How Miami football can fix some offensive struggles

Speaking of abilities, where has Thomas been? His big-play ability has not shown at all during the first three games. Thomas muffed a punt against Florida and had a drop late that could have put the game out of reach.

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Against North Carolina, Thomas was targeted early on a deep pass where he didn’t really have a shot to make a play on the ball.

Let us hope that Thomas can overcome this because the sky is the limit with him. His ability to make cuts in the open field is known and Thomas has shown terrific hands last season.

Will Mallory is also someone that has underachieved over the first three games. One catch for 11 yards is not good enough.

Jordan has made the most out of his opportunities, while Mallory has dropped some passes that have prevented him to get more targets later on.

One major area of concern is third downs. The 26 percent third-down conversion rate for the Miami football team is, there is no other word for it, awful. Miami is tied with Notre Dame for being 121st in third-down conversion percentage.

Since this stat does not include average distance, I looked at every single of Miami’s third-down situations to find out what the problem was. Against Florida, most of Miami’s third-down situations were on third and at least 10.