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Despite the huge win…What are your areas of concern?

NCCanefan said:
Did you watch the game? Why you blaming the kicker for a bad snap that didn't allow holder to get the ball down?

In the only "career" I care about he's 2 for 2.
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No you goof i’m talking about his first fg Made in the game.

Again hope he works out but 4-11 career and never able to win a job at FAU has me worried. Hope he has improved his craft and he’s off to a legendary start if nothing else.
 
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Coach Macho said:
1. Coordinators getting conservative in the second half. Wasn't a fan. 👎🏼 Way too much Quarters with off coverage and a light box. ND saw this and exploited it.

2. I could be wrong, cause the coaches know our personnel more than I do, but I feel like we're good enough on the outside (CB) to tuck our LB's into the box and play more single-high coverage.

3. I don't mind the run plays, but do they ALWAYS have to be run into a heavy box? Our condensed formations bring more defenders into the box. With this OL, if we ran the ball more out of 10/11 personnel we'd be borderline unstoppable. That's how ND was able to have some success running the ball in the second half. They spread us out and ran into a light box. With the condensed formations we invite more defenders...so even if we block it well, our RB's are still being hit @ roughly 3-5 yards. This puts more pressure on them to break multiple tackles in order to get chunk plays. With lighter boxes you have more opportunities for 1-on-1 tackling opportunities.
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I feel like our Defense should almost be ran how ND ran their defense last year. Run man with the CBs and bring crazy blitzes at times trying to confuse with the LBs/Safeties... Our 4 man Dline will be the best in the nation imo. We can just man up rely on our DLine and let our LBs and safeties fly around.

Point 3 I was saying all last season, and have been saying all this week after this game. It seems so obvious. IF we are condensed we need to be in pistol to be able to run play action better out of it (in nfl condessed is great, bu tthey run it under center and spam the **** out of play action!). But I'm in full aggreement spread teams out with 11/10 (lofton can be in slot too) and Man the **** up our oline vs their DLine+2LBs without their safeties crashing down. I'm betting on us 99/100. Obviously you dont always want to do that and ****, but....
 
TouchMoney26 said:
on ND Touchdown run---- #7 looked like last years #7, I know that was just one play but those plays are must haves, if we want to be elite

also not sure what Wesley was doing just running into the lineman as if he was blind
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Yep
Just one game so I’m not killing the kid but he looks small and slow. Thomas looked better but again, just one game.
 
  1. Kicker
  2. Poyser -- Brown and Blay proved they can play big boy P4 ball. Not sold on Poyser yet. Bryce Fitzgerald can't develop fast enough.
  3. DT depth -- they played lights out but can 3 hold up for 12-16 games?
  4. Caveman run plays -- I laughed that off after Ward. But with Mario claiming his OL are just as much playmakers as a QB or WR, I think he can't help himself now that Beck is a more traditional QB. He needs to prove his OL can close out the game.
  5. ACC Refs
 
How many concerns did many of you have after the UF game last year?

Think this is a good question game 4 & 5, no...
 
My concerns are….
Can we get better EVERY week. Big wins are one thing…we have to be consistent.
If that happens we will be very happy. Gotta stay focused, honest and a little lucky.
 
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My concern (in the context of UM aspiring to be a playoff caliber team this season):

Defense gave up 24 pts and the same number of yards as we gained, to a team with a RFreshman making his very first start. ND and their QB did better against our defense as the game wore on and Carr got past his first half of college football.

I saw missed assignments that concern me and plays that could have resulted in big gains/more consistent gains had we been facing a more experienced QB. Especially a QB that also poses a run threat.

Our playoff peers didn't hire an unproven DC with exactly one year under his belt like we did. Maybe Hetherman will prove to be a boy wonder, but right now he's the least experienced and most unproven DC among likely playoff hopefuls. I saw more defensive breakdowns than I expected, some that ND capitalized on and some they did not given it was Carr's first start.

