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

[OrangeBowlMagic]

Yes. A whole lot of blame to go around not just Mario. Beck was awful against SMU for instance

I didn’t think Beck was awful at all against SMU. Yes, his last pass cannot happen. But we all know the game should’ve never been in overtime. He had Lofton drop a TD. He had Jojo drop a gorgeous ball that turns into a pick. He had a first down inside the 5 to Bauman that gets brought back because of an OPI on Toney. He wasn’t great but he was far from awful IMO.

 

[P-Tizzle]

Yes. A whole lot of blame to go around not just Mario. Beck was awful against SMU for instance

But Mario is the HC, so he sits in the hot seat. But as fans, we have to be fair and say, "yes, Mario is the HC, he sits in the hot seat, but many other guilty parties in this". But ****, he got it fixed. Just like the OC hire after Gattis, he fixed it. Just like the defense after Guidy, he fixed it. And now he has fixed Bro-ball. Props. We are a national championship contending team for the first time since 2002.

 

[DTP]

Oh man, the football genius came back to tell everyone how little they know. That dude told me Miami’s play calling was predictable because they were incapable of running more than a handful of plays. Meanwhile Miami used new plays and formations for the first time as late in the season as the Pitt game. Almost as if there were large sections of the playbook that weren’t being used.

 

[SCarolina Ibis]

We've played at the same tempo all year. Nothing has changed. In the cases that we got less than 10 possessions (VT, etc.) it was because the defense wasn't getting off the field.

Guess it doesn't matter now that you've been banned, but that's absolutely not true. There were multiple stretches where we were only snapping the ball 3x in just under 2 minutes. I can probably look back through my posts and find the specific games and drives.

 

[DTP]

I didn’t think Beck was awful at all against SMU. Yes, his last pass cannot happen. But we all know the game should’ve never been in overtime. He had Lofton drop a TD. He had Jojo drop a gorgeous ball that turns into a pick. He had a first down inside the 5 to Bauman that gets brought back because of an OPI on Toney. He wasn’t great but he was far from awful IMO.

Agreed. Beck actually played well against SMU. The first pick literally bounced off Jojo Trader’s chest and into a defender’s hands.

 

[Suhrthing]

OP sits on a throne of lies!

 

[Unsider]

LOL.

Says guy who's just making it up for internet message board clout.

 

[MiamisMoperiestMopes]

I was thinking of this the other day.

Would you rather be Duke with the ACC chip or be Miami in the college football Playoffs?

Is that real question?

The only porsters here who would switch positions are schitcks or memes

 

[Unsider]

I didn’t think Beck was awful at all against SMU. Yes, his last pass cannot happen. But we all know the game should’ve never been in overtime. He had Lofton drop a TD. He had Jojo drop a gorgeous ball that turns into a pick. He had a first down inside the 5 to Bauman that gets brought back because of an OPI on Toney. He wasn’t great but he was far from awful IMO.

Great points. Sometimes we don’t realize how a series can change on a penalty or a dropped ball. As a FB layperson, often I’ve watched interceptions following a penalty as QBs or play callers get tensed and try to recover lost yards. Scripted plays also get derailed. To be fair, a couple of Beck’s TOs came on balls bouncing off of receivers’ hands or receivers not being on the same page as Beck. That’s not on him.

 

[OrangeBowlMagic]

Agreed. Beck actually played well against SMU. The first pick literally bounced off Jojo Trader’s chest and into a defender’s hands.

Was a well thrown ball, too. Should've been a 30 yard gain.

 

[The canesman]

Doesn’t sound like something Mario would say.

 

[OrangeBowlMagic]

Great points. Sometimes we don’t realize how a series can change on a penalty or a dropped ball. As a FB layperson, often I’ve watched interceptions following a penalty as QBs or play callers get tensed and try to recover lost yards. Scripted plays also get derailed. To be fair, a couple of Beck’s TOs came on balls bouncing off of receivers’ hands or receivers not being on the same page as Beck. That’s not on him.

Beck played well enough for us to win 11 games. He didn't play well enough to win against Louisville. They also made some of the most ridiculous interceptions I've ever seen in that game, but my point remains. He put the ball in harm's way too much in that game, and passed up very easy completions for bigger plays that hurt us. But he absolutely played well enough for us to win against SMU, and the other 10 besides that.

I fully expect him to play well against A&M, because he's a good player.

