The Miami Hurricanes hosted the Virginia Cavaliers on Thursday night for the ESPN primetime game. UVA came away victorious with a 30-28 win at Hard Rock Stadium. ESPN made sure to show that Miami legend and is it hief of Staff Ed Reed was right next to anes Coach Manny Diaz the entire way. Manny Diaz, after 5th straight loss to a Power 5 team, insists he was trying to score a touchdown, but decided against it after 1st and 2nd down runs went nowhere.Coaching scared is a hell of a thing. Ie done it. Every coach has done it. And when youe having meetings with the AD, Board, and President of the university- you can either coach in a blaze of glory or scared. Coach Diaz chose scared. With two minutes to go instead of trying to score a touchdown, Diaz set up a field goal. Diaz former mentor, the late Bobby Bowden, insisted on never leaving a game up to the refs or the kicker. And Bobby knew something about kickers and big games! Above- Lashlee sees a three down front and can just line up and wedge a QB sneak? I did it last night with my middle school squad. It worked every time. It worked as a high school OC. Tom Brady made a living on QB sneaks https://www.mhoutletstore.com. I know Van Dyke isn athletic but damn just push out of your own end zone.Above- DJ Scaife turns his entire body to a defender that his center is picking up. That just dumb bad football. He then has a twist ran on him and he unable to get back square to pick it up. Garin Justice guys are struggling.Above- I hate Van Dyke throwing motion but you can deny he dropped this one in. I would prefer the receiver, Rambo, would turn back to the ball and high point it with his chest and eyes back but the ever do that s again Lou Brown moment works too.Above- Van Dyke drops this one in the bucket right next to two tears. Great catch and throw, protection held up, I love the smash concept with the zig-out from the outside WR as opposed to hitch. Having the WR run the zig forces the CB to commit either to the corner route or the zig. On a hitch he can give a cushion and take away the window on both.Above- Smash again, this time with the hitch from the outside WR. Van Dyke hangs this one really high and Rambo grabs it but this is a murder ball against real DB.Above- Outside Zone. Harris makes a great read and cuts it up on UVA. Their linebackers went full in on the outside track to the D gap but Harris cutback burns them Will Huggins Jersey. You can see some linear speed is still there, great run form from Harris.Above- Set your sundials on this Van Dyke scramble turned TD run. I like seeing him take it in his own hands and finishing the run hard for a score. Gusty young fella. The anes defenseThe Miami defense produced a turnover! THEY DO EXIST. The anes also had three sacks and eight TFL, but no hurries. Miami did come up with five PBU on the evening which is a massive upgrade from the first three games of the season. Miami allowed five UVA receivers to come up with explosive plays, including Dontayvion Wicks Steiner Recliner end zone catch. The U also allowed 5.2 yards per carry and two TD on the ground. Brennan Armstrong was held to just 6.1 yards per pass attempt but threw one TD (the Wicks catch) and an interception. Above- There are many faults on this explosive run play against the Diaz defense. Leonard Taylor works hard not smart here. He gets too deep, and just falls over. He a Jaelan Phillips in the plays with tons of effort but sometimes it wasted energy category https://www.mhoutletstore.com/Nesta_Jade_Silvera_Jersey-29. But, hel learn and develop if the new staff retains Jess Simpson which they should. Then you see the Miami Magnet Machine doing the clogga beat. Miami defenders are often running into each other in pursuit, and are often stuck with three defenders in one gap, with a giant running lane to the other. I like that Jahfari Harvey (12) at least knows what a pursuit angle is. He doesn chase it directly from behind, he takes a nice angle and gets down there to at least be there for support.Above- It a simple run play but it shows many of the flaws in the defense.Above- Here more ay too deep pursuit. Deandre Johnson has the Football IQ of a JV defensive end https://www.mhoutletstore.com/Mykel_Tubbs_Jersey-64. He also has poor agility as he slow to react to the visual cue of Armstrong moving the pocket and boy does it take a long time for him to change directions to the stimulus. Above- Manny, the entire world knows when youe blitzing strikers or safeties. THE ENTIRE WORLD. Also your D-Ends play extremely flat footed when theye the Curl/Flat drop guy.Above- The obvious blitz is coming, UVA is ready for it https://www.mhoutletstore.com/Gavin_Adams_Jersey-88. Their OL communicates it. Both defenders run themselves out of the play and Armstrong keeps. Miami DB wait for contact versus meeting the QB and he runs them over down to the one yard line.Above- I love interior pressure, especially if the ends can stay wide and force the QB to step up. Armstrong steps up and Taylor slams the door shut.Above- It really a shame how bad Miami has gotten at pursuit and finish.Above- The Miami defense is lined up in the old Power-I formation. This results in a TD run because the safety, Williams is in the box, stacked on a linebacker, on the same side that his other safety, Bubba Bolden, is on. Bolden then shoulders the runner into the end zone.Above- It just a comedy of errors. The head coach is the DC. He a linebacker coach. Linebackers over running plays, not able to get off blocks, basically blocking themselves off plays. Then the tackling.Above- I sure you guys were hoping to see a safety blitz from 15 yards deep that not only didn get any pressure on the QB, but also left the hole where this ball was dropped in. All I heard about was Bob Shoop, Manny Diaz taking back over, a -Rob fellow, etc etc but same ol same ol. The wrapCoaching, coaching, coaching. It wasn Manny Diaz fault he was hired by the University of Miami to be the head coach. He should be the head guy at Temple as I type this. However, who is turning down the Miami job to go to Temple? No one. However, the way he presented himself after taking the job left a lot to be desired. Much like the cocky jit in gym class that says didn want to play for yll, yll sorry but in fact tried out and quit after the first hour- Diaz tried to pump up the flaccid feeling of his hiring by saying he wouldn go 7-6 like Mark Richt, and that The U had the talent to win the Coastal.Now Diaz is hoping Blake James doesn fire him after losing to a much less talented UVA team on Thursday night in front of the college football world. Miami has a top 15 Blue Chip Ratio while Virginia signs classes between 30 and 50 in the nation. The Hoos signed one four-star player in 2021. Just one. Diaz is right, in order to beat Clemson and Alabama consistently Miami does need better players. But to beat Michigan State and Virginia- that just another smoke screen to hide that he just not cut out to be the head coach of the Miami Hurricanes. The FIU loss told us that. The Louisiana Tech loss told us that. The UNC loss told us that. Now losing to MSU and UVA has told us that, once again, Coach Diaz is not the guy.
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