I'm concerned about how our defense will perform throughout the year against our other top opponents with QBs that aren't making their first start.

There's a lot of positives about Mario, but this is what frustrates me about him. Ryan Day and OSU filled their DC opening with Matt Patricia. Mario and UM filled our DC opening with Corey Hetherman, with exactly one year of experience under his belt. There's no comparison.

Fingers crossed Hetherman proves himself to be a boy wonder who overcomes his lack of experience as DC.
 
millertime26 said:
This he looked so lost. Kinda looked slow too.
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He's a missle that's about it.
If he gets that lost in a system he's played in teams are gonna iso him and he's gonna be a major liability.
I'm very concerned about him vs FSU wing tee BS. Never been big in PoPo but he looked much better.
 
Brooklyndee said:
The head coach is the reason we took that approach. That's a given. We all know that much. Again the issue wasn't taking that approach. The issue was using the same exact run plays over and over again in the same exact situations. Instead of going hb dive on first down maybe run a toss or go play action. You can be conservative and call the game to the demands of your head coach while still showing variety in your plays. As Malik rosier showed consistently, we can use the short passing game to assert ourselves just as easily. Just show some different looks. Not first down dive. Second down some version of a intermiate route and third down off right tackle... That was my issue. & Whether or not I'm loyal to Mario I've called him out on plenty of issues I had with him since he's been here. You guys just choose to remember when I am in his corner opposed to when I'm not. It's cool. But this ain't an issue I have with him
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Agreed i said in another thread im not mad at the philosophy, if thats what they feel fits best lets go. They just need to dress it up better so our tendencies aren’t predictable
 
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This is all just one game, so who knows how much was just this ONE gameplan. BUT If we were to extrapolate to the entire season based on this, here is one KEY Negative:

There is no Successful Run-Heavy team in Football that doesn't have play action pass as a key component of their passing game and especially how they generate big/explosive plays (like 15+ yards).

We had 35 Designed RB runs against Notre Dame. We had 5 Play-Action Dropbacks vs 27 Non-Play-Action Dropbacks (15:85). Thats a ratio of Run: playAction of 7:1. That is an issue imo.

Even last year I wouldn't say we were good enough in this department. With Cam we were basically 30:70 for Play-Action:NON-Play-Action. But we had 321 Designed Runs to 139 Play Action dropbacks which is a ratio of 2.31:1.

Thats a pretty big difference.

Last year we ran into the A gaps 26% of designed runs, B gaps 25% (So combined 51% inside the tackles), C gaps 17%, and to the EDGE 20% of the time.
Against ND it was 46% A gap, 16% B Gap (so combined 62% inside the tackles), 16% C Gap, 13.5% to the EDGE...

I'm sorry but spamming A gap runs at a 20% higher clip than last year better not continue under any circumstance. ESPECIALLY if we aren't going to significantly increase our Play-Action rate.

And USE PISTOL if this is going to continue being the gameplan.
 
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TouchMoney26 said:
on ND Touchdown run---- #7 looked like last years #7, I know that was just one play but those plays are must haves, if we want to be elite

also not sure what Wesley was doing just running into the lineman as if he was blind
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no7 had a rough 'welcome to the bigs' game. Hope they can teach him how to track and finish
 
LuCane said:
The naked bootleg was pretty much there the entire 4th Q. I have a difficult time understanding when OCs get rigid with situational play calling. Anyone who has ever played defense at any level knows the last thing you want is to be out there guessing and feel anxious about multiple possibilities. You want to know the tendency and fly in to fill your gap. It’s the OC’s job to make defenders feel the bind. Doesn’t have to be ultra creative. Just put the possibility out there. People complained about the bomb to JoJo that didn’t connect early in the game. I thought that vertical route was a great threat.
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At least tag a slide on there from the H and read the DE who squeezed like h- bc everyone knows Beck won't pull and run
 
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