forums

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

Advertisement
Great post.

How about we realize the offense is vanilla because the OL is not particularly talented? 330+ yards rushing was great, but a lot of that was from Cam’s long TD run, King’s scrambles, and a couple of chuck plays by Knighton and Chaney. I may be wrong but I don’t see a dominant offensive line.

Defensively, Diaz schemes a few TFLs but gets gashed again and again. UAB doesn’t have the talent to take full advantages but other teams will.

I’ll take the 31-14 win, it’s better than last year’s losses to FIU and LaTech. I was hoping to see more.

On to Louisville.
 
Advertisement
IMO, we could have run for 400. Cam missed some huge opportunities, and Rooster missed a gaping hole late.

With an entirely vanilla approach to the offensive game plan, keep in mind King still missed on two easy TD throws. We left at least 14-17 points on the field and another 150 yards, IMO.

Ivey is a Rumph pet project. That’s an issue. Just like other defensive coaches who have favorites that can’t play. WE HAVE A BETTER CB.

We had a top 5(?) pass defense in 2018. Can’t do that if your CB coach sucks. Especially with our defense. There’s a disconnect between what Baker is asking for a what Rumph is coaching.

McCloud isn’t good. He won’t be even when he turns 30. Brooks is a better football player. It’s not close. But Diaz wanted him to stay so they’re going to play him.

I need more from the DL. Our DEs faced an immobile QB and didn’t get to him often enough because of all the cute ***** we insist on doing. Baker has no FEEL for the game.

PA Boots = Our LBs have no idea what they’re doing. Baker isn’t good enough to be a DC and a position coach. That’s fugging comical thinking about it. We need a real LB coach. Baker ain’t it.

Love our run game. It will get better, IMO. UL won 8 games last year simply by being fast and physical. Being able to run is huge. Their defense was trash. I EXPECT us to use that approach, but with a better QB, and defense.

On to UL. Let’s Fugging Go.
 
CanesDynasty said:
I like constructive criticism on defense, but sometimes you need to focus on the whole game instead of individual plays.
* UAB rushed for only 80 yards on 26 carries (3.1 ypc)
* We held them to 3 of 15 on 3rd down (so we got them off the field)
* We only had 1 sack, but tons of QB pressures which are equally effective
* We created 0 turnovers, but still held them to 14 points (7 of which came after Pope fumbled inside our own red zone)

Offense is a different story, so lets just hope we didn't show a lot. Clearly, we didn't use the TE's in the 1st half, so I'm under the impression Lashlee was set on winning this game on the ground.
Click to expand...
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.
 
Last edited:
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.
Click to expand...

You actually need to post MORE. Fr fr.
 
We always talk about points left on the field by the offense, but lets discuss the plays left on the field by the defense.
McCloud bats a ball away that could have been an interception had he gone up with 2 hands with the goal of catching the pass and not just batting it away
Keontra Smith is hit in the hands and drops an easy INT
Blades drops an INT on the sideline. His hands must be terrible.
Couch gets beaten on a pass, does a good job of coming from behind to cause a fumble only to have someone (I think Blades) kick the ball out of bounds. If this fumble is recovered, UAB doesn't score their 2nd TD.
 
Advertisement
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 our talented them. It kinda felt like that last night; in the 2nd half we our 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.
Click to expand...
The BCU argument is a stretch because we had already played two games before. North Carolina and Florida. This was our first game
 
Ash Joshi said:
We always talk about points left on the field by the offense, but lets discuss the plays left on the field by the defense.
McCloud bats a ball away that could have been an interception had he gone up with 2 hands with the goal of catching the pass and not just batting it away
Keontra Smith is hit in the hands and drops an easy INT
Blades drops an INT on the sideline. His hands must be terrible.
Couch gets beaten on a pass, does a good job of coming from behind to cause a fumble only to have someone (I think Blades) kick the ball out of bounds. If this fumble is recovered, UAB doesn't score their 2nd TD.
Click to expand...
No, the kick out of bounds was Ivey. Yet again.
 
None of Baker, Rumph or Patke have the resume to coach here imo, and it shows on the field and in their recruiting. Like Macho said, this defense ALWAYS makes inferior talent look better than they are, and our talent level and depth can’t be blamed anymore; instead, it’s the guys showing them how to play their positions who are the culprits.
 