 

[CanesSkins26]

I didn’t think Beck was awful at all against SMU. Yes, his last pass cannot happen. But we all know the game should’ve never been in overtime. He had Lofton drop a TD. He had Jojo drop a gorgeous ball that turns into a pick. He had a first down inside the 5 to Bauman that gets brought back because of an OPI on Toney. He wasn’t great but he was far from awful IMO.

There’s a really weird anti-Beck current among parts of the fanbase that really doesn’t make sense. Yes, Louisville was a disaster, but even some of what happened in that game was flukey/great individual defensive plays that probably don’t get made in that same situation again. I don’t know if it’s unrealistic expectations post Cam or what, but no denying he’s had the second best qb season at Miami post Dorsey, despite a number of challenges around play calling, lack of run game, skill position personnel, etc.

 

[OrangeBowlMagic]

There’s a really weird anti-Beck current among parts of the fanbase that really doesn’t make sense. Yes, Louisville was a disaster, but even some of what happened in that game was flukey/great individual defensive plays that probably don’t get made in that same situation again. I don’t know if it’s unrealistic expectations post Cam or what, but no denying he’s had the second best qb season at Miami post Dorsey, despite a number of challenges around play calling, lack of run game, skill position personnel, etc.

I don't want to go back through this, because this is a time to celebrate the best season we've had in almost 25 years and look forward to a playoff game, but go back and watch that Louisville game, if you can stomach it. The pick by the LINEBACKER on the deep ball to Toney would have been one of the catches of the year if it were made by Jeremiah Smith, never mind a kid with no experience catching a football. He turns and sprints on a dead run, tracking the ball over his head like Willie Mays, and LAYS OUT full extension for an interception. What??? Of course, while the other DB is essentially raping Toney, but that's not going to be called, because why would it? Was it a bad decision? Yeah, but he was throwing what he thought was a 50/50 ball to his best player, and all of a sudden prime Calvin Johnson gets into the middle of the play and makes one of the best catches I've ever seen from a defender.

The last pick to end the game...excuse me? A diving, rolling, finger-tip catch by another linebacker, who secures a literal inch from the grass the ball as he alligator death rolls to the ground? Sure. That happens every week. Got it.

Again, he didn't play well. But they deserved to win that game, they had a good gameplan (better than ours) and their DBs became the love children of Jerry Rice and Spider-Man. Just obscene. Even the one where the kid was covering Marion was an incredible play by a DB. Not nearly as good as the other 2 sponsored by Barnum-Bailey, but still, Marion is all over his back, the ball probably falls incomplete 9/10 times, but he vacuums it in, and here we go.

 

[JHallCanes]

I don't want to go back through this, because this is a time to celebrate the best season we've had in almost 25 years and look forward to a playoff game, but go back and watch that Louisville game, if you can stomach it. The pick by the LINEBACKER on the deep ball to Toney would have been one of the catches of the year if it were made by Jeremiah Smith, never mind a kid with no experience catching a football. He turns and sprints on a dead run, tracking the ball over his head like Willie Mays, and LAYS OUT full extension for an interception. What??? Of course, while the other DB is essentially raping Toney, but that's not going to be called, because why would it? Was it a bad decision? Yeah, but he was throwing what he thought was a 50/50 ball to his best player, and all of a sudden prime Calvin Johnson gets into the middle of the play and makes one of the best catches I've ever seen from a defender.

The last pick to end the game...excuse me? A diving, rolling, finger-tip catch by another linebacker, who secures a literal inch from the grass the ball as he alligator death rolls to the ground? Sure. That happens every week. Got it.

Again, he didn't play well. But they deserved to win that game, they had a good gameplan (better than ours) and their DBs became the love children of Jerry Rice and Spider-Man. Just obscene. Even the one where the kid was covering Marion was an incredible play by a DB. Not nearly as good as the other 2 sponsored by Barnum-Bailey, but still, Marion is all over his back, the ball probably falls incomplete 9/10 times, but he vacuums it in, and here we go.

Beck takes too many chances when we already have 3 points on the board and an elite defense

I’m all for going for TDs but for a veteran QB I didn’t expect as many panicked throws into coverage as we saw this year

The throws to Toney (which was a ******* dime) and the throw to CJ (an absurd decision) against ND sure were premonitions

Playoff time he’s gotta clean that up if he can but regardless with these new wrinkles on offense we’ve been showing, I like our chances with him at the helm for sure

 

[OrangeBowlMagic]

The SMU game - ugh. Like the only really awful coaching decision I can think of Mario made was calling timeout on the 4th down where Lightfoot got called for a Personal Foul. SMU had no more timeouts. If he doesn't call a timeout, there's no penalty there and they have to convert a 4th and 9.

