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Most intriguing position battles?

Glad everyone think Harris and Williams are good enough to lock down safety. If not, Patterson may need to accelerate his development.
 
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grover said:
You have it wrong. Chase Smith will be the one taking starting snaps from Alderman and Wes.
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That would be awesome actually I'd love to see Smith ball out it's what we all expected he was alot bigger than I thought too pause. Is this your guess or what you hearing some things bout Smith?
 
Cane_J15 said:
That would be awesome actually I'd love to see Smith ball out it's what we all expected he was alot bigger than I thought too pause. Is this your guess or what you hearing some things bout Smith?
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It’s a guess, though @DMoney has repeatedly reported that Smith is healthy and at a good weight to play SAM / OLB now. And he looked the part in the Spring Game to me. So it’s an educated guess.
 
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This is Miami. Are we allowed to have a dynamic punt returner? For years, all I've said is just put a kid back there who can catch the football, because we had a PhD in giving games away by muffing punts. But give me a ******* break here....is it too much to ask to coach a kid to be able to catch AND *GASP!!* make someone miss and flip field position?

Miami was 92nd in the country in punt return average last year.
80th in 2022.
OK in 2021, but we were 123rd in 2020....we returned 15 punts for 33 yards. 33!!
We haven't returned a punt for a touchdown against an FBS school since 2018.

Does Braxton Berrios have any eligibility left?

With all this talent and speed, we gotta be able to find somebody who can catch the football every single time, and have some wiggle to get upfield.
 
grover said:
Unfortunately not a lot of options there. Only ZP and maybe Mack unless they move Powell over which would create a gap at Nickel.
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That's a bold statement! considering, we haven't seen anybody play yet! And, zp and mack is only freshmen. So you trust freshmen over markieth and harris who have been here at least 2yrs. And, dyoni hill is the star or nickel!
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
This is Miami. Are we allowed to have a dynamic punt returner? For years, all I've said is just put a kid back there who can catch the football, because we had a PhD in giving games away by muffing punts. But give me a ******* break here....is it too much to ask to coach a kid to be able to catch AND *GASP!!* make someone miss and flip field position?

Miami was 92nd in the country in punt return average last year.
80th in 2022.
OK in 2021, but we were 123rd in 2020....we returned 15 punts for 33 yards. 33!!
We haven't returned a punt for a touchdown against an FBS school since 2018.

Does Braxton Berrios have any eligibility left?

With all this talent and speed, we gotta be able to find somebody who can catch the football every single time, and have some wiggle to get upfield.
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It boggles my mind that we haven't had someone who, at the very least, could reliably field a punt cleanly in the past 5+ years. Even Restrepo muffed several punts.

I don't want to have to hold my breath on every punt and pray we can field it cleanly.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
This is Miami. Are we allowed to have a dynamic punt returner? For years, all I've said is just put a kid back there who can catch the football, because we had a PhD in giving games away by muffing punts. But give me a ******* break here....is it too much to ask to coach a kid to be able to catch AND *GASP!!* make someone miss and flip field position?

Miami was 92nd in the country in punt return average last year.
80th in 2022.
OK in 2021, but we were 123rd in 2020....we returned 15 punts for 33 yards. 33!!
We haven't returned a punt for a touchdown against an FBS school since 2018.

Does Braxton Berrios have any eligibility left?

With all this talent and speed, we gotta be able to find somebody who can catch the football every single time, and have some wiggle to get upfield.
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Between Nathaniel Joseph, Robby Washington, JoJo Trader, Ny Carr & possibly CJJr, we have a lot of options at PR that fit that description.

It would be the perfect job for Nate or Robby to keep them engaged throughout the season giving them opportunities to make plays.

At KR, I think we'd have to be smoking straight Freebase to have anybody else as the primary KR other than Chris Johnson Jr. You can pair him up with Robby, or one of the FR WR's, but he should be the main guy returning kickoffs.
 
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Scorpioncane said:
That's a bold statement! considering, we haven't seen anybody play yet! And, zp and mack is only freshmen. So you trust freshmen over markieth and harris who have been here at least 2yrs. And, dyoni hill is the star or nickel!
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My bad, I didn't mean to say Markeith and Harris wouldn't start. They seem to be the designated starters. I was thinking of who else could help out at Safety. I think you're right that if they pull Powell from Nickel to S, it's probably some combination of Hill and D Brown backfill.

Do you think Hill or Brown are the most likely to line up vs UF next to Porter?
 
grover said:
My bad, I didn't mean to say Markeith and Harris wouldn't start. They seem to be the designated starters. I was thinking of who else could help out at Safety. I think you're right that if they pull Powell from Nickel to S, it's probably some combination of Hill and D Brown backfill.

Do you think Hill or Brown are the most likely to line up vs UF next to Porter?
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All good! Cane family, in my opinion
cb-1 porter,
cb-2 damari or hill
Nickel- hill or damari
Ss- Powell or zp
Fs- Harris or markieth
 
Scorpioncane said:
All good! Cane family, in my opinion
cb-1 porter,
cb-2 damari or hill
Nickel- hill or damari
Ss- Powell or zp
Fs- Harris or markieth
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If Hill or Damari can free up Powell to play Safety, I feel 10x better about the back 4/5. I'm just spooked by @Memnon film breakdown of Brown in the past, and I don't quite know what to expect of Hill coming over from Marshall.
 
grover said:
If Hill or Damari can free up Powell to play Safety, I feel 10x better about the back 4/5. I'm just spooked by @Memnon film breakdown of Brown in the past, and I don't quite know what to expect of Hill coming over from Marshall.
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I'm assuming he's serviceable! Cuz, I don't think Jackson and guidry would've brought him over! And brown hopefully Jackson can develop him?
 
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