How Miami football can fix some offensive struggles
By Felix Ghost
Three games of the current College Football Season have passed and the Miami football team is currently sitting with a 1-2 record and chance to go .500 into their next bye week.
The Miami football opponent for Saturday is Central Michigan. There should be no reason to be concerned about Miami’s offense when you consider the comments from Dan Enos this week, who did not leave CMU in peace.
Miami’s offense has shown a lot of improvement compared to last season. Drops are not an issue, the quarterback position is solved and the ball moves well between the twenties. Miami Quarterback Jarren Williams has proven to be the signal-caller the Miami football program needs. But, there is always room for improvement.
Offensive lines in college football still kind of matter. At least to a certain extent. Eliminating penalties and the ability to protect the QB well for more than two seconds allow the offense to open up the playcalling.
A good reason why Miami’s offense struggled badly in the past was because of the offensive line not being able to protect long enough, open running lanes, or avoid penalties. These struggles were still evident when the Miami football team played against Florida and North Carolina,
Miami’s Offensive Line played better but still not where it needs to be. North Carolina was able to sack Williams four times, once after a play-action fake that allowed the edge rusher to have an unblocked path towards Williams, which is the worst thing that can happen.
The solution to such issues was something Enos used against Florida extremely well, misdirections and screens. Miami’s first drive featured screens and WR sweeps. Running back Deejay Dallas had big success in the Wildcat formation later.