From the Perch: UVA

You didn’t review the interception that was so bad of a throw the announcers thought it was tipped. I could’ve burned down my resort room last night with that nonsense we rolled out there. You have to help a young qb succeed and Richt failed at that last night and last week. He put the handcuffs on Perry. DBs playing a mile off run bubble screens and quick offense. They’ll move up and your vertical crap will open up.

The whole world can see our plays coming. You don’t think a UVA squad who had 2 weeks to prepare wouldn’t
 
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You didn’t review the interception that was so bad of a throw the announcers thought it was tipped. I could’ve burned down my resort room last night with that nonsense we rolled out there. You have to help a young qb succeed and Richt failed at that last night and last week. He put the handcuffs on Perry. DBs playing a mile off run bubble screens and quick offense. They’ll move up and your vertical crap will open up.

The whole world can see our plays coming. You don’t think a UVA squad who had 2 weeks to prepare wouldn’t

I meant to. It was on my feed. I for the life of me cannot tell if the defensive end jumps and tips this. Im giving rosier the healthy benefit of the doubt.

Either way he has an alarming amount of tipped balls at the line in his tenure

 
I think Richt (as crazy as this is going to sound) needs to look at how Adam Gase uses Albert Wilson and Jakeem Grant to get some ideas for JT4 and Harley. Speedsters who can break off some mammoth screens, if they’re given the opportunity but it seems like the only screens they run are with the TE with Harley and JT as lead blockers, and that’s just laughable.
 
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I think Richt (as crazy as this is going to sound) needs to look at how Adam Gase uses Albert Wilson and Jakeem Grant to get some ideas for JT4 and Harley. Speedsters who can break off some mammoth screens, if they’re given the opportunity but it seems like the only screens they run are with the TE with Harley and JT as lead blockers, and that’s just laughable.

He's not going to do any of that. He "stole" a play last year from UNC where Berrios threw a pass to Rosier against VT. That's the extent of what he's willing to do. I don't think he even watches football.
 
From the Perch will probably read more like pushed off the perch this week and for good reason. The quarterback play was abysmal. Both N'Kosi Perry and Malik Rosier saw action this week and combined to throw three interceptions with no passing touchdowns. Rain or shine InSight is committed to bring you it's best, even when the team left its best in Coral Gables.



First 3rd and 2 of the game and I do not particularly like the call here. This is a 3x1 set with trips to the field. You can see that UVA is already not respecting the QB keep capacity from Perry. This seems to be an overcorrection from the LSU game when Richt thought the quarterback kept the ball too much that opening night. Miami needs to have the QB keep again. Because this offense runs similarly to Kaaya right now when defensive ends do not respect the QB keep capacity.

I also do not like the numbers. Yes. "Technically" this is 7 vs 7 but when the free safety is so close and the #1 db can factor and has his eyes into the play, I just know they will factor if you let them. You have 9 defenders in close proximity to the box. This was the same call vs FSU I criticized last week. I felt that Miami needed to have a "plus 2" philosophy and not just run the call for the sake of running it.



This was a 4th down call immediately following the failed third down attempt. It is the same formation. That is not exactly putting a defense in any pre snap confusion state. The call is essentially a stick from the #1 WR Wiggins, and two outs at the first down marker by the #2 and #3. Perry is looking at the outs and I feel he misses the stick in front of him for the first down. He runs and is stopped for a turnover on downs.



On third and long you can anticipate Richt to call an all vertical concept. The problem here was that the DB leverage is simply not going to let you complete the first over top. I have been an advocate that you need to run options based off the defensive look. If not, you will have to hit the check down and live another day. This is another simplistic call on third down that is in now way confusing for a defense.



A 2nd and 10 and Miami runs all verticals. The DB leverage is again not allowing you to really get over the top. Perry is disjointed rhythmically and the initial seam aspect to Harley is covered. UVA is running a delayed DB blitz and ultimately Perry straight up loses sight of the single high safety. This was a very poor decision and quarterbacking by Perry.

He was predetermined to hit Harley. You have to learn to hit the check down if it is covered. Of note it is a great play by Homer to come across the formation for the block. That allowed Perry plenty of time.



Here is exactly a team who scouted you an knows what you weren't good at. At the beginning of the frame you see Harley from the slot signaling that a late DB blitz is coming. Miami struggled week one on this look and threw 2 interceptions vs LSU under the same pretenses.

