The Miami Hurricanes are ranked 9th in the CFP and currently seeded 4th. What does the road ahead look like as they try to win the ACC for the first time? Has it all finally caught it up to the Canes, as their defensive struggles have finally overshadowed Cam Ward and their dynamic offense? What is waiting on the other side of this bye week?
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00:00Miami Hurricanes dropped to 9th in the college football playoff ranking, still 4 seed because
00:06they're the highest ranked ACC.
00:08Correct.
00:09Um, it's a little confused by that, not really, because, because here's, here's why.
00:18Because SMU is 12.
00:20If things play out, SMU is going to play Miami.
00:26And then they would actually switch spots.
00:29Right.
00:30But whoever wins that ACC championship is going to be one of the automatic 4 seeds.
00:35All I want is...
00:36That's what I'm saying.
00:37That's why I'm saying that's the only reason why Miami is 4th right now.
00:39Right.
00:40But it's because they're ranked higher than SMU.
00:42Yeah, but SMU's loss is not a bad, like they're only losses to a top 10 team.
00:47Right.
00:48No, it's still, they're not.
00:49It's a strange thing.
00:50But still in the poll.
00:51See, here's the thing.
00:53The playoff is determined by the polls.
00:59As of right now, until you get a champion, SMU started so low, that's why they haven't
01:06really moved up.
01:09Miami was already up there and they just didn't drop as far as SMU.
01:14If they were to drop below SMU, SMU would be in that 4th spot until, unless, you know,
01:20they possibly play each other.
01:21Yeah, well Miami's got that 4th spot, which would currently be the winner of Ohio State,
01:26Boise State.
01:27Oof.
01:28Oregon's bye would be the winner of Notre Dame, Tennessee.
01:34BYU, they have the bye.
01:38The winner in that bracket would be Ole Miss, Penn State.
01:42And then Texas would take on the winner of Indiana, Alabama.
01:46So sick of Alabama, dude.
01:48I gotta tell you, this Indiana team, y'all sleeping on them.
01:58You saw them up close, dude.
01:59I saw them up close.
02:00Schmieden said the Chiefs are saying Michigan wants Brett Lashley, is that a thing?
02:04I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
02:09Here's the unfortunate part, and I'm almost positive of this, but you can check, but I
02:18am almost positive of this.
02:21In over 200 years of college football between Michigan and Ohio State, that's the first
02:30black coach.
02:35The circumstances in which he became the coach were unbelievable in that they had 15 guys
02:44drafted, the quarterback decided to turn pro so late that they didn't have access to
02:53all of the top NIL guys, or the transfers in the transfer portal.
03:00So they ended up with Warren.
03:04He was in a really bad spot.
03:09And for people to not understand that and say, oh, we want another guy, I don't know
03:14who could have did a good job with you're playing every game throwing five passes.
03:22I think you got to give the guy a year, it's house money season.
03:26You got to give him a year to see if he can recruit, to see if he can get some guys to
03:31see if he has better access to the transfer portal and get a quarterback.
03:38But it's unfortunate that the circumstances in which he became the first black coach were
03:47not conducive to anyone having success.
03:52And we're not getting a good barometer of how good a football coach he is or isn't.
03:57I'm just hopeful that the Canes come back on this thing after this bye week.
04:01Like, I really wish the game was almost this week.
04:05So we could just not have two weeks to think about what just happened.
04:08Yeah, man.
04:09I'm just I'm worried about I'm worried about love like that.
04:12I do think, you know, not that he has a lot of control in the defense, but I think Cam
04:17won't allow the locker room to do that.
04:19I think he's that kind of a leader.
04:20Here's the man.
04:21I just I'm gonna tell you what the problem is good.
04:26Every team you play from here on out is going to deflate the football.
04:32They all go think they can run the football until you stop the run consistently.
04:41They're going to cut your opportunity to score an offense in half.
