What's Wrong With Miami

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We had two weeks to prepare for Louisville. Question: what did we do during that two weeks? Obviously, we didn’t fix the procedural problem on offense and continued suffering procedural penalties. FSU held us under one hundred yards rushing, but Louisville held us to a measly 63 rushing yards. Beginning with the fourth quarter against FSU to the end of the first quarter against Louisville, the Canes surrendered 33 pts. The explanation that everyone wasn’t executing is an absurd response. What is wrong is schematic and symptomatic of poor coaching.

Trying to rush up the middle and failing time after time validates the definition of insanity. What ever happened to student body left and student body right? If you cannot penetrate inside, why not consider rushing around the ends? Why choose lighter weight Lyle to run inside when you have Fletcher and Brown? IMO, nobody fights for that extra yard as does Marty Brown; I really like this kid. In rushing the football, why not at least attempt some deception? Why always a one back offense? When you play Miami, if you’re the opposition, there’s just no reason to worry about wide plays; just guard the middle for what its worth. Why not employ putting people in motion, and executing more counter plays against the flow? Why not putting a tackle in as a backfield blocker while in the red zone. Look at Alabama putitng in 6’7" 360 lbs Kadyn Procter while in the red zone. Hitch plays to the running backs are hell to guard against, but apparently they’re not part of our offense.

Why have we forgotten about Josh Moore? Why send Mali deep when you have a 6’4" inch WR capable of out jumping the defense? We’ve done a crap job with Josh Moore. When you send a WR like Moore deep, even as a decoy, you immediately break up the zone defense and open up the intermediate passing area. Josh Moore running deep completely disrupts the defense. And, Josh Moore is a star waiting to happen. The thought of losing this guy in NIL is appalling.

Lastly, Carson Beck has gone long pass happy, throwing the ball into triple coverage. Has the guy gone hero crazy? Time to establish a ball control offense, winning first downs, and staying ahead of the chains, avoiding the 3rd and 4th and longs.

The blame for the Louisville loss IMO was that Miami was decidedly outcoached.

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Beck, coaching, offensive gameplan …Tackling and getting out schemed on defense to a less extent

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I would change the order to…Coaching, Offensive gameplan, Defensive gameplan, Beck/Tackling.

If Beck played better he basically bails out being outcoached.

I agree with Bikki, we can in FLAT and it took us being down 14-0 to make any sort of defensive adjustments. Kudos to the DC for at least adjusting, lesson learned though on his part, I hope, that he’s still a young and up and coming coach and he got his butt handed to him by an excellent OC.

Speaking of OC, again I agree. I’ve said it for WEEKS now, slow, plodding run the ball into massive butts up the middle and hope for some daylight. I would like to see us get rid of the RPO and just turn and hand the ball off…

BOTH sides of the ball were not prepared and that starts at the TOP. IMO Mario is a 10 at recruiting, 10 at building a roster, 10 at building a culture but he seems to be a 6 at best when it comes to having the team prepared and disciplined. Mirabel is supposed to the best or one of the best OL guys around and the consistent OL penalties is mind boggling.

Miami is not back until we at least win the ACC, then we can talk about us being “back.” That being said, we do have a top 10 team that is capable of winning the ACC and the CFP…

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I think at this point someone needs to sit Beck down and tell him he is a game manager, not the Savior. Just don’t eff up.

Then pray Dawson remembers something about the TE position, if for no other reason to pull outside the tackle in front of a RB.

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