Miami does absolutely nothing to bend the route or to run it "Hot." Perry throws this into the teeth of the defense and once again he's rhythmically disjointed. The ball sails and is an easy interception. As much as I blame the quarterback here, he should have ran or took a sack. You simply can not fall victimized to similar concepts week to week without adaptation.

https://twitter.com/romancane/status/1051549785499545611
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Rosier was promptly interjected into the game shortly after. But I do want to make a comparison on similar concepts before we move onto Rosier's performance. These are two out breaking concepts. Perry is much more adept on these throws. You can see that Perry from the wide side of the field is better at this than Rosier from the short side. Mechanically Rosier just does not do what a high level quarterback is supposed to do on a consistent basis. Nor does he even have the arm to attempt a wide side out with authority or consistency.

https://twitter.com/romancane/status/1051552745348616193
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Your eyes are not deceiving you. That is a crossing route by Jeff Thomas underneath. The problem is when he was open early in the concept Thomas is not looking for the ball. The pocket breaks down and Mahoney is legitimately pushed 5 yards into the back field. I never particularly felt Rosier and Thomas were ever on the same page to begin with and this once again substantiates that notion.

It would have taken some wicked off platforming, back footed anticipatory magic to make this play work when the pocket collapsed down main street. Or if the two can see this open early they hit it NOW. But one thing with Rosier, he has to be in rhythm to be accurate and anything else essentially is not part of his game.

https://twitter.com/romancane/status/1051554617815916544

Rosier also stares down receivers and predetermines many times on throws. I felt Perry would manipulate a DB with shoulders and looks. This is not the case here from Rosier. He undressed Harley from the start with his eyes and the DB promptly turns into the receiver. The X stop into the boundary was open for a first down. But that is not a particularly well thrown ball by Rosier as he decides on the corner route.

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This is **** poor. The alignment from UVA will simply not allow this fullback dive work. The defensive end slants and the defensive line gets lower and blow up the play. The problem I had was this was the fourth time you have run this concept in this game. This is also probably the tenth time you have run it this year. You simply cannot believe a modern defense will not adjust to it. I formation with Chocolate cannot always be this vanilla.

The QB keep, if you decided to do so, was the easiest touchdown you would have scored all year. You simply cannot be that rigid in your play calling and base it off a 30 year practice. No way should Rosier let this play happen. Take the bullet. Call a timeout. Change the play. Something. This was doomed for failure.

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Guess what play Mark Richt calls on third and 13 here? Yes. ALL VERTICALS. The mechanics by Rosier here are putrid. You need to plant the front food get the backside through and follow through in line with the direction of the throw. This is none of those things. There is a reason why this ball is a day late and a dollar short. Also if you note Jeff Thomas's body language. It is very poor. I understand Jeff. I really do but you have to keep running your route young man.

Ugh. That was rough. I want to come on record and say that Perry should have not been pulled from this game. He had two particularly bad interceptions but he just needed to be told to take what the defense gives you and to settle down. This was Perry's first road start and I understand why he could have had some jitters. I ultimately believe you needed to be a little more patient with the young man. He opens up the offense in more ways that Rosier simply cannot.

This offense needs an overhaul. It is too pedestrian. It creates ZERO pre-snap confusion. The DB cushion was all that was needed to take the wind out of the sails of the passing offense. Virginia could have been exploited underneath all game but simply was not. Once again the run game was very simplistic and creates no real conflict for the defense. On and on I could go.

Richt simply has no clue how to get his playmakers the ball. Thomas was a non factor and you simply cannot just be content to run verticals and outs with the young man. I was taught a long time ago to get your playmakers the ball and they will make you look really good as a coordinator. This is just a plug and play offense right now. Does not matter who is at QB, WR, TE, HB, Richt is simply too content to call his plays to **** and high water.

These plays have worked for 30 years? Yes. They have. But you cannot just run a handful of those plays with a complete oblivion to the rest of the college world. From the Perch last week I warned our community that some self scouting needed to be done. I think we come to the realization now why I was adamant about that. Once the predictability starts to pile up, this staff has promptly equivocated that into two four game losing streaks in their tenure here.

Anemic offense has always been the catalyst in any of the losses in the Mark Richt era. Miami has the number one total defense in the land. That is elite championship caliber defense. It is so sad that we are wasting it. It really is. If you simply would have a meeting with coach Diaz and ask him, "What can I do to make you not sleep at night as an offense?" I think Miami could reemerge as a dominant offensive player in college again. The defense adapted. Why can't the offense?

