I guess the Canes dont realize they are actually OLDER than Florida. The Gators started sophomores on 3 of the 4 DL spots. The other is a JR. 2 Jrs at LBer, and 3sophs, i jr and a true frosh in the secondary. How's that old again?
On O we are a little older but not much. So dont give me some bullshit excuse that miami is young. Florida is young too. And MIami's DL didn't own shit. The Canes brought 6 and 7 against 5 all night. Mullen is a dumbass for taking a whole half to adjust and add a blocker.
Florida made their adjustments 2nd half. Miami came out with a good game plan defensively in the first half, but in the end, you can not hold the Gators in check for 4 quarters. Football games are 4 quarters, not 2 or 3, and the Gators offense is too good. On a night where they shot themselves in the foot all night and played a good defense, they still managed to put up their 20+. Gators offense was certainly not firing on all cylinders.
While Miami certainly had their defensive moments on blitz packages, the truth is the Gators shot themselves in the foot all night. Gators are driving and we have a personal foul after the play where a lineman hits a guy late and it becomes 2nd and 22 instead of 2nd and 7. That killed a drive.
We throw a swing pass to Demps who easily has the first down, but trips over his own feet in front of the first down marker. That killed a drive.
3rd and 3 became 3rd and 7 after an offsides penalty killed a drive.
A drop right in the hands of Louis Murphy over the middle on 3rd and 5 killed a drive.
A TD pass to Louis Murphy for 40yd TD gets called back because Florida didnt have enough men on the line of scrimmage.
The bottom line is Miami's blitzing definitely stopped Florida here and there, but it wasnt really Miami shutting down the offense in that game. It wasnt a great open field tackle on Demps - he tripped over his feet. It wasnt a big hit on Murphy to drop the ball... it was a mistake drop. It wasnt a deflected ball in the end zone for a denied TD, it was a dumb penalty. It wasnt a sack on Tebow to make it 2nd and 23, it was a personal foul.
Miami NEVER got passed Florida's 30 yard line. Miami averaged 1.6 yards per carry and 3.6 yards per pass. The closest they came to scoring was a 50 yard field goal.
The final score didnt dictate how that game was played, but neither did the score of 9 to 3 going into the 4th. As much as you can say Miami gets a big score and the score becomes 10 to 9, I can say the same thing where if FL recovers the blocked punt instead of it going into the back of the end zone it is a TD instead of a safety. If Harvin takes 1 step forward and puts the extra man on the LOS it is a TD to Murphy and not a punt. Etc etc etc Miami could have easily lost that game 32-0, just as much as it could have been 10-9 going into the 4th.