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.
Click to expand...
good post. agree.

two things i noticed:

1) on a bunch of our stunts, we did not do a good job of breaking down in gaps once we read run. sometimes, we treat every stunt like it's free rush to the QB. that's not how it works.

2) especially agree with you on CB technique as it relates to the in-routes. without that leverage inside, there's almost no way for the CB to put body parts in the passing lane to defend the throw. and with no LB in the lane, that 3 step or 5 step drop and then hitting anything in that hook to curl zone is one of the easiest throws to make for the QB. it's pitch and catch.

the only way to defend that is to redirect the WR ....AT THE POINT OF HIS RELEASE!

as a QB, the thing that was most frustrating to me on my progressions was seeing my first look be redirected as my wideout started his release, before he got into his stem, as that meant i often had to immediately move on with the progression very early in the pattern. it makes you feel like you're rushing your reads, and starting the play out of rhythm.

i like a lot of the things rumph does as far a coaching the position. but i think the scheme (or the calls) sometimes doesn't do the CB's any favors.
 
Advertisement
Page305 said:
McCloud had a great pbu... Jennings was attacking the ballcarrier alot. That's all I can remember lol. But yeah pretty disappointing from them. Not a great performance at all from that group.
Click to expand...
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.
Click to expand...
The talent at LB is foolishly bad
 
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.
Click to expand...
A ******* Men
BAKER Is basura bro

No business being at Miami

I would fire him immediately and Diaz can coach the rest of the way. This **** is sad. Gonna be a long season. We may lose 4 games and Diaz will get fired. It's because of the defense folks. Defense is trash 🗑
 
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 our talented them. It kinda felt like that last night; in the 2nd half we our 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.
Click to expand...
I'll say this, King air mailed a wide open Payton to start the 3rd quarter and we scored Td's on our next 2 drives and finally utilized Brevin. Our defense gave up only 1 drive the length of the field and that drive was extended by a weird 4th down TE shift that made Roche jump offsides.

For all intents and purposes, we should've won 35-7 with zero turnovers created against a team who beat Louisiana Tech last year. I'll take it!
 
Last edited:
Advertisement
Watched a 20+ minute condensed version this morning.

Saw some pretty good DT play.
Miller and Ford absolutely bullied their OL into the backfield on a few occasions but simply weren't athletic enough to redirect and actually make the tackle. Maybe that's the difference between an elite 4/5 star DT and a 3-star developmental guy. Either way, it was encouraging to see what they could do at the point of attack when they're not stunting.

After rewatching the game, noticed a ton of man coverage from UAB. Which brings me to another point, we've been getting a ton of man coverage the last couple seasons. It's clear that people aren't a scared of our WR talent anymore. Didn't notice our offense run any man-beater concepts to get WR's free either.

King missed quite a few reads. Our offense has two or three plays built-in on every down. On one play, we threw a screen to Harris on the left, but on the right side of the formation the WR's were also running a screen. He has the option to take either one, and he should have thrown the wide receiver screen. Not a real big deal though, it happens in these type of offenses. Just something I observed.

I know I'm very critical of the defense. That's just me being a DC. And I know on the surface, statistically, we did fine. But I tend to focus on the negative plays. And most of the negative plays I watched, didn't need to happen. And that's my issue.
If you go back and watch the negative plays you can rightfully say "Well that wouldn't have happened here if we would've just did this, or lined up properly, or didn't stunt."
The negative plays were mostly preventable, and that's my gripe. We could have easily kept this team to 3 points IMO.

I would rather see our players flat-out get beat, then to see our DC give up a play by being cute...or not having us lined-up right. I expect players to get beat on occasion, it happens. I hold coaches who get paid 6 figures more accountable. I mean, there was one play where UAB had a TE and H-back to the same side and we had NOBODY on the edge. Phillips was lined-up inside the TE. UAB's RB went untouched around the edge. That's what I mean, those things don't have to happen. That's not on the players.
 
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 our talented them. It kinda felt like that last night; in the 2nd half we our 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.
Click to expand...
Nobody want to hear it but jeff thomas would have caught 80-90 passes in this offense
 
Advertisement
Back
Top