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  • At times it was a struggle, other times it was maddening, but Miami was finally able to pull away from a fired up Manny Diaz-led Duke squad by the score of 36-25 at Hard Rock Stadium. Miami won but truthfully, do you see a team at the moment that can really make a deep playoff run?

    Some thoughts on the game....

    - Miami is still learning a bit how to play without the great Malachi Toney (yeah, this guy made up for a LOT of things) but they finally got things going a bit in the second half. Offensively, this Oline just isn't getting a push consistently enough early -- and with that, running the ball in the first half of games will be tough in my view, until you put some snaps on defenses and wear them down a bit.

    - With Mark Fletcher hobbled with a lower body injury and sideline in the second half, it was great to see Jordan Lyle deliver some key plays. He ran hard with some real violence and gave the UM offense a boost. He gained some valuable yards.

    Then there is super-frosh Javion Mallory. He was great this game, but with a catch-and-run for a 63 yard touchdown reception that gave Miami some breathing room at 22-10. Then he broke off 39 yard run to put the game away at 36-17. He had 79 yards receiving and 71 yards rushing on just 13 touches. Vince Lombardi would love this guy -- he has a natural knack of running to daylight. His vision is better than any other back on this roster

    - Cooper Barkate seems to be getting more comfortable as the #1 receiver without Toney( 8 catches, 134 yards) and Mario Cristobal did not lie -- Dre Jacobs did earn more playing time and he made some key plays to extend drives. But I still don't think the Canes have a wide receiver that truly scares anyone outside.

    - The offensive line had some issues, Mensah's ability to move and extend plays, really helped. But it's clear that they need to hit the portal in the off-season. Some of the staffs evals and lack of getting a solid, veteran big-body inside in the last portal period have hurt this unit. Mensah was 30 for 41, 382 yards today.

    The offense still had 532 yards of total offense. This team will probably have to just out-score people from here on out.

    - As for the defense, well...it's clear that this unit isnt what it was last year. I flat out think it's not all that good. Bain and Mesidore camouflaged a lot of things with their sheer ability to create pressure off the edge. But what's alarming is how unsound they are in certain aspects of the game. Stuff like giving up 3rd and 15 on a short dump off. And not leveraging the ball back inside enough, and then tackling with force

    -Nate Sheppard, once he got going, he got going. He was as advertised

    - Miami seemed to play more man-press, but this defense lacks speed at linebacker, and the edge rusher have generally been a disappointment. This unit has taken a couple of steps backwards this season.

    - I found the last sequence of downs where Miami gave up that late touchdown interesting( and those who bet certainly cared about it) but the penalties at the end that cost Miami a goal line stop. The lack of attention to detail is a bit alarming. I know a coach who says, ''if it's not OK in losing, it's not OK in winning."

    Guess which coach says that...
 
Agree with a lot of what you said. Our red zone offense must improve. Shameful we end the half and start the half with great drives but only deliver 6 points. Had we scored TDs in even one of them, everyone would be singing a different tune.

Regarding our WR corps, I am frustrated that we don’t take more deep shots on go routes. And also frustrated that we don’t take advantage of Cooper when he is 1:1 in the goal to go situation.

Great win! Go Canes!
 
k9cane said:
  • At times it was a struggle, other times it was maddening, but Miami was finally able to pull away from a fired up Manny Diaz-led Duke squad by the score of 36-25 at Hard Rock Stadium. Miami won but truthfully, do you see a team at the moment that can really make a deep playoff run?

    Some thoughts on the game....

    - Miami is still learning a bit how to play without the great Malachi Toney (yeah, this guy made up for a LOT of things) but they finally got things going a bit in the second half. Offensively, this Oline just isn't getting a push consistently enough early -- and with that, running the ball in the first half of games will be tough in my view, until you put some snaps on defenses and wear them down a bit.

    - With Mark Fletcher hobbled with a lower body injury and sideline in the second half, it was great to see Jordan Lyle deliver some key plays. He ran hard with some real violence and gave the UM offense a boost. He gained some valuable yards.

    Then there is super-frosh Javion Mallory. He was great this game, but with a catch-and-run for a 63 yard touchdown reception that gave Miami some breathing room at 22-10. Then he broke off 39 yard run to put the game away at 36-17. He had 79 yards receiving and 71 yards rushing on just 13 touches. Vince Lombardi would love this guy -- he has a natural knack of running to daylight. His vision is better than any other back on this roster

    - Cooper Barkate seems to be getting more comfortable as the #1 receiver without Toney( 8 catches, 134 yards) and Mario Cristobal did not lie -- Dre Jacobs did earn more playing time and he made some key plays to extend drives. But I still don't think the Canes have a wide receiver that truly scares anyone outside.

