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Overall he's decent. I'm just happy that he'll bring a more aggressive approach. Not going to bother looking at his total defense numbers. Instead I'm going to look at his numbers as far as things Miami needs.

We need sacks, tackles for a loss, and turnovers. Despite wherever our total D ranking ends we will surely see an increase in our team TFL, sack count, and turnovers.

Let's have a look
Since Golden was here we've only had a player have 9.5 or more tackles for a loss twice. Sean Spence and Shayon Green. Denzel Perryman hit 9.0 once.

The max sacks that a player ever had under Golden and Dorito is 6. Thurston Ambrister and Anthony Chickillo tied for that.

It's been a decade since Miami has had a 10 sack guy. 2006 Calaias and Kareem were the last two to do it. That's Diaz whole career as a DC. Look how many 10+ sack guys he's produced.

Manny Diaz
Defense Coordinator History
Middle Tennessee
2006: 5 players with over 9.5 tackles for a loss. Coached Erik Walden with 11.5 sacks that year. Walden is still playing in the league with the Colts today.

2007: 3 players with more than 5.0 TFL. Coached a DB with 5 INTs

2008: 7 players with more than 5.0 TFL

2009: Coached 4 players with more than 5.0 TFL including one player with 20 TFL and 7 sacks in SunBelt DPOY Chris Mccoy who played in the league. Also coached 3 All SunBelt conference DBS including Marcus Udell who had 7 INTs that year.

Mississippi State
2010: Coached 5 players with more than 5.0 TFL. Including 1st Rounder Pernell McPhee . Starting Seahawks LB, 2x NFC Champion, Super Bowl winner and All-Pro KJ Wright. KJ had 98 tackles

1st Rounder 2x all Pro and Pro Bowl DL Fletcher Cox Also Coached Charles Mitchell (93 tackles) who played in the league and DL Josh Boyd who also played in the league.

Texas
2011: 5 players with more than 7.5 TFL. Jackson Jeffcoat had 20 TFL and 8 sacks. Emmanuel Acho with 110 tackles, 14.5 TFL, and 3.0 sacks. Alex Okafor with 12.5 TFL and 7 sacks. Carrington Byndom 1st Rounder Kenny Vaccaro, Quandre Diggs , Keenan Robinson and Keeston Randall round out the NFL players from that 2011 defense.

1st Team All Big 12
Emmanuel Acho
Alex Okafor
Kenny Vaccaro

2nd Team
Keeston Randall
Jackson Jeffcoat
Keenan Robinson
Quandre Diggs

2012: 8 players with more than 5 TFL. Okafor with 10+ sacks.

1st Team All Big 12
Kenny Vaccaro
Jackson Jeffcoat

2013: Coached 4 players with more than 7 TFL. Jeffcoat with 19.5 TFL 13.5 Sacks, Cedric Reed with 16.0 TFL and 10 sacks, Malcolm Brown with 8.5 sacks. Other NFL talent from the 2013 team: Adrian Phillips , Mykkele Thompson

1st Team All Big 12
Jackson Jeffcoat

2nd Team
Cedric Reed
Carrington Byndom

Louisiana Tech
2014: Coached 8 players with 6.5 or more TFL. 3 players with more than 10.0 TFL. Also coached another 10+ sack guy. Two DBs with at least 5 picks.

1st Team All C-USA
DB So Xavier Rhodes

2nd Team All C-USA
DL Houston Bates

Mississippi State
2015 : 6 players with 6.5 TFL. 3 of them 10+ TFL.
Two Linebackers with 90+ tackles.

2nd Round DL Chris Jones

3rd CB Will Redmond

What that shows me is that he can get **** done. We are going to get pressure and the front 7 should be solid. He made NFL talent at Middle Tennessee. He and Coach Kool will have these boys penetrating and smacking opponents in the mouth real soon.

For those of you who forgot here's coach Kools DL resume from Missouri I couldn't find his toledo players.

Coached Kool NFL Dlineman (Is years they spent in the league)
2001: 1st Round Pick Justin Smith (2001-2014) 5x Pro Bowler. 3x All-Pro

2003: 6th Round Keith Wright (2003-2006)

2005: 6th Round CJ Mosley (2005-2015)

2005: 3rd Round Attiyyah Ellison (2005-2010)

2007: 4th round Brian Smith (2007)

2009: 6th Round Stryker Sulak (2009-2010)

2009: 1st Rounder Ziggy Hood (2009-Present)

2011: 1st Rounder Aldon Smith (2011-Present) First Team All-Pro, Pro Bowler

2013: 1st Rounder Sheldon Richardson (2013-Present)

2014: 2nd Rounder Kony Ealy (2014-Present)

2015: 1st Rounder Shane Ray (2015-Present)
 
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Motor,

We need everything you say and one very big thing you don't say: we need to stop the run. Of all the things that drove me nuts about our former coaches was their inability to design a scheme and get players to stop the run. We simply couldn't do it over the last 5 years.

Manny has said that the starting LBs must first and foremost be able to stop the run. Without that defensive strength, we have no shot of beating FSU, UNC or ND.
 
[MENTION=5861]motorcitycane[/MENTION] appreciate the research but diaz defenses have a tendency of getting gashed. The sacks and tfls are going to be a breath of fresh air but i want a defense that can stop the run, get off the field on 3rd down, and force fgs in the redzone.

I would love to know how diaz defenses have did in those 3 categories through his career.
 
The Diaz hire is a pretty big concern for me. Maybe he can do better in a location like SoFla that he's more familiar with. He did decent although not great at Miss State. Mack Brown was a great coach for most of his career, but he really seemed to Joe Paterno/Bobby Bowden at the end. Coaching under the aging Brown probably didn't help Diaz's at Texas.

With that being said I sort of want to look at his whole picture as DC and not just his sack rate. A sack may kill a possesion but every defense will have possessions where it doesn't get sacks. And even if it's unlikely an offense can still convert a 3rd and 20 after a sack.
 
Richt and his two line coaches were great hires.

The rest of the staff?

I'm not super excited and will withhold judgment until more is known.
 
Man yal gotta ease up on manny. The talent down here is far better than any other school he has worked with and plus he hasn't had a d line coach like he has with coach kool now. I can't wait for what manny and the other defense of coaches can do this year.
 
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Clean slate for all involved, as far as I'm concerned. I have concerns, but Diaz has never had the talent he'll have here. I'll wait and see....
 
We went 8-5 last season with no head coach and Doritos... Adding an experience play caller in Richt who will properly coach the offense and Diaz controlling the Diaz will be like a new lease on life compared to what we've all experienced in the last 5 years.
 
Cash said:
We went 8-5 last season with no head coach and Doritos... Adding an experience play caller in Richt who will properly coach the offense and Diaz controlling the Diaz will be like a new lease on life compared to what we've all experienced in the last 5 years.
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^Best nickname since "Bath Salts" Johnson.
 
The thing that most concerns me about Diaz is that after having the worst OC/DC combo at Miami since I've been alive, I'll be so full of childlike joy at seeing a rabid 4-3 that I won't care for a year what it produces.

Thankfully you all will be here to excoriate him.
 
We've been so beaten to a pathetic defense that we don't care if we get gashed. We just want to see attitude and TFL
 
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