04:47So when you used to have in 70 plays, and then you have 50 plays, those mistakes mean
04:57a lot more.
04:59And this is what happened in Georgia at Georgia Tech.
05:02And what people need to understand is every team that they play from here on out is going
05:10to try to run the football.
05:13That's that's the way football works.
05:15You see, they have some success.
05:17Another team has success.
05:19And you know, next week, you know, offensively, we had this rule.
05:25Every preseason, a team would throw a little BS blitz in there.
05:30If you don't stop it in preseason, you will see it all year.
05:35And that's so every week the canes play from here on out.
05:40The other team is going to make a conscious effort to run the football.
05:45If they have any success, then they just go suck the air out of the football.
05:52And that's what I'm afraid of.
05:55You gave up 200 plus yards rushing.
05:58You're the top five team.
05:59That is unacceptable.
06:00It was brutal.
06:01And then even when you put yourself in third down to get carved up, it was just such a
06:06bad performance.
06:07Or, or, I got one better for you.
06:13When they switch quarterbacks when it's third and long, oh my God, out of curiosity, what
06:18did everybody think was going to happen?
06:20I don't know.
06:22How can they complete third and fifteens and third with a guy that's only in the game
06:26to throw a pass?
06:27I'm thinking about that.
06:29I'm thinking about all the blown fourth downs, like Mars, just, you know, just, you know,
06:33maybe just take the points.
06:34I don't know.
06:35Once.
06:36Nah.
06:37Tough.
06:38Points.
06:39Points are tough.
06:40Well, at that time, see, and here's the thing.
06:45At the time, you're always thinking I'm going to get more opportunities.
06:50Oh yeah.
06:51Well, did he think that in hindsight, in hindsight, yeah, he probably should have kicked off when
06:55they were having 11 play 11 minute drives.
06:57Maybe you would have thought, Hey, you know what?
06:59Let's take them when we can get them.
07:00Well, that's, well, that's what everybody worries about with him.
07:05You know, can't act like it were, you know, we can't, can't act like we're, you know,
07:10new.
07:11Oh, Mario having questionable decisions who would have thought we, we, I don't want to
07:21get negative bastard.
07:22By the way, this has overall been an amazing, you know what?
07:24This is not being negative.
07:27This is being factual.
07:28Like they ain't nothing.
07:29You ain't nothing.
07:30They ain't nothing.
07:31You said that wasn't true.
07:34And so if somebody has a problem with it, see, I live on this side of the, you know,
07:39welcome, come on over.
07:40I got a seat for you.
07:41I'm going to crack open a beer because I've been over on this side for a long time and
07:46I've been called the hater.
07:47No, no, no, no, no.
07:48What is your side of the street?
07:50What goes on there?
07:51Like responsible stuff.
07:52Like facts.
07:53Facts.
07:54I'll catch you guys.
07:55Truth.
07:56Truth.
07:57But over here on this side of the fence, we were saying all year, be careful.
08:03There's going to come back, back to bite you in the ass.
08:05We just needed it.
08:06We need it.
08:07No, no, no, no, no, no.
08:08And you were like.
08:09Oh, God.
08:10Oh, it's so great to have a quarterback.
08:11Oh my God.
08:12Oh my God.
08:13Oh my God.
08:14Oh my God.
08:15Oh my God.
08:16Oh my God.
08:17Oh my God.
08:18Oh my God.
08:19Oh, it's so great to have a quarterback.
08:20Oh, it is.
08:21They'll run it up and down.
08:22I really thought he was going to win the game.
08:23I really did.
08:24I didn't think in a million years he'd ever go that way.
08:26But at no point in time did you think, here we go again.
08:31Why do we keep putting ourselves in this situation?
08:33Having why just in the ass, having Kim ward with the chance to win the game?
08:37It's like expecting Spota blow again with having no timeouts.
08:40Like you just don't expect it.
08:41I always think he's going to come through.
08:43Yeah, but, but again, and I'm looking at it from the standpoint of, should you even be
08:49in that situation?
