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Miami Football Just Put EVERYONE On NOTICE After DEMOLISHING Stanford! | Canes Football · ACC Football Addiction (Atlantic Coast Conference)

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  Speaker 1: What's up canes. Thank you for joining us on ACC
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  Speaker 1: How many of you guys just let me know in
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  Speaker 1: the comments weren't even alive yet. I'll, I'll own up
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  Speaker 1: to it. I know that you guys are a little
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  Speaker 1: older than I am. I wasn't, I wasn't alive in 1984,
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  Speaker 1: born in 90 for those asking, um, That's how long
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  Speaker 1: the record stood. Eddie Brown, Boston College, the Hail Flutie game.
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  Speaker 1: 220 receiving yards on a night that Miami football fans
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  Speaker 1: have spent 42 years trying to forget entirely for different reasons.
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  Speaker 1: 220 yards. That number survived everything. It survived national championships.
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  Speaker 1: It survived dynasty years. It survived every great era of
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  Speaker 1: Miami receivers who came through Coral Gables and put their
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  Speaker 1: name on the wall. 42 seasons with nobody touching it.
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  Speaker 1: And then on a Friday night in Palo Alto, California,
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  Speaker 1: against a team the ACC media picked to finish dead
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  Speaker 1: last in the conference final with most of the country sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: A sophomore erased it before the third quarter was over.
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  Speaker 1: The most unique thing about that sophomore is that tonight
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  Speaker 1: should have been his very first college game. You'll remember
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  Speaker 1: that Malachi Toney reclassified last year and should have been
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  Speaker 1: having his senior season of high school. Toney had 12 catches,
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  Speaker 1: 201 and 34 yards, three touchdowns, and a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of hurt Stanford Cardinal feelings. Miami finishes the game 45-6,
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  Speaker 1: and here's the part that should make the rest of
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  Speaker 1: college football uncomfortable. That might not even be the most
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  Speaker 1: important thing that happened on Friday night. Let's start with
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  Speaker 1: the obvious, because the obvious is genuinely absurd. Darian Mensah's
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  Speaker 1: first snap as a Miami hurricane was a 48-yard completion
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  Speaker 1: to Malachi Toney. Three plays later, Toney was in the
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  Speaker 1: end zone on a 23-yard touchdown, and of course, he
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  Speaker 1: hit the Heisman pose. Next drive, Mensah to Toney again,
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  Speaker 1: two yards, touchdown, and another Heisman pose. Two possessions into
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  Speaker 1: the season, and Miami's quarterback and Miami's receiver had already
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  Speaker 1: turned a conference road opener into a campaign advertisement for
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  Speaker 1: New York city, 27 of 30 for 400 yards and
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  Speaker 1: five touchdowns. No, I'm not making up a crazy stat line.
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  Speaker 1: That's just what your quarterback finished with tonight. 27 of 30.
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  Speaker 1: He threw three incompletions in an entire football game. career
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  Speaker 1: high in yards, career high in touchdowns in his first
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  Speaker 1: start for a new program, 3000 miles from home on
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  Speaker 1: a short notice Friday night kickoff. And he spread it
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  Speaker 1: around seven different receivers, caught passes, three touchdowns to Tony,
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  Speaker 1: one to Upshaw, one to bar Kate, the kid that
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  Speaker 1: followed him from Duke Miami scored touchdowns on six of
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  Speaker 1: its first seven drives, six of seven. So let's ask
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  Speaker 1: the question. Everybody's already asking on social media. Is it
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  Speaker 1: possible that two players from the same offense both end
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  Speaker 1: up in New York? It would be pretty crazy. But
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  Speaker 1: here's why it's not quite as crazy as it sounds.
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  Speaker 1: It has happened before. Different programs, different years, but the
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  Speaker 1: sport has actually sent a quarterback and a skill player
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  Speaker 1: from the same roster to the same ceremony. It'll require
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  Speaker 1: two things in Miami this year. A team has to
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  Speaker 1: keep winning big. And both players have to be undeniable.
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  Speaker 1: In game one, Miami just checked both boxes. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the catch, no pun intended. It's the same catch that
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  Speaker 1: has burned Heisman campaigns for decades. Quarterbacks and receivers from
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  Speaker 1: the same offense often split the story. I hate voters.
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  Speaker 1: Not any of them personally, but I think oftentimes with
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  Speaker 1: your AP poll and your coach's poll and the Heisman
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  Speaker 1: and everything else, they're lazy. I don't think they're stupid.
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  Speaker 1: I just think they're lazy. They want very clean narratives.
