Mandy Diaz: Coward & Liar, or Ruthless Man of Action?

[simplycanes]

I really like Manny and hope it works out for him, but the only way that happens is if Enos gets canned. I think he’s a solid QB developer but nothing more than that, he can’t run an offense and Manny will be making his bed if he doesn’t get rid of Enos at the end of the season

I can't for the life of me believe Manny is content with the direction we went on offense. My concern is he saw this unfolding over the off-season and let it keep going this direction.

 

[DiegoCane]

Well written. I said at the time, he hired the opposite of what he talked about.

Not only does Miami stink and lose to teams they shouldn't, they are extremely boring to watch, even in victories. No one is getting excited about "TNM" with this product on the field. Again, complete opposite of what Diaz said he wanted.

 

[mackjones]

Let's journey back to January, eh PLAYERS?

A time when rumors of Applewhite, Fedora, and the Clemson guy swirled like turds down a toilet. A time of hope and optimism. It took Mandy a while to make his OC hire, as he claimed no one would care about the timeline as long as he "got it right." Well, spoiler alert amigo, ya ******* got it dead *** wrong, BROTHER.

Anyway, his awful decision aside, here's what Manny was pumping out about his potential OC hire at the time:




Welp. That was a ******* lie.

Let's break this down. As you know, we are none of these things Mandy claimed to desire on offense, and I'm still not sure why he hired Dan Penos if these were his goals, as Penos' offense is not, and has never, been any of these things. Instead, we're marching out what looks to be some random NY Giants offense from 1993 on most plays, and we occasionally mix in some painfully telegraphed end arounds every now and then if we're REALLY feeling crazy. Wow, Dan, so edgy.

So, let's situate ourselves in the present and see where we stand. We know what Mandy claimed to want, and we see with our own god damned eyeballs we are the opposite of that, but how about quantitive data on the subject? Is Penos as bad as he seems?

Our offense vs FBS teams this season:

94th in plays run
79th in yards per play
95th in total yards
104th in points scored
128th in 3rd down conversions
113th in redzone TD percentage
125th in redzone scoring percentage

Oooookay, wow, holy shlt-- so it's even worse than I thought. What the fvck, Dan? Jesus. So we're not fast, innovative, or cutting-edge. We run a slow pace, we can't score, can't move the ball, and can't convert to sustain drives. Alright then.

Tough to shake off those repulsive numbers but let's try to not let permanent failure and *** ******* Dan Penos derail this post.

Now, back to the matter at hand: Mandy also commented on his OC hire that he wanted an offense that was exciting enough to attract recruits and keep kids home. I ask you, if you're a WR or RB from the great God's country and football powerhouse of Broward County, do you want to come play for this offense after watching the Pitt game or would you rather have all your pubes plucked out one-by-one while blowing your dad in broad daylight? Exactly. Me too.

So Mandy finds himself flailing around in year 1 with a 4-4 record and arguably the worst offense of any Power 5 progrum. The real kicker? Vs FBS teams, Mandy's defense is top 25 in every category listed above except for opponents 3rd down conversions.

What does this mean? If Mandy didn't completely shlt his guayabera on the OC hire, he is looking at a much better season right now and those Touchdown Rings look a lot less ridiculous and the Canes Air Force is firmly grounded in their hangars.

Mandy screwed up as a new head coach, but where does he go from here? That brings us to the big question of my post. Mandy is at a crossroads right now. This offseason, he has the choice of either becoming Al Golden, or giving himself a fighting chance to actually have a successful career at Miami. Al Golden also found himself stuck with a terrible coordinator hire whose unit checked in around the 90s or worse in almost every category, and he refused to adapt and make a change. He's cleaning urinals for the Lions now.

The truly elite, championship-winning coaches like Urban and Saban would pull the plug on their own grandmothers to land a recruit. They'd run a bus full of orphans off of a cliff to secure a title. Winning requires you to be cutthroat and able to recognize when you've made a mistake. But you also need to be capable eliminating that mistake and eradicating the rot swiftly and decisively. Mandy doesn't have time to have bad seasons as a new coach, especially not when he's been here now for 4 seasons in some capacity. There is no time to waste.

Is Mandy a ruthless badass capable of making the tough decision necessary to save his career and this progrum, or is he a moron that will stay loyal to Penos, ignore what's in front of him, and instead opt to blame the players and execution, refusing to rectify his mistake in enough time to stop the bleeding?

Mandy has two choices in the coming months:

He can make the move of an elite level head coach by giving a nod to the executioner and allowing the sword swing, ending the Penos era and clearing the way for him to hire the type of OC he claimed to originally want, or he can be too stubborn/stupid to realize the disease that must be eliminated in order for him to have a chance to succeed.

I fear it'll be the latter, but for the sake of our dying progrum, I hope he stuns us all and sends Dan Penos back to the depths of 1990's football **** where he belongs-- otherwise, we'll be firing up another head coaching search very soon.

 

[mackjones]

Let's journey back to January, eh PLAYERS?

