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Miami Hurricanes Just DESTROYED FAMU & That's a MASSIVE PROBLEM | Canes | UM · ACC Football Addiction (Atlantic Coast Conference)

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  Speaker 1: What you guys just watched tonight was not a football game.
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  Speaker 2: It was a message.
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  Speaker 1: 77-7 Miami over Florida A & M. And I want
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  Speaker 1: to be careful with how I say that because there's
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  Speaker 1: a version that gets taken out of context where folks
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  Speaker 1: think I'm talking down about an FCS program and calling
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  Speaker 1: it analysis. And then there's another version of this where
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  Speaker 1: people think I'm overhyping a win against a program that
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  Speaker 1: just isn't on the same level. This is ACC Football Addiction.
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  Speaker 2: Let's be honest with ourselves for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Florida A & M is not walking into Hard Rock
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  Speaker 1: Stadium and beating Miami. Nobody watching this game tonight was
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  Speaker 1: expecting that, but blowouts can still tell you a few things.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes they don't tell you anything at all, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: a blowout is the clearest look you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: at what a team actually is when no one's making
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  Speaker 1: them work for it. Tonight was the second kind of message.
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  Speaker 1: Because buried in the box score is a problem. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's a problem for Miami. It's a problem
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  Speaker 1: for everyone else on Miami's schedule for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the way. I want to talk about Darian Mensah, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the words unreal is too strong for
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  Speaker 1: what he's done through two games this season. I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about a running game that
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  Speaker 1: has looked completely different in this Thursday night game that
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  Speaker 1: we just got than it did against Stanford and why
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the case. The real takeaway here is
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  Speaker 1: really the concern of that every defensive coordinator left on
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  Speaker 1: this schedule should have because after tonight, you don't get
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  Speaker 1: to prepare for Miami's offense. You have to very clearly
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  Speaker 1: pick which half you're willing to live with.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get into things.
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  Speaker 1: First, I want to start with this. I want to
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  Speaker 1: give some credit to FAMU. I think that gets skipped
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times in videos like this. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think FAMU is a bad program. They've got history. They've
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  Speaker 1: got a real fan base. They've got players who are
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  Speaker 1: good enough to be on this field and compete somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: This is a roster built for their level of competition. However,
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  Speaker 1: it happened to walk into a stadium against a team
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  Speaker 1: that is on a different planet, athletically, physically talent wise.
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  Speaker 1: It's not some group of five athletic department that, running
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  Speaker 1: down there in Coral Gables, it's certainly a step up
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  Speaker 1: in competition.
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  Speaker 2: I thought they competed hard.
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  Speaker 1: I thought even though this game was decided within the
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  Speaker 1: first three minutes and 51 seconds, it was good to
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  Speaker 1: see them go out and fight and still force a
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  Speaker 1: couple of mistakes by Miami late in the game that
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  Speaker 1: kind of gave them something to feel good about. I
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  Speaker 1: know that it didn't make Mario Cristobal happy, but a
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  Speaker 1: big hats off to FAMU. They played two games in
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  Speaker 1: very short order. against a team that was way more
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  Speaker 1: talented than them. So, listen, it just is kind of
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  Speaker 1: what it is from their side. What I am going
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  Speaker 1: to do, though, moving forward with this, is use this
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  Speaker 1: game the way you're supposed to use games like this.
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  Speaker 1: We're not judging Miami's performance tonight based on the opponent.
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  Speaker 1: I want to judge this game based on how Miami
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  Speaker 1: approached it when it was no longer in doubt.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing about blowout games.
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  Speaker 1: When a team is up big early, you find out
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  Speaker 1: really quickly what they actually want to work on. Mario
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  Speaker 1: talks about this in his post-game interview with the ACC Network.
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  Speaker 2: Some teams get pretty conservative. They say, ah, it's enough.
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  Speaker 1: Call off the dogs. Let's just get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: May run the ball three times into the line of
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  Speaker 1: scrimmage and then punt the ball away and hope the
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  Speaker 1: clock will just melt. Other teams keep their foot down.
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  Speaker 1: They've got a point to prove. I don't necessarily think
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  Speaker 1: this was either one of those. I think this was
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  Speaker 1: Miami asking their guys to continue to execute like the
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  Speaker 1: game was on the line, like the result was still
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  Speaker 1: in doubt.
