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Not that yall care, but I can't sleep so eat my thoughts. *THE BEARDY REPORT*

You hit on so many good points @Coach Macho

This defense is always going to be this way until we get a new philosophy in here. They look slow and scared on defense out there.

On offense I have nothing but good things to say. It is the coaches job to focus on th negatives, but **** 500 yards of offense with a 3 play playbook? I'll take that as a fan every day. The first few drives are the scripted drives and when those scripts didn't work well, Lashlee opened the game up in the 3rd quarter just enough to give us a glimpse of what we will see next week. We knew the O line was going to be bad, so I am not sure why everyone is surprised to see the O line is not all conference this year. Luckily, Lashlee understands that too and was getting the ball out of Kings' hands before the O line could be a factor. Let's be honest though, the O line looked better than last year.

All in all a win against a possible 10 win team this year, I the first game of the season, with no spring ball. I'll take it.

Not a lot of bonehead penalties either.
 
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TheSwagger1 said:
Cam is fine and got his last night, but the FR RBs’ burst jumped off the screen. I hope we don’t see them get slower throughout their careers like we see with so many of our guys. I’m not convinced we are bulking guys correctly, seeing so many freshmen come in explosive and then turning into bulky plodders. I’d rather em stay lean and mean if we can’t keep the speed. I think this is a program wide issue.
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I've noticed this as well and am not a fan of what this S&C program seems to be doing with these guys. Deejay Dallas was a speedy freshman who was breaking off elusive big plays his first year. By his last year, he was considered a Power Back. Same with Cam. As a fresh he was the speed back. Now he looks like slower power back.

Can we keep the speed please
 
CFB_Hogan said:
Initially disagreed on that, but after watching some plays back again, this is spot on. With all of these fancy spread offenses working around, why in the **** arent we playing more press man coverage?

When Bill Walsh faced the Giants in 1985, Parcells asked Bill Belichick what his strategy would be playing against a rhythm, spread the field, west coast offense. Belichick answered: "We have to hit them at the line of scrimmage or they will rip us apart." 17-3 for the Giants in 1985 and 49-3 in 1986. We have to get more physical at the line of scrimmage against receivers.
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And he used the same strategy against the rams in the SB. Hit/chipped M. Faulk everytime he came out the backfield. Won them that game inmho.

We are Miami. Like Coach Macho said “ JUST LINE UP AND PLAY ! “
 
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edge said:
Ragone played a ton of snaps. Why? Total liability out there.
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He’s good for a walk-on, and as soon as they gave him his scholly (no knock on him because it’s a life changing moment) I knew they were gonna justify it by playing him more smh.

Almost laughable that the three positions we’ve struggled at the most are WR and CB where we happen to be in the most fertile recruiting ground in the world for, and LB which is the position group coached by 3 guys, including HC and DC.
 
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Coach Macho said:
OFFENSE
*Don't panic. Offense always takes longer to get rolling than defense. It was clear to me that we kept it very vanilla.
I was a little unimpressed with the O-line though. I thought King got a little too much heat on occasion.
Without his mobility our offense looks pretty bad tonight IMO. He made some really awful throws.

*I also will say this, I know UAB's DC and although athletically they're not on our level, that guy has the ability to scheme up some ****. I knew he would make our offense work for everything. He gets his kids playing above their level.

*The talent at the RB position is just foolish. That is all.

*I wanna say something about Pope, but it's only the first game so I'll refrain from being too critical.

I'm not worried about the offense. We know Lashlee's resume. And I know the whole scheme isn't in yet (can't be).
We've seen what his offenses can do, his resume speaks for itself. We didn't see a lot of RPO today. We didn't see King keep it on read-option. We didn't see a power running game, we saw most inside zone. There was a lot that was left off the table. I would imagine they don't want to put too much on tape for our upcoming ACC opponents.


DEFENSE
How do you MF'ers continue to defend this ****? LOL
You can point to all the favorable stats you want to, I know WTF I'm looking at. It's basura.

*They continue to out-coach themselves by being too cute. I saw one blitz where we left TWO guys completely wide open. Fortunately their QB missed the throw.
On the long run by UAB we stunted right out of the gap and allowed TWO UAB O-linemen to reach our LB's untouched. They just get too **** cutesy. Blitzing the Striker from 6x5 yards away?! Who are you fooling with that?! The ball is gone before he gets anywhere near the QB!
YOU'RE FVCKIN' MIAMI! JUST LINE UP AND PLAY SOUND DEFENSE!

*Defensive Line I thought played pretty well. I can't blame them for any big gains in the running game because we do so much **** stunting up front. Don't get me wrong, sometimes it works. One of Nesta's TFL's came on a stunt. But when it doesn't, it's off to the races.
I think we only generated one sack tonight, and Roche's was stunting inside on the play, so it wasn't organic. I don't think DL will be an issue though. Our coaches need to just let them play.

*Linebackers - I don't recall them making any plays really. I'll have to rewatch the game. As I mentioned before, the long run wasn't their fault. Both LB's got engulfed by O-linemen that were untouched because the D-linemen they were supposed to block stunted out of the way. Not much a Linebacker can do about that.

