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Gsugradcanefan

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Miami controlled this game for the most part and IMO were never truly in danger of losing, despite WF getting momentum and having back to back scoring drives in the 2nd half. It was a Friday night conference road game, which is already weird energy (Friday night games are typically where ranked teams go to die). We lost key contributors to injuries (folks underestimate how much that can suck the energy from a team), and our QB/star WR were banged up. It wasn't the prettiest win (especially the second half), but good teams find ways to win even when things start to turn. I'm not making any excuses for that really bad 2nd half offense. However, when you have multiple players get hurt during the course of a game (the Marty Brown injury really sucked and kinda deflated the offense's energy), it forces coaches to adjust game plans. Despite all that happened, they still came out with a double digit win against a solid WF team (yeah they struggled with Purdue, but that's football, every win wont be a dominant blowout). With a healthy team we put up 50. That second half was ugly offensively, but I am hopeful that will be the worst half of football the team will play this season. Dawson definitely needs to go back to the drawing board because that output ain't gonna cut it throughout the rest of the schedule. Mario has these boys locked in because if this was year 1 or 2 of the Mario tenure, we likely lose this game. There is still plenty of work to be done, but I am proud of these boys for fighting through injuries, a shortened practice week, and Wake giving Miami everything they had. Remember this is a new QB still learning the system and getting fully settled in, an o-line with new starters still gelling and getting settled in, as well as new starters on the d-line. We bent, but didn't break. I don't give two sh*ts of a split d**k f**k about covering the spread. Get out of there with a win, get home, get healthy, and prepare for CMU next week.

GO CANES!!

PS: The gameday board can get really toxic really quick the moment things don't go perfectly according to plan. There were people on there calling for Heatherman to be let go after Wake's scoring drive in the 1st Q.
 
skyman said:
Defense defintely stepped up, I guess it gets overlooked because of missed tackles and such, but hetherman turned it up and didnt relent at all.. They will get better from this

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The ACC needs to up that Holding calls called to around 10 or so, 5 are rookie numbers
 
Gsugradcanefan said:
Miami controlled this game for the most part and IMO were never truly in danger of losing, despite WF getting momentum and having back to back scoring drives in the 2nd half. It was a Friday night conference road game, which is already weird energy (Friday night games are typically where ranked teams go to die). We lost key contributors to injuries (folks underestimate how much that can suck the energy from a team), and our QB/star WR were banged up. It wasn't the prettiest win (especially the second half), but good teams find ways to win even when things start to turn. I'm not making any excuses for that really bad 2nd half offense. However, when you have multiple players get hurt during the course of a game (the Marty Brown injury really sucked and kinda deflated the offense's energy), it forces coaches to adjust game plans. Despite all that happened, they still came out with a double digit win against a solid WF team (yeah they struggled with Purdue, but that's football, every win wont be a dominant blowout). With a healthy team we put up 50. That second half was ugly offensively, but I am hopeful that will be the worst half of football the team will play this season. Dawson definitely needs to go back to the drawing board because that output ain't gonna cut it throughout the rest of the schedule. Mario has these boys locked in because if this was year 1 or 2 of the Mario tenure, we likely lose this game. There is still plenty of work to be done, but I am proud of these boys for fighting through injuries, a shortened practice week, and Wake giving Miami everything they had. Remember this is a new QB still learning the system and getting fully settled in, an o-line with new starters still gelling and getting settled in, as well as new starters on the d-line. We bent, but didn't break. I don't give two sh*ts of a split d**k f**k about covering the spread. Get out of there with a win, get home, get healthy, and prepare for CMU next week.

GO CANES!!

PS: The gameday board can get really toxic really quick the moment things don't go perfectly according to plan. There were people on there calling for Heatherman to be let go after Wake's scoring drive in the 1st Q.
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The injuries was the sole reason we had a drop off. We were rolling before they started piling up.
 
coffeecane said:
Gsugradcanefan said:
Miami controlled this game for the most part and IMO were never truly in danger of losing, despite WF getting momentum and having back to back scoring drives in the 2nd half. It was a Friday night conference road game, which is already weird energy (Friday night games are typically where ranked teams go to die). We lost key contributors to injuries (folks underestimate how much that can suck the energy from a team), and our QB/star WR were banged up. It wasn't the prettiest win (especially the second half), but good teams find ways to win even when things start to turn. I'm not making any excuses for that really bad 2nd half offense. However, when you have multiple players get hurt during the course of a game (the Marty Brown injury really sucked and kinda deflated the offense's energy), it forces coaches to adjust game plans. Despite all that happened, they still came out with a double digit win against a solid WF team (yeah they struggled with Purdue, but that's football, every win wont be a dominant blowout). With a healthy team we put up 50. That second half was ugly offensively, but I am hopeful that will be the worst half of football the team will play this season. Dawson definitely needs to go back to the drawing board because that output ain't gonna cut it throughout the rest of the schedule. Mario has these boys locked in because if this was year 1 or 2 of the Mario tenure, we likely lose this game. There is still plenty of work to be done, but I am proud of these boys for fighting through injuries, a shortened practice week, and Wake giving Miami everything they had. Remember this is a new QB still learning the system and getting fully settled in, an o-line with new starters still gelling and getting settled in, as well as new starters on the d-line. We bent, but didn't break. I don't give two sh*ts of a split d**k f**k about covering the spread. Get out of there with a win, get home, get healthy, and prepare for CMU next week.

GO CANES!!

PS: The gameday board can get really toxic really quick the moment things don't go perfectly according to plan. There were people on there calling for Heatherman to be let go after Wake's scoring drive in the 1st Q.
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The injuries was the sole reason we had a drop off. We were rolling before they started piling up.
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Not entirely- wake switched to man to man coverage and gave our passing game fits… and they started stunting, twisting and blitzing and our patchwork or work in progress o line couldn’t protect Mensah— Fletcher who is a great pass pro RB could t stem the tide on more than one series

sure injuries played a part but it wasn’t the only thing that went wrong last night
 
Hobokane said:
Not entirely- wake switched to man to man coverage and gave our passing game fits… and they started stunting, twisting and blitzing and our patchwork or work in progress o line couldn’t protect Mensah— Fletcher who is a great pass pro RB could t stem the tide on more than one series

sure injuries played a part but it wasn’t the only thing that went wrong last night
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That's on Dawson for not fully adjusting, but as I said earlier, that Marty brown injury really took the wind out of the offense's sails. Dawson became overly conservative after that.
 
SinisterCane said:
Is the coaching staff resilient as well?
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Yep. The way people were dog piling on them, you'd think this same staff didn't just get us to the NC game 8 months ago and weren't 40 yards away from winning it all. Figured that would have earned Mario and staff the benefit of the doubt, but I forgot this is cfb and fans are over reactionary and myopic
 
Gsugradcanefan said:
Hobokane said:
Not entirely- wake switched to man to man coverage and gave our passing game fits… and they started stunting, twisting and blitzing and our patchwork or work in progress o line couldn’t protect Mensah— Fletcher who is a great pass pro RB could t stem the tide on more than one series

sure injuries played a part but it wasn’t the only thing that went wrong last night
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That's on Dawson for not fully adjusting, but as I said earlier, that Marty brown injury really took the wind out of the offense's sails. Dawson became overly conservative after that.
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Agreed— I hated to see that too…. I love that kid w huge change of pace back who does it all— that hurts
 
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