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Miami CRUSHES Central Michigan But Canes' Massive Problem EXPOSED! · ACC Football Addiction (Atlantic Coast Conference)

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  Speaker 1: 52-3, that's not a football score. It was a mismatch,
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  Speaker 1: and we knew that going into Saturday. Miami came into
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  Speaker 1: this game with one job, take care of business, get
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  Speaker 1: out healthy, and leave Hard Rock Stadium without adding a
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  Speaker 1: new injury to the report. I think Michigan accomplished on
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  Speaker 1: all three. Central Michigan never had a chance in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Miami's starters were on the sidelines well before the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and for one week, the headline out of Coral Gables
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  Speaker 1: was not who got hurt. This was exactly what that
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  Speaker 1: game was supposed to be. Think about the week you
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  Speaker 1: just had. Two players lost for the season against Wake Forest,
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  Speaker 1: a third out multiple weeks, a quarterback limping around late
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. It's the kind of stretch that
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  Speaker 1: can spiral a team out of control if it can't
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  Speaker 1: get it under control right away. Miami handled it right.
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  Speaker 1: It buried an overmatched opponent fast. It played its backups extensively,
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  Speaker 1: and it treated a game that it was never going
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  Speaker 1: to lose exactly like that. An opportunity to heal, not
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to pad stats. There are some things I
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  Speaker 1: want to bring up, though, with this game. This is
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  Speaker 1: TJ Pittenger. It's ACC Football Addiction. We are presented by PrizePix,
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  Speaker 1: Let's run through how it happened because it went quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Central matched. Michigan actually got on the board first with
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  Speaker 1: a field goal, and that was about the extent of
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  Speaker 1: their afternoon. Mallory answered with a rushing touchdown. From there,
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  Speaker 1: it was a track meet in one direction. Miami scored
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  Speaker 1: four more touchdowns in the second quarter alone. Halftime was 35-3.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't just a lead. It was a eulogy for
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  Speaker 1: Central Michigan. Darian Minta kept on doing what Darian Minta does.
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  Speaker 1: He padded his stats, not in a bad way. Don't
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  Speaker 1: read that wrong, but not in a bad way at all.
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  Speaker 1: Just incredibly, insanely efficient. He's one of the most fun
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  Speaker 1: players to watch in this sport. 23 of 27, 338 yards,
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  Speaker 1: three TD passes. He had a run in from a
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  Speaker 1: yard out himself. Four touchdowns for a guy who a
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  Speaker 1: month into the season has now thrown for over a
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  Speaker 1: thousand yards through four games. without so much as a hiccup.
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  Speaker 1: Upshaw caught one, Tony caught one, Barcake caught one. This
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a guy just beating up on a max secondary.
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  Speaker 1: It was an entire receiving room that took turns taking shots.
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  Speaker 1: And then in the third quarter, Jamal Merriweather, an offensive lineman,
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  Speaker 1: fell on a fumble in the end zone for a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown of his own. That made it 42-3, somewhere around
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  Speaker 1: the six-minute mark, I believe. Of the third quarter, Miami
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  Speaker 1: started pulling starters. The backups played the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 1: 52-3 is where it ended. Fletcher didn't play. Held out
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  Speaker 1: as a precaution after last week's injury. And here's the
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  Speaker 1: best sentence that I get to say about this game.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody else added to the injury list. That was the
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  Speaker 1: point of Saturday and Miami delivered on it. Chris Wheatley
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  Speaker 1: Humphrey handled the workload in Fletcher's absence. He looked the
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  Speaker 1: part doing it. Obviously, this Defense was not good enough
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  Speaker 1: to slow anyone on Miami's roster down. This wasn't competitive
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  Speaker 1: football by the second quarter. It was Miami running a
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  Speaker 1: controlled scrimmage against a team that had no business being
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  Speaker 1: on the same field. I want to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: three things that actually mattered in this. If you haven't already,
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  Speaker 1: subscribed over on the audio side as well. Takeaway number one,
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  Speaker 1: Miami took care of business the way that it needed to.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't just the final score. It was really the
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  Speaker 1: entire shape of the game. Miami's defense held Central Michigan
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  Speaker 1: to 21 rushing yards. On 25 carries, it's not a
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  Speaker 1: bad day running the ball. It was a program that
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  Speaker 1: got physically dominated at the line of scrimmage for all
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  Speaker 1: four quarters. Miami forced three turnovers. They didn't give the
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  Speaker 1: ball away once. By the time the third quarter was
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  Speaker 1: winding down, this was the backups against backups. The starters
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  Speaker 1: were all resting on the sideline. Instead of racking up
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  Speaker 1: extra snaps, it was a game that was decided in
