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Time for Robby Washington to step up at CB

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With Jadais Richard (hate to see him go down, praying for a speedy recovery) going down it's time for Robby Washington to step up. DMoney mentioned in the bank that this staff was looking to accelerate his development and now they have no choice. Washington brings speed and attitude to the position, let's see what he can do with more playing time.

Miami has a history of starters getting injured and the back up coming in and becoming a star, let's see if Washington can do the same.

 
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Honestly, he can't be any worse than some of the guys that have played this season. Even if he's mediocre but flashes, that's a step in the right direction. Just having a CB that WANTS to compete would be nice. OJ and Porter are the only ones I trust. Patterson is the only safety that doesn't give me heartburn.
 
Canedude08 said:
Honestly, he can't be any worse than some of the guys that have played this season. Even if he's mediocre but flashes, that's a step in the right direction. Just having a CB that WANTS to compete would be nice. OJ and Porter are the only ones I trust. Patterson is the only safety that doesn't give me heartburn.
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If you trust Porter than I'm sorry but I can't trust you... Dudes gotten very complacent recently. I'm good on him.
 
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Canedude08 said:
Honestly, he can't be any worse than some of the guys that have played this season. Even if he's mediocre but flashes, that's a step in the right direction. Just having a CB that WANTS to compete would be nice. OJ and Porter are the only ones I trust. Patterson is the only safety that doesn't give me heartburn.
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Meesh has become serviceable again. He had 2 terrible weeks against VT and Cal but he seems to be diagnosing plays better again and making tackles in space when we need him.
 
Looked like they moved pieces around when he went down. Brought in ZP as the deep safety, kept Harris as strong safety (though Quan also stuffed that run coming downhill beautifully), moved Powell to Nickel and Porter to outside. Did I track that right? How do people feel about that?

I want to see more Robby less Dion’s personally. Also, OJF is a baller. Only one who consistently tracks the ball and he’s a true freshman.
 
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Canedude08 said:
He's been playing out of position all year, I'll take him over Hill and Richard. Is he perfect? Of course not, but he isn't a walking liability either.
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Multiple games worth of missed tackles,bad angles, lazy play, inability to locate the ball or play motion on receiver and numerous pass interference penalties on incomplete 4th and long plays tell me very different. His issues all come from his fundamentals and his engagement. That's an issue. A serious one. I'll take Hill over him and he's more of what you explained. Nowhere near perfect but he's at least present...
 
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grover said:
Looked like they moved pieces around when he went down. Brought in ZP as the deep safety, kept Harris as strong safety (though Quan also stuffed that run coming downhill beautifully), moved Powell to Nickel and Porter to outside. Did I track that right? How do people feel about that?

I want to see more Robby less Dion’s personally. Also, OJF is a baller. Only one who consistently tracks the ball and he’s a true freshman.
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Less Hill works for me
 
theu4lyfe said:
The ****? Did you watch this game today? Only at Miami would we field a historically good offense simultaneously with a historically bad defense. Why not mix it up, as OP said.

Or let’s keep rolling with 50 point cam heart attack wins and hope it works out. Only at CIS…
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That's not gonna work much longer. We need to see engagement out of the secondary. Worst part is teams have started to compensate for the dline in pass protection personnel because they know they don't need to be creative to get receivers open.
 
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SamBruceMyBabyDaddy said:
The fact that our DC and CB coach had previous experience with Hill and said yeah that’s what we need to beat the OSU’s and UTs of the world baffles me.
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I honestly think Guidry believes this cast has the talent just needs reps to gel. It’s the only explanation. But when I watch Harris he looks slow athletically, not just a ME problem, nowhere near as fast as reported. And Hill seems lost out there. Porter fails to track the ball. Richard (hope he’s okay) has hips too stiff for a quality CB. And Meesh is too slow, too slow to react, and a poor tackler when he’s even in position to make one.

Yeah, I’m being harsh. But my point is I don’t think Guidry is right that these guys just need to work through their mistakes. They’re just plain not good enough.

OJ is our new foundation. ZP is now a starter out of necessity, and we need to work Robby in, too. That would go a long way to solving the issues, especially once Damari is back.
 
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