Carson Beck<\/a> goes. Beck, a Georgia transfer, is blossoming in a resurgent season after being injured last season. Behind this offensive line Beck seems to have all day to throw the football.<\/p>\nMuch like last season with Ward, Beck looks like he could smoke a cig while in the pocket with the amount of time he has. Beck looks like a true NFL quarterback while going through his progression. He a really pretty deep ball as well.<\/p>\n
The thing that henders Beck is his play making ability with his feet. He is basically a non threat if he were to ever take off to run the football.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Beck\u2019s main target this season has been true freshman Malachi Tony. Tony is FUN to watch as a football fan, but terrifying to watch as an opposing teams defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n
Miami is not afraid to move this kid all over the field. My favorite comes from the Florida State game where Tony was motioned from one side of the field, to a squeeze set on the opposite side, but Tony was aligned with his inside leg on the outside leg of the tackle. That motion set Tony up with a mismatch nightmare for the defense, leading to a Miami touchdown. Tony knows how to use his size and leverage to get open, which reminds me of former Louisville football star Tutu Atwell a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rushing wise, Mark Fletcher Jr. will be the hammer for the Canes. Fletcher is a back who is currently averaging 5.5 yards per carry.<\/p>\n
Cristobal looks to Fletcher to keep this team ahead of the chains and on schedule. Watch for Miami\u2019s offensive line to make things muddy up front with Fletcher making them right at the end of the day with a good cut.<\/p>\n
Fletcher is not much of a receiving threat, but Miami will run screen plays that involve Fletcher.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Miami Defense<\/p>\n
Defensively, Miami is led by a name ALL Cards fans will know, Reuben Bain Jr. Bain is going to be a menace on the field Friday night. He is basically the complete package when it comes to the defensive line.<\/p>\n
Bain rushes very hard, his get off is top tier, he possesses violent inside hand placement, there truly aren\u2019t many flaws in his game. Bain will play very fundamentally sound football as well. Be it trick plays, misdirections, QB options, it does not matter. Bain is going to be in the spot his coaches have aligned him to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bain\u2019s partner on the line is redshirt senior Akheem Mesidor. Like Bain, Mesidor has a great get off and violent inside hands. Usually you can say, \u201cokay if we shut down X, we don\u2019t have to worry about Y on the opposite side of the ball because he isn\u2019t as good.\u201d Well folks, this is not that situation. Our offensive line will have their work cut out for them this week with these two guys.<\/p>\n
Together, these guys have helped Miami generate the No. 1 non-blitz pressure rate in the country at 47.2%.<\/p>\n
Rounding it out for the defense, we have linebacker Mohamed Toure. Toure hits like a Mack Truck going full speed down the highway. The main thing that is noticeable between Toure and the rest of the LBs we have played this season is speed.<\/p>\n
Toure plays FAST and will shoot gaps without hesitation. Which for our offense, has been a problem the entire year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How does Louisville football beat Miami?<\/p>\n
Now you might be sitting there thinking how in the HELL do we have a shot here? Well, let\u2019s look at the facts.<\/p>\n
When it comes to Miami\u2019s offense we have to stop the run first and foremost. A back that averages 5.5 yards per carry is a keep us on schedule back. So, let\u2019s hit him in the backfield, wrap up, and get them playing behind schedule.<\/p>\n
Secondly, we need pressure in Beck\u2019s face the entire night. Beck is far too comfortable in the pocket, so let\u2019s make it as uncomfortable as possible on him while limiting one-on-one matchups with Tony as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One thing to keep in mind: Miami has not faced a defensive front seven as stout as Louisville\u2019s yet this season.<\/p>\n
Per PFSN College, Louisville football ranks 9th among the best defenses in the country, boasting Rene Konga as a first-team midseason All-America selection and Rene Konga as a second-teamer.<\/p>\n
As an offense, Louisville football must establish the run game. To do that the offensive line is going to have to play an exceptional game. Quite frankly, they should be embarrassed from their performance vs Virginia. Multiple plays where guys are just standing killing grass on the field. Louisville must come off the line of scrimmage HARD and hit them in the mouth FIRST.<\/p>\n
As for our quarterback, you have to play smart. The looping long pass throws will be picked off this week and staring down receivers will not end well. My thought process is to get into the quick game and control time of posession.<\/p>\n
Get the ball out of Miller Moss\u2019s hands as fast as possible to eliminate the threat of Miami\u2019s pass rush and to try and eliminate bad offensive line play. It\u2019s going to be a tough one, but if I have faith in any coach to get his squad ready to play for a big game, it\u2019s Jeff Brohm. Thanks for reading and as always, Go Cards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louisville football comes off bye week to face potentially the best team in the country, the Miami Hurricanes.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4902,4898,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-6789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-jeff-brohm","tag-louisville-football","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}