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  Speaker 1: And when a quarterback throws for 400 yards and a
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  Speaker 1: receiver catches 234 of them, half the country says the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback made the receiver and the other half says the
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  Speaker 1: receiver made the quarterback. Both of those takes are wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But both of those takes cost votes. Here's what actually
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  Speaker 1: helps Miami. I've talked about the schedule. They host FAMU
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday. Then they go to Wake. Then they... They
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  Speaker 1: have Central Michigan and Clemson on the road, Florida State
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  Speaker 1: at home, Pittsburgh, North Carolina on the road, Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: in November. But there is exactly one currently ranked opponent
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  Speaker 1: on that entire slate. That's a double-edged sword, and Canes
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  Speaker 1: fans need to be honest about which edge cuts. The
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  Speaker 1: good edge is that Miami has a legitimate path to
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  Speaker 1: running the table and putting Mensah and Tony in front
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  Speaker 1: of a national audience week after week with a perfect
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  Speaker 1: record attached to their name. The bad edge is that
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  Speaker 1: nobody hands out Heisman trophies for beating Central Michigan or FAMU,
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  Speaker 1: which means every single one of those November stat lines
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  Speaker 1: is going to get discounted unless the games in October
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  Speaker 1: say something. Clemson on the road, Florida State at home,
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Tech with James Franklin, and then, of course, that
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame game that we're all ready for. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the games that turn statistics into cases. Tony has the
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  Speaker 1: better story. He's the hometown kid, freshman All-American, record setter,
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  Speaker 1: punt returner, the face of the sport. He's on the
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  Speaker 1: freaking video game. Mensa has the better position. Quarterbacks win
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  Speaker 1: this thing. That's just how it goes. So can they
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  Speaker 1: both go? Yes. Will they both go? In my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: only if Miami is undefeated in December. Anything less and
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  Speaker 1: one of them probably gets left home. Before I go on,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't announced this anywhere, but we are working on
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  Speaker 1: a live State of the State show on Sunday before
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  Speaker 1: Florida State even plays. We're working on getting Danny and
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  Speaker 1: Allie together so that we can do a live show
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  Speaker 1: reacting to what I assume will be two wins as
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  Speaker 1: long as Florida doesn't screw the pooch. Should they lose
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  Speaker 1: that game? I will tell you, we'll have 5,000 people
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  Speaker 1: in the live show on Sunday morning. But set your clock.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're shooting for 1030 a.m. on Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 1: State of the state. I'll link it in the description.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you are subscribed. We've had a fun time
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  Speaker 1: with it. I'm ready for Danny to take some victory
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  Speaker 1: laps out there in Palo Alto. Now I want to
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  Speaker 1: get to something else that I don't think people are
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  Speaker 1: talking about. I don't know if they expect it to
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  Speaker 1: be talking about after this game. And it's what I
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  Speaker 1: tried to tell people all offseason that kept bringing this up.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to spend some time talking about the trenches.
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  Speaker 1: Mario would probably be mad at me if he watched this,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm sure he doesn't. Good for him. But it
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  Speaker 1: is a long plane ride back, coach. So if you do,
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  Speaker 1: let me know. He'd probably be mad at me for
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  Speaker 1: not starting here. But all offseason, the story around Miami
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  Speaker 1: was the same. This defense lost Ruben Payne Jr. to
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. They lost Akeem Mesidor to the NFL. That's
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  Speaker 1: two of the most disruptive front seven players in the
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  Speaker 1: entire conference, really the country, walking out the door in
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  Speaker 1: the same draft. And on offense, almost a handful of
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  Speaker 1: your starting five was gone as well. Miami replaced them
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  Speaker 1: with vets like Matthew McCoy and Okunlula. Miami then handed
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  Speaker 1: real snaps to true freshman Jackson Cantwell, the five-star offensive
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  Speaker 1: player of the year. The national take was pretty simple
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  Speaker 1: and clean. Miami's got the skill, guys, but will they
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  Speaker 1: be able to replace what they lost in the trenches?
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  Speaker 1: And Friday night, that take took a lot of damage.
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  Speaker 1: Look at what happened to Mensah. 27 of 30, 400 yards.
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  Speaker 1: six of the first seven drives ending in touchdowns. You
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  Speaker 1: don't do that if your quarterback is running for his life.
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  Speaker 1: You just don't. Mintz is not a scrambler. He is
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  Speaker 1: a pocket passer who needs time and clean platforms, and
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  Speaker 1: he got both all night against a defense that, sure,
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  Speaker 1: lost some guys, didn't have some people available this week. However,
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  Speaker 1: the pass protection in a conference game on the road
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  Speaker 1: in Stanford was great. On the other side of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: a rebuilt defensive front held Stanford to six points. Two
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  Speaker 1: field goals. Davis Warren, who I thought was really good,
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  Speaker 1: threw for 310 yards. And there are things Miami needs
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  Speaker 1: to clean up on the back end. Never found the
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  Speaker 1: end zone. A defensive line that people had questions for.
