Charting the Miami Hurricanes: Duke Blue Devils
By Daniel Gould
Offensive Snaps – 70 total
QB – Malik Rosier (69)
RB – Joseph Yearby (45), Mark Walton (25), Gage Batten (7), Walter Tucker (1)
WR – Herb Waters (59), Stacy Coley (31), Tyre Brady (29), Rashawn Scott (24), Braxton Berrios (12), Lawrence Cager (17), Malcolm Lewis (3)
TE – Christopher Herndon (40), Standish Dobard (35), David Njoku (23)
OT – Trevor Darling (70), Sunny Odogwu (70)
OG – Danny Isidora (70), Kc McDermott (70)
C – Nick Linder (70)
Defensive Snaps – 101 total
DL – Chad Thomas (83), Ufomba Kamalu (80), Anthony Moten (50), Courtel Jenkins (39), Calvin Heurtelou (28), Kendrick Norton (11), RJ McIntosh (6)
OLB – Alquadin Muhammad (77), Trent Harris (37), Tyriq McCord (13), Demetrius Jackson (13)
ILB – Jermaine Grace (94), Juwon Young (62)
CB – Corn Elder (95), Tracy Howard (74), Artie Burns (68), Sheldrick Redwine (6), Ryan Mayes (2)
S – Rayshawn Jenkins (94), Deon Bush (89), Jamal Carter (53), Jaquan Johnson (19), Dallas Crawford (17)
Offensive Targets
Mark Walton – 1/2, -7 yards, -7 YBC, 0 YAC
Joseph Yearby – 2/2, 14 yards, -8 YBC, 22 YAC
Stacy Coley – 5/9, 87 yards, 1 INT, 2 OT, 1 PBU, 49 YBC, 38 YAC
Herb Waters – 4/5, 77 yards, 1 OT, 1 PI, 73 YBC, 4 YAC
Braxton Berrios – 3/3, 18 yards, -2 YBC, 20 YAC
Rashawn Scott – 2/3, 35 yards, 1 OT, 17 YBC, 18 YAC
Lawrence Cager – 0/1, 0 yards, 1 Drop
Chris Herndon – 1/2, 12 yards, 2 OT, 1 OPI, 15 YBC, 5 YAC
Tyre Brady – 0/1, 1 OT
David Njoku – 2/2, 30 yards, 19 YBC, 11 YAC
Defensive Targets
Artie Burns – 2/6, 25 yards, 3 PBU, 1 OT, 2 PI
Deon Bush – 3/6, 31 yards, 1 PBU, 1 Drop, 1 OT
Tracy Howard – 3/6, 17 yards, 3 OT, 1 PI
Jermaine Grace – 2/3, 14 yards, 1 OT
Jamal Carter – 4/5, 19 yards, 1 Drop (forced by 26)
Rayshawn Jenkins – 3/5, 23 yards, 1 Drop, 1 OT
Corn Elder – 7/12, 56 yards, 2 Drops, 2 PI, 1 PBU
Trent Harris – 3/4, 23 yards, 1 Drop
Juwon Young – 3/3, 29 yards
RB Stats
Joseph Yearby had 59 yards after contact with 8 forced missed tackles. Mark Walton had 25 yards after contact with no forced missed tackles.
Offensive Breakdown
Even with a back-up QB the offensive game-plan did not vary much compared to previous games, though a few new wrinkles were added. Miami ran outside zone twice from the shotgun for the first time this season, totaling 13 yards. Three option plays were used with the more mobile Rosier, with little success. The speed option failed for -7 yards and an inverted veer only netted 3 yards for Rosier. On all zone running plays Miami averaged 4 yards on 19 carries. On the 12 power running plays Miami averaged 3.6.
Miami again relied heavily on lining up in the shotgun, with 44 of 70 plays being run from the gun. These plays averaged 6.7 per snap. The 17 snaps from the pistol were less successful, averaging 2.8 ypp. 8 plays were ran from under center, totaling 40 yards.
Against man coverage, Rosier excelled completing 9 of 13 passes for 176 yards and 2 touchdowns. Against zone coverage he completed 11 of 16 passes for 113 yards, but was also sacked once and threw an interception. Rosier was 5 of 7 against the blitz for 74 yards and a touchdown. The safety was also a result of a Duke blitz.
Defensive Breakdown
For the first time this season the Miami Hurricaners used five defensive backs for a majority of the game. 90 of the 101 defensive snaps was played with 5 of 6 (!) defensive backs. A large portion of this was Jamal Carter playing the roll of SLB in the base defense and also MLB in the nickel. For the actual formations the defense was aligned in a 3-4 for 20 snaps, a 4-3 for 30 snaps and the nickel for 49 snaps.
As they have previously, the defense mostly played a 1 gap technique against the run, using it 29 times allowing 4.6 ypp. On the 10 plays a 2 gap technique was used, Duke averaged 7 yards, including their long TD run in the third quarter. Zone coverage was mostly used against Duke, running it 45 times with 6.1 ypp on those snaps. Against man coverage, Duke completed only 5 of 16 passes for 44 yards, with a majority of the completions coming late in the game. Miami blitzed on 30 pass plays, allowing 13 completions on 28 pass attempts for 149 yards, with again a lot of this success coming late in the game.
Success Rates
Special Teams
8 laterals. 1 KR TD. A lot of crying Blue Devils.
Stats File
The complete stat file can be found here.