The Miami Hurricanes held their opening fall scrimmage today, and while the program wants injuries, depth chart and individual highlights under wraps, coach Mario Cristobal did share some thoughts afterward during an in-house interview.<\/p>\n
And that included some big picture takes on the offense and defense:<\/p>\n
ON THE OFFENSE TODAY: \u201cSolid. Some big plays, some missed opportunities. I have to credit the other side. The other side brought it. The communication and physicality of the defense has certainly made strides. We had a chance to see the ones-on-ones, the twos-on-twos and then mixed and matched some as well, to get some guys opportunities to earn roles, both as starters and as contributors. But saw us execute at a fairly good level. Not what we want yet, but certainly a solid performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
ON THE DEFENSE: \u201cThe expectation has not been met, but there\u2019s progress towards that expectation. Communication, the physicality and playing with technique and fundamentals showed up today. It showed up there in the way that we ran the ball on offense. It showed up for them on defense. It showed up in the way we also stopped the run. There were some legitimate, we\u2019ll call them \u2018game day collisions.\u2019 It was all game-day situationally and I\u2019m proud of the team, the way we responded to that. From red-zone opportunities to two-minute [drills], to two plays left in the game, one play left in the game, 2-point conversions, all that stuff. I thought that overall, they handled it really, really well and that they weren\u2019t fazed. And we do feel there\u2019s a lot more in the tank and that\u2019s what we\u2019ve talked about right now. Let\u2019s go watch the film, let\u2019s see what it tells us and let\u2019s go attack it full throttle.\u201d<\/p>\n
The team will resume fall drills on Monday with the opener against Notre Dame coming up fast.<\/p>\n
Cristobal says he wants to see the team come back out tomorrow and be \u201cfull throttle, every part about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSituationally, we still have some things we\u2019ve got to cover,\u201d he said today. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to cover four-minute, do some more overtime. We spend an enormous amount of time on all of the other phases, but really, technique, fundamentals, communication, ball security, ball disruption, playing with great effort. Every single play for us has to have a life of its own. I think our team is getting there. Process-oriented players tend to forget about and not think about the result or the previous play or what may happen later, but just staying in the now. There\u2019s a lot of progress towards that and we\u2019re going to hammer that and we\u2019re going to demand a lot out of each other and we\u2019re going to need a lot of energy and we\u2019re going to progress.\u201d<\/p>\n
CANESPORT IS YOUR MIAMI HURRICANES SOURCE FOR TEAM COVERAGE<\/p>\n
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