What the stats show us is that Miami Defense in the Diaz era has been consistently top 10-15, but the offense has been so atrociously bad on the other side of the spectrum that is has completely knocked us off balance.
If you're arguing that Miami's Defense hasn't been elite or been a complete shutdown Defense, well yeah of course not... How on Earth could we be, we don't have the same talent Defensively that programs like Bama, Clemson, Oh St & LSU have as far as annual top tier NFL draft picks on Defense, but guess what, even with all that talent none of those programs have Elite shutdown Defense either. Literally every single one of them get gashed multiple times a year giving up well over 400+ yards, the difference is their offenses don't compound the problem & make it even more different on them. LSU's Defense was not great last year, their historic season wasn't because they had a suffocating Defense that shut everyone down, they simply outgunned everybody & scored a shìt ton of points & produced astronomical yardage offensively, all their Defense really did was create key turnovers.
Miami's Defense is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination & no one has ever argued it was, there are several areas they need to improve on, however what cannot be argued is they are good enough for us to be an above .500 team & the numbers show that. There is no question what the main crux of our problems has been since 2017 & it's as clear as day it's the Offense.
Nitpicking the Defense is a CIS custom, but the reality is if we had a halfway decent Offense over the last 2 years we don't go 7-6 & 6-7, with a semi-functional offense that isn't from the 90's we at our very worst would've been a back to back 9 win team in 2018 & 2019, 2018 especially. I mean look no further than the infamous UVA game, that was arguably the best Defensive performance of the entire Diaz era even including the Notre Lame beat down, we were insanely ironclad strong & had completely shut them down, all we needed was an offense that wasn't mentally handicapped & we beat them soundly. But we couldn't do basic Peewee level play execution & put together a drive to save our lives & suffered from burnt out Richt play calling & that God forsaken Onside Kick (still can't believe he did that smh lol), but the point is, just an offense slightly above being the worst ever in school history & we win more games.
That's all the offense has to be, just don't be the worst of all-time & we'll win a lot more...
NEVER FORGET; Enox's offense last year was 73rd in scoring, 76th in yards per play, 127th in sacks allowed & 121st in Red Zone scoring... Just have an offense in the top 50 in any of those categories & we won't suck, that's a fact.