Knowing Lerch is a mental midget and wants the accolades he is going to pull the ball (which he did) and tried a little dink pass over the Dline where there was total traffic leading to an INT.
I think this is exactly what happens on the first fumble. Perine seems like the correct read, yet Franks pulled it. About the only time all game he chose to keep the ball. My thought at the time, and moreso after watching his theatrics during the game, is Franks wanted the TD when they got close.
Edit - here is my poor image of the mesh point. Franks chooses to keep and run around the circled player and at the unblocked lb behind him. The OL on the right side has a hole though. The read might not have been obvious but it’s a curious keep since he didn’t do it the rest of the game away from the end zone.
the team is already developing an us against the world mentality and circling the wagons against those melting down after winning a must-win game against a despised rival.
Yeah, this is idea - of a mindset against our own paying, supporting, traveling to a neutral game fans - always works well in college. Those teams that embrace their fans suck. Look how great this worked for the shark lover.
per comments from Mullen he was trying to throw it away (? it was there) and got hit.
Delance does bump him low and perhaps high. But, this play isn’t even on Delance who does well enough there for 90% of qb’s. You want a good pocket, but against any good team the QBs might have to slide a little. Franks didn’t on this play at all. 1 half slide and he’s in a clean pocket. Franks did that ok on a number of other plays. Not this one at all. When the deep shot was covered, the next read should have been tuck and run.
If you guys watch the tape, the INT play was wide open for 6.
Um, no it’s not. The UM dB is running 5 yards ahead on the same route, which is why he seemed so open, the dB had the play read that well.
I've seen some of this, its good. However, it breaks the narrative I keep seeing that Franks had all the time in the world with a clean pocket, every drop back, and he made all the wrong decisions because we had a guy 50 yards behind the defense every play.
I missed that narrative. Who is saying Franks had all day? I see people making the argument the pass protection was solid. Sure, there were problems at times. That is to be expected for a young unit in their first start going against a talented front 7.
Maheo is right on this from the actual game and as to the vast majority of those reacting and not blaming the OL. They did a pretty good job in pass protection.
In the run game, they didn’t do great, but we leave a guy unblocked intentionally. If the QB doesn’t read that the unblocked guy is crashing the RB, the play doesn’t work even if every lineman blocks. This happened several times and was to me, the aspect Franks regressed the most.
Last note, on Kyree Campbell. Everyone is lauding JZ and Greenard, and rightly, but they were up against freshman and had some subs to let them occasionally rest. To me the DLineman of the game was Campbell (perhaps best game of the entire team). Dude was all over the place blowing up plays against a couple much bigger blockers and some double teams. Plus, he was barely able to sub due to Slaton being suspended. He had an awesome game start to finish. 6 tackles, 2 for a loss, one sack, and one forced fumble. Dude balled out as MIami had the ball 50% longer than us (including more than 12 minutes of possession in the fourth quarter).