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JayCane20 said:
Todd Orlando (Mario's last DC at FIU) is notorious for blitzing from everywhere. An insane number of blitz packages and designs and he will keep you guessing from where they're coming from.

He got exposed at Texas and USC because he doesn't disguise them very well, they're often delayed (too delayed), or they come from the CB or Safety and don't get there quick enough. Resulted in his pass D getting shredded. Tons of single high letting his FS getting torched. Unless he's changed and improved in those weaknesses... I don't see us having much trouble. Cam will torch them.

Haven't watched them this year but I see they're currently sitting 124th in yards per pass attempt allowed at 9.9 and finished 108th last year at 8.0. 9.9 yards isn't even good if it were yards per completion.

To add to that.. they're 28th at 9.09% in sack %, up from 122nd a year ago at 4.3%. I've heard P5 position coaches and 2 coordinators tell me he's the the worst DC in college football when the blitzes don't get home because he doesn't have anything else going for him. Actually shocked he keeps getting jobs without having to go work somewhere else behind someone like Aranda, Pete Golding, Bryan Brown, the Georgia staff, or even Guidry to learn, adapt a little, and rehab his career.

For the record, Georgia revamped their defense by learning from him and taking some of his blitz designs and philosophies and combining it with their overall defense. Worked wonders. But he's been unwilling to adapt his own system.
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Even if we torch them its live action vs a ton of different blitz packages. Thats good work and good film for the OL to learn from.
 
Rellyrell said:
So Fla will be a harder test than our last 2 opponents, but make no mistake, this should be another cake walk for The O. For w/e reason they play Bama hard, but this pass defense was almost dead last last season & r still in the bottom 3rd to start this season.

I look for a quick 4-0 start to begin the season. Our schedule begins next week.
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They played Bama hard because Dildoe can't step up in the pocket and hit an Alabama WR against a USF DB. He panics.

USF is good against the run and the short passing game, but downfield they're very vulnerable. Two years in a row they were able to tell Bama, "yeah, GFY!"

If Cam is on his game we'll hit chunk plays in the passing game Alabama couldn't (feels almost weird to say that!).

The difference between USF and Ball State is that the former will believe they can win the game, whereas the latter knew they had no answer for the passing game and just didn't want to get rolled over all game. I really doubt USF will make the same choice, they'll have to help their back 7.
 
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Squid Bumciorek said:
Interesting. Didn’t see it. Do you know the formation? Was it an I formation with one playing a fullback type role or both rbs split in backfield?
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Off the top of my head it was shotgun, split backs. Both backs in the backfield were RBs. CJJ was one of them if I recall.

Do we have a FB on the roster?
 
kmoj9kmo said:
Do you think this affected Milroe more considering he’s still somewhat underwhelming as a passer? Or was it that one Linemen that just kept getting cooked?
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Didn’t even watch. From what I’ve read it sounds like Bama’s OL just got whipped.

That OL Unit is so overrated and all hype. They were horrendous statistically last year in sacks, sack %, havoc allowed, etc. but they have all world names and hype and had people throwing them in the top 5 in the country conversation for no reason.

Deboer’s system is heavily reliant on the downfield passing game. Not Milroe’s strength consistently but he can do it. The havoc allowed probably had the timing off long enough to keep them in it.
 
TwentySix said:
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I’m ******* howling at the safety being 25 yards off and immediately dropping on 3rd and 6. They had ZERO respect for Milroe in the intermediate game. Cam and Restrepo are going to eat this team alive.
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This is the design of his defense in a nutshell. 10 guys close enough to the LOS that the blitz could come from anywhere. 3rd and 6 on the opposite side of the 50 is a great place to dial up a heavy blitz and then coach the FS to do anything except get beat over the top… live to see another set of downs… he just extremely exaggerated that and took it was too serious lol

Good way to prevent this from being effective is do exactly what USF does with the Heupel/Golesh offense and make your splits as wide as you possibly can and take deep shots. Then they can only blitz from LBs or they’re gonna stay burnt.

We do like to condense our formations so we’re at risk to get hurt there but we typically pick up blitzes and pass off very well from what I’ve seen. Should be pretty ineffective.
 
I expect to seriously destroy them. The only downside to this game is Deon doesn't take the USF job. Would have been sweeter.
 
The score at the end of the Bama game is way more indicative of what the score should have been going into the 4th. I watched the game and couldn't believe how many mistakes Bama made. They had 3 TOs and 120 yards in penalties that all came during significant moments. Long drives ended by TOs, TD runs brought back by penalties.

If Miami plays clean I could see a similar score (42-16) except Miami doesn't wait until the end of the 4th to pull away.
 
Hopefully, this is Sam Brown's break out game. Get the ball to him quickly to beat the blitz and let him do what he does best, YAC. He has to catch it obviously. I suspect they are still holding back particular routes for him until they open up the playback. I doubt that happens this week, but get him the ball quickly, preferably in stride. Either way, their DB's aren't their strength and Cam should be able to beat the blitz. We win big.
 
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