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Mario says he had to relearn how to let loose during game time

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RozayCane said:
Dudes wake up mad at the world cause they girl on month 7 not giving them some ***.. now they wanna jump on a message board and argue for no reason. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Go hit up a happy ending massage
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For no reason?

The reason is you're a lazy cliche machine that pats yourself on the back for something you don't understand.
 
Brad_Wellson said:
You have to understand: the guys on this forum are more interested in saying that they were right than actually *being* right.

You can clearly see that they're all trying to retcon when the "change" occurred instead of actually knowing or understanding what they're watching.

Our tempo never changed. Our bread and butter never changed. Dawson was in his bag for the last month. More end arounds, reverses, WR passes, etc.

We did *not* stop running inside/outside zone, etc.
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Do you really want to talk football?

Because if you do, you'd admit that breaking tendencies in both formation(s) and playcall - for example, we ran something like 13/13 times on 3rd or 4th and 2 or less at SMU - is a big deal on the field.

You'd also admit they basically began to increasingly revolve the offense around Toney and his incredible skill set. I will say Dawson sprinkled this in at SMU by putting him in the backfield, but it was still only a sprinkle.

From there on out, we started to essentially use Toney to setup plays. As you noted yourself, more jet sweeps (not too many "end arounds," actually, though maybe 1-2 to Marion, IIRC), Wildcat, etc. We even started keeping 87 split out wide or going 4WR and running a bit more out of it. Prior to that, we got 87 motioning in for the wham block or to run duo a ton. Then we started to consistently use Toney's motions and alignment to even open up plays - which is beautiful stuff.

Yes, we had done some of the stuff posters think is 'new' in spurts prior to SMU (though, not Toney in the backfield). Yes, we had previously pulled OL and run outside the tackles (we actually opened the UF game with this) prior to the win streak. Yes, we had previously pushed the ball downfield on 3rd or 4th and short (e.g. 4th and 2 TD to Toney against FSU). No, we weren't consistently diverse and *NO* we weren't revolving so much around Toney. We were tighter.

Prior to a lot of those "subtle" changes (if that's what you want to call formation, alignment, and playcall iterations), you can look at @Lance Roffers breakdowns and see the actual play sequences and down and distances where the team's approach got tight and "controlled" at times. Call it predictable. Call it conservative or tight for the sake of control.

Dawson gets a ton of credit. Especially since the debate is (and has been) whether Dawson ever really wanted that approach or it was dictated.

[If you want to actually talk football, do it. Talk about the playcalling, formations, etc. If not, you're likely going to end up in the same spiral you went off last time. Like I already said during your last tirade, I wouldn't ever recommend to ban you. You'll do that to yourself and one of the mods will get rid of you before you have to start with another name. Be the rational poster you apparently want everyone else to be.]
 
Brad_Wellson said:
You have to understand: the guys on this forum are more interested in saying that they were right than actually *being* right.

You can clearly see that they're all trying to retcon when the "change" occurred instead of actually knowing or understanding what they're watching.

Our tempo never changed. Our bread and butter never changed. Dawson was in his bag for the last month. More end arounds, reverses, WR passes, etc.

We did *not* stop running inside/outside zone, etc.
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The formation changed, we went empty back field/5 wide.

I hope Dawson adds tempo, 2 weeks to work on it.

I don't know iif the oline can't block in space or it's just Mario/Maribel's scheme, but it's certainly not changing now.
 
I'm exhausted from the chicken and egg argument with Mario and Dawson. The only thing that matters is the offense was clearly different after the SMU game. It helped to play 3 horrendous defenses in a row after that, but sometimes a shooter needs to see the ball go through the net and that's all it takes. Pitt does have a good defense, and we shredded them.

I pointed out a billion times on here that there was a period of the season where we ran the ball on 26 consecutive short-yardage situations. That's disgusting, and it's not even like there was any variety within the runs (running plays, not whatever Cribby has going on with his IBS). It was 26 straight times of turn and hand the ball to a back. We got away from that after SMU, we got a lot more creative, did much more formationally that was different, and just had more fun.

We also stopped torpedoing every single drive with offensive penalties that we're not explosive enough to recover from.

WE HAD SEVEN OFFENSIVE PENALTIES IN ONE HALF AGAINST SMU!

