This offense will be electric

[Miami Nights]

Before people get to ahead of themselves does anyone have any actual verified speed numbers from any of these new guys?

Hate to see a repeat of Keland Marion

 

[k9cane]

'Air Cristobal' is back. The goal/expectation is to score 45-points a game again like 2024. For the love of God, please, just implement a bit of tempo...

 

[jps2344]

The 2026 team will look like 2024 on offense and look like 2025 on defense.. complete team!!!

Once I see the specialty units operating above the level of a .500 MAC team I’ll agree

 

[407cane]

For all the knocks on Beck and there were a few

Dude was calm cool and collected on massive game winning drives and critical 3rd downs

I hope Mensah can play with that calmness when stakes are high. If so, it’ll be a great year

 

[skeeter]

Has the potential…But remember we are losing 4 starting OL…I trust CMC/Mirabal to have it as a top 20-25 offensive line (maybe higher based on track record). But I think it's a bit of a reach to think we can have a top 10 OL let alone top 5-7 like we had this year.

So while I agree more weapons and maybe more downfield capability…There are ??

 

[Empirical Cane]

Hopefully we see more 3/4 WR sets and using the whole field. Will have the speed at WR to do it.

Negative.

Mensah runs A-gap or GTFOH.

 

[HighPerformance]

Love Beck. I think Mensah fits Dawson's offense better than Beck did.

Btw, watching Cam's highlights at Wash St and Mensah at Duke, I see so many similarities. Plenty of differences. But still.

Cam 2023: 485 attempts, 3736 yards, 66.6%, 25 TDs, 7 INTs, 7.7 YPA
Mensah 2025: 500 attempts, 3973 yards, 66.8%, 34 TDs, 6 INTs, 7.9 YPA

Here is what stood out to me looking at his numbers from 24 to 25- Mensah had 287 pass attempts in 24 and 500 in 25, his INTs remained at 6 but his TDS went up by 12.

 

[LuCane]

Here is what stood out to me looking at his numbers from 24 to 25- Mensah had 287 pass attempts in 24 and 500 in 25, his INTs remained at 6 but his TDS went up by 12.

I’ve watched almost every snap of his ‘25 season and was surprisingly impressed with the Duke pass concept design. They schemed a lot of stuff open via matchups.

 

[BigWindyCane1]

IMHO, Mensah and this Canes offense will put up numbers like 2024, and I would not be surprised if records from that season are broken. There is every reason to be bullish on the Canes offense next season

 

[HighPerformance]

I’ve watched almost every snap of his ‘25 season and was surprisingly impressed with the Duke pass concept design. They schemed a lot of stuff open via matchups.

I haven't paid a lot of attention to him- but I thought his rushing numbers would be higher....minus the sack yardage. Well, more of I was hoping they were higher. If he can find ways to contribute on the ground on 3rd down- we should be pretty solid moving forward.

 

[Empirical Cane]

I’ve watched almost every snap of his ‘25 season and was surprisingly impressed with the Duke pass concept design. They schemed a lot of stuff open via matchups.

Ditto.

My concern was against inferior talent.

Thoughts?

 

[The U is back to work]

Before people get to ahead of themselves does anyone have any actual verified speed numbers from any of these new guys?

Hate to see a repeat of Keland Marion

Lmfao

 

[The U is back to work]

Traded

JoJo
Ny Carr
Chance Robinson
Ray Ray Armstrong

Combined 230 yards and 1 TD

for

Barkate
Jacobs
Vaughn

Combined for 2200 yards and 15 TD

 

[Caned Peach]

This offseason will be filled w/ lie after lie from me. I’m gonna be unbearable.

 

[90scane]

Traded

JoJo
Ny Carr
Chance Robinson
Ray Ray Armstrong

Combined 230 yards and 1 TD

for

Barkate
Jacobs
Vaughn

Combined for 2200 yards and 15 TD

Forgot the grads. Marion, CJ, Johnson.

The transfer outs were replaced by the HS kids. Combined, these three still out performed all departures.

 

[The U is back to work]

Forgot the grads. Marion, CJ, Johnson.

The transfer outs were replaced by the HS kids. Combined, these three still out performed all departures.

Yeah I’m just saying guys who could have returned for 2026 not the ones who couldn’t come back.

 

[Canes_]

Ironically, the biggest question is offensive line. Everything else is in place for an elite offense.

 

[LuCane]

Ditto.

My concern was against inferior talent.

Thoughts?

They also played well against Clemson and some other talented players, but yeah, some numbers came against poor defenses.

To be fair, Mensah himself played alongside inferior talent.

Barkate, their clear #1, will unlikely be a featured player in our offense. Great complement in certain formations, though.

 

[Cribby]

More 10 and 20 personnel and less 12 . Get our best guys on the field . Rb and Wr is a strength.

 

[Handsome Squidbum]

Gotta beat ND which will not be easy. And we need to run the table in the ACC, something we've never done. Can Mario bury another myth?

Realistically we can lose 2 as long as we win the ACC. Notre Dame isn’t an ACC game so if we lose (we won’t) it’s not a huge deal. Lose only 1 ACC game and I think we will be in the ACC championship game. After winning ACC we are in the playoffs with a possible bye.