If the offense does not evolve, this will be the reality. The reality that we are on the precipice of futility because two and half years have proven we do not have a championship caliber pedigree on that side of the ball. Personally I do not even think it is close to the level needed to beat the big boys. They do not dominate in one single area on that side of the ball. Until they can do so, championship level defenses will be wasted.


I can't believe that with a self-aware coach and after 3 seasons of the same results, changes would not be made by the head man...I am very self aware...I know what I'm good at, and what I suck in. I learn to lean on those for guidance and assistance in areas that I am weak in...how can this old man with over 30 years of coaching experience in different environments be so reticent to acknowledge this fact and take action to correct it.
 
nice write up again. I never understood why Richt has totally given up on throwing short. For awhile it seemed that's all he did with bubble screens and now its the total opposite. I feel like Norv Turner is calling plays, just go deep and throw it up. what a waste of the RB's, TE's and shifty guys we have at wr. It would also help Perry with some quick reads and his rocket arm. Just stick it in there and the guys run. **** the partiots have made a career out of this.. hey a little motion would probably make me cough up my beer..
 
Said this in another thread, but thought it fit here, too.

Here is what I think is a pretty simple takeaway from our offense at this point, whether you like our scheme, playcalling, rhythm, etc. - we have way too hard of a time getting the ball to our playmakers in a position for them to utilize their various skills. In offensive football at all levels, the goal is obviously to let your most talented players handle the ball at points on the field where they can be dangerous, whether it's an option QB running the option, a powerful RB running between the tackles, a speedy RB in space, big WRs against smaller CBs, fast WRs in space, etc. In football today, many teams with less overall talent, less talent on the OL, less talent at RB, less talent at WR, and less talent at QB, have managed to find ways to get the ball to their playmakers, whether that's through a pro-style offense, option offense, spread offense, etc.

For whatever reason, or more likely, for multiple reasons, we simply aren't able to do so consistently enough. Our offense just seems to work SO HARD to get any sort of consistency and/or explosiveness. Sure, our OL is not up to par, but does Texas Tech, or West Virginia, or Boise State, or whoever, have that much more talent on their OL than us? Most teams in the country would trade their offensive players for ours because we have enough talent across the board to be successful. Our WRs and our RBs are Miami-quality and we have depth there, and yet we can't find a way to score more than 13 points against Virginia? Richt's job is to find what his players can do effectively and coach to their strengths. N'Kosi Perry is a 4 star QB with a big arm and great athleticism. There is simply no excuse for not utilizing his strengths, while recognizing his weaknesses, and the weakness of our OL, to still find a way to have him get the ball to our playmakers in an easier way.
 
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I don’t think the ball was tipped. I think he skimmed it off one of the players in front of him
 
Said this in another thread, but thought it fit here, too.

Here is what I think is a pretty simple takeaway from our offense at this point, whether you like our scheme, playcalling, rhythm, etc. - we have way too hard of a time getting the ball to our playmakers in a position for them to utilize their various skills. In offensive football at all levels, the goal is obviously to let your most talented players handle the ball at points on the field where they can be dangerous, whether it's an option QB running the option, a powerful RB running between the tackles, a speedy RB in space, big WRs against smaller CBs, fast WRs in space, etc. In football today, many teams with less overall talent, less talent on the OL, less talent at RB, less talent at WR, and less talent at QB, have managed to find ways to get the ball to their playmakers, whether that's through a pro-style offense, option offense, spread offense, etc.

For whatever reason, or more likely, for multiple reasons, we simply aren't able to do so consistently enough. Our offense just seems to work SO HARD to get any sort of consistency and/or explosiveness. Sure, our OL is not up to par, but does Texas Tech, or West Virginia, or Boise State, or whoever, have that much more talent on their OL than us? Most teams in the country would trade their offensive players for ours because we have enough talent across the board to be successful. Our WRs and our RBs are Miami-quality and we have depth there, and yet we can't find a way to score more than 13 points against Virginia? Richt's job is to find what his players can do effectively and coach to their strengths. N'Kosi Perry is a 4 star QB with a big arm and great athleticism. There is simply no excuse for not utilizing his strengths, while recognizing his weaknesses, and the weakness of our OL, to still find a way to have him get the ball to our playmakers in an easier way.