    - The offensive line had some issues, Mensah's ability to move and extend plays, really helped. But it's clear that they need to hit the portal in the off-season. Some of the staffs evals and lack of getting a solid, veteran big-body inside in the last portal period have hurt this unit. Mensah was 30 for 41, 382 yards today.

    The offense still had 532 yards of total offense. This team will probably have to just out-score people from here on out.

    - As for the defense, well...it's clear that this unit isnt what it was last year. I flat out think it's not all that good. Bain and Mesidore camouflaged a lot of things with their sheer ability to create pressure off the edge. But what's alarming is how unsound they are in certain aspects of the game. Stuff like giving up 3rd and 15 on a short dump off. And not leveraging the ball back inside enough, and then tackling with force

    -Nate Sheppard, once he got going, he got going. He was as advertised

    - Miami seemed to play more man-press, but this defense lacks speed at linebacker, and the edge rusher have generally been a disappointment. This unit has taken a couple of steps backwards this season.

    - I found the last sequence of downs where Miami gave up that late touchdown interesting( and those who bet certainly cared about it) but the penalties at the end that cost Miami a goal line stop. The lack of attention to detail is a bit alarming. I know a coach who says, ''if it's not OK in losing, it's not OK in winning."

    Guess which coach says that...
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It’s the lack of attention to details that drive me and prob most of us mad. End of game, half situations, situational D to get off the field. Continuous procedure penalties at the most in opportune times, goal to goal play calling and sets just unbelievably poor at times.
 
Seem more effective in two-back set, so like to see more of it. WR played well. No reason talking about OL.
Too many players on D are low IQ. Duke RB is helluva player, but their ONLY player. So we couldn’t game plan him better, especially when used in passing game. No reason talking about effort by Lucas.
 
I think what is frustrating is we should have a ton of momentum and be rolling downhill. We just aren’t.

The OL was botched. The defense looks unsound and plays with poor fundamentals frequently. And, on top of that, we don’t play with great intensity. More like a team that goes through the motions.

Maybe I’m too negative, but it feels like we should be better and have more energy than we do. We are quickly running out of time here.
 
The canesman said:
I saw a team that waited for someone else to make a play. I saw a team that got its *** beat in the trenches. I saw a team with no urgency. I saw a very soft team.
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Strange to see Duke defensive lineman and LBs setting the tone and knocking us backward. Maybe they are better than I give them credit for, but the physicality part of this game did not meet my expectations.

But I am learning my expectations are the problem.
 
k9cane said:
  • At times it was a struggle, other times it was maddening, but Miami was finally able to pull away from a fired up Manny Diaz-led Duke squad by the score of 36-25 at Hard Rock Stadium. Miami won but truthfully, do you see a team at the moment that can really make a deep playoff run?

    Some thoughts on the game....

    - Miami is still learning a bit how to play without the great Malachi Toney (yeah, this guy made up for a LOT of things) but they finally got things going a bit in the second half. Offensively, this Oline just isn't getting a push consistently enough early -- and with that, running the ball in the first half of games will be tough in my view, until you put some snaps on defenses and wear them down a bit.

    - With Mark Fletcher hobbled with a lower body injury and sideline in the second half, it was great to see Jordan Lyle deliver some key plays. He ran hard with some real violence and gave the UM offense a boost. He gained some valuable yards.

    Then there is super-frosh Javion Mallory. He was great this game, but with a catch-and-run for a 63 yard touchdown reception that gave Miami some breathing room at 22-10. Then he broke off 39 yard run to put the game away at 36-17. He had 79 yards receiving and 71 yards rushing on just 13 touches. Vince Lombardi would love this guy -- he has a natural knack of running to daylight. His vision is better than any other back on this roster

    - Cooper Barkate seems to be getting more comfortable as the #1 receiver without Toney( 8 catches, 134 yards) and Mario Cristobal did not lie -- Dre Jacobs did earn more playing time and he made some key plays to extend drives. But I still don't think the Canes have a wide receiver that truly scares anyone outside.

    - The offensive line had some issues, Mensah's ability to move and extend plays, really helped. But it's clear that they need to hit the portal in the off-season. Some of the staffs evals and lack of getting a solid, veteran big-body inside in the last portal period have hurt this unit. Mensah was 30 for 41, 382 yards today.

    The offense still had 532 yards of total offense. This team will probably have to just out-score people from here on out.

    - As for the defense, well...it's clear that this unit isnt what it was last year. I flat out think it's not all that good. Bain and Mesidore camouflaged a lot of things with their sheer ability to create pressure off the edge. But what's alarming is how unsound they are in certain aspects of the game. Stuff like giving up 3rd and 15 on a short dump off. And not leveraging the ball back inside enough, and then tackling with force

    -Nate Sheppard, once he got going, he got going. He was as advertised

    - Miami seemed to play more man-press, but this defense lacks speed at linebacker, and the edge rusher have generally been a disappointment. This unit has taken a couple of steps backwards this season.

