RightSaidFred
Be cool, don’t be culo
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Look, I think you're missing the point here. I'll try one more time and then leave it alone.
I do not believe it was Miami's strategery to "let Pitt beat itself". I do not think our DBs were hanging back, just letting the Pitt players drop balls.
I realize Pitt dropping the ball so much makes them a "middle of the road" ACC team. But we shouldn't play to the level of our opponents. We should defend the pass in a way that creates incompletions, not that allows Pitt to drop easy catches.
That is all.
Remember, "on any given Saturday". Who thought F$U was suddenly going to become competent for a half and smash UNC (at least in the first half)?
Yes, Pitt is not great. But Miami needs to defend the pass better. I've made it clear on other responses, I am not saying "oh, if Pickett had played, Miami would have lost". I also cannot ignore those wide-open Pitt drops that looked even more horrific because the Miami coverage was so poor.
No I didn't miss your point at all. Miami played sloppy, I agree with you. Too many mental lapses all over the field.
My point was just that Miami didn't "get lucky" beating Pitt.
You want to talk about middle of the road, average ACC teams.... well the price of admission for being an average ACC team is you have to have at least a dozen bonehead plays every game. You have to drop some wide open passes, blow a few assignments, run some routes wrong.... you get the picture. It's like we're an exclusive club of ****heads.
We do it. They do it. It's how we roll in the middle of the ACC.