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Is D’Eriq King really stepping up his competition?

DTP said:
Go back to post #71. My post was a direct response. It has nothing to do with who's better the 99 team or the 2019 team. It has nothing to do with how many wins the team has had. The original quote was from a guy who said Temple would be the biggest game of the year for Houston while at Miami it's just a game that most people assume they'd win.
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Got you, I don't agree with that but I see what he is trying to say.... Houston has played OU, FSU and some other big boys in recent season

All good, just thought that post was off about the 99 team but I see what you were aiming for now, I think

I also don't assume any wins from us anymore, even vs Temple, and our fans also should not
 
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Gooner#44 said:
Got you, I don't agree with that but I see what he is trying to say.... Houston has played OU, FSU and some other big boys in recent season

all good, just thought that post was off about the 99 team but I see what you were aiming for now, I think
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Yeah, if you didn't follow from the original quoted post, the context gets lost
 
BeauxBeaux said:
That's absurd. Setting yourself up for disappointment in my opinion.
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In 2018, he passed for 2,982yds & 36TD's with 674yds & 14TD's rushing.

My projection is that he passes for upwards of 118 more yards, throws within the same TD range & rushes within the same rushing yards range as he did at Houston that season.

It's not absurd IMO & not setting myself up for disappointment. If he doesn't match or equal those numbers but we still win I'll still be happy. I don't actually care what his numbers are as long as we win the Coastal.

If Rosier could throw for 3,120yds with 26TD's passing & 468yds rushing as a far less accurate passer & a severely less talented player in a ****** ultra Boom or bust RPO Richt offense, then King who is an astronomically more talented player with much better weapons being coached by an uptempo Air-Raid esque offense he can absolutely hit those numbers without much issue.

Our fans tend to want to lower expectations due to a long decade+ history of being letdown every single year which is understandable, but King+Lashlee are outliers in context to the last 17 years of Miami history.

We've haven't had a QB with King's talent & haven't had an OC with coaching acumen like Lashlee in decades. That's what makes this situation different from all the others.
 
The question that should have started the thread is, Will Miami field a competent enough OLine that will let King do magical things ? Not good, not great, just competent, if they do this, King will bend over all the defenses on our schedule.
 
Been trying to tell y’all........

@Liberty City El too.

This kid is ABSURDLY good at exactly what our offensive coordinator does. It’s a perfect marriage. And the cherry on top is you don’t need a dominating, road grading OL to do it. Just some semblance of competency. And seeing as how every single kid who played a snap there last season is back, plus Rivers, plus Reed, plus Traore....it’s GOT to be at least a little better.

You can’t put the expectations for this kid high enough. He is a legit, proven Top 10 (at worst) college QB as of today, and I’m not sure you could’ve hired many OCs that would be better equipped to showcase him.

Kicking *should be* light years better than 2019, when it was probably our #1 Achilles heel. Punting *should* continue to be good to very good, as it was last year compared to 2018, when it was probably our #1 Achilles heel.

Defense *should* be plenty good enough to win this division, as it has indisputably been all 4 years Manny has been here.

Mr. Lashlee? You’ve got a Ferrari in the garage. This guy made Shane Buchele, who was average at best at Texas (with athletes Texas gets playing in the literal defense-less Big 12) into a kid who did this last season:

#6 nationally in YPG
#25 nationally in passer rating
#34 nationally in YPA
#6 nationally in passing TDs
#5 nationally in attempts, and 3 of the 4 guys ahead of him threw more picks. Only one that didn’t? Joe Burrow

And did I mention he did this while rushing for 8 yards per game? Eight. He can only beat you 1 way. Defenses knew it, and Lashlee had him putting up the numbers he did. Imagine with a kid who you have to defend his legs maybe even more than his arm? Pants. Off.
 
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Liberty City El said:
In 2018, he passed for 2,982yds & 36TD's with 674yds & 14TD's rushing.

My projection is that he passes for upwards of 118 more yards, throws within the same TD range & rushes within the same rushing yards range as he did at Houston that season.

It's not absurd IMO & not setting myself up for disappointment. If he doesn't match or equal those numbers but we still win I'll still be happy. I don't actually care what his numbers are as long as we win the Coastal.

If Rosier could throw for 3,120yds with 26TD's passing & 468yds rushing as a far less accurate passer & a severely less talented player in a ****** ultra Boom or bust RPO Richt offense, then King who is an astronomically more talented player with much better weapons being coached by an uptempo Air-Raid esque offense he can absolutely hit those numbers without much issue.

Our fans tend to want to lower expectations due to a long decade+ history of being letdown every single year which is understandable, but King+Lashlee are outliers in context to the last 17 years of Miami history.

We've haven't had a QB with King's talent & haven't had an OC with coaching acumen like Lashlee in decades. That's what makes this situation different from all the others.
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From your mouth (or keyboard) to God's ears, my friend.
 