A time when rumors of Applewhite, Fedora, and the Clemson guy swirled like turds down a toilet. A time of hope and optimism. It took Mandy a while to make his OC hire, as he claimed no one would care about the timeline as long as he "got it right." Well, spoiler alert amigo, ya ******* got it dead *** wrong, BROTHER.

Anyway, his awful decision aside, here's what Manny was pumping out about his potential OC hire at the time:




Welp. That was a ******* lie.

Let's break this down. As you know, we are none of these things Mandy claimed to desire on offense, and I'm still not sure why he hired Dan Penos if these were his goals, as Penos' offense is not, and has never, been any of these things. Instead, we're marching out what looks to be some random NY Giants offense from 1993 on most plays, and we occasionally mix in some painfully telegraphed end arounds every now and then if we're REALLY feeling crazy. Wow, Dan, so edgy.

So, let's situate ourselves in the present and see where we stand. We know what Mandy claimed to want, and we see with our own god damned eyeballs we are the opposite of that, but how about quantitive data on the subject? Is Penos as bad as he seems?

Our offense vs FBS teams this season:

94th in plays run
79th in yards per play
95th in total yards
104th in points scored
128th in 3rd down conversions
113th in redzone TD percentage
125th in redzone scoring percentage

Oooookay, wow, holy shlt-- so it's even worse than I thought. What the fvck, Dan? Jesus. So we're not fast, innovative, or cutting-edge. We run a slow pace, we can't score, can't move the ball, and can't convert to sustain drives. Alright then.

Tough to shake off those repulsive numbers but let's try to not let permanent failure and *** ******* Dan Penos derail this post.

Now, back to the matter at hand: Mandy also commented on his OC hire that he wanted an offense that was exciting enough to attract recruits and keep kids home. I ask you, if you're a WR or RB from the great God's country and football powerhouse of Broward County, do you want to come play for this offense after watching the Pitt game or would you rather have all your pubes plucked out one-by-one while blowing your dad in broad daylight? Exactly. Me too.

So Mandy finds himself flailing around in year 1 with a 4-4 record and arguably the worst offense of any Power 5 progrum. The real kicker? Vs FBS teams, Mandy's defense is top 25 in every category listed above except for opponents 3rd down conversions.

What does this mean? If Mandy didn't completely shlt his guayabera on the OC hire, he is looking at a much better season right now and those Touchdown Rings look a lot less ridiculous and the Canes Air Force is firmly grounded in their hangars.

Mandy screwed up as a new head coach, but where does he go from here? That brings us to the big question of my post. Mandy is at a crossroads right now. This offseason, he has the choice of either becoming Al Golden, or giving himself a fighting chance to actually have a successful career at Miami. Al Golden also found himself stuck with a terrible coordinator hire whose unit checked in around the 90s or worse in almost every category, and he refused to adapt and make a change. He's cleaning urinals for the Lions now.

The truly elite, championship-winning coaches like Urban and Saban would pull the plug on their own grandmothers to land a recruit. They'd run a bus full of orphans off of a cliff to secure a title. Winning requires you to be cutthroat and able to recognize when you've made a mistake. But you also need to be capable eliminating that mistake and eradicating the rot swiftly and decisively. Mandy doesn't have time to have bad seasons as a new coach, especially not when he's been here now for 4 seasons in some capacity. There is no time to waste.

Is Mandy a ruthless badass capable of making the tough decision necessary to save his career and this progrum, or is he a moron that will stay loyal to Penos, ignore what's in front of him, and instead opt to blame the players and execution, refusing to rectify his mistake in enough time to stop the bleeding?

Mandy has two choices in the coming months:

He can make the move of an elite level head coach by giving a nod to the executioner and allowing the sword swing, ending the Penos era and clearing the way for him to hire the type of OC he claimed to originally want, or he can be too stubborn/stupid to realize the disease that must be eliminated in order for him to have a chance to succeed.

I fear it'll be the latter, but for the sake of our dying progrum, I hope he stuns us all and sends Dan Penos back to the depths of 1990's football **** where he belongs-- otherwise, we'll be firing up another head coaching search very soon.

The Arizona Wildcats just FIRED their DC and linebacker's coach. Yeah it was after EIGHT games. So what. The point is Arizona's head coach did something about a CRAPPY defense. Also, Leach and Miles earlier this season FIRED coordinators. So it can happen, but Manny is too STUBBORN and INCOMPETENT to make such a decision.

 

[1mg of Epi]

Enos is cutting-edge, if you take thst edge and Slit your own wrists.

 

[mackjones]

This is what is called Miami's version of The Twilight Zone ( My bad for borrowing the title from an early 60's telly show. ). Miami had more total offensive yardage than the conference three teams they lost too. And in their two conference wins, Miami had significant LOWER offensive yardage than the two teams they defeated. Go figure.

Again, Miami is a consistently inconsistent team and has an incompetent stubborn head coach. Which includes his assistants too. And that is probably why Miami is sitting at. 500, in the WORST Division among Power 5 conferences. OUCH. No wonder there's still a long shot possibility to play mighty Clemson, again. Yikes.