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  Speaker 2: And they did that tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And the number that tells you how fast is 49
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  Speaker 1: to nothing. That's the halftime score. 49 to nothing at
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  Speaker 1: the half on the way to a 77 to seven
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  Speaker 1: school record, 856 yard of total offense kind of night.
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  Speaker 1: It's the kind of first half that puts Miami in
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  Speaker 1: the conversation with the most lopsided halves this program has
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  Speaker 1: ever played. Here's what actually impressed me, though. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just that the starters built a 49-point lead. It was
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  Speaker 1: that once Miami had that lead in hand, the staff
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  Speaker 1: didn't need to keep grinding the first string just to
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  Speaker 1: be safe. Mensah and Tony had early nights that they
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  Speaker 1: could be done, right? The offense didn't skip a beat
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  Speaker 1: without them.
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  Speaker 2: And why does that matter? Because depth is important.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a story about one guy having a huge
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  Speaker 1: game like last week was with Tony. It's a story
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  Speaker 1: about a roster that's deep enough that the backups can
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  Speaker 1: walk in cold and keep scoring touchdowns against anybody Miami
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  Speaker 1: schedule throws at them in September. It's the kind of
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  Speaker 1: depth that once you get in enough reps shows up
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  Speaker 1: late in the year in November and December, and then
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  Speaker 1: hopefully January for Miami when the starters are banged up
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  Speaker 1: and somebody else has to answer the bell. I do
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  Speaker 1: want to spend a couple of minutes talking about Darian
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  Speaker 1: Mensah because I've been trying to find the right way
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  Speaker 1: to describe another performance like this. And the same word
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  Speaker 1: I keep landing on is simply unreal. I think we
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  Speaker 1: knew that he would click with this offense. I know
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  Speaker 1: we knew what the schedule looked like to start things out.
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  Speaker 1: I know that we knew the first month was not
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  Speaker 1: going to present a lot of challenges defensively, but to
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  Speaker 1: have three incompletions a week ago and to just have
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  Speaker 1: one tonight, to throw for 252 yards, to have no interceptions,
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  Speaker 1: to have three touchdowns, and have your whole night summed
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  Speaker 1: up with that, leading your team to a 49-0 halftime
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  Speaker 1: lead and not giving Mario even a reason to bring
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  Speaker 1: him out for one drive in the second half. 14
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  Speaker 1: of 15, think about that completion percentage for just a second.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a bunch of checkdowns against a defense they
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  Speaker 1: gave up. He hit Josh Moore on a long touchdown
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  Speaker 1: pass down the field. He threw a corner route, a
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  Speaker 1: throw on a rope to Tony that he did not
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  Speaker 1: break stride for. He's a quarterback that is playing clean,
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  Speaker 1: surgical football for a half and then getting the rest.
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  Speaker 2: Of the night off. Look, we all knew what Miami
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  Speaker 2: was getting when they brought him in.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody who follows recruiting and the portal, they knew the
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  Speaker 1: price tag, they knew the hype, they knew the expectations
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  Speaker 1: that came with it. You don't make that kind of
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  Speaker 1: investment that Miami made at that position without knowing you're
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  Speaker 1: on the clock to show that it was worth it.
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  Speaker 1: And I know the opponents, but through two weeks, he's
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  Speaker 1: shown that he was worth every dime. What stood out
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  Speaker 1: to me wasn't just the touchdowns. It was how easy
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  Speaker 1: and how effortless he makes throws. There's a difference between
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback who's making tough throws look hard and a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback who's making tough throws look routine. And tonight, every
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  Speaker 1: window looked bigger than it should have. Every read looked
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  Speaker 1: like he already knew the answer before the safety even moved.
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  Speaker 1: It's not something that you can coach into a guy
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  Speaker 1: in one offseason. It's a quarterback who is so comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: a guy who trusts the other guys running routes, who
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  Speaker 1: trusts the blocking in front of him, who's not thinking
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  Speaker 1: at all.
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  Speaker 2: He's just playing.
