Miami on Miami Crime: put future opponents on notice

[franchiseboi]

If we struggled running the football last night and had let them hang around late into the game, and still didn't hit any downfield shots or even attempt any, then I would be worried.

We were blowing them off the ball and running it down their throat all night. It was raining pretty good throughout the first half, and our star qb is coming off banging his thumb a week and a half ago. The game plan we went with makes alot of sense in that context I think, and again, we dominated with what we were running.

Not gonna get away with this in a week, so guess we will see if the passing game is ready for the big time

 

[AUcane]

I don't think so. Notice we didn't play Harrell last night, I think we'll see a couple of deep shots to Him next week..

Like I said, we are what we are (last night) with the occasional deep ball. That’s our offense.

 

[AmherstCane]

…The concept of “saving the playbook for next week’s opponent” is irrelevant with the teams we’ve fielded. We aren’t good enough (yet) to do that. If we want to challenge teams vertically, I’d like to see us execute us against lesser teams to get some real game reps rather than “save them” for an opponent.

I don’t think our gameplan will be very different against ATM, tbh. We are what we are and that’s a team that wants to dominate the LOS, employ the TE in the passing game and get the ball to our playmakers in space. Deep passes hwre and there are part of it, sure, but what you saw last night - I’d wager - is what you’re going to see most of the season.

This. However TAMU may force us into an up tempo passing attack cus I’m skeptical that we can just out-bro them. And you know Petrino is gonna put some points on the board.

 

[AUcane]

I don't think so. Notice we didn't play Harrell last night, I think we'll see a couple of deep shots to Him next week..

We’re saying the same thing

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

The only thing I’ll note is that they (Miami, OH) decided to play their Safeties back, their CBs 12 miles off the line, and their boxes extremely light. They essentially told Dawson to run it.

My response to a few who asked after the game was that we still missed a few opportunities to practice situations. For example, 4th and 8 from the 41: sure, great, our defense was playing well and we pinned them. But, we’ll be in some critical 3rd and 8 type scenarios against TAMU. And, we’ll need to throw the ball vertically.

All in all, we may have this stuff in our bag, but we didn’t see it last night.

And you also know the main reason why we didn’t see it. No need to dwell on it.

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

This.

The concept of “saving the playbook for next week’s opponent” is irrelevant with the teams we’ve fielded. We aren’t good enough (yet) to do that. If we want to challenge teams vertically, I’d like to see us execute us against lesser teams to get some real game reps rather than “save them” for an opponent.

I don’t think our gameplan will be very different against ATM, tbh. We are what we are and that’s a team that wants to dominate the LOS, employ the TE in the passing game and get the ball to our playmakers in space. Deep passes hwre and there are part of it, sure, but what you saw last night - I’d wager - is what you’re going to see most of the season.

Our game plan might be different against ATM, but it just depends on a certain factor, which we’re not really discussing. There’s more than one reason we had the type of game plan we did against Miami of Ohio, in fact, there’s one major reason. Just rewatch the game closely, paying particular attention to downfield throws.