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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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Best post game summary so far. I'm right there with you especially about Baker. The offense will continue to get better as the staff is strong on that side of the ball. Defense did some good things but the CB play was not exactly inspiring. The LB also failed to impress.

Baker was a huge concern of mine during the off season and I can see that my concern was warranted. The gratuitous blitzing is past the point of being ridiculous. With the talent we are starting to build on defense there is no reason to play this fundamentally unsound scheme. Why do the CBs always allow a free release? Why do we always run a slot blitz from the boundary on 3rd and long? I want to be aggressive on defense but all of these cute blitzes and constant stunting are overkill and unnecessary. Like you said just line up and play fundamentally sound defense. We can be aggressive and still be fundamentally sound. Baker just isn't going to cut it here. We need to bring in a DC that has the ability to outcoach the opposing OC at least once in a while. Baker won't outcoach anyone on our remaining schedule. Our success will be solely based on our talent on defense.
 
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Diaz just wants to combine two worlds that logically make some sense together, but can’t Really exist.
He wants to create a lot of negative plays to force defenses behind the sticks. Which is smart. In an age of offensive domination, you got to get negative yards.
But he also wants to live to fight another day just in case he can’t get to the QB. He also wants to force offenses to have to methodically move downfield, thereby increasing the chances he will have to get a negative play. So on the backend he plays it safe.

The problem is it frequently just creates too much of a safety valve for QBs. Why worry about the havoc up front if you’re making the solution to the havoc so obvious on the back end? You saw that too much last night, and we’ve seen it too much in the past.
 
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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Can't believe I agree with literally everything macho says here. And I am a fan of Brock now too. I am getting old and soft.
 
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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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I just used this gif yesterday....but it really applies here so I'll use it again.
super troopers good job GIF by Fox Searchlight
 
Rellyrell said:
So I rewatched the replay last night w/o the emotions involved. Again, I’ll always take a W, but here’s what I noticed:

1. UAB stalled their drives a couple of times by having unforced penalties and dropped passes to move the chains.

2. Their receivers were running free dang near all game long. The QB was super focused on Watkins, but the TE was open a lot. If UAB had any sort of a QB, that 14 would’ve ballooned

3. We blitzed a lot, I mean a whole lot, and didn’t get home. That’s most likely why UABs receivers were so open.

4. Ivey looks like Tarzan, and at this point, can’t even say he plays like Jane. He needs help rotated to his side.

5. Not sure why we aren’t pressing when we are blitzing.

6. D King was like Gumby out there. I can honestly say if Perry, Williams, or Kaaya was back there, we don’t score 31 points. The OL gave up a ton of pressure; so while we may have improved from the run standpoint, we are still **** poor on pass protection. King could’ve easily been sacked 7 times last night if not for his improvisation as a QB.

7. Harris was a man last night. He ran hard, aggressive and fast, and I pray he’s not seriously injured.

8. Rooster looked good in practice, but Chaney looked good in game. He has a grown man’s body to hit the hole, and bounce off of people now. He explodes in those first 3 yards; so he may not have the long speed like Rooster, but he’s coming out as fast & powerful as any RB in those first 3 yards which overwhelms. (Future is bright at RB)

9. With this being our first game coming off the heels of going 0-3 to finish the season, I did not, DID NOT like the fact that we started to play not to lose the game when we were up 17. This was the perfect opportunity to put CFB on notice. I don’t want to hear we’re holding back the game plan. We said that during Richt’s tenure as OC & Enos’ tenure. We were this close to not scoring an additional 14 points. Again, Harris’ hard running, breaking tackles and King’s improv to keep drives alive did that. Not so sure that same strategy works against P5 comp.

10. I can’t continue to defend this WR core. King only had 141 yrds passing, and its for good reason. Who would’ve known Wiggins, our 3* prospect, is our most reliable. I’ve said it before last yr, Harley’s legs move fast, but I always see DBs attached to his hips. Pope......Pope is really bothering me. He’s our highest touted WR per 247, yet I never feel any impact from him. Payton showed toughness, including running over a DB covering him. But our WRs don’t look or feel any better than last season, and that has me worried.

