OrangeBowlMagic
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Logan Woodside (Toledo): Completion percentage, YPA, and rating all well below his season averages. Woodside was also drafted and has hung on in the NFL on practice squads and rosters for 3 years now. He’s an NFL player. He was well below average in every metric vs Miami.Beautiful work, my dude. I trust my eyes over any statistical metric because stats are what led to those old BCS computer polls where UC Davis was ranked 15th one year despite being a D2 program.
If you watch football, your eyes should tell you Manure's defenses are big on splash plays and big on wide open running lanes and wide open receivers. How many crummy QBs did he make look like Tom Brady in 17? I remember 3 guys having career games against him. And, make no mistake, this D the last 2 years was his.
We'll see how it goes this year, but I wouldn't expect Manure to be a guy who suddenly fields a sound D that doesn't get gashed on the regular. He'll have his splash plays for sure like he always does because his D is built on creating chaos. But when that chaos doesn't work there's chaos on his side of the ball too.
Daniel Jones (Duke): completion percentage, YPA, and rating all well below his season averages Daniel Jones was a first round pick and is an NFL Starting QB. He was well below average in every metric vs Miami.
James Blackman (FSU): Slightly above average completion percentage, slightly below average YPA, 5 points below season number in rating. Blackman had somewhere close to an average game against Miami. Not terrible, certainly not spectacular.
Georgia Tech: Triple option. Their QB was 3/7 for the game for 55 yards. Irrelevant.
Eric Dungey (Syracuse): He was 13/41 for 3.3 YPA and 4 picks lmao. He did have 20 carries for 100 yards rushing, which was his 3rd highest output of the year. IDK, other than the Mortal Kombat kick, I don’t think his game vs Miami was on his Heisman reel.
Nathan Elliott (UNC): Went 16/39 (41%) for 173, 1 TD and 3 picks. Absolutely terrible.
Josh Jackson (VT): A few points above average completion percentage, well below average YPA and rating. Had his 2nd worst rating of the entire season against Miami. 0 TDs, 2 picks.
Kurt Benkert (UVA): Here is hater heaven for Manny. Benkert went 28/37 for 384 yards, 4 TDs. The 1 INT turned the entire game (Quan Johnson pick 6), but this was a big game for an opposing QB.
Kenny Pickett (Pitt): Numbers were OK, nothing special. 62% completions, only 6.7 YPA, 1 TD. Rating of 129, which for an entire season would be among the worst in the country. He did add 60 on the ground and 2 short TDs. But they scored 24 points. Any offense with a pulse wins that game easily.
Kelly Bryant (Clemson): 79% completions, 8.7 YPA, 163 rating. All above his season averages. By a pretty decent margin. Great game for him, poor game for Miami.
Alex Hornibrook (Wisky): A few points above his season average in completion percentage, 0.7 YPA below his avg YPA, 170 rating with a season average of 148. Wasn’t an insanely good outing, but still far better than what’s acceptable as a defense.
So overall, 3 guys had better than average games. 1 had an average game. 6 were well below average to terrible. 1 was irrelevant (GT). Not sure how you can say the defense was lit up every week. It’s simply not true. But towards the end of the season, there were games that were not nearly good enough. Again, by every metric and every sane person, Manny’s defenses here were good, and usually very good.