You know one thing that this offense is lacking? And it goes into your premise and nicely articulated post. Horizontal pressure. I just do not see us really getting teams or linebackers in particular moving sideline to sideline vs us. I really felt that was how Clemson was able to move so effectively vs us in the ACCCG last year. Just the ability to get a play maker with speed, on the move, along the perimeter is really lacking in this offense.

I mean just spit balling here. But I would even be totally OK if Miami ran the same offense. But just came into a ball game with a concerted effort to tailor make plays for your game changers. Watch a Kansas City Chief game and watch how they routinely achieve this. Steal (I mean borrow) a few of those concepts. Build off it and go from there. Play makers can make any coach look good if you let them.

I said this on Twitter today. This is a Copy Cat league. But when no Cats are copying you? That should be your first clue.
 
I don’t think the ball was tipped. I think he skimmed it off one of the players in front of him

Rosier is not that adept at continually manufacturing a throwing lane. Tipped balls, skimmed balls etc. He is not great in this area.
 
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Great job Roman. The fact that he has Diaz to help him figure this out ... and he choses not to do so ... is the most frustrating part.

Knew of a high school coach that at the mid way point of every season, would throw away his whole entire playbook and start new. In his mind he just knew teams would start to figure his tenancy out and that was always his rationale.

This Miami offense is to a point that it has so less few moving parts, that when a part actually moves, EVERYONE notices. And that is not a good thing. First play of the half when Jeff Thomas was in the slot, the semi roll by Rosier, the play was immediately covered down field.

Why? Because when you played Clemson you ran that. Any time you ever semi roll in that fashion from that formation with Jeff Thomas in the slot, he will run a corner post EVERY SINGLE TIME. That is what he does. That is what you tried to do first play of the game in the ACCCG. Virgina obviously had it well scouted and no one bit on the double move. In film, notice the small things, they will show you a LOT.
 
I meant to. It was on my feed. I for the life of me cannot tell if the defensive end jumps and tips this. Im giving rosier the healthy benefit of the doubt.

Either way he has an alarming amount of tipped balls at the line in his tenure


When I saw the replay on TV, it almost looked as if the DE got a piece of his shoulder a split second before he let the pass go.
 
nice write up again. I never understood why Richt has totally given up on throwing short. For awhile it seemed that's all he did with bubble screens and now its the total opposite. I feel like Norv Turner is calling plays, just go deep and throw it up. what a waste of the RB's, TE's and shifty guys we have at wr. It would also help Perry with some quick reads and his rocket arm. Just stick it in there and the guys run. **** the partiots have made a career out of this.. hey a little motion would probably make me cough up my beer..

I try NEVER to bring up the "m" word in one of my threads. Richt just is not that kind of coach that likes to use motion. Personally, I love it. I would motion in the red zone every play just to help identify the coverage. I could write you a 10,000 word essay on the benefits of motion by tomorrow morning if you let me. But someone would do that zzzzzzzzz thing on my thread and I would feel defeated. JK

UVA simply was not going to get beat by Miami over the top. Did not stop Miami from trying. But something within the realm of Richt possibility that he has done in the past? You could have ran stops up and down the field. They had more cushion than a furniture store. Bad game plan by the staff. It really was.

Especially with a freshman QB who was making his first road start.
 
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You know one thing that this offense is lacking? And it goes into your premise and nicely articulated post. Horizontal pressure. I just do not see us really getting teams or linebackers in particular moving sideline to sideline vs us. I really felt that was how Clemson was able to move so effectively vs us in the ACCCG last year. Just the ability to get a play maker with speed, on the move, along the perimeter is really lacking in this offense.

I mean just spit balling here. But I would even be totally OK if Miami ran the same offense. But just came into a ball game with a concerted effort to tailor make plays for your game changers. Watch a Kansas City Chief game and watch how they routinely achieve this. Steal (I mean borrow) a few of those concepts. Build off it and go from there. Play makers can make any coach look good if you let them.

I said this on Twitter today. This is a Copy Cat league. But when no Cats are copying you? That should be your first clue.

I completely agree with the idea of using horizontal pressure to stress defenses. With the amount of speed that we have at all of our skill positions, if we are able to stress teams horizontally at a couple levels, through jet motion, bubble screens, crossing routes, etc., that makes defending the vertical pressure we can put on teams with our talent so much more effective. Getting our guys the ball in space doesn't have to be 20 yards down the field.