In that situation, SMU was scrambling and looked discombobulated. You should never call timeout in that situation if you're the defense. Reminds me of the Packers vs Dolphins game when Joe Philbin called a timeout giving the Packers time to prepare a play as they drove down the field and beat us.

But we're in the Playoffs, so who cares at this point.

Again, another conversation we've had a billion times, but SMU's offense, if you could describe it, is literally "scrambling and looking discombobulated". Slowing them down does nothing, they're at peak scramble 100% of the time. The results can't trump the process. If we call TO, and the 0.001% chance doesn't happen where our edge player runs into the QB and the refs actually call a penalty EVEN THOUGH THE ******* TACKLE WAS BLOCKING HIM THE ENTIRE TIME, and we take a breath, and get a stop....we're all saying "what a smart timeout, see what they're doing, get your defense set, give your best players (4 and 3) a rest and swig of water, and let them go kill"

The really awful coaching decision was kneeling with 25 seconds, a timeout, and a multi-million dollar QB, but we're in the **** playoffs and truly competing for a national championship for the first time in 23 years. We're here. Let's celebrate it. And then let's go smack the **** out of some weirdos in College Station.

 

[flips]

"We needed to realize who we were" "Realize who the heck we are" "Let's Go. Let's wake up" That's the message Coach was trying to get through to the team when he showed them the clip.

We controlled and physically dominated all of our first 5 games, even though the final scoreboard didn't reflect that except for USF and perhaps UF. We didn't do that against UL & SMU, obviously. There were other issues in those games that contributed to those losses too.

Interesting to me that Coach noted first that the team's "energy, enthusiasm, and urgency in preparation" since SMU has been "the ultimate difference," that allowed the team to then cut it loose/let it rip on the field like the Miami teams Coach was a part of.

I think he's saying without taking practice and preparation more seriously, urgently, and with more attention to detail during the week, we wouldn't have been able to have fun and beat the **** out of our opponents on gameday like our talent suggests we should have been. Think it's great that he realized his demeanor on gameday needed adjusting, and that he's honest enough to admit that it took him time to remember just how different This U is than other college football teams.

Though Coach clearly wasn't talking about changes in play-calling in that clip, I do think it's likely the change to a "let-it-rip" demeanor was closely related to the changes, in terms of play-calling, formations, motion, and tendency, we have seen in the offense since SMU. I don't know this for certain, but I strongly suspect that Mario and the staff realized after SMU that there was a glaring contradiction in asking the players to "let it rip" on gameday, while calling 7 (6 were unsuccessful) consecutive runs on 2nd/3rd/4th & 3 yards and less to go on 3rd & 4th quarter plays scrimmaged in SMU territory in a must-win tie/1-score game. Probably didn't hurt that Dawson's frustration over Marty Brown going the wrong way on a play designed to get 1-2 yards was caught on camera.

Prior to SMU I poasted accurately, though with my usual impeccable timing, that we had ackshully been extraordinarily successful on our 3rd/4th & short runs - not only from the 2 misses against ND on through Stanford but also all of last year. Then SMU happened, and we finally weren't successful on those runs, and it was a big reason we lost the game. Yes, we had been successful getting 1-2 yards when we needed 1, but as @OrangeBowlMagic and others pointed out our offense under Mario and Dawson had gotten stuck in a rut that whenever we needed 1 yard we 100% ran the ball inside for 1-2 yards (am probably simplifying or goosing the numbers a bit here). Offensive play-calling like that doesn't jibe with playing a 15-minute long clip that's meant to encourage the players to LET IT RIP on gameday again. Kudos to the coaching staff for the changes they made, and infinity kudos to the players rallying and playing up to their potential to close out the year.

May it all continue in the playoffs!

 

[Bender]

No, you won't. That was only if he got banned on points. He requested this ban, so he's gone for good.

i made the best possible period pun and you went out and focused on the boring part smh

 

[Bender]

Oh man, the football genius came back to tell everyone how little they know. That dude told me Miami’s play calling was predictable because they were incapable of running more than a handful of plays. Meanwhile Miami used new plays and formations for the first time as late in the season as the Pitt game. Almost as if there were large sections of the playbook that weren’t being used.

And that doesn't include the fact that we haven't used the flexbone in short yardage since September

 

[JD08]

i made the best possible period pun and you went out and focused on the boring part smh