Lots of FBS teams played FCS teams for their first game of the season, yet in spite of yet, nobody allowed fewer passing yards than Miami this week.
I know you can't put to much emphasis on how they played BC, but with the combination of an excelling DL, a disciplined secondary and some nice open field tackling, I think we could have a potentially good defense on our hands.
Also something to keep in mind...
Defensive rank (yards per game)
2012: 120th (486 yds)
2013: 90th (426 yds)
2014: 14th (328 yds)
And now through only the first game I know, we're ranked 3rd. So while I wouldn't advise getting hyped up just yet, I would say to watch the games against FAU and Nebraska very intently.
How many games this week also took 10 minutes off the clock?
That last 10 minutes is when a div 2 team usually puts a drive together against 2-3rd stringers. An extra 80-100 yards could easily have been added.
So if we give up 600 yards to FAU next week and lose, do we still have a great defense?
That's 339 yards per game.
You can't look at these stats in a vacuum.
You seem to be very well versed on Bethune. Did they play any backups in the 4th quarter against our backups, or were they playing starters the whole game?Lots of FBS teams played FCS teams for their first game of the season, yet in spite of yet, nobody allowed fewer passing yards than Miami this week.
I know you can't put to much emphasis on how they played BC, but with the combination of an excelling DL, a disciplined secondary and some nice open field tackling, I think we could have a potentially good defense on our hands.
Also something to keep in mind...
Defensive rank (yards per game)
2012: 120th (486 yds)
2013: 90th (426 yds)
2014: 14th (328 yds)
And now through only the first game I know, we're ranked 3rd. So while I wouldn't advise getting hyped up just yet, I would say to watch the games against FAU and Nebraska very intently.
How many games this week also took 10 minutes off the clock?
That last 10 minutes is when a div 2 team usually puts a drive together against 2-3rd stringers. An extra 80-100 yards could easily have been added.
What? The refs didn't surprise them at the end of the game by cutting 5 minutes off the last quarter. Everyone knew the deal. The 4th quarter was the last 10 minutes and we weren't giving away yards. We had backups in. Our backups are much better than they have been and certainly better than Bethune's starter. They couldn't block the front four or pick up a blitz and that didn't change with our 2nd and 3rd string in the game.
We had 2nd-3rd stringers in the game throughout the final 10 minutes.. A walk-on safety was playing. A walk-on corner was playing. James King was playing. Freshman defensive lineman were playing. Their final two drives went 7 plays for 8 yards. A team that put up 79 yards overall and eight yards against backups in the fourth had 80-100 yards in them if the game had 10 extra minutes? If we went to an all walk-on front 7 maybe.
Considering how slow Bethune was playing you're talking about at least one TD drive. No chance.
So if we give up 600 yards to FAU next week and lose, do we still have a great defense?
That's 339 yards per game.
You can't look at these stats in a vacuum.
Lots of FBS teams played FCS teams for their first game of the season, yet in spite of yet, nobody allowed fewer passing yards than Miami this week.
I know you can't put to much emphasis on how they played BC, but with the combination of an excelling DL, a disciplined secondary and some nice open field tackling, I think we could have a potentially good defense on our hands.
Also something to keep in mind...
Defensive rank (yards per game)
2012: 120th (486 yds)
2013: 90th (426 yds)
2014: 14th (328 yds)
And now through only the first game I know, we're ranked 3rd. So while I wouldn't advise getting hyped up just yet, I would say to watch the games against FAU and Nebraska very intently.
How many games this week also took 10 minutes off the clock?
That last 10 minutes is when a div 2 team usually puts a drive together against 2-3rd stringers. An extra 80-100 yards could easily have been added.
What? The refs didn't surprise them at the end of the game by cutting 5 minutes off the last quarter. Everyone knew the deal. The 4th quarter was the last 10 minutes and we weren't giving away yards. We had backups in. Our backups are much better than they have been and certainly better than Bethune's starter. They couldn't block the front four or pick up a blitz and that didn't change with our 2nd and 3rd string in the game.
We had 2nd-3rd stringers in the game throughout the final 10 minutes.. A walk-on safety was playing. A walk-on corner was playing. James King was playing. Freshman defensive lineman were playing. Their final two drives went 7 plays for 8 yards. A team that put up 79 yards overall and eight yards against backups in the fourth had 80-100 yards in them if the game had 10 extra minutes? If we went to an all walk-on front 7 maybe.
Considering how slow Bethune was playing you're talking about at least one TD drive. No chance.







Wuddayasay?! :Angry:
1-gap aggression.
Press coverage.
Gettin' after it.
I know it's only Bethune but when's the last time we held an opponent under 100 yards of total offense? That was complete domination.
Bull Sh*t..............Starters were 2 gapping like a MFer. They 1 gapped late, mostly with backups!
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@ByTimReynolds: Fourth time in the last 20 years Miami held an opponent under 80 yards. Bethune had 79 tonight.
@ByTimReynolds: The 26 passing yards given up tonight is the best showing by Miami since Duke got a whopping 8 yards through the air in 2005.
Don't matter who we played that was very impressive

@ByTimReynolds: Fourth time in the last 20 years Miami held an opponent under 80 yards. Bethune had 79 tonight.
@ByTimReynolds: The 26 passing yards given up tonight is the best showing by Miami since Duke got a whopping 8 yards through the air in 2005.
Don't matter who we played that was very impressive
Thank you. That's all I'm saying.
Fvckers be like "it's Bethune Cookman" but forget that in recent history we would struggle to stop even lower tier teams like BC.
To add to that point Bethune hasn't been shut out in 90plus games dating back to 2006.

If we can keep playing like this against the good teams i'm going to have to eat a lot of crow about D'onofrio. Fingers Crossed.
There's no reason to think we won't hammer Clemson, GT and FSU the way we did these Florida boys tonight. BCC has more Florida players than any of those teams. Keep that in mind.
I like the way you squirm boy

Anyone that took anything from that Bethune game deserves to get mocked.