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PBJFanatic said:
We are going to see that again and again and again. That is what broke us and what teams will use to break us. DLs play too many snaps. We are not trusting the backups. Our passing game is bunched and slow - due to the heavy emphasis on loading up the line of scrimmage all bunched up.

When things go south, instead of reflecting and quickly pivoting, Mario doubles down on his philosophy and need for a familiar structure. This is why his loses all look the same. This is his limit.
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I disagree.

I think we see more outside runs in the future.
 
How about Beck not throwing 4 picks? Yall acting like they obliterated our defense or sumn lol them fools had to bring three diff QBs in on one drive and n pull a fake fg to get 7..then Bell took what should’ve been a 6 yard gain to the house..after that our defense settled in n adjusted nicely..our problems stemmed more from coming out completely flat on D then it did a gameplan/scheme..we were never going to hold them to 7-10 points they are a good football team but if we came out focused we hold em to 17 n win in a stinker by the offense….
 
If we tackle we still win that game.
If Dawson adjust, we win the game.
We played like **** and lost by 3 with a chance to win or tie at the end.
Its that simple.
 
Honestly we just were not ready to play the first 8 minutes. That is what you worry about coming out of a bye. They jumped on us, we played the rest of the game fine, but that early jump was the difference in the game.

Drive 1: They threw everything but the kitchen sink at us. And how were we not ready for a fake field goal after all the trickery they pulled the entire drive?

Drive 2: Francis gets baited into a marginal at best PF. Drive over. Punt was terrible to a great returner. Again, not ready for the game.

Drive 3: OJ gets picked by his own player. And just like that it’s 14-0.

That’s how you lose games when you dont have an offense like we had last year. The only game this year we trailed was against FSU. This team is built on getting the lead and letting dogs hunt. That philosophy is hard to follow when you don’t show up at the beginning of the game. I will be looking for how well they execute coming out of the gates on Saturday.
 
Our defense was fine. We didn't tackle great, or even good, but it wasn't entirely schematic. To only allow 24 points with 4 interceptions is excellent.

100% (maybe 95%) on the offense in my opinion. Should win 90% of the games you play when the defense holds the opponent to 24 points and the opponents defense in ranked in the 30s.

If we have to focus on schematics and make an improvement there - it would have been press man and more inside leverage (I haven't even rewatched to focus on what kind of coverage we were in or where we were leveraging but we got beat on the inside multiple times) have to make them force the ball to the outside and by more time for the rush to get home. We played off to avoid a big play off of mesh. We could have just played a robber to combat mesh and played more press. LBers could have been better against the run, but our LB play has really never been that good and Mario teams have poor or average at best LB his entire career.

Also, hated lining up Mesidor and Bain on the same side. Let them just run away from them and gash us. Could have done that and known the play was going there and had it drawn up to stop it but Hetherman thought we were just going to have time for one of them to win and get to the QB like they'd see it and just drop back and throw there. We made some stupid assumptions on how they would respond schematically to our alignments and we let Brohm beat us with the most simple/logical solution. Best 2 players on 1 side of the LS - I will run to the other side. Play 10 yards off the LOS outside - quick slant. Man coverage - mesh. Zone coverage - run to the sticks and sit and drill the ball.

They never tried to do too much and always took what we gave them and avoided any major mistakes aside from the fumble that let us back into it. Understanding the limitations of their OL and their QB. As I said pre-game - Brohm is not a dummy and he's not going to let their QB just sit there unless we took a lead and they absolutely had to do it. They were going to max protect, chip, and run quick game and we had to tackle and not let the chippers leak into the passing game. Absolute worst case was them getting a quick lead and they did. It was game over at 14-0 because we're not explosive on offense and Brohm could play keep away for 3 quarters... and he did exactly that while we tried to erase a deficit in 1 play over and over again.
 
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The worst thing was the constant blitzing of the LBs. With UL's strategy, thats mostly a waste of players to do that.

I would've gone with a Cover 1 Robber concept as the base defense, with the Robber jumping those crossers. Throw in some occasional drop 8 packages to throw off rhythm. That one time they did that to Beck he didn't know what to do.

Mainly just limit the blitzes and the deep safeties.
 
JayCane20 said:
Our defense was fine. We didn't tackle great, or even good, but it wasn't entirely schematic. To only allow 24 points with 4 interceptions is excellent.

100% (maybe 95%) on the offense in my opinion. Should win 90% of the games you play when the defense holds the opponent to 24 points and the opponents defense in ranked in the 30s.

