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Rdcane

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Is it just me or do our playmakers seem to get banged up and thrown around more than anyone else? Who remembers the horse collar / face mask combo slam on Duke earlier this year (vs WF or UNC without a penalty, don't remember which). All season our receivers fall wrong, RBs take head shots etc and go out. Even our DBs get banged up. Are they soft or have we been getting bad breaks? Discuss.

PS - Maybe teams feel comfortable laying shots on us because they aren't afraid of our defense?
 
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When no one can be trusted to give your play makers a break, then they have to take more snaps then most players in college football.
 
It's not injuries. It who they happen to and how they happen. The best players on our offense all injured (Morris then Dorsett then Duke). If you watch the hits on Duke by other teams you can tell they have intent to injure. Duke didn't even get hit, he got torqued around by his head multiple times. Our players need to step up next year and lay a hat on these suckers. NO RESPECT!
 
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With all the childish threads on this forum, no one has a comment on the lack of durability all year? Do you guys watch any other games besides ours? I watch CFB all week and all night, and all I can say is we seem soft as cotton. No one else has play makers go down as often! Additionally no one elses play makers take hits like ours. Are we just poorly coached to avoid direct slams? Are our players soft? Are the defensive players scared to make people pay for borderline dirty hits? I watch our dude take a massive slam, and the payback never comes. Instead we have 3 guys in position for a tackle miss a dude and he runs for 27 yards. JOKE!

FIRE NO'D
 
Living in Maryland, I've watched the local Terps lose their best 2 WRs this season, in addition to their 2 starting CBs, plus several LBs for stretches this season, several
OLmen plus their starting QB has been dinged up all season.
And they had it worse last season, when they lost all of their scholarship QBs (plus a walkon) during the season, and they had to insert a true frosh LB
at QB for the last few games that year.
VT has had issues keeping their OLmen healthy and I think they were missing 1-2 DBs during stretches this season.
Lots of programs having to do with alot of injuries.
It's football.

RDCane said:
With all the childish threads on this forum, no one has a comment on the lack of durability all year? Do you guys watch any other games besides ours? I watch CFB all week and all night, and all I can say is we seem soft as cotton. No one else has play makers go down as often! Additionally no one elses play makers take hits like ours. Are we just poorly coached to avoid direct slams? Are our players soft? Are the defensive players scared to make people pay for borderline dirty hits? I watch our dude take a massive slam, and the payback never comes. Instead we have 3 guys in position for a tackle miss a dude and he runs for 27 yards. JOKE!

FIRE NO'D
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RDCane said:
Do you guys watch any other games besides ours?
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RDCane said:
Is it just me or do our playmakers seem to get banged up and thrown around more than anyone else? Who remembers the horse collar / face mask combo slam on Duke earlier this year (vs WF or UNC without a penalty, don't remember which). All season our receivers fall wrong, RBs take head shots etc and go out. Even our DBs get banged up. Are they soft or have we been getting bad breaks? Discuss.

PS - Maybe teams feel comfortable laying shots on us because they aren't afraid of our defense?
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Swasey. Been tellin yall. Swasy.
 
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Yeah, yeah definitely Swasey's fault. Also the reason it rained Saturday.

You wouldn't know it the way we play D, but last I checked it's a physical game. Look around and players get dinged in every program. That's why the better teams are those with depth. Actually, Miami has been reasonably fortunate this year. Just imagine if we had any significant losses on our vaunted D.
 
Morris sprained his ankle when it was grabbed...can't do much there. Duke had his ankle caught underneath somebody... can't do much there. Dorsett (trouble remembering) but he took a nasty hit and landed on it awkwardly, right? You can make a really soft argument that more unilateral work would've helped but probably not due to the way he landed and his body was contorted.

Point being, this isn't a team that consistently has multiple non contact ACLs every year. They don't have a history of consistent shoulder issues in football, a contact game. You can call S&C on other aspects and we don't have to agree there, but you do have some merit in those claims. This one, though? Ehhhh you're not looking at this objectively
 
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I laugh at this thread and all the morons who claim, at the beginning of every damned season, that our starting talent will make us dominant.

Talent on the depth chart is so much more important than the starting lineup......and this team has very little at all too many key positions...especially our atrocious D.

Our WR position is stacked and we barely made it through the season without having to resort to walkons.
 
RDCane said:
bacane said:
Miami has been reasonably fortunate this year.
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Fortunate? Our three best offensive playmakers have been injured on and off almost all year!
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Again, it's happening at alot of programs.
Georgia Southern beat u***g with something like 19 players out with injuries.
Are you not reading the responses?

Perhaps a little more depth and putting teams away earlier would have helped us avoid overusing
frontline players.
But injuries happen everywhere.
 
bacane said:
Yeah, yeah definitely Swasey's fault. Also the reason it rained Saturday.


You wouldn't know it the way we play D, but last I checked it's a physical game. Look around and players get dinged in every program. That's why the better teams are those with depth. Actually, Miami has been reasonably fortunate this year. Just imagine if we had any significant losses on our vaunted D.
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The rain was on Swasey? ****. I thought that was under the AD, James. I was getting ready to blame him. Don't remember rain under Paul Dee. Back in the day, Sam Jankovich had it pretty much under control, although I remember a problem in the '88 Orange Bowl. I remember a huge rainstorm in the second half of George Mira's (the real Matador) debut in September 1961 that spoiled the game for us. That might have been on Jack Harding though I'm not sure he was AD back then. Henry King Stanford delegated things like weather to the AD, I think.
 
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