Miami (not that Miami) -- The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Submitted by Sommy on

The Good:

 - Booboo really looked pretty good as our kickoff returner, and I think he should be the full-time returner.  He wasn't spectacular, but he has obvious speed, good vision, and runs north/south, unlike our punt returner.

 - Threet can apparently run.

 - The defense seems like it has gelled pretty well.

 - McGuffie seems to be a nosehair away from breaking a big one when he gets the ball (and everyone decides to actually hold their blocks). 

 - Shaw also looks pretty good. 

 - The option plays were actually there and didn't look entirely terrible. 

 - Special teams so far on the whole seem pretty solid, not many stupid penalties, etc.

 - Graham played a lot better.

 - Martin = MONSTER SACK SWEET 

 - Tacopants had about 20 receptions for a couple hundred yards.

The Bad:

 - Tacopants had about 20 receptions for a couple hundred yards.

 - The defense seems to be giving up a lot of rushing yards up the middle.

 - Threet's apparent ability to run seems mostly based Miami not expecting him to run at all, not on his ability to run a good fake (hence the 2nd quarter on).

 - Threet apparently completely forgot how to throw accurately 

The Ugly:

 - Stevie Brown is not only still on the team, but is a starting safety despite his apparent inability to tackle.  How does that work out?

 - As the season goes on, the running game is probably going to completely evaporate because (a) neither QB can throw accurately outside of 10 yards and the O-Line still sucks.

 - Sheridan is probably the starter for next week.

 - Stevie Brown. 

 - Shaw is apparently hurt.

 - So is Ortmann.  Crap.

 - Donovan Warren should not return punts (why not have BooBoo return punts as well?  Couldn't hurt, I don't think I've seen him on the field for the defense this year yet, anyway).

 - What happened to Odoms?  He seemed to do so much in the first quarter and then disappeared.  Is he hurt?

 - Stevie Brown again. 

Sommy

September 6th, 2008 at 3:46 PM ^

I also need to qualify my statement about Threet's accuracy by saying that he at least had one long ball and a TD pass for more than 10 yards last week.  This week, I saw no passes completed for more than ten yards before the catch.

goody

September 6th, 2008 at 3:49 PM ^

not return punts is completely on the spot.  He looks tentative, where Bobo was finding a crease and hitting it hard.  Bobo for all return positions.  Vote = 1

mgobleu

September 6th, 2008 at 5:01 PM ^

I've been a fan of Dwarr's ever since he layed out for that late INT against Illinois last year, and I do think he's gonna be great, but I DO NOT like him on returns. Seems to be a bad judge of "when I should return the ball..."  and "when I should waive fair and not get vaporized." He's gonna get destroyed eventually. Booboo vote #2. (And weren't we gonna call him "boobs"?)

formerlyanonymous

September 6th, 2008 at 5:02 PM ^

how much of the running game was a result of these refs not calling a single holding call.  i know Miami got away with a lot of it, I wasn't paying particular attention to if we were also capitalizing on blindness.