    - I found the last sequence of downs where Miami gave up that late touchdown interesting( and those who bet certainly cared about it) but the penalties at the end that cost Miami a goal line stop. The lack of attention to detail is a bit alarming. I know a coach who says, ''if it's not OK in losing, it's not OK in winning."

    Guess which coach says that...
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Fixing the defense is less playing time for 9, 1, 24 and getting OJ and Poyser back.

The pass rush was way better when Blount moved inside.

LB play with 1 and 9 is just attrocious and 24 has no instincts and he can’t tackle.
 
k9cane said:
  • At times it was a struggle, other times it was maddening, but Miami was finally able to pull away from a fired up Manny Diaz-led Duke squad by the score of 36-25 at Hard Rock Stadium. Miami won but truthfully, do you see a team at the moment that can really make a deep playoff run?

    Some thoughts on the game....

    - Miami is still learning a bit how to play without the great Malachi Toney (yeah, this guy made up for a LOT of things) but they finally got things going a bit in the second half. Offensively, this Oline just isn't getting a push consistently enough early -- and with that, running the ball in the first half of games will be tough in my view, until you put some snaps on defenses and wear them down a bit.

    - With Mark Fletcher hobbled with a lower body injury and sideline in the second half, it was great to see Jordan Lyle deliver some key plays. He ran hard with some real violence and gave the UM offense a boost. He gained some valuable yards.

    Then there is super-frosh Javion Mallory. He was great this game, but with a catch-and-run for a 63 yard touchdown reception that gave Miami some breathing room at 22-10. Then he broke off 39 yard run to put the game away at 36-17. He had 79 yards receiving and 71 yards rushing on just 13 touches. Vince Lombardi would love this guy -- he has a natural knack of running to daylight. His vision is better than any other back on this roster

    - Cooper Barkate seems to be getting more comfortable as the #1 receiver without Toney( 8 catches, 134 yards) and Mario Cristobal did not lie -- Dre Jacobs did earn more playing time and he made some key plays to extend drives. But I still don't think the Canes have a wide receiver that truly scares anyone outside.

    - The offensive line had some issues, Mensah's ability to move and extend plays, really helped. But it's clear that they need to hit the portal in the off-season. Some of the staffs evals and lack of getting a solid, veteran big-body inside in the last portal period have hurt this unit. Mensah was 30 for 41, 382 yards today.

    The offense still had 532 yards of total offense. This team will probably have to just out-score people from here on out.

    - As for the defense, well...it's clear that this unit isnt what it was last year. I flat out think it's not all that good. Bain and Mesidore camouflaged a lot of things with their sheer ability to create pressure off the edge. But what's alarming is how unsound they are in certain aspects of the game. Stuff like giving up 3rd and 15 on a short dump off. And not leveraging the ball back inside enough, and then tackling with force

    -Nate Sheppard, once he got going, he got going. He was as advertised

    - Miami seemed to play more man-press, but this defense lacks speed at linebacker, and the edge rusher have generally been a disappointment. This unit has taken a couple of steps backwards this season.

    - I found the last sequence of downs where Miami gave up that late touchdown interesting( and those who bet certainly cared about it) but the penalties at the end that cost Miami a goal line stop. The lack of attention to detail is a bit alarming. I know a coach who says, ''if it's not OK in losing, it's not OK in winning."

    Guess which coach says that...
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Yeah agreed this game was maddening..my poor dog left the room after giving up that 3/14 ..
 

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aleahy said:
I think what is frustrating is we should have a ton of momentum and be rolling downhill. We just aren’t.

The OL was botched. The defense looks unsound and plays with poor fundamentals frequently. And, on top of that, we don’t play with great intensity. More like a team that goes through the motions.

Maybe I’m too negative, but it feels like we should be better and have more energy than we do. We are quickly running out of time here.
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Some of the secondary guys looked gassed....

Lack of focus on Duke's last drive - that's just sloppy playing
 
The linebackers are going to cost us the season at some point. I don't know what Heatherman is thinking. They need guys with some speed to pair with one of the others.

I also think the defense as a whole has absolutely, terrible body language and ferocity. There doesn't seem to be any pride on that unit. There doesn't seem to be any nastiness. It is a unit that looks decent in the best of times and lost/unsure most other times. Aside from the schematic stuff, the culture on defense is BAD.

I'm watching a guy in Fitzgerald who was so sure of himself last year seem like it's his first game every week. Dropping that INT...that's a microcosm of what we're watching. Good players that can't seem to play at their level.
 
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