Please for the love of all that’s holy quit saying it was a tough opponent to start with. Miami is a 6-6 MAC school at best this year. Why do we always do this, whether it’s Akron or Kent State or any other MAC team that gives us a much closer game than it should have been we go on and on about how good they are. By the way Cincinnati went on the road and beat UCLA so I wouldn’t go too crazy with the Miami will beat them handily.
I was happy with how the offense performed. Green making his first start looked poise and I thought he did great for a first game. The one two punch at running back was great (minus the kick off blunder) and our receiving Corp taking away the sure touchdown drop that would have put the game away looks great this year. They were getting open, showed great hands and Brady is simply amazing. Best WR at MU since Moss in my opinion.
The defense played inspired ball in the first half and did what we needed them to do. I felt we went into the half dominating on both sides and thought we would blow it open in the 3rd.
But I can’t explain the defense in the second half. I know Bee was out and that’s huge but they were giving huge cushions, not tackling well and in some cases leaving people wide open. When our offense sputtered the defense did not help other than the one goal line stand and the last 4 plays of the game.
I really hope it was just first game adjustments and feeling everything out. But my confidence in my 11-1 prediction at the start of the year took a hit last night. But we still got the W and we are still 1-0, but I hope we are much better on defense when we go to South Carolina or we will get embarrassed. There is simply too much talent on this team to not handily beat the little Miami’s of the world.