All in all, we came away w/ a W....but like I said when we beat BCU last yr 63-0, something didn’t feel right about it. Yeah we won 63-0, but it was a vanilla 63-0, one where we struggled w/ BCU for the first half, before our talent just out-talented them. It kinda felt like that last night; in the 2nd half we out-talented them, and then disunity happened on their sidelines due to poor QB play & penalties stalling drives that gassed their defense, which we benefited from.

I’ll, optimistically, chop this up to first game kinks. If we come out the same way against UL next week w/ the same game plan on both the O & D.....we might not catch that W.
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Points 1-3 are huge.

All points true.

I'd add that the lack of procedural penalties on our part was the other unsung hero of the game.
 
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ThomasG954 said:
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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To his credit, Ragone was always around the ball. Seems like a smart player who overcomes his lack of skills compared to the others with being a cerebral player. That’s why he’s playing.
 
252cane said:
Nobody want to hear it but jeff thomas would have caught 80-90 passes in this offense
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LOL - no he wouldn’t have. What a ridiculous exaggeration. What in Jeff Thomas’s background or performance history, makes you think he would’ve even lasted long enough to catch 80 or 90 passes in two seasons, much less one. Everybody keeps projecting about this guy, and he keeps disappointing everywhere he goes. I’ve had just about enough of all this Jeff Thomas projection.
 
LustNCanes said:
Diaz is NOT HC material! For once, I would like to see a Dabo clone take over a Miami Team and see how would that look like,
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We don't have the type of leadership running the AD to identify a talent like Dabo, much less stick with him and see the forrest for the trees beyond his early record. He was an unheralded, and to some, unbearable WR coach who talked a great game but only had a plan, he had never actually gotten hit before... As Mike Tyson would say...

On the game itself, thank you @Coach Macho for your comments, they're always unfiltered and regarding this regime, very, very accurate.

We've been through the ringer and have seen so many ineffective OCs come through here that it's impossible to take a leap of faith. It is hard to buy into a guy until we see a complete season of real production, where it appears that every week we have a well structured and well executed game plan.

That being said, I can't look at what Lashlee called and even entertain that it's representative of the offense we will see by season's end. He has so much more he's shown in his prior posts that if he called the game the way he did, it's because we aren't where we need to be in some fashion, or didn't need to be there against UAB. I hope.

Defense, man that's frustrating. We got beat on a bunch of the same plays we did last year. Thinking about UAB's TE, I'll be damned if they didn't run the same stuff VT did to get the go-ahead TD on us last season. I don't get the blitzes from the parking lot either, all they do is turn you into a 10 man defense. It's mind-boggling and you don't need this **** to beat UAB either. From what I saw, if we just took a simple base defense and let our front four get after it, that game is over a lot faster and we have 4 or 5 extra offensive possessions to put on tape and get better.

Diaz did a lot well when he was the DC here. People don't want to talk about them because they don't like the HC version, but he was good at making adjustments in game, and over the following week. He had some bad games, every single coordinator does, but generally speaking he hardly ever had us in a position where we needed the offense to step up and bail out his defense. It was consistently the other way around.

Why this is happening on defense? One thought is first time HCs who are stepping in from being coordihhhm to stay out of their guys stuff a little too much. They usually get passed that pretty quickly. I'd much prefer he do it at Temple first, but that isn't going to be the case. He's here and I do think he can be a good HC, but he has to put his foot down on **** that doesn't work 9 times, and stop celebrating the one time it does.
 
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simplycanes said:
We don't have the type of leadership running the AD to identify a talent like Dabo, much less stick with him and see the forrest for the trees beyond his early record. He was an unheralded, and to some, unbearable WR coach who talked a great game but only had a plan, he had never actually gotten hit before... As Mike Tyson would say...