Liberty City El said:
That's a very shortsighted look at it.

Vs TTech he was 30/51 431yds & 5TD's passing with 47yds rushing & 1TD.

Vs AZ he was 17/34 246yds 4TD's passing with 31yds rushing & 2TD's .

In 2019 the Redshirt year -

vs Wash St he was 13/24 128yds 1TD passing with 94yds rushing & 2TD's.

Vs Oklahoma he was 14/27 for 167yds 2TD's passing with 103yds rushing & 1TD.

He didn't throw a single interception or have any turnovers vs P5 teams & had he had more support around him he would've played much better.

Completion percentage doesn't tell the full story of each game, a better coordinator can manufacture an above 60% passer in a better offense with better weapons.

So just saying he completed 54% vs P5 teams on it's face isn't really giving a clue as to what kind of passer he is or isn't. He was a 63.5% passer in 2018, which means it can be duplicated again.

Jalen Hurts was a 60.6% passer in Mike Locksley trash offense in 2017, in 2019 in Lincoln Riley's system he catapulted to being a 69.7% passer because the system simplified the reads & opened the field up to have easier completions.

There are no dominant stout Defenses in the Coastal & there are no Juggenaughts on our schedule, King will be fine.
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He’s guilty of being mr google stat guy without watching the kid play. If anyone watched him play in 2018 they’d know he was an absolute monster end accuracy wasn’t an issue.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Been trying to tell y’all........

@Liberty City El too.

This kid is ABSURDLY good at exactly what our offensive coordinator does. It’s a perfect marriage. And the cherry on top is you don’t need a dominating, road grading OL to do it. Just some semblance of competency. And seeing as how every single kid who played a snap there last season is back, plus Rivers, plus Reed, plus Traore....it’s GOT to be at least a little better.

You can’t put the expectations for this kid high enough. He is a legit, proven Top 10 (at worst) college QB as of today, and I’m not sure you could’ve hired many OCs that would be better equipped to showcase him.

Kicking *should be* light years better than 2019, when it was probably our #1 Achilles heel. Punting *should* continue to be good to very good, as it was last year compared to 2018, when it was probably our #1 Achilles heel.

Defense *should* be plenty good enough to win this division, as it has indisputably been all 4 years Manny has been here.

Mr. Lashlee? You’ve got a Ferrari in the garage. This guy made Shane Buchele, who was average at best at Texas (with athletes Texas gets playing in the literal defense-less Big 12) into a kid who did this last season:

#6 nationally in YPG
#25 nationally in passer rating
#34 nationally in YPA
#6 nationally in passing TDs
#5 nationally in attempts, and 3 of the 4 guys ahead of him threw more picks. Only one that didn’t? Joe Burrow

And did I mention he did this while rushing for 8 yards per game? Eight. He can only beat you 1 way. Defenses knew it, and Lashlee had him putting up the numbers he did. Imagine with a kid who you have to defend his legs maybe even more than his arm? Pants. Off.
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He’s the absolute perfect player for what we’re running , you couldn’t create a player and make the fit any better.
 
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I'm trying not to get too excited but he throws the ball pretty accurately fo a guy who played WR his first 2 college seasons. The OL still scares me and we could us a proven lead back and WR but kid looks good
 
dwreck27 said:
Well there’s a lot of things projecting forward to make this conference harder and more importantly the coastal division itself

1) No longer will GT be a 1940s offense and will now tap into their fertile Atlanta area recruiting grounds no longer allowing UGA and other SEC schools to poach them away

2) UNC with Mack Brown is showing it will be a top 10 recruiting school bringing in some Uber talented kids.. also not allowing themselves to get ran over by the SEC

Those two teams immediately pick up the divisions reputation by increasing the talent and Competitiveness in and out of conference.

Also Louisville won’t be down for much longer, FSU as much j hate to admit it won’t be a dumpster fire with norvell (don’t think they’ll be elite but they won’t be taggart level doo-doo).
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Doubt GT.. they still have lots of academic requirements.

Unc nope.. Like I said we almost last year.. Literally like one play away.

We should dominate this slack *** coastal.. I can't believe 17 years of bull****.

Louisville, nope we destroyed them with a reported weed head who smoked 3 to 4 joints before the game started. A weed head dropped a 40+ burger on them. .

Can't speculate on fsu, they haven't been respectable since Dumbo's second to last year.

You are over hyping teams. The only team we should be focused on should be klumpson. They are recruiting nationally that's where we use to dominate.
 
Lack of spring, summer being threatened is dampening my expectations for what was an important off season for us, the new offense, linebackers needed real coaching, the important second year of S&C gone, and then are culture issue isn't being fixed because we aren't actually together.
 
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