Is the Miami Hurricanes rushing "success" misleading?

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We prepare for the Canes vs Cal Late this Saturday. Is the Hurricanes rushing "success" misleading?

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00:00Mind me hurricanes, they are back at it tomorrow, road trip to California to take on the Cal

00:09bears.

00:10When did they, did they leave, uh, yesterday?

00:14Um, yeah, I would say today was speaking, uh, with Joe.

00:21He was already in California and he mentioned that they got there day early to help acclimate

00:26themselves to the time.

00:27God acclimated.

00:28Look at me.

00:29Yeah.

00:30You realize if he was talking to Joe, that means he goes on three in the morning.

00:34No, this one wasn't a replay.

00:35It was live at nine 30.

00:37So it was actually six 30, six 30.

00:39Okay.

00:40Oh, all right.

00:41Yeah.

00:42Yeah.

00:43Yeah.

00:44But it's still early to be on the radio.

00:45If you ask me, I mean, well, sometimes the old love to get up early.

00:51That's true.

00:52He was probably already taking a walk.

00:53I get up early.

00:55Get that crisp, uh, that crisp air and the, the Bay area at crisp California, where you

01:00are.

01:01I went golfing there.

01:04Um, and the guys came and picked me up and they were in rain suits and I was in shorts

01:11in a, in a golf shirt cause it was 90 degrees at the hotel and they started laughing.

01:16Why are you guys laughing?

01:19So you know, where are we going?

01:21Golf is going to be 60 degrees, right?

01:23I'm like, just over that bridge that I can see, they go, yeah.

01:30So I had to buy a rain suit in the golf shop.

01:34Oh, sounds like that's a hundred dollars, uh, 300.

01:41Do you think this is one of those things though, as long as the, the canes play clean because

01:46they certainly shot themselves in the foot a couple of times to get behind the eight

01:49ball against Virginia tech.

01:51And I get it with cam.

01:52Like he said it, he's a gunslinger.

01:54He's going to let some of those things rip.

01:56He likes to play with some style.

01:58That wasn't the problem though.

02:00The problem was the mistakes, the carelessness, you know, all the other stuff, right.

02:08Um, don't put yourself in a position where you have to play perfect football.

02:14And when you have a lot of the mental mistakes, right.

02:18That means that when you have an opportunity, you have to take advantage.

02:23You don't have any room for error because you're making up for all the mistakes that

02:26you make.

02:27That's what I mean by that.

02:29Like the game didn't match the games that they had played before that, as far as clean,

02:38you know, as far as just being a clean game.

02:42I'm not saying you got to make every play.

02:45I'm not saying you got, but the sloppy tackling the, the boneheaded penalties, the, you know,

02:51stuff like that.

02:57This for the Miami, Miami, Miami Herald on the, uh, the Canes run game, it says on the

03:03surface, the hurricanes have averaged 193 rushing, rushing yards per game.

03:07That's good for 38th nationally, but some context on that of their 965 rushing yards,

03:13114 of them have come on four plays, a 91 yard Jordan Lyle's rushing touchdown against

03:19USF runs of 34 and 56 yards by Aja on a consecutive plays against ball state and a 33 yard touchdown

03:26run by Damian Martinez against fam.

03:28You all four of those plays have come in the second half of games at a point where Miami

03:34had already a commanding lead, remove those four plays.

03:37The hurricanes have run for 751 yards on 159 carries in five games.

03:43Okay.

03:44So let me explain to you something about running back.

03:53If your average is four and a half, five yards, you don't get five yards every carry.

03:58In fact, there's some cares you might get no yards, but then you have that 20 yard run

04:04and then you might have a 25 yard run and then you might break one.

04:08You can't then just go after and say, Oh, if I just take these plays out of it, you

04:12only average three yards.

04:13That's not what they just did.

04:14Yeah, but it's stupid.

04:15They all count.

04:16So he wants to make the numbers look terrible to make his point.

04:25He wanted to take out the biggest rushes.

04:27I think with any team, nah, I think what they're doing there is they're just saying like, Hey,

04:32it looks decent, but just keep an eye on it.

04:35We're not quite sure yet.

04:38What he should have said is this in the moments of the game where they truly needed to run

04:45the ball first down runs third and shorts or whatever, they haven't had a lot of success.

04:53No.

04:54Their overall success is great situationally though.

05:00They can get better.

05:01That's it.

05:02That's it.

05:03You can't, you can't eliminate certain.

05:06Well, if I say this, Hey, you know what, if Cam wouldn't have had those three picks, he

05:14would have had almost a perfect game.

05:15It sounds stupid.

05:16I know.

05:17And I think the thing with Mario is like, yes, we know Mario to be a trenches guy, but

05:21I mean, the passing game has been incredible.

05:24Like they, they, you know, like, what are you supposed to do?

05:27Stop slinging it?

05:28This quarterback, this quarterback is amazing.

05:31Stop slinging it because you want to show that you can run a football is stupid.

05:36Okay.

05:37But I will say this, there have been moments, especially in that Virginia tech game when

05:43they weren't very physical and Virginia tech came and took their lunch money where, when

05:51you tried to run the ball, they were the aggressor.

05:54I think the concern of that really is, you know, is going to be especially noticeable.

05:59Like if you do get to these bowl games and you get to these other conferences, if you

06:03take on an sec team, like, can you match with them physically?

06:07I think that's what we're all wondering because we know that the canes tons of mooses all

06:11over the place.

06:12I think we see all that, but you know, is it a case of they're bullying up on teams?

06:17They should bully up on, are they going to be able to physically hang with the teams

06:20that we know are going to be full of monsters problem for another day?

06:25It's one thing to be physical against a guy that's smaller than you.

06:28It's another thing to be physical with somebody your same size, but for right now, look, it's

06:33problem for another day.

06:34Right now.

06:35They got to, they got to run this.

06:36They got to run through this ACC.

06:37That is such a task right now because there's always been that.

06:40Can they almost got got last week, but they didn't, they didn't.

06:44So task at hand, take on this travel big stage.

06:49Once again, you're it's late, but you're a, you know, you're the game date, the game day

06:53game.

06:54So if you get this puppy done, man, that's, that's all it is.

06:57They've been a show.

06:58I've been having fun.

06:59I mean, you want to talk about the, you know, you have not been getting football fun from

07:02your dolphins surprisingly, but uh, the dog, but the, uh, the canes, Oh, it's been good.

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