Their is not a more talented team at the skill positions than our Miami Hurricanes.
The Talent is Young but Deep.
- 3 WO's over 400 yards with Hank leading the way with over 700 yards receiving.
-10 receivers in double digit receptions; 7 receivers with at least 100 yards total(only 1 Junior Hank +2 SR's BigRed & Epps )
Only 2 teams have 3 RB's with over 400 yards rushing and all 3 Canes- Berry, James, And Coop each had 100 yard games this year. IMO the most important stat for a RB is YPC. Berry leads the team with and average of 6.1/ypc. Coop and JJ are tied with 5.2 yards per carry. Anything over 5 YPC i consider good. Yards after contact and BTK are also 2 other relevant stats...
I've been trying to figure out Whipple offense philosophy all year. His tendencies are various and complex. He uses many formations to try and develop a miss match on the outside or in the run game. Thats why you see the 2 TE sets then 4 WO sets, Unbalanced, The Bunch formation, (Whipple added a new shift in the 11th game of the year using Graham, Epps, and Hank in the bunch and 2 TE sets). As a fan of the motion and the newly discovered shift I have to complement Whipple for his use of pre-snap movement.
The major benefit of motion is to help Jacory with his pre-snap read.. When Miami motions a player to the opposite side it helps the QB and Wide Outs decipher if its man or zone. Never running the shift i do not have first hand experience on the benefits. The film however shows the D front seven shift along with the safeties. The pre snap read should than be a zone D of some sort. The QB's first read after the snap should be the 2 safeties; they paying 2 deep, man/ blitz, cover 3. As far as What Jacory's progressions are depends on the play, you would have to ask Coach Whipple or get me some endzone game film.
The Play action pass has provided big plays all year so I took a deeper look into Whipple's use of play action in the Duke game.
Of the 13 playactions passes 12 came on 1st down. Including the first play of the game. On 1st down of the first 2 drives 3 out of the first 4 were PA passes.
Of the 13 playactions 6 went for positive yardage, 1 sack, 3 bad throws, 1 was good defense, and 2 were drops. Miami had A 46% success rate on play action passes against Duke .
The sack was on Miami's 6th possession and 2nd first down of that drive; Harris was sacked for a 4 yard loss. The only non 1st down PA pass was on a 2nd and 3 in the 3rd QTR; Jacory faked to the strong side and rolled to the weak-side of the defense, a rushed throw with no1 open led to an incomplete pass. Whipple followed that play giving the defense the same look but called a delay. (a run Action) The good call and strong running by Berry got only 17 yrds cause JB got shoe stringed from behind.
Another new Play Whip and the O ran was neat. 3 WO Bunch Formation, play action, no motion until after the snap, AJ runs behind the O- Line towards the wide sideline. Jacory hit AJ on a swing pass(his only reception) that he turned into 20 yards.
The biggest positive play on a 1st down PA pass was the 44 yarder to Hank to put Miami up 27-16...
-the 2nd first down PA pass of the game led to an 8 yard pass to TJ from his H- Back position.
-In the 2nd Half jacory had a very nice throw to Hank at the sideline off a 1st down PA for 15 yards. Hank did dropped one in the first half that hit him in the belly. AJ had the other drop.
-The completion to Hank was similar to the first play, a PA pass to Bryd at the sideline for 14 yrds.
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Miami used play action on first down 57% of the time.. 12 out of 21 first downs
Complements to Jacory and the offense for having 9 recievers with at least 1 TD catch; Graham & Hank lead with 5 each.
Jacory-- 8.4 yards per attempt(GooD) 60.03% completion percentage( 63-68%) would be preferred.
I don't recall one play against Duke that didn't have a shift or motion.
_HM_
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