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  Speaker 1: the second quarter. That's what a get right week is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to look like. You bury your opponent early, get
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  Speaker 1: the lead to a point where you don't need to
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  Speaker 1: risk anything. Get your starters out, backups in, and walk
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  Speaker 1: away from the day with the same roster health or
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  Speaker 1: better than you walked in with. Miami checked all of
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  Speaker 1: those boxes. You can compare that to how easily this
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  Speaker 1: could have gone differently. A team that's already banged up,
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  Speaker 1: they're coming off of back-to-back weeks with hits and injuries
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  Speaker 1: that can absolutely talk itself into playing starters deeper into
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  Speaker 1: a blowout than they need to. There was no reason
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  Speaker 1: to chase style points. There was no reason to chase
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  Speaker 1: a stat line, a highlight. You'll have plenty of opportunities
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  Speaker 1: for that later in the year. The moment the outcome
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  Speaker 1: stopped being in question, the decision makers on Miami staff
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  Speaker 1: made the right call. The coaching side of things mattered
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  Speaker 1: just as much as anything that happened on the field.
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  Speaker 1: And that was all really good. Here's where I won't
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  Speaker 1: have as much fun. Takeaway number two, the penalties in
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  Speaker 1: this game. And I'll tell you, I'll preface it by
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  Speaker 1: saying the refs were atrocious. I don't know what they
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  Speaker 1: were looking at on that Tony one-handed catch that was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of things that need to be
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  Speaker 1: cleaned up from a refereeing standpoint. But I don't make
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  Speaker 1: refereeing videos. I make college football videos. 13 penalties for
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  Speaker 1: 107 yards. Five false starts up front. At home against
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  Speaker 1: a team that you are so much better than, multiple
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  Speaker 1: holding calls, a personal foul on light foot that wiped
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  Speaker 1: out a huge play. The offensive pass interference, which I
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  Speaker 1: don't love that call. I thought it was terrible. The
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  Speaker 1: officiating in this game wasn't great. There were calls that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't love in certain spots. I thought there were
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  Speaker 1: a couple of flags that felt like a stretch. But
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  Speaker 1: if I take out four of them, nine is still
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  Speaker 1: too many. I think a lot of it's on Miami.
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  Speaker 1: The holding calls looked fine to me. The false starts
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  Speaker 1: are pretty black and white. And here's why this worries me,
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  Speaker 1: because it's a trend. It didn't matter in a 52-point
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  Speaker 1: win or 52-point performance against Central Michigan. They're kind of
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  Speaker 1: an inconvenience in that game. They certainly were never going
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  Speaker 1: to change the outcome. You probably could have had 25
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  Speaker 1: and still won this game. But they just make your
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  Speaker 1: team look a little less clean. And think about what's coming.
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  Speaker 1: Clemson has been undefeated since losing to LSU. And I
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  Speaker 1: still don't think they're great. But if you go on
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  Speaker 1: the road this weekend to Clemson and have 13 penalties
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  Speaker 1: for over 100 yards, that's not good news. Florida State
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  Speaker 1: is not a great team. If you let Florida State
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  Speaker 1: hang around because of penalties, they have playmakers that can
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  Speaker 1: burn you deep and late in a game. Virginia Tech
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  Speaker 1: found a way to come back yesterday, still undefeated. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they're a great team. But if you have
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  Speaker 1: over 100 yards of penalties, you're going to let that
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  Speaker 1: team stick around. And God forbid you go on the
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  Speaker 1: road in South Bend and do it there, that ain't
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  Speaker 1: going to be good news. I can guarantee you that.
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  Speaker 1: It's the biggest disappointment that I have with this Miami
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  Speaker 1: team so far this year is the penalties and the
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  Speaker 1: sloppy play from that perspective. And again, I started takeaway
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  Speaker 1: number two, blaming the refs. I think they were bad.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't make up for Miami's just lack of focus,
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  Speaker 1: attention to detail, whatever it is that gives you 13
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  Speaker 1: penalties in one game against a Mac team. You're not
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  Speaker 1: going to have that luxury in October and November. It
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  Speaker 1: has to get cleaned up immediately. You go on the
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  Speaker 1: road to Clemson this week. You cannot continue to be
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  Speaker 1: a thing. Seven penalties against Wake. I thought that would
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  Speaker 1: be the wake-up call, no pun intended. 13 against Central Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: That is a concerning trend to me. This staff is
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  Speaker 1: incredibly serious about fixing its mistakes and its shortcomings, and
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  Speaker 1: I had expected to be fixed this week in practice.