We only had 1 offensive penalty against Syracuse
We only had 2 offensive penalties against NC State (although one did take a TD off the board)
We only had 3 offensive penalties against VT
We only had 2 offensive penalties against Pitt

We turned the ball over twice in that entire 4 game stretch. A pick by Beck when the game was over against Pitt, and a fumble by Marty Brown.

I'm telling you, if we have 0 turnovers and 2 or less offensive penalties next weekend, we're dropping 30+ on these dudes' heads. Make them stop you, don't stop yourself. I don't think they can do it consistently enough to hold us down over 10+ drives.
 
I think this season is an ultimate reflection of why people say that pain is a necessary part of life. We try to avoid it at all costs yet it's our greatest friend, if you're willing to learn.

Is it possible that this version of Miami is better than had we limped to a lazy 7-10 point victory over SMU? A 10-2 Miami team may very well be more dangerous than an 11-1 or 12-0 Miami team.
 
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Regardless of what he did or didn't actually say, this is by far our biggest question mark going into A&M.

Dawson has to call the offense like he did over the last month.. using spacing, creativity and letting Beck make changes at the line.

If we fall back to trying to control the clock and limiting possessions, this is as far as we'll go.
 
hurricaneman said:
I think this season is an ultimate reflection of why people say that pain is a necessary part of life. We try to avoid it at all costs yet it's our greatest friend, if you're willing to learn.

Is it possible that this version of Miami is better than had we limped to a lazy 7-10 point victory over SMU? A 10-2 Miami team may very well be more dangerous than an 11-1 or 12-0 Miami team.
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Only one way to know.

Go win the whole ******' thing.
 
DTP said:
Meh. Nowhere in that interview does he say anything about purposely holding the offense back. He mentions “cutting loose” but is very vague about the whole thing.

Look, I want Mario to give up being a scared conservative coach and I thought last year’s results had turned that page but this year he went right back into a shell in week one. I think that’s always who he is.
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I think the difference is that this year he was forced to open up in order boost our resume to the committee & in the end it worked , the hope is that he’ll realize that just winning & squeaking by inferior squads n playing not to lose isn’t enough anymore especially when your resume is being compared to a team like ND who is blowing ppl out every week.
 
His demeanor has definitely changed. I thought he came across as having zero sunshine and way too serious and interviews early on a hard *** early on.
But it's clear he has adapted - thank God it went too late.
Glad to see him enjoying this process, he's worked his a$$ off to get us here.
Hopefully the change in mentality is permanent.
 
hurricaneman said:
I think this season is an ultimate reflection of why people say that pain is a necessary part of life. We try to avoid it at all costs yet it's our greatest friend, if you're willing to learn.

Is it possible that this version of Miami is better than had we limped to a lazy 7-10 point victory over SMU? A 10-2 Miami team may very well be more dangerous than an 11-1 or 12-0 Miami team.
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I swear limping to a victory against SMU would have lost us one of the remaining games, most likely Pitt, or maybe even an embarrassment at Blacksburg.
 
LuCane said:
Because if you do, you'd admit that breaking tendencies in both formation(s) and playcall - for example, we ran something like 13/13 times on 3rd or 4th and 2 or less at SMU - is a big deal on the field.
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We didn't block those 4th down runs in the SMU game. If we got a hat where we should've on those plays then we would've gotten a yard.
 
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LuCane said:
[If you want to actually talk football, do it. Talk about the playcalling, formations, etc. If not, you're likely going to end up in the same spiral you went off last time. Like I already said during your last tirade, I wouldn't ever recommend to ban you. You'll do that to yourself and one of the mods will get rid of you before you have to start with another name. Be the rational poster you apparently want everyone else to be.]
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Oh, I remember now.

You're the mod who admitted that he didn't know anything about football but still insisted on telling people what to and how to think or face the consequences.
 
Cribby said:
Mario in the SMU and Louisville game looked like me in High School when I had the screaming ***** and was trying to make it to bathroom to take a dump without anyone knowing . Sweating profusely and all. But to his credit he made small adjustments , breaking tendencies being the biggest adjustment
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Let it rip has a whole new meaning in this scenario
 
You know what, too, starting in that FSU 4th quarter, and carrying through the next 3 games, it started to look like playing and coaching football was becoming a chore to them. It kinda looked and felt like they were unfocused and going through the motions. Only a few guys, players and coaches, looked like they were having any fun at all.

Somehow, after SMU, they all seemed to give themselves permission to have some fun again...including the coaches. This is a game, after all, it's not supposed to be like going in for a F'ing root canal.
 
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