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  Speaker 1: And when a quarterback gets to that point in an offense,
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  Speaker 1: that's usually when things start getting scary for opposing coordinators. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: You guys' comments are always great. Some of them make
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  Speaker 1: help us tremendously. I want to talk about the backstory
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  Speaker 1: for just a second because I think that matters too.
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  Speaker 1: Miami didn't just go get a quarterback this offseason. They
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  Speaker 1: went and got the quarterback. The price tag on that
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  Speaker 1: move was one of the biggest storylines in the entire sport.
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  Speaker 1: The way that that move happened at the 11th hour
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  Speaker 1: when the portal was closing was one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: stories in the entire sport. And every single week that
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  Speaker 1: Mensah doesn't play like a guy worth that money, it
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  Speaker 1: will be a conversation. The problem is I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's ever going to be a part of a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Every week he does play like it, The worries about,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, why did he transfer? Oh man, how much
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  Speaker 1: are they paying him? That starts to disappear. And tonight
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  Speaker 1: I think it's disappeared completely. Nobody's bringing up, man, how
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  Speaker 1: much Miami paid or why would they do this and
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  Speaker 1: go get it? Not after a performance like that. They're
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  Speaker 1: just talking about the football and it's freaking good. That's
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  Speaker 1: what tonight, a night like tonight can buy you. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just a win on the schedule. It buys the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback room. It buys the fan base's patience. Because there's
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  Speaker 1: so much trust. There's so much equity buildup in what
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  Speaker 1: this staff has assembled. Malachi Toney, certainly part of the
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  Speaker 1: story tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Four catches, 96 yards, a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: And he wasn't even the one throwing to himself on
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  Speaker 1: the play everybody's going to be clipping tomorrow. The 52-yard
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  Speaker 1: catch where he flat-out mossed a defender, went back up,
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  Speaker 1: took it right over the guy on top of him
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  Speaker 1: like he wasn't even there.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about Tony plenty on ACC Football Addiction.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and repeat every superlative
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  Speaker 1: that I've given him throughout the offseason and last week
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  Speaker 1: against Stanford. But the chemistry between him and Mensah is
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  Speaker 1: certainly the story of this offense. You knew it would
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  Speaker 1: be there with Cooper. You wondered how quickly they would
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  Speaker 1: establish it with Tony. And my gosh, if those guys
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  Speaker 1: don't look like they've been playing together for five years.
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  Speaker 1: When your quarterback and your number one target are seeing
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  Speaker 1: the game the same way, it's an offense that stops
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  Speaker 1: being good and starts being genuinely hard to defend. Now
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  Speaker 1: here's where tonight got interesting to me because the passing
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  Speaker 1: game being good is not a surprise to anyone. We
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  Speaker 1: saw it last Friday in Palo Alto. Everyone who's watched
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  Speaker 1: Miami this year has seen it last week. If you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to nitpick the offense, that's where you'd go.
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  Speaker 2: The running game. It wasn't bad.
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  Speaker 1: It just wasn't what people expected given the backfield that
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  Speaker 1: Miami's got. There were a couple of series where the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line didn't win up front the way you'd want
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  Speaker 1: to against lesser competition. There were times where Mark Fletcher
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  Speaker 1: didn't bust off the big run that you thought he
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  Speaker 1: might should against Stanford. And a lot of that had
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  Speaker 1: to do with the way that they played. Tonight, that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the conversation at all. Mark Fletcher Jr. opened the
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  Speaker 1: game with a long touchdown run on Miami's very first possession.
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  Speaker 1: He added a second touchdown before halftime was here. The
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  Speaker 1: line was moving people off the ball from snap one,
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't just Fletcher. Once he came out with
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the starters, Mallory came in and kept
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  Speaker 1: it going, finishing with two rushing touchdowns of his own.
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  Speaker 1: Different guys, different styles, same result. Positive yardage, snap after snap,
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  Speaker 1: starters and backups both. And I think it's worth walking
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  Speaker 1: through why that depth in the running back room actually
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  Speaker 1: works the way it does, because it's not an accident.
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  Speaker 2: Fletcher gives you.
