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Some thoughts on the Canes-Duke...

OldhamA said:
God I ******* hated the Golden / D'Onofrio defence.

At least with Diaz's bull**** everyone was going 100mph - just often in the wrong direction.
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Yes- a Diaz style “havoc” defense would be better for the players than what Hetherman is running. It worked last year because we had 2 1st rounders at DE and any scheme would work with them in the lineup. This year he actually needs to scheme accordingly but this is not the best style defense for s Florida athletes
 
Mnhurricane said:
Trenches still suck.
LBs and safeties make me want to swallow poison watching them cover.
Coaches still completely unaware of our strengths and weaknesses.

Rinse repeat.
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Probably the most maddening thing is the strengths and weaknesses.

How do we all know that Javian needs more touches but you can only get them once Mark is hurt.

How does everyone know 20 is the only one that can beat you on that team but he’s getting dump offs on 3rd and 15 that convert.

We really don’t have someone better than 65?

Theres gotta be something I’m missing.
 
Dre said:
Probably the most maddening thing is the strengths and weaknesses.

How do we all know that Javian needs more touches but you can only get them once Mark is hurt.

How does everyone know 20 is the only one that can beat you on that team but he’s getting dump offs on 3rd and 15 that convert.

We really don’t have someone better than 65?

Theres gotta be something I’m missing.
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Mallory got hurt on the catch where he was drug down out of bounds. That’s why you didn’t see him for a while. And he was still grabbing his side after he scored that last TD.
 
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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Miami hasn't had a rb run to space like Mallory since Gore. It's uncanny.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Barkate in Mali’s 2 missed games;

17 catches for 209 yards and 2 TDs.

Not bad.
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Both were 100 yard games. But he lost the 100 yards against ND because of the lateral on last play. All the fumble yards counted against his total yards. Which makes no sense.
 
edge said:
Both were 100 yard games. But he lost the 100 yards against ND because of the lateral on last play. All the fumble yards counted against his total yards. Which makes no sense.
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I forgot about that and honestly I was confused when I looked up the numbers because I could’ve sworn he had 100 yards last week, too. You’re absolutely correct.
 
3rd-43 said:
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.
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How can someone so incredibly anal lack attention to detail in so many areas?

Unsound areas? — which area is the defense sound in?
 
We won, that’s most important. We need a massive talent infusion at edge and backer via the portal. I know we have a great recruiting class coming in but we need some grown man strength on defense and at OG.

That’s the biggest difference I’ve seen is we are not the most physical team on the field. ND showed that last week but it keeps being highlighted by inferior teams. Shepard a really good back, but we had him hemmed in short a few times and couldn’t tackle for *****. Some of that is him but more is on us.

I have to believe Mario **** near pukes rewatching games and seeing our lack of phyzicality.
 
k9cane said:
that's the inconvenient truth...

although, I thought Duke Johnson had a knack for it...
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Duke gets overlooked because he played on some crappy teams but yes, he was the last guy who created the same type of chunky yardage. Fletcher gets his by murdering people head-to-head.
 
edge said:
Mallory got hurt on the catch where he was drug down out of bounds. That’s why you didn’t see him for a while. And he was still grabbing his side after he scored that last TD.
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This isnt a one game issue. Where was he vs ND? He needs to touch the ball a lot
 
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