Mario Cristobal on tight ends: Last year’s production “is not us and it’s not our offense”

[LoungeLord]

You need to take into account the context of his comment. He wants tight ends fully involved in the offense. Miami has traditionally excellent tight ends. Last season the room was limited by Arroyo’s injuries, McCormick’s role as a blocker, Riley’s (and Carver’s) inexperience, and Skinner’s lack of development. This plus quarterback problems after the first four games.

There simply wasn’t playmaking talent to take advantage of and coaches had to make do.

“That’s not us” simply Mario’s way of saying “That’s not what I want us to be”.

Could be said for every position. That’s his job to fix. Pointing out the obvious from him sounds like he’s sitting in the stands with us.

 

[DTP]

Watch us break the huddle for the first offensive play in Gainesville with old man McCormick lining up at tight end.

I understand that they were hampered with injuries last year but I still don’t get why they felt it was necessary to use a tight end in obvious pass situations. You’ve got a blocking tight end (who’s mediocre at that) in the game on 3rd and 7. You’re essentially telling the defense they can ignore one of your players. They could have easily used another receiver in those situations but they were just hellbent on using 11 personnel

 

[WeBallinBoyz]

Watch us break the huddle for the first offensive play in Gainesville with old man McCormick lining up at tight end.

Me in Gainesville seeing that from the stands after Williams and Arroyo were praised repeatedly all off-season for their improvement.

 

[BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati]

Get a hold of yourself BigSchlongPapi! That comment is not true nor does it have any chance of becoming true. With a healthy Arroyo and Riley Williams in his second year and obviously catching on not to mention Elijah Lofton, Cam McCormick will be relegated to footnote status.

Ok. If you say so.

 

[FrancisSawyer]

Ok. If you say so.

I was being sarcastic. I should have made it more obvious. I hope we go back to our TEs dominating but we'll see.

 

[BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati]

I was being sarcastic. I should have made it more obvious. I hope we go back to our TEs dominating but we'll see.

I was too. It’s the off season and I don’t have much else going on.

 

[JHallCanes]

Me in Gainesville seeing that from the stands after Williams and Arroyo were praised repeatedly all off-season for their improvement.
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McCormick, Lou, and X blocking the end line

 

[FrancisSawyer]

I was too. It’s the off season and I don’t have much else going on.

Don't get me wrong. I'm pretty sure that we will be much better in terms of using the TEs than we were last year but I need to see it first.

 

[BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati]

Don't get me wrong. I'm pretty sure that we will be much better in terms of using the TEs than we were last year but I need to see it first.

I don’t think we could do much worse in that department