Early thoughts on Gattis?

[#1cane]

Sample size too small. With the way the Miami defense has looked keeping them off the field is a good idea. This week will tell a ton more. I think we see a few more passes called especially play action. Gattis needs to open it up a little bit more. Take away TVD's rushing stats last week and it was like 40 runs and 30 passes. I would like to see closer to 50-50 this week. Just call whatever is working.

 

[Samson Doyo]

We are supposed to score every play and go undefeated the whole time Mario is here DAMMIT!!! Jesus F'ING Christ! Does everything need to happen microwave fast in the world now? Anyone who thought there wouldn't be growing pains is a MORAN. This is aimed more at some responses than the OP.

Go Canes!

 

[88]

I want the team to win, everybody else wants to be the coach.

Everyone else wants them to win. It’s peoples opinions on how to get there, not a beauty contest

 

[Colombie]

I like the offense so far.
It can only get better as the weeks go by.

 

[Truecane4life]

I like the offense but I’d like to see it also In reverse. Use the pass to open up the run. I don’t want to be that predictable team that runs on 1st and 2nd and tries to pick up a first on a third down pass. A&M is going to expect us to pound the ball like App st did so we should open up with a wrinkle and put them on their toes immediately.

 

[kryptonite]

Everyone else wants them to win. It’s peoples opinions on how to get there, not a beauty contest

If shouting that coaches don't know what they're doing and the way to win is this particular guy/play/scheme isn't a beauty contest, I don'y know what is. Bunch of dudes who only care about being the hero who knew how to fix it.

 

[DTP]

I’m just saying let’s hold off on making a final judgement until after we start playing real teams. We’ve seen this show before. Back in 2016 we started the season 3-0 against FAMU, FAU and App State. We averaged about 500 yards and 50 points per game. Our first game against a P5 opponent, we only managed 355 yards against Georgia Tech but we still got the win so everyone ignored the obvious issues. We continued to lose the next four in a row and never sniffed 400 total yards and averaged about 17 points. It’s a much different game when you try to dominate the line of scrimmage vs G5 teams vs P5 teams. We have to see if the coaches can adjust their game plan when they can’t just blow the opponent off the ball every time.

 

[Edward20]

you should attempt to read a single thing about Michigan's 2021 team. After Gattis first 2 abysmal years at UM, Harbaugh took a much more active role in '21

Love how everyone just glosses over that lol. bRoYLeS AwArD. He was a total failure there and Harbaugh stepped in and all of a sudden he's the best assistant in the country lol

 

[Miami[]_[]Smoke]

The other f*cking thing you clowns are incapable of seeing is that f*ck your feelings. I give zero sh*ts about you liking the offense. I want to win, that's it. That's literally the only thing I want. So stuff your smarty pants ideas about what the offense should look like right up your entitled asses. If Mario can win running the ball 55 times a game and throwing 10 times, then I will gladly suffer through that. And the rest of you can find a team that cares about what you think you know about football.

I guess you are incapable of realizing we were 111th in rushing yards last year for a reason and it’s not a strength of this line or offense…oh and we have the best qb we’ve had in probably 20 years. So being a run heavy, ball control offense makes all the sense in the world right?

 

[doohcane]

Would like to pick up the pace a little bit if possible. I’ve noticed that most top teams so far (outside of usc) have been less spread and more low scoring games this year

 

[Miami[]_[]Smoke]

Love how everyone just glosses over that lol. bRoYLeS AwArD. He was a total failure there and Harbaugh stepped in and all of a sudden he's the best assistant in the country lol

It doesn’t hurt to have the best ol in college football either

 

[dk72]

People will miss lashlee if this is our offense

While this offense has things to be ironed out, Lashlees offense was completely one dimensional. We were last in the ACC in rushing yards per game and way down nationally, and essentially had two running play....ram it middle right or ram it middle left right into the back of an underpowered OL.

 

[DTP]

It doesn’t hurt to have the best ol in college football either

This is my issue. It’s great to have the best OL in the country but if your offense requires that to be successful, you’re just Larry Coker/Rob Chudzinski

 

[dk72]

we played Alabama to open the year. wed get beat by Bama too this year. we also played two horrendous teams this year. we haven't proven anything in terms of running the ball on any team noteworthy yet.

Last year we struggled running even against the weakest teams

 

[DTP]

Last year we struggled running even against the weakest teams

Wrong.

176 vs App State
322 vs CCSU
169 vs Virginia
157 vs UNC
174 vs GT

Last year we averaged 3.8 yards per carry as a team.

We averaged 3.5 yards per carry against USM on Saturday

How much are we going to average against a real team?

 

[dk72]

Wrong.

176 vs App State
322 vs CCSU
169 vs Virginia
157 vs UNC
174 vs GT

Last year we averaged 3.8 yards per carry as a team.

We averaged 3.5 yards per carry against USM on Saturday

How much are we going to average against a real team?

Other than CCSU those are weak numbers that contributed to us having the worst run game in the ACC. Bottom line is its way too early to make any judgements on this offense, and definitely too early for all of the whining and hand-wringing. Until we're well into the season, the very 1st season of the new offense, we don't have a sufficient sample size. We played a very conservative game against USM.

 

[hoops156]

While this offense has things to be ironed out, Lashlees offense was completely one dimensional. We were last in the ACC in rushing yards per game and way down nationally, and essentially had two running play....ram it middle right or ram it middle left right into the back of an underpowered OL.

Ageee. Ideally I’d love lashlee passing w gattis run as a 50-50 balance. Who knows maybe we do become more balanced starting this weekend

 

[paksat]

I love the power running game we are trying to establish culture wise. Its how we won in 2001 by gashing teams and wearing them out. What I don't like is we haven't really tested the air against teams we should have.

I think tvd needed more reps personally, but hey we have ran over the first two teams. Might be boring and frustrating but it's a dumb thing to complain about

 

[MovingZen]

What did Miami struggle with last year? Physicality and running the ball. Hopefully Gattis just used our two scrimmages to work on those issues. He knows what he's got with TVD and maybe figures he didn't need to push him too much to start. Might have been a mistake because TVD struggled a little bit. Team was flat as **** in the first half and came out fired up the second half. That's coaching. I expect to see more passing starting with atm. If we don't, then I'll fall on the ground and pitch a fit. We just played two cupcakes, no way we saw Gattis' full offense. Those two games were the staff working on the culture that's held Miami back for way too long. I'm still in wait and see what else comes out of the box mode.

 

[dk72]

I like the offense but I’d like to see it also In reverse. Use the pass to open up the run. I don’t want to be that predictable team that runs on 1st and 2nd and tries to pick up a first on a third down pass. A&M is going to expect us to pound the ball like App st did so we should open up with a wrinkle and put them on their toes immediately.

Exactly. Nothing wrong with the offense as far as design or concepts. Yes, adding more tempo and mixing up the plays for less predictability would open it up, and hopefully will occur moving forward. Its a huge overreaction with people whining and acting as if our offense, run during the first two games of the year as the players learn to play in it during real games, is terrible. We had 586 and 452 yds in the two games, despite a slow start and TVD being off in the second game. Its far to early and the sample size is far too small to be jumping off cliffs and proclaiming doom.