Db's and our Coaching

[miamicanephins]

For some reason I feel the Jaguars would be willing to get in a bidding war for him.

And then they should move that franchise to London as was rumored a couple of years ago.

 

[twalcott5]

UAB - 14 points allowed (7 off short field following a TO)
UL - 20 points surrendered through 3 quarters, backups allowed 14 in 4th.
FSU - 10 points allowed.
Clem - offense did nothing all night. 11 point game at half.
Pitt - 19 points (7 off a short field following a TO)
UVA - 14 points (7 on blowed coverage)

All things considered I still feel better about the defense than I do the offense. This is gonna sound like excuses but it's still a new defense from a personnel standpoint, and it's still a defense that isn't getting a ton of help from its offense. Clemson and Louisville were stinkers but there's been more good than bad. Nearly everyone playing a major role is doing so for the first time at Miami this season.

Roche and Phillips - had never played a down in this defense prior to 2020.
Ford & Silvera - only DL in last year's 2-deep
Miller - entering his 2nd year of playing in reserve role.
McCloud - played in 4 games in 2019.
Jennings - DNP in 2019.
Steed - DNP in 2019.
Brooks - started 1 game in 2019.
Bolden - played in 5 games in 2019.
Frierson - was behind Finley all of 2019.
Carter - can't stay on the field. He could help us.
Hall, Blades, Ivey, Couch - each in their 2nd year of major action.

Hunte, Harvey, Williams, Blissett, Holley, Flagg, Smith, Balom are experiencing live bullets for the first time.

@Go Canes!! hit 'em with the UVA drive chart!!

You're missing the point being made. It's not the players, it's either Manny, the coaches or a combo of both that are the root cause of our problems.. They do not coach up players period. Your job as a coach is to motivate players, coach them up and put them in a position to win on every play. Only then will you get the players' attention and respect.

You should never tell players that "It's hard to win", like Manny does, for they will expect every game to be hard. The old Canes practiced a **** of a lot harder than the games were. They then believed that they were well prepared for and expected to win every game. Guess what? Games are not as hard when you are well prepared.

If a top notch coach had all of the above mentioned players, would you expect their performance to be the same as it is now through the first 6 games? **** NO!!

We play to our opponents to their level of competition, with the exception of Clemson, no more no less. That is totally unacceptable in order to be a championship Team. Refuse to accept mediocrity!