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  Speaker 1: We'll absolutely talk about that with D-Money on State of
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  Speaker 1: the State when we talk about this game on Tuesday morning.
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  Speaker 1: That goes live at 11 a.m. We'd love to have
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  Speaker 1: you in the comments for it. The margin for sloppy
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  Speaker 1: football is 10%. reducing by the week. And you can
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  Speaker 1: get away with it against Central Michigan. It has to
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  Speaker 1: get fixed now. Takeaway number three, up front, I thought
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  Speaker 1: Miami looked really good. Not surprised by this. Probably could
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  Speaker 1: have written this before I even started to watch this
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  Speaker 1: game on replay. But Miami imposed its will on both
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  Speaker 1: sides of the ball. And I think that's a good
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  Speaker 1: signal to It's not the end-all be-all because it was
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  Speaker 1: Central Michigan, but it's a good signal heading into the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the schedule. I wanted to see the interior
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  Speaker 1: of this offensive line dominate, and they did. Again, I
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  Speaker 1: expected them to. This is an overmatched opponent, but 201
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  Speaker 1: rushing yards for Miami. Chris Wheatley Humphrey went for 104
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  Speaker 1: yards on just 11 carries. He had over nine yards
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  Speaker 1: a pop. It's not a running back that was making
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  Speaker 1: guys miss in space. It was an offensive line that
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  Speaker 1: moved bodies off of the ball, and they created room
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  Speaker 1: before he even got there. On the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball, defense did the same thing. Central Michigan's offense...
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  Speaker 1: nothing running the ball yesterday. A sack on the opening
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  Speaker 1: drive that helped kill that before it ever even started.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't just Miami skill players winning individual matchups. Both
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  Speaker 1: lines of scrimmage controlled this game from the snap to
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  Speaker 1: the final whistle. That's the version of of Miami that
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  Speaker 1: will travel well. Skill talent can at times get neutralized
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  Speaker 1: by a good defense or a good scheme, but offensive
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  Speaker 1: defensive lines that can physically impose themselves, that will translate
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  Speaker 1: against anybody, anywhere, anytime. If that trench performance is real
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  Speaker 1: and a sign of things to come, if they are
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  Speaker 1: figuring out the interior of that offensive line, that's a
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  Speaker 1: really good thing. The caveat is that it was a
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  Speaker 1: Mac roster. It, is not Clemson or what they'll have
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  Speaker 1: next week. What we saw from Miami on Saturday up
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  Speaker 1: front is a very good thing. Their lines of scrimmage
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  Speaker 1: controlled the game physically from start to finish. What I
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  Speaker 1: want to see now is if that holds up against
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  Speaker 1: other ACC teams, certainly Notre Dame, and then certainly playoff
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  Speaker 1: teams that will come to follow. But you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to complain about seeing it no matter who the opponent
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  Speaker 1: was here in week four. So here's where Miami sits.
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  Speaker 1: Four games in, four wins. For the first time all season,
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  Speaker 1: the story isn't about who's hurt. The defense is playing
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  Speaker 1: downhill football. The offensive line is, I think, improving. Mensah
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  Speaker 1: is playing at a Heisman level right now. And there
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  Speaker 1: aren't many quarterbacks in the sport that you could even
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  Speaker 1: compare to the way that he's playing today. The only
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  Speaker 1: real blemish on this performance, the thing that keeps this
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  Speaker 1: from being a perfect week to me, is the penalties.
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  Speaker 1: That has to be cleaned up. The undisciplined problem that
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  Speaker 1: has been lurking since the weight game has to be
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  Speaker 1: fixed this week. If that does get fixed, this team
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  Speaker 1: continues to be very dangerous. If you don't fix it,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's going to cost Miami a game that
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  Speaker 1: they should win. Clemson is up next. We'll find out
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  Speaker 1: a lot more about this team when they travel to
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  Speaker 1: Death Valley this weekend. Let me know your thoughts down
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