If we have to focus on schematics and make an improvement there - it would have been press man and more inside leverage (I haven't even rewatched to focus on what kind of coverage we were in or where we were leveraging but we got beat on the inside multiple times) have to make them force the ball to the outside and by more time for the rush to get home. We played off to avoid a big play off of mesh. We could have just played a robber to combat mesh and played more press. LBers could have been better against the run, but our LB play has really never been that good and Mario teams have poor or average at best LB his entire career.

Also, hated lining up Mesidor and Bain on the same side. Let them just run away from them and gash us. Could have done that and known the play was going there and had it drawn up to stop it but Hetherman thought we were just going to have time for one of them to win and get to the QB like they'd see it and just drop back and throw there. We made some stupid assumptions on how they would respond schematically to our alignments and we let Brohm beat us with the most simple/logical solution. Best 2 players on 1 side of the LS - I will run to the other side. Play 10 yards off the LOS outside - quick slant. Man coverage - mesh. Zone coverage - run to the sticks and sit and drill the ball.

They never tried to do too much and always took what we gave them and avoided any major mistakes aside from the fumble that let us back into it. Understanding the limitations of their OL and their QB. As I said pre-game - Brohm is not a dummy and he's not going to let their QB just sit there unless we took a lead and they absolutely had to do it. They were going to max protect, chip, and run quick game and we had to tackle and not let the chippers leak into the passing game. Absolute worst case was them getting a quick lead and they did. It was game over at 14-0 because we're not explosive on offense and Brohm could play keep away for 3 quarters... and he did exactly that while we tried to erase a deficit in 1 play over and over again.
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Listening to Orange Bowl Boys podcast today. I thought Ro brought up an interesting point.

Brohm had two weeks to work on his gameplan. Plenty of time to really address both sides of the ball.

You have to think if this were a regular "next week game", he wouldn't have had the time to do as much as he did. It's certainly not out of the realm of possibility the Canes come away with a win. No guarantees but you never know. It was never going to be a "cupcake" for sure.
 
We also had two weeks to self scout, address tendencies, anticipate what Brohm would do which wasn't really or shouldn't have been something to catch us totally off guard.
 
Hoyacane1620 said:
Listening to Orange Bowl Boys podcast today. I thought Ro brought up an interesting point.

Brohm had two weeks to work on his gameplan. Plenty of time to really address both sides of the ball.

You have to think if this were a regular "next week game", he wouldn't have had the time to do as much as he did. It's certainly not out of the realm of possibility the Canes come away with a win. No guarantees but you never know. It was never going to be a "cupcake" for sure.
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In his post game interview, Brohm said he wished he’d drawn up more trick (paraphrasing) plays that he used the first 2 series.
 
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Alex_Dynamix said:
How about Beck not throwing 4 picks? Yall acting like they obliterated our defense or sumn lol them fools had to bring three diff QBs in on one drive and n pull a fake fg to get 7..then Bell took what should’ve been a 6 yard gain to the house..after that our defense settled in n adjusted nicely..our problems stemmed more from coming out completely flat on D then it did a gameplan/scheme..we were never going to hold them to 7-10 points they are a good football team but if we came out focused we hold em to 17 n win in a stinker by the offense….
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This.

If the O holds onto the ball on those drives and scores on just one of the them, the game is tied if not Miami winning.
 
Hoyacane1620 said:
Listening to Orange Bowl Boys podcast today. I thought Ro brought up an interesting point.

Brohm had two weeks to work on his gameplan. Plenty of time to really address both sides of the ball.

You have to think if this were a regular "next week game", he wouldn't have had the time to do as much as he did. It's certainly not out of the realm of possibility the Canes come away with a win. No guarantees but you never know. It was never going to be a "cupcake" for sure.
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Our coaches also had two weeks to work on their game plan. Why are you acting like this was some hidden advantage for Brohm?
 
skyman said:
Every preview expected brohm to get rid of ball quickly and for us to press man to counteract.. I would have pressed man and made sure everyone was on alert where bell was at all times.. would have multiple brackets and traps for him and make sure he was never the one to beat us.. pull it out at certain times.. once I saw single coverage wasn't working.. breaking glass and xing him out immediately.. we had two weeks, wouldn't be hard install..
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Only team that always seems behind the O at the start of games. But at least this year the in game adjustments have looked to work
 
Walk a safety into the box, DBs no more than 2 yards off LOS, both will squeeze passing lanes. Dont blitz, need every man on the back end for tackling purposes.

When teams use the quick passing game you gotta play more base football. Vanilla game.

Hetherman came out aggressive and typical. Put too many tendencies on tape that Brohm took advantage of. He adjusted but it was too late. Brohm already had the defense thinking. A thinking defense is a nervous and failing defense. Considering the punts and turnovers they played well. Not well enough to forego reproach and criticism.
 
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