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Miami opens +1 @ Louisville

Gotta stop the deep ball and play action. Not have turnovers or dumb penalties. Play discipline and don’t fall for misdirection or eye candy.

We’re the more talented team but styles make fights and brohm’s offenses feast on over-aggression and defensive mistakes.

The easiest way to win this game would be just go in to a cover 3 or cover 2 shell, play disciplined assignment football and make them earn every yard dinking and dunking.
 

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MiamisMoperiestMopes said:
were paying a Miami perception tax based on our last two games and it’s not all that unfair. Easy to pick against us and then say they were right. Our recent history is on their side. Luckily for us is that really doesn’t matter unless we let it.
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StateoftheU is predicting a UL win by 7. Even some (alleged) Canes fans don’t think we can get it done.


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Film Forecast ‘24: Miami Hurricanes at Louisville Cardinals, 10/19

The Hurricanes are coming off their idle week and traveling to Louisville to take on the Cardinals. Jeff Brohm will look to outwit Mario Cristobal in a battle of ACC contenders.
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Squid Bumciorek said:
Don’t think we make it to the ACC CG if we drop a game.

Setup couldn’t be better for UM. Deck stacked in our favor against UL other than it being a road game. UL playing fifth game in a row. We got a bye and two weeks to prep. Team is almost at 100% strength. They are beat up. Noon game (UL might be extra motivated for primetime game). They won last week so they aren’t total desperation mode about losing 3 straight. They lit us up last year so we should want revenge.

If we can’t win decisively with this much in our favor, I don’t see the rest of the season playing out well for us.
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Everybody forgets we had it first and goal to tie the game late and once again when it matter TVD went MIA.
 
MumbleRap said:
I fully expect defense to show up in a big way come Saturday. Bain has now been back in it for 3 weeks, should be close to conditioned. Expect more snaps… I also think people (media) are downplaying the return of Rivers at LT. He’s an NFL pick and a key piece to this team.
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The D$ and Pete breakdown of their backup LT has me more confident in the defense. We should be able to generate more pressure this game than we have seen this season.
 
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canes732 said:
If u boys think Cal destroyed us with misdirection. Wait till u see what Louisville does. They may put 50 on us. Unless our defense in 2 weeks becomes disciplined. Also can we set a ******* edge please
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Their QB is about to be on his back a lot. They have a terrible and I mean terrible pass blocking OL.
 
The U is back to work said:
The D$ and Pete breakdown of their backup LT has me more confident in the defense. We should be able to generate more pressure this game than we have seen this season.
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You and I both know their real left tackle will get a bionic leg or something and come out looking like Tyron smith in his prime.

Oh and their kicker will hit a 60 yarder
 
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JayCane20 said:
If we’re actually a playoff team we show up and win the game by 14+ and come home and demolish the Noles

If we’re going to make it to Charlotte and lose to an average Clemson team we’ll go up to louisville and play them close and win by 1-4 points and come home and let the Noles hang around.

If we’re going to miss out on Charlotte all together we go up there and get beat.

This game clarifies how the 2nd half of the season plays out, in my opinion.
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I agree in that this game should tell us a lot. But, my sense is that this team is what it is - a team with a defense that could look great at times and horribly inept (Manny-esque) at times. I don't see that changing due to personnel. And unfortunately, we're up against the toughest offense on our schedule on the road. On offense, we are who we are - a prolific offense that rides and dies with Cam's great throws along with bad decisions. We'll have some games where the defense and offense are clicking and we roll but we'll have some games where our defense will be subpar and Cam will have an erratic game.
 
aelmiami said:
I hope we can get home with the front 4. If we become over reliant on sending pressure I’ll be worried how well our back end holds up.
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Well we have Bain back and Barrow is starting to play really good. This could be the game where the DL goes off.
 
AUcane said:
I agree in that this game should tell us a lot. But, my sense is that this team is what it is - a team with a defense that could look great at times and horribly inept (Manny-esque) at times. I don't see that changing due to personnel. And unfortunately, we're up against the toughest offense on our schedule on the road. On offense, we are who we are - a prolific offense that rides and dies with Cam's great throws along with bad decisions. We'll have some games where the defense and offense are clicking and we roll but we'll have some games where our defense will be subpar and Cam will have an erratic game.
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I agree with you except for the part about Cam having an erratic game. I don't see why we should assume that will happen when he has yet to do so here. Cam is an elite college QB with top 5 NFL Draft pick potential.
 
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Poptimus said:
I agree with you except for the part about Cam having an erratic game. I don't see why we should assume that will happen when he has yet to do so here. Cam is an elite college QB with top 5 NFL Draft pick potential.
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I admit I struggled with that statement b/c I agree, erratic is probably not a great word. My point is that Cam will make a couple bad decisions to go along with his great throws. Unfortunately, those bad decisions have really bitten us the last couple games and there's not really any evidence to say he won't do it again. The overarching issue, imo, is Cam's willingness to take what the defense gives him rather than be constantly on the lookout for the big play. That mentality is what makes him great, but it some times comes back to bite you as it has in the last couple games.
 
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Astcloud11 said:
We were also up and 2 of our DBs ran into each other to give them a free tuddy
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Poptimus said:
I keep seeing references in this thread to this game being Louisville’s Super Bowl.

Well why the fück shouldn’t it be our Super Bowl? Because we might be looking ahead to an awful FSU team the following week? No, we should be locked in after a bye and come out like it’s a playoff game. Another flat start like against Cal is completely unacceptable.
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maybe not our super bowl but certainly closer to an actual "playoff" level type game than we will face the rest of the year (other than the conference championship game) .
 
305407cane said:
You and I both know their real left tackle will get a bionic leg or something and come out looking like Tyron smith in his prime.

Oh and their kicker will hit a 60 yarder
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It would be interesting if one of the football specialists here could break down why kickers are so successful against UM. Besides luck, is there something about how the special teams line up against FGs that gives us a much lower chance of blocking a FG attempt? Do we just have slower players off the edge? Maybe the deliberate strategy is to focus on trick plays? Or perhaps we don’t emphasize blocking kicks because the risk of getting a flag for roughing/running into kicker is the bigger concern?
 
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