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No team was better on the deep ball than Miami in 2014. Brad Kaaya proved to be an excellent downfield thrower, matched with a good running game and speed at receiver. For the year, Miami completed 41.3 percent of its deep balls (second in ACC), averaged 14.6 yards per attempt (first) and had nine touchdowns on those throws (tied for first). It’s worth noting though that just 12 percent of Miami’s passes in 2014 were 20 yards or more, the third fewest in the league.
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http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/78561/by-the-numbers-breaking-down-the-deep-ball

So we were very good at it, but didn't do it often (relative to other ACC teams).

Is this a Kaaya issue (not looking deep often enough), Coley (playcalling), something else (oline not giving enough time), or some combination (the easy answer)?
 
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Seems like a combination of play-calls (too many bubble-screens) and Kaaya's willingness to take the "check-down".
 
MIATL said:
Seems like a combination of play-calls (too many bubble-screens) and Kaaya's willingness to take the "check-down".
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I'm fine w the checkdown bc we had a qb for 2 years that didnt check down once. we need a good balance and i think we had that. the bubble screens can go away, but i feel like we relied a lot on the ground game towards the middle of the season (which we should since we had Duke).
 
to play devils advocate, the fact that we went deep so sparingly is probably why it was so effective. we also didn't have the balls to go deep against the better defenses we played...

but i agree, wish we were more aggressive on offense, especially with the lead
 
canecountry3 said:
Miami also had some guy named Duke Johnson to hand the ball off to.
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I think this thread is specific to passing plays. It's not comparing total plays to deep passes ...

But I also think Duke was among the top 3 receivers on the team, so throwing him the ball on designed plays probably also impacts the number of deep passes.
 
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Seems like a combination of thing: Stacy Coley not catching the ball consistently probably caused Coach Coley and Kaaya to lose confidence in him. Dorsett demanded double coverage most games. Coach Coley called too many bubble screens. Toward the end of the season teams blitzed us like crazy to force the ball out of Kaaya's hands early, which limited the number of deep opportunities we had. It was a smart decision to give the ball to #8 as much as possible.
 
The thing I like about Coley, was that when we did get hit with alot of negative yardage early on, we stopped doing that bubble screen plays. So, there is learning from mistakes and going with what works.
 
We should of fed Dorsett more. In some games we would use him in first half then just go quiet the next. We need to have that feed the studs type mentality. Like how Kiffin used Amari, no matter what he got the ball, single, double, triple, bracket, zone, etc. Find ways to get your explosive players the ball, and that doesnt mean throw them a bubble screen with berrios to block. We will miss dorsett.

I hope Stacy steps up and regains that freshman form and better
 
1) think about where that number would have been without a few notable drops and overthrows

2) my personal opinion is that coley was asked to control the ball...I think he showed he was more than capable of opening things up when he got the chance
 
skyman said:
We should of fed Dorsett more. In some games we would use him in first half then just go quiet the next. We need to have that feed the studs type mentality. Like how Kiffin used Amari, no matter what he got the ball, single, double, triple, bracket, zone, etc. Find ways to get your explosive players the ball, and that doesnt mean throw them a bubble screen with berrios to block. We will miss dorsett.

I hope Stacy steps up and regains that freshman form and better
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That's the one thing Kiffin always does well...identify a stud and feed him. At USC he did it with Robert Woods and then Marquise Lee, and now he did it with Amari Cooper. Definitely something we could learn from, because this spreading it around **** took away from our productivity this year.
 
Confused with the both of you here.

Stacy Coley was not in form to be a play maker this year. He was fragile as ****. The last thing I want is Linebackers tackling him on bubble screens. Amari Cooper is what, 210 pounds and Coley is like 180. We don't have an every down receiver like Cooper. The closest we got is Walford.

I like our offense better than Alabama in terms of player makers (Duke, Walford, Dorsett > Yeldon, Vogler, Cooper). The only difference (excluding coaching) is our quarterback is 18 years old.
 
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With the development of a few bigger possession type WR that Kaaya can go to on hot reads along with the TE going down the seem and Kaaya will be an automatic minimium 5-7yds on every throw.

Go Canes
 
cp7705 said:
The thing I like about Coley, was that when we did get hit with alot of negative yardage early on, we stopped doing that bubble screen plays. So, there is learning from mistakes and going with what works.
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Unlike the clowns that run the D.
 
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