 

[HighSeas]

“You want a defense that is aggressive and attacking and that causes problems for the other team,” Diaz said numerous times this week. “A defense that is simple enough that allows the players to play fast. Well, philosophically then you should want your offense to be the same way. We want something that is aggressive and attacking and that creates mental stress for the defense we are playing.”

I'd argue that the defense this year has looked far more passive and needlessly complex than in the past.

 

[88]

I don't trust him to pick a good OC, but we all know for a fact Penos sucks. Even if Mandy has a 10% chance of lucking into a good hire, it's still better odds than Penos ever being good.

And there are a lot of bright innovative offensive minds. You can dip into non-power 5 teams and offer a younger guy a raise and chance to be a play caller at a power 5 team. You can pluck a protege of someone at a big program like OU and give them a crack at running their own offense.

There are options.

Exactly. Briles was the hottest coordinator around when he joined a dead man walkings staff.

 

[mackjones]

I'd argue that the defense this year has looked far more passive and needlessly complex than in the past.

Way too much zone coverage! Now, I could understand those defensive coverage calls at the beginning of the season. But there's still too much zone for a supposedly " attacking defense. " Yeah, yeah, yeah. Baker/Enos probably protecting Ivory or Blades.

 

[MizCane]

I think Manny will put and end to the Enos era pretty swiftly. The smart move would be to do it after our last game even if we somehow make it to a bowl. You gotta let the croots know its changing.

 

[WhatTheHell]

I think Manny will be making his own bed if he fires Enos at the end of the season. Another offensive rebuild, another wave of transfers (out), and another learning curve exposing the lazy players and the players too stupid to learn a playbook doesn't sound like a recipe for offensive success in 2020.

I think Enos gets this season to show improvement and is on a short leash in 2020. Dumping him at season's end sounds fun, but it also means recruits and current players leave yet again. We as fans are severely overrating the talent on the offensive side of the ball.

I am sure offensive players and recruits will be really broken up about not getting a chance to play for the 104th ranked scoring offense in the country.

Continuity for continuity's sake has never, ever worked. A bad coach is a bad coach.

 

[mackjones]

I think Manny will put and end to the Enos era pretty swiftly. The smart move would be to do it after our last game even if we somehow make it to a bowl. You gotta let the croots know its changing.

I beg to disagree. EVEN MONEY odds your boy Manny doesn't fire Enos after the season ends. Be it after the bowl game or after the Duke game.

Nonetheless, the offensive coaching problem, and what he intends to do about it, will INDICATE if your boy Manny is really ABOUT THIS U! hUh.

 

[MizCane]

I beg to disagree. EVEN MONEY odds your boy Manny doesn't fire Enos after the season ends. Be it after the bowl game or after the Duke game.

Nonetheless, the offensive coaching problem, and what he intends to do about it, will INDICATE if your boy Manny is really ABOUT THIS U! hUh.

Relax bud. I don’t even care to see Manny back but if he does I think he will make that move. It’s as glaring as our FG kicking. something has to change.

 

[KevinCaneFace]

The Arizona Wildcats just FIRED their DC and linebacker's coach. Yeah it was after EIGHT games. So what. The point is Arizona's head coach did something about a CRAPPY defense. Also, Leach and Miles earlier this season FIRED coordinators. So it can happen, but Manny is too STUBBORN and INCOMPETENT to make such a decision.

Firing coordinators Midseason doesn't accomplish anything unless you have somebody that can fill their roll. Manny isn't an offensive coach so we won't be better if we fire Enos today. It just means we'd be finishing the season with one less coach then allowed.

Now if he sticks with them during the offseason then he'll be doomed.

 

[GojiraCane]

Well written. I said at the time, he hired the opposite of what he talked about.

Not only does Miami stink and lose to teams they shouldn't, they are extremely boring to watch, even in victories. No one is getting excited about "TNM" with this product on the field. Again, complete opposite of what Diaz said he wanted.

My question is...why?

 

[mirednmediocrity2]

"Mandy". I love it almost as much as I HATE that song!

 

[mackjones]

Firing coordinators Midseason doesn't accomplish anything unless you have somebody that can fill their roll. Manny isn't an offensive coach so we won't be better if we fire Enos today. It just means we'd be finishing the season with one less coach then allowed.

Now if he sticks with them during the offseason then he'll be doomed.

I can agree with your sort of logic and what not. Because Arizona filled their DC position with a former Wildcat/NFL player. I hear the dude was some kind of FS STUD and what not. Cecil is his surname.

 

[mackjones]

"Mandy". I love it almost as much as I HATE that song!

What's wrong with Barry Manilow?

 

[TemplarCane]

The Arizona Wildcats just FIRED their DC and linebacker's coach. Yeah it was after EIGHT games. So what. The point is Arizona's head coach did something about a CRAPPY defense. Also, Leach and Miles earlier this season FIRED coordinators. So it can happen, but Manny is too STUBBORN and INCOMPETENT to make such a decision.

Who would you promote to OC if you fired Enos today?

I'm all in for a new OC, but would you prefer Barry, Stubblefield, Hickson, or Fields call the plays?

 

[Bird4um]

Oline sucks oline sucks oline sucks.