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That was 100% an all-time Canes game from Fletcher

He picked a great time to have his best career game

Since off season I've said Fletcher would be our best RB this year. He proved it vs Texas A&M

But...I've also been very critical of Fletcher's open field running. What I saw Saturday was a lot of open field, and he only did his normal jump + stutter step move once. The rest of the runs he continued running like a big back in the open field. He got forward with momentum, power and purpose. It was a beautiful thing to see.
 
sfowler06 said:
Literally from the 1st carry. Next thing i know he has 4 rushes for 38 yds. I swear imma get a random text from a neighbor saying "let Mark run the ******* ball" sometime this week. He played great like we knew he could. Buddy might go for 200 against HoState.
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Finally saw my neighbor today. First thing out his mouth was " Did they finally let Mark run the ball?". He's such an ******* lmao
 
bshaw28 said:
That was 100% an all-time Canes game from Fletcher

He picked a great time to have his best career game

Since off season I've said Fletcher would be our best RB this year. He proved it vs Texas A&M

But...I've also been very critical of Fletcher's open field running. What I saw Saturday was a lot of open field, and he only did his normal jump + stutter step move once. The rest of the runs he continued running like a big back in the open field. He got forward with momentum, power and purpose. It was a beautiful thing to see.
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That's exactly what I'm saying. When he got to the lbs he kept ******* running forward hard. That's what he's needed to do the entire time. It turned 8 yard runs into 12-15 yarders and that 50 yarder obviously.
 
FrancisSawyer said:
Mark Fletcher had a game yesterday that will go down in history and I'm so happy for that young man. He was a man amongst boys yesterday. However did anyone notice how much more explosive he looked yesterday? From the beginning, the friend I was watching the game with immediately noticed the difference. He looked at me and said, "Whoa! Fletcher looks like a new man. Did you see that explosiveness?". Indeed I did! At first I commented that the time off obviously did him good. Then as the game wore on I thought to myself "Is this Mark Fletcher or Willis McGahee?". Then on the last drive where he took the game over I said, "It looks as though the medical team used the 3 weeks off to give Fletcher bionic legs lol. I know it's been said a million times but Mark Fletcher just wrote himself into Miami Hurricane Football Legend with that performance. 17 carries 172 yards at 10.1 yards per carry on the road at Kyle Field in College Station against an 11-1(Now 11-2) ATM team that was arguably the best the SEC had to offer. What a stud! What a legend! I want to know if anyone else noticed what I saw yesterday.
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Bleacher Report had Andre Johnson mic'd up on the sidelines and him and Edgerrin James both said the thing. They said he was notably more explosive on the field. I don't know what it was, but we know big time players step up in big time games!
 
Let’s not forget, the SMU game was November 1, and he got hurt.

From November 2, the day after SMU, to kickoff of this game (December 20), was a total of just about 7 weeks.

In those 7 weeks, Fletcher had a TOTAL of 19 touches. 9 against VT and 10 against Pitt. So basically a game’s worth of wear and tear in 7 weeks. Fresh legs. He looked fantastic. But shoutout to the OL too. I come on here every single week and spout numbers about YBC. Yards before contact. We sucked at it all year. It was WAY worse than last year. And I attributed a lot of the run struggles this year to the lack of room our backs had before the got hit. Go back and watch his 17 carries and tell me how much room he had to get a head of steam before he was touched.

A ton of folks said in the ramp up to the game, @Lance Roffers included in the pod with Danny, that A&M was pretty poor at time in run fits. And I said the biggest reason for optimism on offense for us was their absolutely awful metrics in explosive runs allowed. They STUNK this year in this regard. Because they sucked at fitting gaps against the run. Welp, we hammered the **** out of that weakness, didn’t we??
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Let’s not forget, the SMU game was November 1, and he got hurt.

From November 2, the day after SMU, to kickoff of this game (December 20), was a total of just about 7 weeks.

In those 7 weeks, Fletcher had a TOTAL of 19 touches. 9 against VT and 10 against Pitt. So basically a game’s worth of wear and tear in 7 weeks. Fresh legs. He looked fantastic. But shoutout to the OL too. I come on here every single week and spout numbers about YBC. Yards before contact. We sucked at it all year. It was WAY worse than last year. And I attributed a lot of the run struggles this year to the lack of room our backs had before the got hit. Go back and watch his 17 carries and tell me how much room he had to get a head of steam before he was touched.

