Defense Saved The Season

[Caneadian]

During the week: “Wake’s gonna score 35”

**Wake scores 7**

“Well it was just Wake”

The most miserable fans alive.

I don't believe i ever said they were going to score 35.

Stop generalizing all fans to fit your narrative.

 

[TaylorWalls]

I don't believe i ever said they were going to score 35.

Stop generalizing all fans to fit your narrative.

I won’t be part of that, thank you very much.

 

[Caneadian]

I won’t be part of that, thank you very much.

Miami held Wake to 7 because they were Wake. Most games the defense have been giving up points because they were playing good offences.

Surely you can agree with that statement

 

[Angry Ibis]

Unfortunately NIL probably played a role too

What’s unfortunate about it?

That we had to hit that evil portal many here said you can’t use to win?

 

[MiamisMoperiestMopes]

The question is, how the heck did it take Guidry and Mario this long to make these switches? Mind boggling.

That’s for later. The question to me is do we keep doing this?

 

[Santana Sosa]

Wake Forest played like WF in the second half. All these teams play their best game of their seasons first three qtrs.

But, the kids on D kept playing hard, which is commendable. They took the spark and ran with it. Need to find a way to do that for all 4 qtrs.

 

[mavericksouth]

Unfortunately NIL probably played a role too

This. #9 has no business on the field. Before today, I kept saying that this dude is egregious. He doesn't play with any common sense.

 

[OptimusCreampie]

During the week: “Wake’s gonna score 35”

**Wake scores 7**

“Well it was just Wake”

The most miserable fans alive.

I mean we couldn’t stop an offense with a qb that had no arms. I’d say that’s a drastic improvement.

 

[TwentySix]

Most games the defense have been giving up points because they were playing good offences.

Surely you can agree with that statement

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……..no

 

[DTP]

Wake is trash but this defense has been hurt by trash offenses already so this is a nice step. Looked like they simplified a lot of things. Wake was shifting and using motion and our guys didn’t look completely lost outside of a handful of plays. Mesidor was a beast all game. Tyler Barron needs to accept his role as rotational defensive end.

 

[Cylo]

I guess that you were too young to see Kirby Freeman play. Kirby was way worse than Wake’s QB.

You just named my worst starting QB ever at Miami

Against Marshall, Freeman was 8-21 for 83 yards
vs Oklahoma 3-10 for 17 yards (benched)
vs FSU 4-11 for 59 yards
vs NC State 1-14 for 84 yards

No surprise he transferred out of Miami after that season. Him and Wright were awful

 

[TaylorWalls]

Miami held Wake to 7 because they were Wake. Most games the defense have been giving up points because they were playing good offences.

Surely you can agree with that statement

You clearly haven’t looked at Wake’s last several games.

 

[Cylo]

Well it was Wake. I mean that was the worst qb I've ever seen, and that is saying alot because last week we played a qb that had no arms

Bachmeier not a bad QB. He got injured last week that took him out of the game. I do wonder if that's what really effected him today cause he was awful today

 

[Colombie]

It is about time the D stepped up. Glad they saved our season and got some confidence. They need it going into Syracuse and hopefully Charlotte.

 

[mr.h]

It is about time the D stepped up. Glad they saved our season and got some confidence. They need it going into Syracuse and hopefully Charlotte.

We needed a confidence builder after GT. Although for 3 quarters it was painful..

 

[Colombie]

We needed a confidence builder after GT.

Yup.

 

[PalyCane]

Wake is trash but this defense has been hurt by trash offenses already so this is a nice step. Looked like they simplified a lot of things. Wake was shifting and using motion and our guys didn’t look completely lost outside of a handful of plays. Mesidor was a beast all game. Tyler Barron needs to accept his role as rotational defensive end.

Yup, something was different today.

Some folks have been observing that our problems on defense were purely talent related. I'm not aware we added any new players to the roster over the past couple weeks.

So what changed? Other posters are correctly noting that we moved players around, which is great but these players have been on the team all year. These changes could/should have been made earlier. Who's responsible for this? And TV commenter correctly noted that we played a lot more base 4-3. That put Jaylin Alderman on the field for a lot of the game and he played really well. Etc.

These changes all could have been made earlier in the season. We apparently didn't need a talent upgrade to achieve todays's result. Today's players have been on the team all year long.

 

[Caneadian]

You clearly haven’t looked at Wake’s last several games.

Maybe I am underestimating Wake's offense. 7 is def the lowest amount they have scored in the last few games.

Maybe our D has turned a corner or found something. Next week will be a good test

 

[TheU1984]

You just named my worst starting QB ever at Miami

Against Marshall, Freeman was 8-21 for 83 yards
vs Oklahoma 3-10 for 17 yards (benched)
vs FSU 4-11 for 59 yards
vs NC State 1-14 for 84 yards

No surprise he transferred out of Miami after that season. Him and Wright were awful

If our defense played Kirby, not even Kirby would have a good game. Although he did win at Dookie Campbell. Kirnobyl to Epps!

 

[DTP]

Yup, something was different today.

Some folks have been observing that our problems on defense were purely talent related. I'm not aware we added any new players to the roster over the past couple weeks.

So what changed? Other posters are correctly noting that we moved players around, which is great but these players have been on the team all year. These changes could/should have been made earlier. Who's responsible for this? And TV commenter correctly noted that we played a lot more base 4-3. That put Jaylin Alderman on the field for a lot of the game and he played really well. Etc.

These changes all could have been made earlier in the season. We apparently didn't need a talent upgrade to achieve todays's result. Today's players have been on the team all year long.

Without going back and rewatching the game I did notice a lot more three linebacker formations. We played a lot bigger in the interior with Moten and Clark getting a lot of action when they haven’t seen the field much this year. We brought pressure on early downs quite a bit but I also don’t think Wake attacked our edges as much as Georigia Tech and Virginia tech did. They tried to run it right as us and our front was solid.