If Miami can get back to running this defense

[Sabetta]

The thing I don’t understand is why we completely stopped blitzing Kiko in the A gap. He was super effective doing that last year and this year it’s like he forgot how to tackle. Let that dude play downhill

 

[Bunker Mentality]

We’d have to play zone to do that and apparently we’re not capable of that.

not necessarily in regards to zone. You could still play man but a S would likely get involved depending on scheme. Maybe Guidry fears the communication required would only complicate things.

 

[kccanefan]

Not making excuses for all the stunting and blitzing but the lack of straight up pass rush when we play somewhat conservative is terrifying

Probably why everyone was confused when Pickett had that sack like what in the **** was that

I don't remember us playing a ton of straight up pass rush with four. I have seen us rush 3 and drop a DE for either spy or in the flats as part of a zone look. Barron has disappeared. I don't think Bain is still 100%. Barrow has been our most consistent defensive lineman. Barron needs to play less. Unfortunately, NIL is keeping him on the field.

Our main DL rotation needs to be

Bain
Barrow
Mesidor
Alston
Moten
Clark
Pickett
McConathy
Blount

Stop all the **** stunting.

 

[JHallCanes]

I don't remember us playing a ton of straight up pass rush with four. I have seen us rush 3 and drop a DE for either spy or in the flats as part of a zone look. Barron has disappeared. I don't think Bain is still 100%. Barrow has been our most consistent defensive lineman. Barron needs to play less. Unfortunately, NIL is keeping him on the field.

Our main DL rotation needs to be

Bain
Barrow
Mesidor
Alston
Moten
Clark
Pickett
McConathy
Blount

Stop all the **** stunting.

Yeah don’t get me wrong when the defense is this bad there’s absolutely no one thing you can just say “oh that’s the problem”

It’s been shocking to me to see us rush 4 against 5 and the only person that seems to be able to do it straight up is Barrow

I think Mesidor is capable but he’s playing DT too much but I digress. The whole thing is a ******* mess

 

[passitback]

I was talking to a friend who is more familiar with Guidry from Western Kentucky and Marshall. Knows people that worked on both staffs. He made the point that at Western Kentucky he had a starting DB who was almost completely deaf or mute. At Marshall he had the kid we tried to get to come here after he followed Guidry to Tulane and then went to LSU. He had a bad stutter and couldn't even communicate verbally on the field. Neither of those teams had any communication issues. It can't be that hard. Brain dead players is the most likely problem and that's just not going to be fixed.

****...

Are our players dumb? I don't want to believe this.

Maybe it's true, provided how long we have heard this for.

 

[kccanefan]

Yeah don’t get me wrong when the defense is this bad there’s absolutely no one thing you can just say “oh that’s the problem”

It’s been shocking to me to see us rush 4 against 5 and the only person that seems to be able to do it straight up is Barrow

I think Mesidor is capable but he’s playing DT too much but I digress. The whole thing is a ******* mess

Totally agree. I was thinking they should kick Messi out to end and put Moten or Clark on the inside. We've been really missing Alston. He was our speed rusher and able to either spy the QB or speed rush. The problem he had against VT was Drones was so **** big he couldn't bring him down, but he definitely put pressure on him. I know it's hamstring with Alston. Hoping he's close to healed up. I also forgot to add Malik Bryant as well in my previous post. I know he was comin off having a virus before GT, but he was flashing. Regardless we need more speed on the ends and Barron is not it.

 

[NCCanefan]

Yep.

And this the same philosophy I have when I'm at the club.

I'm fixing myself tomorrow

 

[Negro-Wan Kanobi]

Everyone knows that

Just saying if you say “stop stunting and it saves 90% of the big plays” I’m not agreeing with that hyperbole

We'll set the edge, but we still gotta cover the back seven.
We will still have big plays over the top, but, aye, at least we can set the edge!

 

[QuattroCane]

The difference is we made a few stops early and points got put on the board by our offense. If our offense isn't on a fast start, the defense gets exposed. If the offense starts fast and gets a lead, the other team has to press and push the ball downfield. Plays into our strength to draw up pressure and play basic man coverage. No thinking, no open field tackling, and less gimmicky stuff that we fall for.

VT - all stalled out when we didn't go up 21-7. Defense played fine up to that point then we had a TD overturned for a "holding" then throw an interception and ends up 14-14. Defense never got it back right after that until they absolutely had to.

Cal - Offense was slow starting out. First 8 drives included 4 punts, a turnover on downs, a pick 6, and a FG. Did the defense no favors.

Louisville - Trading blows early, then up 24-14, defense looked good late in the 1st half and got a fumble recovery TD, then we have a horrible drive right before the half and go 3 and out. Let them get the ball back and kick a FG, then give up the kick return TD after the half, and then the offense fumbles in their territory and let them back in. The defense had no chance until they were forced to get stops or lose the game.