A ton of folks said in the ramp up to the game, @Lance Roffers included in the pod with Danny, that A&M was pretty poor at time in run fits. And I said the biggest reason for optimism on offense for us was their absolutely awful metrics in explosive runs allowed. They STUNK this year in this regard. Because they sucked at fitting gaps against the run. Welp, we hammered the **** out of that weakness, didn’t we??
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I was pretty frustrated that wasn't the game plan from the start. The one game that should be an "A gap for life" and "Inside Zone to their Dome" game and we don't do it until the 2H. Really, 4Q.

TAM plays all kinds of games with their front and if you just let them wash themselves out you can hit explosives straight ahead.

Fletcher was a dude in this game.
 
Fletcher looked like he was shot out of a cannon all day. I watched Andre Johnson mic’d up and he and Edge kept talking about how electric he looked. Andre even asked if her was hurt earlier in the year. I absolutely love this kid!
 
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I loved the blocking by the WRs. Marion, CJ, and Toney all blocked like they were protecting their child from a pedo. If the team brings the same energy on Dec 31, no matter the outcome they can walk away knowing they have taken Miami one step closer to the promise land. Just imagine if we could return Cici, Bain, Bell! 🤯
 
Lance Roffers said:
I was pretty frustrated that wasn't the game plan from the start. The one game that should be an "A gap for life" and "Inside Zone to their Dome" game and we don't do it until the 2H. Really, 4Q.

TAM plays all kinds of games with their front and if you just let them wash themselves out you can hit explosives straight ahead.

Fletcher was a dude in this game.
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Lance, maybe this is the wrong thread, but would be the best approach to attack OSU's run defense? We have to establish some semblance of a run threat, or I suspect it'll be a long day.
 
samstcane said:
Lance, maybe this is the wrong thread, but would be the best approach to attack OSU's run defense? We have to establish some semblance of a run threat, or I suspect it'll be a long day.
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Need to watch them more and evaluate what I would do. Normally go through it on the Friday pod.
 
sid the kid said:
Fletcher looked like he was shot out of a cannon all day. I watched Andre Johnson mic’d up and he and Edge kept talking about how electric he looked. Andre even asked if her was hurt earlier in the year. I absolutely love this kid!
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He looked different for sure.. I will keep reiterating from the first carry you could see it and we should have burned the game plan.. and feed him..

One thing thats irked the **** out of me in season is how our RB could not make the +1 miss.. we had one of the lowest break tackle rates from our RB in nation.. Idk what got into Mark but in this game, he took care of the +1 with ease.. Breaking that tackle and getting more yards..

 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Let’s not forget, the SMU game was November 1, and he got hurt.

From November 2, the day after SMU, to kickoff of this game (December 20), was a total of just about 7 weeks.

In those 7 weeks, Fletcher had a TOTAL of 19 touches. 9 against VT and 10 against Pitt. So basically a game’s worth of wear and tear in 7 weeks. Fresh legs. He looked fantastic. But shoutout to the OL too. I come on here every single week and spout numbers about YBC. Yards before contact. We sucked at it all year. It was WAY worse than last year. And I attributed a lot of the run struggles this year to the lack of room our backs had before the got hit. Go back and watch his 17 carries and tell me how much room he had to get a head of steam before he was touched.

A ton of folks said in the ramp up to the game, @Lance Roffers included in the pod with Danny, that A&M was pretty poor at time in run fits. And I said the biggest reason for optimism on offense for us was their absolutely awful metrics in explosive runs allowed. They STUNK this year in this regard. Because they sucked at fitting gaps against the run. Welp, we hammered the **** out of that weakness, didn’t we??
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True we hammered it but it wasn't until Dawson woke up and realized they couldn't stop us between the tackles. I truly believe Fletcher could have put up 250-300 on those SEC puzzies.
 
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BeastMode said:
Did Dawson not watch tape? Everyone and I mean everyone knew to attack A&M in between the tackles.

Every media person before the game even stated it. Dawson needs to be grilled by the media during his next press conference.

Fletcher could’ve ran for 300yd easy.

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And that is the issue with Dawson that has prevented him from truly reaching his full potential as a coordinator thus far. He has a tendency to #1 way overthink things and #2 He sometimes lacks any feel for game situations. The fact that the extreme swirling wind was a huge factor only serves to compound Dawson's poor initial game plan. The silver lining in this is that Dawson generally rebounds from these questionable showings which gives me some confidence that he will be much better in our next game in The Cotton Bowl vs Ohio State.
 
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