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  Speaker 1: The power runner, the guy who's going to fall forward
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  Speaker 1: for extra yards and finish through arm tackles. Brown gives
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  Speaker 1: you another physical body who can spell him without the
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  Speaker 1: offense missing a beat. You guys got good news on
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Lyle this week from an off-field perspective. Wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: surprised to see him back soon. A guy who's shown
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  Speaker 1: real flashes of being a lead back himself when he's
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  Speaker 1: gotten the opportunity. And then you've got a change of
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  Speaker 1: pace guy who can get to the edge and turn
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  Speaker 1: a routine carry into a home run the second the
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  Speaker 1: defense loses a contain. You don't get four different puzzle
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  Speaker 1: pieces like that on accident. You get them by recruiting
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  Speaker 1: the run game as hard as you recruit the offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback position. And tonight was a reminder of just
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  Speaker 1: how deep that room actually is when it's all clicking.
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  Speaker 1: Compare that to last week. It's a different story. Stanford
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  Speaker 1: played you a little bit differently. Backs weren't getting through
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  Speaker 1: as clean to the second level.
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  Speaker 2: As you would have liked.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think it was broken, but it looked like
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  Speaker 1: a group that was still trying to figure things out.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight looked like a group that found it. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: do want to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: Some of that is because FAMU does not have the
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  Speaker 1: horses up front to hold up for four quarters. Sure.
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  Speaker 1: I said at the top of the show, I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: going to pretend that this was a fair fight talent wise.
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  Speaker 2: And I meant that.
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  Speaker 1: But here's where I'd push back on you wanting to
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  Speaker 1: wave the whole rushing performance away as garbage time yardage
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  Speaker 1: against overmatched competition. This wasn't just the starter stat padding
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  Speaker 1: a stat line before a merciful exit. Fletcher got his
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  Speaker 1: work done fast and then got out. And then the
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  Speaker 1: backups came in and ran the same exact way. Physical,
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  Speaker 1: same finish through contact. Mallory wasn't out there tiptoeing around
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  Speaker 1: because the game was decided.
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  Speaker 2: He was still running like it mattered.
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  Speaker 1: Execution against a lesser opponent still requires you to actually execute.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody on this roster, starter or backup, decided to
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  Speaker 1: take the night off. So even with the talent gap acknowledged,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say that something clicked tonight
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  Speaker 1: in that running game that maybe didn't go against Stanford.
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  Speaker 1: And if it's clicking now, heading into tougher competition, that's
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  Speaker 1: a real development.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a mirage.
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  Speaker 1: It also brings me to the major point of how
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  Speaker 1: this game was played. The thing I really want you
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  Speaker 1: to walk away thinking about if you're a Miami fan
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  Speaker 1: or a Miami hater, a doubter, whatever, if you're enjoying
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  Speaker 1: Miami football or hating it so far this year, Miami's
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  Speaker 1: passing game is elite. I think we've established that. Mensa
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  Speaker 1: is playing like a guy who was worth every dollar
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  Speaker 1: of the investment. And Tony's one of the best players
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  Speaker 1: in the entire country. And now we got to look
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  Speaker 1: at Miami's running game and that looks pretty elite too.
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  Speaker 1: And here's why that combination is so dangerous. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think people talk about this enough, but when one part
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  Speaker 1: of an offense is clearly ahead of the other defensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinators get to make a decision and it's usually a
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  Speaker 1: pretty easy one. If a team can't run the ball,
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  Speaker 1: you sit back, you play too high, and you make
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback drive you the length of the field over
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  Speaker 1: and over and dare him to be perfect. If a
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  Speaker 1: team can't throw the ball on the other side, you
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  Speaker 1: stack the box. You dare them to run into extra defenders,
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  Speaker 1: and you make their quarterback beat you with his arm.
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  Speaker 1: Every defensive game plan in football starts with figuring out
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  Speaker 1: which of those two things you're willing to live with,
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  Speaker 1: because it's really hard to stop both.
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  Speaker 2: And Miami... fans.
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  Speaker 1: Already know exactly what it looks like when this program
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  Speaker 1: leans on the run in games that actually matter because
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  Speaker 1: we saw it in the cotton bowl against Ohio state
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  Speaker 1: Fletcher carried it. How many times for how many yards
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  Speaker 1: walked away with an offensive MVP in a 24 to
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  Speaker 1: 14 win over the defending champs.
