If Kinchens & JWill had stayed, do we make the CFP?

Unless they just suck

So why did he not bench Harris after the Cal game? UF game was forgivable, game 1. USF game was weird but we tightened up. VT game was shocking but its ok, everyone has a bad game. After CAL, yeah, that's who you are, we need to start working people into the rotation. But we trotted him out AGAIN with no changes for the rest of the season, watching him make mistake after mistake.
 

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100% YES. Even though James play was an issue.

Better question is what if everyone who left early or transferred out (excluding Brashard) came back?


LT went undrafted. DT is still a position of need.

G was an issue for weeks. Javion Cohen went undrafted and currently sits on the Browns practice squad.

Matt Lee got drafted in the 7th round at #237. He hasn't seen game action. Nothing against Carpenter, but give me Lee.

Jahfari Harvey has 7 sacks at SMU this season.

We needed someone on D who at least could get us lined up correctly. Corey Flagg wasn't the best LB, but he could at least do THAT.


If all those guys had come back, we're probably unbeaten and no lower than the 2 seed.
 
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So why did he not bench Harris after the Cal game? UF game was forgivable, game 1. USF game was weird but we tightened up. VT game was shocking but its ok, everyone has a bad game. After CAL, yeah, that's who you are, we need to start working people into the rotation. But we trotted him out AGAIN with no changes for the rest of the season, watching him make mistake after mistake.
Can’t answer. Paid no attention to D this year. Only O.
 
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Lot of short term memories. Cam cost us last year against GT. They weren’t a great safety combo, either.
Generally speaking, you're right. They weren't incredible together, and we all knew Jwill was playing out of position. However, I don't think I've ever seen a more abysmal safety tandem than what we fielded this year. And not just at UM. You could put together a horror flick of these guys getting smoked all year. There might be JV squads with better safeties. So yeah, regardless of the issues Jwill and Kam had, they're both NFL players and worlds above what we saw in 2024.
 
4 offseason decisions and Miami may have played for Natty:

These were realistic also.


1.)Kam came back
2.)Jeremiah Smith chose Miami
3.)Derrick Harmon followed thru on visit plans and came along his teammate Barrow.
4.)Ponds the nickel decided to come home instead of following HC to Indiana.
 
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No. Seeing the film breakdowns it wouldn’t matter if we had Ed Reed back there. Guidry consistently had calls where we were out leveraged and showed matchups of pitting a RB against a SDE in coverage. I don’t know what changed between this year and last but I didn’t see many instances where we lined up our DL leaving 4-5 gaps in a row uncovered like we did multiple times this year. Or when we line up 3-4 defenders against 6 offensive players like had happened multiple times in short yardage situations.

Edit to add: let’s not forget the lunacy of constantly stunting and twisting like against Syracuse when you know they’re running the ball. Did it a bunch against VT, Cal, and GT as well.
 
Generally speaking, you're right. They weren't incredible together, and we all knew Jwill was playing out of position. However, I don't think I've ever seen a more abysmal safety tandem than what we fielded this year. And not just at UM. You could put together a horror flick of these guys getting smoked all year. There might be JV squads with better safeties. So yeah, regardless of the issues Jwill and Kam had, they're both NFL players and worlds above what we saw in 2024.
So, one group was bad last year and this year’s duo was no better or worse. Just don’t suggest last year’s safeties would have guaranteed a playoff spot.
 
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So, one group was bad last year and this year’s duo was no better or worse. Just don’t suggest last year’s safeties would have guaranteed a playoff spot.
Williams was a big hitting five star who made plays. Kam was always a ball hawk and had an obvious feel for the game. They were not "bad". Yeah they took too many risks, especially last year, but nobody in their right mind would take this year's safeties over them having seen the season play out. Harris should quit football. Don't even get me started on Meesh. This was the true Achilles heel on this team, and once teams figured out how to exploit it, we were done...because Guidry had no answers.
 
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