HurricaneAce07
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Was catching up on all of my normal post-game reading + rewatching a bunch of the game on my flight home from Chapel Hill. Wrote down a few thoughts on the plane they I thought were worthy of feedback/comments (and preemptive "pardon" if I'm repeating anyone else's writeup):
1. "Oddly timed" play calls - I've seen a lot of discussion about the play calling in general, but what I was more confused by was the "timing" of certain plays being called. Confused? Here's an example - DeeJay Dallas gets a monster 50 yard catch and gets us a 1st and goal inside the 10 yd line. Offense rushes down the field to get another play off and catch UNC off guard - they call a draw to.... DeeJay Dallas and it gets stuffed. Now obviously we still scored on this drive, but I was baffled that we would hurry up to call a play to a RB who had just run about 60 yds and was still catching his breath. Just unwise by Richt and there are a handful of examples like that.
2. Blitzing on third & long situations - you could tell that Elliot wanted no part of throwing the ball, especially late in the game. You could also see that he was being told to tuck and run as soon as he saw an opening. All Diaz had to do was let our front 4 get coverage sacks by sitting everyone else in a zone-read situation. Elliot can't make the throws and he either gets sacked or stopped short of the first down. Those plays will KILL us next week against VT.
3. We did not throw a single fade route in the red zone - Not sure why, but we refused to throw a fade route in the red zone. We had mismatches on the outside and receivers with great hands. We missed out on at least two TDs because we went ULTRA vanilla inside the redzone and refused to set up our play makers to make plays.
4. Ok, I'm ready to admit it... refs will not call holds for our DLine - offensive linemen do what they can get away with and our Oline is no different. Usually they'll push the boundary of holding until they finally get called for it - I try to remind myself of this whenever we cry for holding against our Dline. However, what I saw yesterday was beyond absurd. UNC Oline was literally wrapping their arms around Jackson and Thomas' throats. On one of UNC's big runs Chad was held in a head lock, was released and as he's chasing the play a second Olineman grabs his shoulderpad and pulls him sideways. Honestly, I'm not sure how Chad kept his cool. I would have lost it, especially since he would have had a TFL on the initial hold.
5. Diaz won that game for us - No, I'm not talking about his play calling and the turnovers created by his defense. From pretty much the start, this was the quietest I have seen the Miami sideline in at least a year. For whatever reason, our guys came out flat footed and assumed UNC was going to roll over - zero motivation. Diaz was an Eff'ing bulldog on the sideline. He was pacing like a General, he was walking up to the defense, the offense, the special teams guys and getting the motivated however he could. In the second half he was relentlessly on his guys to "make plays", which I assume was because he knew our offense wasn't going to get it done. I was a Diaz fan before, but after watching him yesterday, I am all-in on Diaz taking over for Richt whenever he decides to retire.
Longer write up than expected, but my brain is flowing heavy right now knowing that next Saturday against VT is probably the biggest game we've had in Miami in nearly a decade.
1. "Oddly timed" play calls - I've seen a lot of discussion about the play calling in general, but what I was more confused by was the "timing" of certain plays being called. Confused? Here's an example - DeeJay Dallas gets a monster 50 yard catch and gets us a 1st and goal inside the 10 yd line. Offense rushes down the field to get another play off and catch UNC off guard - they call a draw to.... DeeJay Dallas and it gets stuffed. Now obviously we still scored on this drive, but I was baffled that we would hurry up to call a play to a RB who had just run about 60 yds and was still catching his breath. Just unwise by Richt and there are a handful of examples like that.
2. Blitzing on third & long situations - you could tell that Elliot wanted no part of throwing the ball, especially late in the game. You could also see that he was being told to tuck and run as soon as he saw an opening. All Diaz had to do was let our front 4 get coverage sacks by sitting everyone else in a zone-read situation. Elliot can't make the throws and he either gets sacked or stopped short of the first down. Those plays will KILL us next week against VT.
3. We did not throw a single fade route in the red zone - Not sure why, but we refused to throw a fade route in the red zone. We had mismatches on the outside and receivers with great hands. We missed out on at least two TDs because we went ULTRA vanilla inside the redzone and refused to set up our play makers to make plays.
4. Ok, I'm ready to admit it... refs will not call holds for our DLine - offensive linemen do what they can get away with and our Oline is no different. Usually they'll push the boundary of holding until they finally get called for it - I try to remind myself of this whenever we cry for holding against our Dline. However, what I saw yesterday was beyond absurd. UNC Oline was literally wrapping their arms around Jackson and Thomas' throats. On one of UNC's big runs Chad was held in a head lock, was released and as he's chasing the play a second Olineman grabs his shoulderpad and pulls him sideways. Honestly, I'm not sure how Chad kept his cool. I would have lost it, especially since he would have had a TFL on the initial hold.
5. Diaz won that game for us - No, I'm not talking about his play calling and the turnovers created by his defense. From pretty much the start, this was the quietest I have seen the Miami sideline in at least a year. For whatever reason, our guys came out flat footed and assumed UNC was going to roll over - zero motivation. Diaz was an Eff'ing bulldog on the sideline. He was pacing like a General, he was walking up to the defense, the offense, the special teams guys and getting the motivated however he could. In the second half he was relentlessly on his guys to "make plays", which I assume was because he knew our offense wasn't going to get it done. I was a Diaz fan before, but after watching him yesterday, I am all-in on Diaz taking over for Richt whenever he decides to retire.
Longer write up than expected, but my brain is flowing heavy right now knowing that next Saturday against VT is probably the biggest game we've had in Miami in nearly a decade.