Hetherman had his roughest day at Miami

Game plan wasn’t good against FSU, and I’m not as worried about the explosives yet.
But big picture:

LBs are just all kinds of bad. And will stay that way if this is who you run out there.

Blitzes sometimes come from too far away.

We allow too much easy stuff almost by design. Which, even when it has worked this year, it eats up too much of the clock. You’re shortening the game and allowing teams to flip field position too much.
Whether it was Stanford, Wake, Clemson, or FSU. Too many drives into our territory. And yeah, you got the 4th down stops. But you have now limited how many times the strength of your team (offense) is going to make an impact and actually put them in a bad spot by forcing them to drive even longer.

And when it doesnt work, you saw how bad it can look. So much of the, “we will allow you to take that” approach is based on the idea that we will eventually get you behind the sticks and stop you. But without that TFLs, FSU just kept sustaining drives.

Third down defense has to get cleaned up ASAP. Even a little bit of improvement would be huge.
 
This was maddening. Normally we’re pretty good at defending screens too.

Need to see a big bounce back game from Heatherman next week , especially considering Pitt is down to scrub backup QBs.
This was a game we missed Agent Zero. He was so **** elite at slipping blockers and busting screens up
 
It was a bad call and he owned it, we cant ask for more than that.. When you have NTT now, I dont even know why you call normal tampa ever anymore, but mugged up with Toure is just malpractice :ibis-roflmao-sm3:
This is why he’s nothing like Guidry to me. Lance didn’t take ownership. I think he will be better and self scout. Happens every week at every level. Chess matches between coordinators.
 
He runs that safety/nickel blitz a lot. I thought it was a game plan for Wake but he’s been running it every other play each week. Norvell was cooking him.
He’s been running a safety or nickel blitz probably 35-40% of his time here, its a staple in his defense. It has worked more times than not, keiont obviously was a tremendous blitzer and force player
 
This was maddening. Normally we’re pretty good at defending screens too.

Need to see a big bounce back game from Heatherman next week , especially considering Pitt is down to scrub backup QBs.

We completley stuffed a screen late in the 4Q if TrumpyCane remembers correctly, so at least we adjusted slightly
 
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