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Don't know decades but clearly a problem up front. You can have world class runners and receivers but if there are no holes or protection, it means nothing.
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Captain Buckeye
Assistant Coach
This was different today. I’m still taken aback by what we say today.
I realize Miami had all the secondary benefits etc but this was domination all game.
We shouldn’t abandon our approach but can we split the different here and go get 1-2 elite OL instead of numerous WRs? I thinks that’s not unreasonable
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osuvictory1
Just a schlub from Y-town
I love Day, and think he is a fantastic coach. It is times like this, that frustrate me to no end and I don't understand his tendencies at all.
The constant times when games have been lost because of special team, and other than firing Parker Fleming, not making any effort to improve or spend a little money to get better kickers is mind boggling. It is literally ending seasons. There is no room to be nice.
The other issue is him having to call plays where he has to do things by committee, thereby slowing things down and a inability to make fast decisions quickly.
He was so awesome last season when he was a manager. Making sure all the cogs moved correctly.
Literally, it is well known that statistically head coaches that call plays rarely win it all.
These are conversations we have had before., yet we end up here again.
I thought last season after winning the natty because he was a manager, and pushing buttons, would mean that he would never want to lose that feeling and grow from it.
Yet here were are again, and I don't get it at all.
I realize that Hartline was a huge distraction.
In this new year, let's hope for changing tendencies. I know I have some myself to change.
The constant times when games have been lost because of special team, and other than firing Parker Fleming, not making any effort to improve or spend a little money to get better kickers is mind boggling. It is literally ending seasons. There is no room to be nice.
The other issue is him having to call plays where he has to do things by committee, thereby slowing things down and a inability to make fast decisions quickly.
He was so awesome last season when he was a manager. Making sure all the cogs moved correctly.
Literally, it is well known that statistically head coaches that call plays rarely win it all.
These are conversations we have had before., yet we end up here again.
I thought last season after winning the natty because he was a manager, and pushing buttons, would mean that he would never want to lose that feeling and grow from it.
Yet here were are again, and I don't get it at all.
I realize that Hartline was a huge distraction.
In this new year, let's hope for changing tendencies. I know I have some myself to change.
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Defense overall played well last 2 games but when they were absolutely needed they could not get off the field
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Captain Buckeye
Assistant Coach
Not sure I agree. I think we lost where it mattered most and that’s up front.
That said, we threw a pick 6 on second down inside the red zone, lost the turnover battle, lost the penalties too.
Miami did what teams do when they win. They won the turnover battle, they didn’t make mistakes, and they won the LOS.
It’s sort of a miracle it was even close to be honest
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This is what amazes me about Saban. Sure he cheated like hell but he dealt with attrition so often and so well that he rarely missed a beat year after year
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Captain Buckeye
Assistant Coach
Yeah I have to say. When we needed the defense they failed in the end. Sucks man.
If you think of the starters are we really the best assembled defense? No likely not. We are very good but we were very top heavy with 4 first rounders. But other than that how deep was this defense? The other three DL were fine but not spectacular and the other 3 in the secondary were fine but not spectacular.
Hard lesson to learn but what this showed was imo we weren’t as good as we thought. Because simply Miami was not some juggernaut.
As for Ryan day- he needed to take over. We already were struggling on offense so him allowing Hart to run it off the cliff was not an acceptable choice.
Ryan Day needs to go get the offensive version of Marty P.
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I saw this coming, which is why I mentioned the non-zero probability. Their linemen are huge and their play on both sides of the ball surprised me in their last two games. Ohio State spent the year being told they were the only team without weakness. And Hartline’s inability to give 100% was just such a blow. A great year but much work to do in the off-season. Disappointing.
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Zem
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Unless the QB can run. IIRC the offense opened up more last year once Howard started running for first downs. But Julian's wheels seem pretty slow. He would have had running room with all that space miami's D left in the middle in the first half. Of course just putting a receiver there would have also worked.
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