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Summer WR enrollees Pope and Ezzard update fall camp progress

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I wouldn’t be mad if Ezzard tried out at FS... freak athlete and big as **** already wouldn’t be a bad experiment to see. Only bc of the depth at WR is crazy but it’s no pressing need to move him though. I know he’s a beast at WR so it’s a win regardless.
 
k9cane said:
Ive said that for awhile, we dont need to go full Cuse or Chip Kelly but it's almost a waste of all this talent and depth by not going tempo at least a little bit. Especially at home in the South Florida heat and humidity
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Tempo is not the friend of defense of either team. Once your defense get tired, it becomes a long game.
 
brock said:
Both will be really good imo and that’s great for us. Remember before they dropped his rating Hightower was **** near a 5 star and was top 40 in the country.
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A lot of people's forget this, he was basically 5 🌟 and everything he's done since his season ended at IMG shows he was 5 🌟, think he has a Coley, Richards type freshman year
 
I want to see Richards , Thomas and Pope on the field at the same time. Four wide Hightower goes outside with Pope and Thomas in the slots. Stop that.
 
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g8rh8rMD said:
Agree with this for the last part, but I could def see Pope starting a game or few later in the year
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I don't see it. Who's going to sit? Cager? Don't think so. Cager is going to get his shine on this year. Pope will play a lot. However, it doesn't make sense to to have 2 smaller guys in Pope and Thomas/Harley on the field at the same time. Perhaps when we goto 4 WRs, but not as a base offense.

This WR core is unreal. We have every type of WR to put on the field. That gives us such flexibility. I agree with others that we should run a fast paced offense and just wear defenses down with our group of talent. Very few schools have the DB depth to match up with our WR core for 4 qtrs.
 
Carter announced himself already fellas against that Bethune Cookman tightend.

No one sleeping on Carter....
 
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k9cane said:
And now that Miami is back to a full allotment of scholarships, you can't use 'lack of depth' as an excuse. Miami now has the bullets, lets start pulling the trigger here
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Richt has shown he will go uptempo at times. At times last year though it seemed he slowed it down to give our defense a breather. If you go up tempo and keep getting 3 and outs, you are going to gas your defense by the 3rd quarter.
 
Number1CanesFan said:
I don't see it. Who's going to sit? Cager? Don't think so. Cager is going to get his shine on this year. Pope will play a lot. However, it doesn't make sense to to have 2 smaller guys in Pope and Thomas/Harley on the field at the same time. Perhaps when we goto 4 WRs, but not as a base offense.

This WR core is unreal. We have every type of WR to put on the field. That gives us such flexibility. I agree with others that we should run a fast paced offense and just wear defenses down with our group of talent. Very few schools have the DB depth to match up with our WR core for 4 qtrs.
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Pope is 6'1. Not exactly small. Besides, by midseason last year, our starters were AR with Thomas & Berrios who are both under 5'10. Dugans will start & play the best guys like he has since he's been here. Another thing - whichever of Pope & Cager doesn't line up on the first play vs LSU isn't going to sit. They'll more than likely be rotating, & both should see snaps regardless.
 
Number1CanesFan said:
I don't see it. Who's going to sit? Cager? Don't think so. Cager is going to get his shine on this year. Pope will play a lot. However, it doesn't make sense to to have 2 smaller guys in Pope and Thomas/Harley on the field at the same time. Perhaps when we goto 4 WRs, but not as a base offense.

This WR core is unreal. We have every type of WR to put on the field. That gives us such flexibility. I agree with others that we should run a fast paced offense and just wear defenses down with our group of talent. Very few schools have the DB depth to match up with our WR core for 4 qtrs.
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Someone could get hurt or dinged, Pope could start a game in slot over Harley/Thomas/Ezzard. I’m not predicting he’ll get a start this year, just saying it doesn’t seem all that far fetched.

But yeah, we’ve got talent at the position. It’s real nice.
 
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DMoney said:
Ezzard is starting to look really good in the slot lately. The game is slowing down and he’s speeding up.

Think Jarvis Landry.
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Ezzard is much bigger. Kinda surprised to see such a big WR at the slot. Maybe to beat up on small slot CB's?
 
ShadowSpring said:
Ezzard is much bigger. Kinda surprised to see such a big WR at the slot. Maybe to beat up on small slot CB's?
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It’s normal. Brandon Marshall is much bigger and he was devastating when lined up in the slot.

Ezzard is quicker than fast and better with the ball in his hands. The slot plays to his strengths.
 
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g8rh8rMD said:
Someone could get hurt or dinged, Pope could start a game in slot over Harley/Thomas/Ezzard. I’m not predicting he’ll get a start this year, just saying it doesn’t seem all that far fetched.

But yeah, we’ve got talent at the position. It’s real nice.
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You never know a lot can happen between now and the end of the season.
 
BeastMode said:
Richt has shown he will go uptempo at times. At times last year though it seemed he slowed it down to give our defense a breather. If you go up tempo and keep getting 3 and outs, you are going to gas your defense by the 3rd quarter.
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You can’t coach scared. You have to coach to your team’s strength. And ours is our insane allotment of skill depth and talent.

If you have a couple 3 and outs then so be it. It’s then the defense’s job to force a couple 3 and outs.

Spread em out and increase the tempo. Then gash the fck out of them in the run game like Briles. Spread. Increase tempo. Stay balanced in the run game.
 
DMoney said:
It’s normal. Brandon Marshall is much bigger and he was devastating when lined up in the slot.

Ezzard is quicker than fast and better with the ball in his hands. The slot plays to his strengths.
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Wow. I thought he'd be more of a possession type guy. I didn't realize he was that quick at his size. Very very cool.
 
KrazyCane said:
I wouldn’t be mad if Ezzard tried out at FS... freak athlete and big as **** already wouldn’t be a bad experiment to see. Only bc of the depth at WR is crazy but it’s no pressing need to move him though. I know he’s a beast at WR so it’s a win regardless.
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whats the obsession with position switches?
 
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