*Safety - Don't remember too many plays on the ball, but I did see some god awful tackling. Whiffing on a UAB RB is never a good look for the future. I don't recall how they did in coverage or on run support near the LOS.

*Corners - At what point do we stop getting beat inside on man coverage? At what point do we let our big a$$ Corners put their hands on WR's instead of allowing free release? WTF is the point of playing press IF YOU AIN'T GONNA PRESS?!?!?! I saw Blades get beat inside on back-to-back plays. On the second one he made a nice hustle play and punched the ball out, but let's focus on not allowing that inside route to begin with. I always thought this was like the #1 rule in press-man coverage? *shrug* Yet our CB's have struggled with this since Diaz/Rumph have been here. IT'S CAUSE WE DON'T IMPEDE THE WR'S RELEASE AT ALL! We just shadow them!

*This defense has a way of letting inferior players have a field day. It's either a QB, a RB or a WR that puts up his career numbers. Whether it's FIU's RB gashing us for over 100 yards or Wisconsin's QB looking like Dan Marino, we're guaranteed to give somebody their shining moment. UAB's QB started the game 8/9 passing, but that's not it. How 'bout their WR catching 8 balls for 117 yards. LOL. Who the fvck is this guy?! Is it too much to ask of our defense to completely shut a D1AA offense down? Like shove them and their whole gameplan in the ****ter?! We don't have any DB's at Miami that can keep this kid with offers from UAB and Ball State from looking like Larry Fitzgerald? This fvckin' guy was the best WR on the field tonight!




Overall not an AWFUL performance. Most of what I say is tongue-in-cheek and yall know I talk ****, but IMO there are some glaring weaknesses. I'll consider the fact that maybe it's first game jitters, but I'll also consider the fact that these weaknesses are usually magnified when you play better opponents. If our CB's can't cover UAB's WR's they're not gonna magically figure out how to cover Clemson's.

I'm not worried about the offense, but I want our defensive staff to stop out-coaching themselves. Most of the time when we give up big plays it's because we're being cute or unsound. Just line-up and play!


That is all.
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One thing I like is lashlee is always coaching his qb.

Trevor Lawrence can throw for 600 yards on us wifh covid
 
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Number1CanesFan said:
Just for clarity UAB is not a 1AA school. They sre in C-USA and ate predicted to with their conference.

Secondly, at least 1 and perhaps 2 of the UAB WRs are NFL prospects, but I do agree with your assessment of the CB play. Ivey trailing in coverage on seversl plays and not locating the ball. Blades Jr. did have some bad plays, but was pretty solid.

My only concerns after game 1 are at CB and the offensive line.

Although we ran for 337, I'm not convinced with the O-Line blovking. IMO, a lot of the yards running were because our RBs are studs and our fast paced scheme wore down the defense. I didn't see any blocks standout where an offensive lineman drove the defender off the ball to create a new line of scrimmage or a gaping hole. At best they held their blocks allowing the RB to make a cut for positive yards. I paid close attention to run blocking in the redzone where it matters the most. Besides the TD run by Cam, I similar results from last year where in the redzone, we couldn't get much running on 1st and 2nd down leaving us in 3rd and long.

Overall, a solid performance by the team. It's only game 1, but I'd like to see a big improvement with the O-Line and CB vs Louisville next week.
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I agree on Uab. They have nfl talent
 
You know one thing that ticks me off? Taking Miller off the field on obvious passing downs when he is obliterating everything in his way. If you want to get to the QB, why take out the dude in the middle that is wrecking $h!t? Same with Nesta. For the love of God, put those two in on 3rd and long. Stop getting cute and let your big dogs eat.
 
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Coach Macho said:
On the long run by UAB we stunted right out of the gap and allowed TWO UAB O-linemen to reach our LB's untouched. They just get too **** cutesy. Blitzing the Striker from 6x5 yards away?! Who are you fooling with that?! The ball is gone before he gets anywhere near the QB!
YOU'RE FVCKIN' MIAMI! JUST LINE UP AND PLAY SOUND DEFENSE!
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baker still hasn't learned a god **** thing. **** is infuriating
 
I said it in the other thread, but I just can't understand/justify/reconcile how Carter is playing over Bolden....unless Bolden isn't 100% yet.

To me, Carter is a striker. You want him closer to the line of scrimmage where he'll only be asked to cover heavier dudes and can help in the run game. He's not good in space.

I agree 100% on pressing....I think a lot of that is because they don't have faith in the CB depth chart. I know Rumph has his little cult of supporters on here.....but the aggregate result of all those recruiting misses are starting to rear its ugly head at the CB position. It's just a reminder to how stupid a decision Bandy made, both for himself and this team.
 
the D still has issues with runs to the boundary, boots and passes on 3rd and short.

We did very little scheming and the O put up 500 yds of offense. The one drive where they were actually dialing it up, we went down and scored in 7 plays.

I think we ran 5 rpo's, 4 or 5 QB runs, no real runs to the perimeter (outside zone, jet etc). And took the read out of all the Zone calls. This was like we are are going to work on our toughness game plan. Just pound it up in there and try and develop an identity.
 
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