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  Speaker 1: brought pretty good pressure. Stanford did a really good job
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  Speaker 1: in this game, I thought, of avoiding the pressure when
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  Speaker 1: they could. Blunt had a sack. Lightfoot got after it.
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  Speaker 1: This defensive line was fine tonight. There were plays that
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  Speaker 1: needed to be cleaned up, but you saw how much
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  Speaker 1: it impacted the game. How many times they were holding calls.
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  Speaker 1: How many times Stanford just had to throw the ball away. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here's where I'm going to be honest with you. Because
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather be right and tell you the truth than
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  Speaker 1: just have a bunch of fun tonight. The offensive line
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  Speaker 1: was not perfect. Mario Cristobal was openly critical of it
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  Speaker 1: late in the evening, early morning, because I'm a psycho
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  Speaker 1: and stay up until 1 a.m. recording this for you guys,
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  Speaker 1: on the SVP show. Miami's rushing attack didn't hit 100
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  Speaker 1: yards before the starters came out. And that's against a
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  Speaker 1: team that you don't think is going to be very
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  Speaker 1: good in the ACC this year. So was the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line elite or did they struggle? Well, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a split verdict. Miami's line. protected beautifully, yet they didn't
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  Speaker 1: move people quite the way that Mario would have wanted.
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  Speaker 1: I think those are two different skill sets. And Mario
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  Speaker 1: even kind of gave a little bit of a justification.
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  Speaker 1: Stanford put a lot of guys up in the box
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  Speaker 1: and they said, we're going to try and take away
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  Speaker 1: the run game. The pass protection was elite. The run blocking,
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  Speaker 1: I think, still unproven, but with a caveat that if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to put more guys in the box, good
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  Speaker 1: luck with Malachi Toney running around back in the year secondary.
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  Speaker 1: In a late game in the fourth quarter, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to wait and see if Mario and Miami
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  Speaker 1: still have that same, hey, we'll run the ball down
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  Speaker 1: your throat for the entire evening. I think Miami looked
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  Speaker 1: at what the defense did. They said, you want to
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  Speaker 1: play us like this? We're okay with that. I think
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  Speaker 1: they can beat you in multiple ways this year. You
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  Speaker 1: want to crowd the box? Bring it on. You want
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  Speaker 1: to play coverage? You want to drop more guys back?
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  Speaker 1: We'll let Brown and Fletcher and those guys have a
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  Speaker 1: field day. Running game wasn't bad by any means, but
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine that's the thing that Mario wants cleaned
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  Speaker 1: up the most from this game. The reports of the
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  Speaker 1: demise of Miami's trenches, though, in this offseason were very
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  Speaker 1: much exaggerated. And I thought both units were above average
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  Speaker 1: tonight in totality. Certainly have things they can clean up
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  Speaker 1: and fix. but I liked the way I saw the
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  Speaker 1: trenches play. That was the question mark that everybody had
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  Speaker 1: for this program going into the season. I know Stanford's
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  Speaker 1: not a great team, but I thought they looked pretty
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  Speaker 1: good tonight. Let's talk about the trap for a moment
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  Speaker 1: because this was one. Ask any ACC program what happens
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  Speaker 1: when you have to fly across the country. Ask your
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  Speaker 1: own self how it felt two years ago when you
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  Speaker 1: went out to Cal. Ask him how it feels to
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  Speaker 1: kick off at six o'clock local time when your body
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  Speaker 1: thinks it's nine. Ask him about a Friday night in
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  Speaker 1: a week one against opponent who already has a game
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  Speaker 1: under their belt. Stanford had already played and Miami hadn't.
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  Speaker 1: Stanford had a first year head coach in Pritchard with
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  Speaker 1: a real win already on his resume. They beat Hawaii
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  Speaker 1: in week zero. Stanford had a stadium and a story
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  Speaker 1: and a reason to believe, and Miami went out there
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  Speaker 1: and led by 22 at halftime. There was no feeling
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  Speaker 1: out period. There was no slow start. There was a
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  Speaker 1: 48-yard completion on snap number one, and it never got
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot closer than that. That matters more than
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  Speaker 1: the final score does because this program has a documented
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  Speaker 1: history with exactly this kind of game. Miami's last two
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  Speaker 1: seasons both featured losses that had nothing to do with
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  Speaker 1: talent and everything to do with focus. Louisville, SMU, games
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  Speaker 1: where the Hurricanes were the better team and lost anyway.
