some homo

It is borderline sacrilege to mention any of our past or current safeties in the same breath as Bennie Blades, Ed Reed or Sean Taylor but, man, this guy is getting close. Absolute stud.

 

[JHallCanes]

Mark Fletcher's burst on that 50 yd gallop. A&M looked scared to tackle him.

Not gonna lie I didn’t make a sound that entire run

No cheering or freaking out

Just was almost like the whole thing happened in slow motion knowing somehow some way this was the run that was going to win us this game

Just a brief moment praying for no flags

 

[TomAce]

Not one play in particular but the way defensive players rally to the ball and gang tackle…they all play til the echo of the whistle

 

[edge]

It was on tape. They threw a TD from it earlier in the year. I mentioned it here:

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Post in thread 'What I See With Texas A&M'
https://www.canesinsight.com/threads/what-i-see-with-texas-a-m.203877/post-8058413

Great stuff man!

 

[Sandman211]

Kuhn was shook all game. It was obvious from his false start early on. He talked a big game to the media, but Bain and Mesi were definitely keeping him up at night, and will be for a while.

 

[Canesbro31]

I got one that won’t show up in the stat sheet.

Fletch jumping on that fumble, ya we punted anyway but that place would’ve gone insane if they recovered that and would’ve been a HUGE momentum shift.

 

[drewm3i]

Fletch really dragged that defender from our own 40 where they first make contact, down to the A&M 30-31. insane.

That was a combo of poor tackling technique (he came in way too high with no leverage) and some Derrick Henry-esque running!

I'm bummed that he ran into Marion on that other big run because he was GONE.

 

[surfcane]

Feels great to not gaf about the shoulda coulda woulda arguments. Shoutout to the youngins. From Jaquan to Kam; from Kam to Bryce.

“If reed had throw the ball a half second earlier it’s a tied game.”
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Not so sure-Fitzgerald was playing the ball and still would have made the play imo

 

[3rd-43]

I received the same message from the 80’s and 90’s Canes as a child in Cleveland with no other family members who were Canes fans.

And since we have received our identity from the same father and nurture by the same mother, we are Canes brothers

Poetic. Accurate.

 

[Sandman211]

I don't remember off the top of my head who got Concepcion(sp?)... but who laid him out when not calling a fair catch was HUGE! Definitely set the tone from Physical standpoint.

 

[cookies]

Not so sure-Fitzgerald was playing the ball and still would have made the play imo

I am saying I am glad to not have to do the post-mortem shoulda/coulda/woulda that A&M fans engaged in after the game

 

[Empirical Cane]

For background, my first bigtime game was 1988 against Michigan. Core memory on that comeback. I became obsessed. I wore a full Steve Walsh costume/uniform for a solid 2 years. Every chance I got.

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For years, my father would take me to the WEZ and we’d watch the Canes. Part of my identity came from how the Canes played. It wasn’t the trash talk and the dancing that attracted me as much as the BOLD, DGAF, DO WHATEVER IT TAKES attitudes.

Those of you who’ve read my posts over the years know all I ask is that we leave it all on the field. That we make the other team hate playing against us. At the end of the game, did we throw every punch we possibly could? I believe in that mentality more than I believe in many things and it’s because of the 80s and 90s Canes.

So here are a bunch of plays that happened yesterday that made me so incredibly proud:

- #0 is one of my favorite players in a long while. He does everything with his hair on fire and his balls on the line. This guy’s family should never pay for a drink around a Cane. On a play where Reed broke outside, this dude made one of the most beautiful inside/out tackles on the perimeter I’ve seen in forever.

- CJ Daniels motioned into a lead f’in block and didn’t half measure it. He actually engaged, squared, and turned his defender’s hips outside.

- Mark Fletcher ran so hard he knocked out TAMU’s most effective Defensive Tackle.

- Toney fumbled and then came back to run the game winning Jet sweep.

- Mesidor went one on one with Kuhn and plainly lowered Kuhn’s draft prospect view in a single play.

- Bain’s sack down in the RZ was a genuine game changer.

- Did you all see Bain and CJ Daniels on Mali’s punt return? Making smart, shield blocks? Cot**** that’s football.

- Mo Toure knocked himself out for the greater good. What else needs to be said?

- On the game winning INT, that comes directly from watching film. TAMU had #17 in Hback a number of times throughout their season and ran the same route. Fitz either saw it, was taught it, or both. He also has the quick short area to make the play. God bless a bigtime play in a big time moment.

Please add many of your own plays. There are so many and we actually left it all on the field yesterday.

- Lightfoot's shoe string tackle that forced 4th down...very different game without it

 

[786Cane]

That was a combo of poor tackling technique (he came in way too high with no leverage) and some Derrick Henry-esque running!

I'm bummed that he ran into Marion on that other big run because he was GONE.

Marion tackled him twice. LOL

 

[786Cane]

Not so sure-Fitzgerald was playing the ball and still would have made the play imo

Cam Pruitt