I predicted yesterday on this site that a renewed NC State club would beat Miami today at the Orange Bowl. What I did not know is that Miami would complete just one pass and despite running for 314 yards would be so poor in the red zone that the game ought not have gone to overtime.
Pat Nix called a poor game despite the obvious fact that Miami is now as one dimensional as Oklahoma and Nebraska were in the days of the wishbone. Miami's standard formation today was a one WR look with 3 TEs. Never at any point was an attempt to spread NC State's defense out and then run a draw or trap play. Additionally the Canes may have been able to generate some sort of passing game on screens or bootleg throws to the TE, but after the first few drives neither of this plays were attempted.
For years I have wanted to Miami to be a power running team. Perhaps I should have been more cautious about what I wished for. I never realized it was possible in this day and age for team with supposed athletes Miami has to only be able to complete one pass in a game. This is the 4th time this season Miami has completed under 10 passes in a ball game, and while each and everyone of those games resulted in a good ground game, now Miami is becoming easier and easier to scheme against.
Darren Daly's missed FG in OT was disappointing no doubt, but it should never have come down to that. Missed opportunities in the red zone because UM cannot throw the ball and the Wolfpack were able to put nine players in the box doomed Miami before the OT began. The crowd was dispirited in the West End Zone throughout the 4th quarter. We've all seen this movie before and always know the ending.
More thoughts on this performance later.
Saturday, November 03, 2007
The Low Point?
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Why bother? We're the worst team in the country.
Were you the guy booing like crazy after the first time out was taken in GA today? I ask only because it was an Indian guy and I assume you are Indian. Anywhow, if that was you it looked like you were ready to get into it with that Cokerized fellow wearing the KW jersey. Why the hell was he defending the time out?????
YES!
That was me! That idiot kid then turned around to me and asked if I was still booing after the first down and I tried to tell him I was booing the indecision and then the time out, which cost us a valuable time out which I believe DID COST US THE GAME, since it changed the play calling at the end of that last drive forcing us to kick a tying FG plus the idiocy of wasting 22 seconds and on the play clock before using the T/O. Crazy to waste 22 seconds plus when you're trying to manage the clock.
Hey, Kartik.
I was also booing that decision. I told the people around me that we would lose if we didn't win it in regulation. Like you said, those wasted seconds cost us the chance to call a running play or two instead of two jump-ball prayers to a receiver who hadn't played the entire game. That was worse than high school football!
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