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  Speaker 1: And Friday night was the opposite of that. Miami is
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  Speaker 1: now 11-0 in the month of September since 2023. Cristobal
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  Speaker 1: said that this game had their attention since January, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it showed. So here's where we land, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to be careful with this because I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Miami content this weekend is going to
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  Speaker 1: skip this part. Miami beat a team that was picked
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  Speaker 1: 17th out of 17th in its own conference, a team
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  Speaker 1: playing without three starting offensive linemen, a team playing out
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  Speaker 1: without its best edge rusher who had a sack and
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  Speaker 1: a half the week before they were a team playing
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  Speaker 1: without one of their best receivers. It's not a caveat.
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  Speaker 1: I'm inventing to just be a killjoy. Those are facts
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  Speaker 1: of the availability report. Miami was favored by more than
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  Speaker 1: three touchdowns, and they won by 39. And this was
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  Speaker 1: exactly what was supposed to happen. And there's a version
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  Speaker 1: of this program's history where that is the trap itself,
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  Speaker 1: where a huge number on a scoreboard in week one
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  Speaker 1: becomes a story that people tell themselves in October when
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  Speaker 1: the real games get here. Miami went 13-3 last season.
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  Speaker 1: They played for a national championship. They lost to Indiana
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  Speaker 1: by six points. Everything about this roster, the quarterback, the receiver,
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff, exists to close that six-point gap. There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing you can do in Palo Alto in September to
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  Speaker 1: close it. You close it in October. You close it
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  Speaker 1: against Clemson and Florida State, and then you do it
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  Speaker 1: again in November against Notre Dame when the temperature drops
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  Speaker 1: and the game is ugly. There's also a real cost
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  Speaker 1: from Friday that's going to get buried underneath the highlight reel.
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  Speaker 1: Miami lost cornerback O.J. Frederique Jr. on the very first
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  Speaker 1: drive of the season with what looked like a shoulder injury.
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  Speaker 1: It's a starting corner in the secondary that already has
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  Speaker 1: to figure out how to play behind a rebuilt front.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be watching that very closely this week because the
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  Speaker 1: availability report before Florida A & M is going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you a lot more about Miami's ceiling than the
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  Speaker 1: box score on Friday did. So what do we actually
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  Speaker 1: know here in the early morning hours of Saturday, September 5th? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we know that Darian Mensah is exactly what everybody hoped
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  Speaker 1: he'd be. And he proved it on the road in
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  Speaker 1: his very first start with a new roster and a
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  Speaker 1: brand new playbook. We know that Malachi Toney is not
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  Speaker 1: a one-year wonder and is now holding a record that
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  Speaker 1: had gone untouched since Ronald Reagan's second term. And we
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  Speaker 1: know the pass protection is real. The run game has
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  Speaker 1: some work to do. We know the defensive front lost
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  Speaker 1: two NFL players and they still only gave up six
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  Speaker 1: points on the road. And we know that Miami went
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  Speaker 1: across country into a trap-type game, coming off the most
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  Speaker 1: painful loss in modern history of the program, and they
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  Speaker 1: did not flinch for a single possession. We learned a
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  Speaker 1: lot this week. But here's what we don't know. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know what any of it means. Because the truth
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  Speaker 1: about Week 1 is that it can only take things
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  Speaker 1: away from you. It can't give you anything. Miami could
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  Speaker 1: have lost their season Friday night. They couldn't have won it.
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  Speaker 1: 45-6 is not a major accomplishment. It's just a receipt.
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  Speaker 1: It proves that Miami showed up. It proves that the
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  Speaker 1: pieces fit. It proves that the offseason wasn't a lie.
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  Speaker 1: But nobody hangs a banner for a receipt. Tony's record
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  Speaker 1: is going to be in the media guide for a
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  Speaker 1: very long time. Mintz's 27-30 night might end up being
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  Speaker 1: the best statistical debut in program history. And in 11 weeks,
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  Speaker 1: none of that's going to matter one bit if this
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  Speaker 1: team is standing on the field in Charlotte watching somebody
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  Speaker 1: else celebrate. The Hurricanes didn't come back this season to
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  Speaker 1: break records. They came back for the six points that
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  Speaker 1: they left in the national championship game. Everything between now
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  Speaker 1: and then is just a receipt. Let me know in
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  Speaker 1: the comments what you thought about the game. Great performance
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  Speaker 1: by Miami. It does not mean a thing toward what
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  Speaker 1: they want to accomplish this year. I think that's how
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  Speaker 1: Coach Cristobal will approach this win. You've got a lot
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  Speaker 1: to be proud of, but you've got to do 11
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  Speaker 1: more times, and then one more time, and then three
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  Speaker 1: more times. Can Mensa and Tony both end up in
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  Speaker 1: New York? Does one get left behind? Let me know
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  Speaker 1: to bed. Good night.