On the game itself, thank you @Coach Macho for your comments, they're always unfiltered and regarding this regime, very, very accurate.

We've been through the ringer and have seen so many ineffective OCs come through here that it's impossible to take a leap of faith. It is hard to buy into a guy until we see a complete season of real production, where it appears that every week we have a well structured and we'll executed game plan.

That being said, I can't look at what Lashlee called and even entertain that it's representative of the offense we will see by season's end. He has so much more he's shown in his prior posts that if he called the game the way he did, it's because we aren't where we need to be in some fashion, or didn't need to be there against UAB. I hope.

Defense, man that's frustrating. We got beat on a bunch of the same plays we did last year. Thinking about UAB's TE, I'll be damned if they didn't run the same stuff VT did to get the go-ahead TD on us last season. I don't get the blitzes from the parking lot either, all they do is turn you into a 10 man defense. It's mind-boggling and you don't need this **** to beat UAB either. From what I saw, if we just took a simple base defense and let our front four get after it, that game is over a lot faster and we have 4 or 5 extra offensive possessions to put on tape and get better.

Diaz did a lot well when he was the DC here. People don't want to talk about them because they don't like the HC version, but he was good at making adjustments in game, and over the following week. He had some bad games, every single coordinator does, but generally speaking he hardly ever had us in a position where we needed the defense to step up and bail out the offense. It was consistently the other way around.

Why this is happening on defense? One thought is first time HCs who are stepping in from being coordihhhm to stay out of their guys stuff a little too much. They usually get passed that pretty quickly. I'd much prefer he do it at Temple first, but that isn't going to be the case. He's here and I do think he can be a good HC, but he has to put his foot down on **** that doesn't work 9 times, and stop celebrating the one time it does.
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Agreed. If we truly want a team to meet fan expectations, we go and poach a legit AD with a National Title under their belt.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
LOL - no he wouldn’t have. What a ridiculous exaggeration. What in Jeff Thomas’s background or performance history, makes you think he would’ve even lasted long enough to catch 80 or 90 passes in two seasons, much less one. Everybody keeps projecting about this guy, and he keeps disappointing everywhere he goes. I’ve had just about enough of all this Jeff Thomas projection.
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The film. He was getting open in richt and enos offense but had nobody to get him the ball. You crazy if you don’t think he would have in a modern system.
 
252cane said:
The film. He was getting open in richt and enos offense but had nobody to get him the ball. You crazy if you don’t think he would have in a modern system.
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Then I’m crazy. He will henceforth be known as the “coulda” king.

If you really want to talk about him, why don’t you send some positive vibes his way so he can get his shlt together and make an NFL team. Because he isn’t on this team anymore
 
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OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Then I’m crazy. He will henceforth be known as the “coulda” king.

If you really want to talk about him, why don’t you send some positive vibes his way so he can get his shlt together and make an NFL team. Because he isn’t on this team anymore
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i know he isn’t here but I wish he did have his shît together mentally and came back but it is what it is
 
mossmadness said:
Diaz just wants to combine two worlds that logically make some sense together, but can’t Really exist.
He wants to create a lot of negative plays to force defenses behind the sticks. Which is smart. In an age of offensive domination, you got to get negative yards.
But he also wants to live to fight another day just in case he can’t get to the QB. He also wants to force offenses to have to methodically move downfield, thereby increasing the chances he will have to get a negative play. So on the backend he plays it safe.

The problem is it frequently just creates too much of a safety valve for QBs. Why worry about the havoc up front if you’re making the solution to the havoc so obvious on the back end? You saw that too much last night, and we’ve seen it too much in the past.
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And the QB hits a quick slant off a 3 step drop with the CBs giving a 6-10 yard cushion with no underneath help because the LBs are blitzing. The result, the WR have a lot of green to run through even if the safeties come into play.

Rinse and repeat.
 
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