Duke - Defense opens the game with a 3 and out, interception, and another 3 and out. Up 14-0 and then we throw 3 times, all incomplete, punt, and then give them the ball back and it was completely different from that point until we dominated the second half.

In 3 of 4 of these games, I felt we were 1 more good offensive drive, (early in the game) from ending it and going into a blowout and letting the defense pin their ears back and play to their strength. As good as the offense has been, they haven't done our defense many favors. Maybe its a mentality, maybe its losing focus, maybe its the coaches, idk. The defense hasn't been good enough but the offense needs to help them going forward by ending games when the chance is there. Get a killer instinct. Go up 21-7 on VT, they fold and its over. Go up 21-0 on Duke, they fold and its over. Go up 31-14 on Louisville, don't give them a chance to score before the half, they fold, and its over. Then, we get the ball back after half, score (which we did) and go up 38-14 and it ends up 63-28 instead of 52-45.

Nailed it, VT was OVER if we don’t get that BS call.
As another poster mentioned we don’t play complementary football.

 

[SCarolina Ibis]

Last year Guidry was sending our ends into coverage. This year its stunting. Who knows what he'll have them doing next year.

 

[P-Tizzle]

The defense that Miami ran against Florida will be enough for this team to make a deep run in the playoffs. Luckily Alston and Brown return just in time to make a run. Looking at how different the defense played against Florida vs the defense thats been on the field the last few weeks, it really makes you wonder just how significant of a loss Alston was.

For this to work, Baron has to be somewhat good.

 

[DrNovaCane]

Bruh lock all Guidry threads and sticky this post (pause)

After reading that, I didn't know rather to laugh or cry...I mean like wth

 

[miamicanephins]

With this team the only correct answer is to score more points.

DL plays straight up, OJ plays press man on the other teams wr1, everyone else plays soft man, nothing gets behind you, don't go for ints, just make the tackle. make the opposing team matriculate down the field, hoping they make a mistake.

And score more points

 

[JHallCanes]

With this team the only correct answer is to score more points.

DL plays straight up, OJ plays press man on the other teams wr1, everyone else plays soft man, nothing gets behind you, don't go for ints, just make the tackle. make the opposing team matriculate down the field, hoping they make a mistake.

And score more points

This is logical but I’m with @Cribby

Your scenario leads to long sustained drives like we saw against GT

Hurry-up defense is the way to go. Get absurdly aggressive and live with it and get our offense back on the field in a few minutes no matter what happens

 

[STtheGreat]

Our defense would struggle against the high school state champs from this year, better to just accept it and pray we score 45+ every game

 

[U2Cane]

Everyone knows that

Just saying if you say “stop stunting and it saves 90% of the big plays” I’m not agreeing with that hyperbole

fine , but 30-50% it does

 

[Dghustla]

The book may be out but against ufag we didn’t have the alignment issues

Which is weird cuz Florida does a ton of shifts and motions also,

 

[mikedeep97]

What I find kind of interesting is the defense is just getting murdered the last two weeks here and in the press. The reality is, they played well enough to win against GT. The offense just pooped the bed.
I’m not defending the defense. It’s just if you had told me that we wouldn’t score at least 35 to 42 on GT. I would’ve told you you were crazy.

Our defense's inability to get stops directly correlated to our offense getting fewer chances which made our hero QB press. It was masterful game planning by GT as a staff, a record label, and a crew

Our offense needs at bats. It's a very powerful offense, but we're not the most consistent team (recently). We've reverted back to some boom-or-bust tendencies that come when you can't run the ball consistently. That's a Dawson and lack of creativity issue (Lack of tosses and draw plays, lack of pulling OL to "add a hat", Cam doesn't pull to run often enough, etc.) and a Heisman chase issue (not taking the easy throws, looking for the big play)

We have issues on both sides of the ball, right now

 

[miamicanephins]

This is logical but I’m with @Cribby

Your scenario leads to long sustained drives like we saw against GT

Hurry-up defense is the way to go. Get absurdly aggressive and live with it and get our offense back on the field in a few minutes no matter what happens

I agree with getting the offense back on the field.

GT is a one off example, they're built for those type of drives, most teams don't play like that and can't play like that, that's why letting the opposing offense self destruct gives you better odds to win, than a straight up shoot out.

Too aggressive and we're needlessly playing arena league football.

 

[Dghustla]

I was talking to a friend who is more familiar with Guidry from Western Kentucky and Marshall. Knows people that worked on both staffs. He made the point that at Western Kentucky he had a starting DB who was almost completely deaf or mute. At Marshall he had the kid we tried to get to come here after he followed Guidry to Tulane and then went to LSU. He had a bad stutter and couldn't even communicate verbally on the field. Neither of those teams had any communication issues. It can't be that hard. Brain dead players is the most likely problem and that's just not going to be fixed.

Welcome to the CIS coaching life cycle.

In years 1&2 we blame the players
In years 3&4 we blame the coaches (you are here)
In 5…well no one knows what happens in year 5 cuz we haven’t made it there yet.