08:50Probably not.
08:51Okay.
08:52They've had a lot of those where I was like,
08:54ah, we're up two scores against Louisville.
08:56This shouldn't be even at any point.
08:57Bang, bang, game is tied.
08:59I'm like, huh, all right.
09:01Look, they've lived their entire season
09:03making things a lot harder on themselves.
09:07Toby, we've told you that.
09:08I know Leroy tells you that every time,
09:10but we've told you that.
09:12You're like, ah, it doesn't matter.
09:13All we need is one thing.
09:14Right, it would always be, ah, it doesn't matter.
09:16We'll outscore them.
09:17They can't stop this offense.
09:19We need a get right Vlad against the Deeks.
09:21We got to get right week against the Deeks
09:24and all of a sudden we're back, baby.
09:25That's all we need.
09:26All right.
09:27You might hope they don't have a solid run game.
09:29No.
09:30Well, I mean, I don't know, but I do know this.
09:33We just need a get right week against the Deeks.
09:36I'm not going to sit here.
09:38I'm not going to sit here and say,
09:41I know about their football team,
09:44Wake Forest football team.
09:46But I'm telling you right now,
09:49they are trying to find a way to construct a run game
09:54with guys going in motion and running all over the place.
09:58That's going to have the Miami defense
10:01standing up and looking.
10:04Aren't there teams that you see,
10:05if they make the playoffs,
10:06you do not want Miami to face because it'd be a long night.
10:10I mean, we thinking about, you know what?
10:13I just, when you said,
10:15who would they have to play the winner of what?
10:18Was it Bama or?
10:20The Kings matchup.
10:21If they get to play.
10:22Ohio State.
10:23Right now it's Ohio State, BYU.
10:25Okay.
10:26So if you play Ohio State.
10:28Oh, I'm sorry, Boise, Boise, my bad.
10:30Oh, wait.
10:31Boise, Boise, yeah.
10:34So wait, wait, wait.
10:36So here's your options.
10:38Gente.
10:39A conference that all they do is run the football
10:42and be physical up front.
10:44Or a Heisman trophy candidate
10:46that averages 200 yards a game.
10:48We just need to tighten things up.
10:49Tighten what?
10:50Tighten.
10:51We need to tighten things up.
10:52Wait, what?
10:53We'll be all right.
10:54What?
10:54No, we just need to tighten up week.
10:56I'll tell you, we got good practice week ahead.
10:58You know what it is?
10:58This ain't a belt.
11:00This ain't a belt, dude.
11:02We've just been.
11:03Tighten up like this?
11:04We got a chance to reset, refocus.
11:06Just like Bob says, we tighten things up.
11:09We take, we have a get right week against the Deacs
11:12and we're right back in this.
11:14Tobin, Tobin, Tobin.
11:18I'm gonna tell you like this.
11:19I expect them to win.
11:22But my view on this team is big picture
11:27because playing football like this,
11:31if you get a quality team with a quality coach
11:36that just slow rolls you
11:39and tries to take the air out of the football,
11:42you're gonna be miserable.
11:44And so I see how this is playing out.
11:48If you play one of these quality teams in the playoff,
11:52a team that can run the football,
11:54that's physical up front, right?
11:58It don't matter how good your quarterback is.
12:00He ain't gonna be on the field.
12:02He's really good.
12:03He's gonna be on the field.
12:05He can't score if he's sitting on the bench.
12:07He's gonna be out, Tobin, hold on.
12:08Okay.
12:09If the Canes can't stop the run,
12:12and their secondary is not that good as well.
12:15The secondary worries me more than anything.
12:18So if the secondary worries you-
12:19Except for Frederique.
12:21He's really turned into something.
12:22For a true freshman, come on now.
12:23But if your secondary worries you
12:25and your run defense is not good.
12:30We just need to get right week against the Deacs.
12:32Talk to me after the Deacs, all right?