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  Speaker 2: That wasn't a shootout.
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  Speaker 1: That was Miami imposing its will on the ground against
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  Speaker 1: one of the best teams in the country. And that
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  Speaker 1: is the blueprint. That's what happens when this offense has
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  Speaker 1: answers on the ground and in the air at the
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  Speaker 1: same time. Teams don't just lose the game plan battle.
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  Speaker 1: They lose it before the game even starts. What Miami
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  Speaker 1: is doing right now, at least based on the versions
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  Speaker 1: that we've seen this year so far, is taking that
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  Speaker 1: decision away from you. If you want to load the
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  Speaker 1: box and make Mensah beat you throwing it, perfectly fine
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  Speaker 1: with Miami. He's shown that he can do that as
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  Speaker 1: well as anybody in the country. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: play back and take away Tony, not that you can
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  Speaker 1: ever take him away, but you want to take away
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  Speaker 1: the deep ball and dare them to run it 40 times.
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  Speaker 2: Perfectly fine with Miami as well.
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  Speaker 1: And what we saw tonight from that offensive line, from
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  Speaker 1: the running back room, that's a nightmare matchup for a
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator because they can't say, which do we take away?
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  Speaker 1: Because you can always try and limit one. The nightmare
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  Speaker 1: is when the answer to that question stops mattering because
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  Speaker 1: whichever one you pick, the other one just beats you instead.
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  Speaker 1: It is so cliche, but it is truly pick your poison.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really what this game came down to for FAMU.
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  Speaker 1: And what it's going to come down to for a
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: lot of teams on Miami's schedule. If they run the
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: ball like this because you're not stacking the box, you're
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: in trouble. And if you stack the box and try
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: and go one-on-one with these receivers and Darian Mensah is
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the quarterback, you're in a lot of trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I'll be the first to say.
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  Speaker 1: I need to see more than one blowout game against
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: FAMU to know more about this Miami offense. FAMU is
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: not the team that tells you whether an offensive line
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: is elite. The next few weeks against a little better competition,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: maybe not great, but still better, will tell us a
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: lot more than tonight did. And I think that's just honest.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: You guys are not surprised by that by any means.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: But I would rather see a team execute, be clean,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: other than the announcer jinxing a false start, keep its
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: foot down on the gas pedal, and answer real questions
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: about itself in a game like this than see them
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: coast through it and leave you with nothing. I don't
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: think Miami coasted tonight. They used this game. And what
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: they showed you is that this team right now has
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: answers for both ways you try to attack it. Zoom
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: out from this game just a little bit and look
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: at the conference picture for just a sec.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Because I think this matters more than just tonight's box score.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: The ACC race is going to come down to which
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: team looks the most complete when October and November hit.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Not who puts up the biggest numbers against an overmatched
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: opponent in September. But complete is the exact word for
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: what Miami looked like tonight. It's a quarterback playing at
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: an elite level, a number one receiver who's arguably the
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: best player in this league right now. And for tonight,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: an offensive line in a running back room that looked
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: like it belonged in the same sentence as that passing attack.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Let's be honest with ourselves. Miami is not just an
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: ACC contender.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: They're the profile of a team that's built to be
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: very dangerous in January. If you're a Miami fan, you
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: should feel pretty good heading into the next few weeks.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Not because you beat the Rattlers, but because of how
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: you beat them, how you executed, and how dangerous both
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: ways your offense can attack defenses really is. We'll find
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: out soon enough if games against better competition will make
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: you work for it or not. But as far as
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: tonight goes, not a lot of things to complain about.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: There are certainly things that Mario Cristobal will try and
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: clean up I understand the turnover that led to the
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: FAMU touchdown. I honestly wasn't even upset with that. Give
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: those kids something to celebrate on the long trip home.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I wasn't too upset with the fall star, except for
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the announcer seemed to be the one to jinx it.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: But I'd love to hear your thoughts. Mensa, more touchdowns
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: than incompletions through two games. The running game, absolutely going
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: wild tonight. Some of the best receivers in the country. Again,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I think he got a top two receiver, and I'm
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: listening to arguments for him being top one.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Let me know what you think down in the comments.
• 19:44
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