I like your reference to both Clemson and KC. Clemson with Bryant last year put so much pressure on teams because they were so efficient at completing the short passes to their talented skill guys, forcing teams to tackle their guys in space, and their guys were able to create mistakes with their speed. And, I think that with a guy like Thomas or Harley, we can add the ability to attack over the top more than Clemson seemed to. KC, as @LuCane said in another thread I think, has a speed demon like Tyreke Hill that they utilize all over to attack teams horizontally and vertically. The play last night where Hill scored on deep crossing route across the field would be a great play for us to get Thomas involved in against a single high safety.

One other play that I saw in that game that I loved. New England ran a play where they had Edelman in motion at the snap and Brady faked a bubble screen to him, and with the motion and the fake, the defense flowed toward him, and Gronk ran a seam route in the area vacated by the LBs/safety. I know pre-snap motion is not some magic cure all, but if we moved a guy like Thomas or Harley in that way, we'd be able to attack the middle even more effectively with Jordan and Mallory.

Again, it just shouldn't be as hard as we make it look to utilize skilled, fast playmakers that we have. Like you said, there are great concepts out there that we could add to make us more effective and dangerous. It's disappointing that we aren't able to incorporate ideas like those.
 
I completely agree with the idea of using horizontal pressure to stress defenses. With the amount of speed that we have at all of our skill positions, if we are able to stress teams horizontally at a couple levels, through jet motion, bubble screens, crossing routes, etc., that makes defending the vertical pressure we can put on teams with our talent so much more effective. Getting our guys the ball in space doesn't have to be 20 yards down the field.

I like your reference to both Clemson and KC. Clemson with Bryant last year put so much pressure on teams because they were so efficient at completing the short passes to their talented skill guys, forcing teams to tackle their guys in space, and their guys were able to create mistakes with their speed. And, I think that with a guy like Thomas or Harley, we can add the ability to attack over the top more than Clemson seemed to. KC, as @LuCane said in another thread I think, has a speed demon like Tyreke Hill that they utilize all over to attack teams horizontally and vertically. The play last night where Hill scored on deep crossing route across the field would be a great play for us to get Thomas involved in against a single high safety.

One other play that I saw in that game that I loved. New England ran a play where they had Edelman in motion at the snap and Brady faked a bubble screen to him, and with the motion and the fake, the defense flowed toward him, and Gronk ran a seam route in the area vacated by the LBs/safety. I know pre-snap motion is not some magic cure all, but if we moved a guy like Thomas or Harley in that way, we'd be able to attack the middle even more effectively with Jordan and Mallory.

Again, it just shouldn't be as hard as we make it look to utilize skilled, fast playmakers that we have. Like you said, there are great concepts out there that we could add to make us more effective and dangerous. It's disappointing that we aren't able to incorporate ideas like those.

If Miami refuses to put players in motion, then they can do it with spacing on the field. I am a big Kendal Briles fan and he will have his X/Z receivers 3 yards from the side line at times. Now your # 2 db has no choice BUT to be isolated on your two receiver. You ever notice how a team will run a simple slant in those instances and it's a house call? I can't tell you the last time I saw Miami do that.

Miami has struggled vs the db blitz this year. Vs LSU the two picks were on db blitzes. VS. UVA on db blitzes. Really hard to send those guys when you already have them standing in left field. Some coordinators will disagree because they don't like cutting off the out breaking routes from the X/Z but seriously now. How many times are you seeing corner routes from the X/Z? Just run your out into a comeback and you are fine. Kosi has the arm for that.

Teams that don't motion a lot will either use two other options to create a tactical advantage. They go really really fast or they space their receivers out. Teams that go slow usually create tactical advantages through mismatch/formations/shifts/motions. Mark Richt does NONE of these things.

He has the 77th ranked offense in the country. We can go round and round on offensive philosophies but ultimately that number means Richt simply is not getting it done. He needs to evolve. Try something. He needs to self scout. This simply cannot be the standard of offensive football at the University of Miami.
 
I meant to. It was on my feed. I for the life of me cannot tell if the defensive end jumps and tips this. Im giving rosier the healthy benefit of the doubt.

Either way he has an alarming amount of tipped balls at the line in his tenure



Tyler Gauthier...seen enough of him.
 
If you go frame by frame ... it does appear as though the jumping DE tipped the ball.

Rosier still sucks in my book regardless and its what we get for having a 5 '10 QB.
 
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