Diego Ricardo

This staff has got to figure out how to protect their quarterbacks. Run game, pass pro, play calling balance, etc. it needs to be examined

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The last time the team did something like that... They over hyped everything and ended up making ton of mistakes.....

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You talking about Oklahoma, right?

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They went cheap. The Sportscenter anchors used to have great individual personalities and made watching sports highlights an entertaining experience. But they don't pay them crap, so the good ones went elsewhere. That plus all the highlights being on our phones within 3 or 4 minutes of them happening kind of made the show irrelevant/unwatchable. Now it's all milquetoast anchors doing the highlights (when they have them) and blowhards with hot takes looking for something to clip and put on social media.

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Disney has decided that broadcasting rights and IP ownership is more important than talent and it propagates throughout their various holdings including ESPN. Around a decade ago, ESPN decided they rather own as much live sports as possible rather than have good reporting and prognostication talent. There are a few people they are wedded to like SAS, Kirk, Fowler, but almost everyone else is expendable. And to be frank, I don't disagree with that play considering the landscape of television: people were only subscribing to cable to watch live sports and people are only subscribing to their over-the-top streaming services for the locked-in live sports content (our yearly worst OOC opponent in football for example).

I think it is really simple:

Michigan hasn't hired anyone and they think they deserve the best coach who is gettable on the market and everyone thinks that is DeBoer. This shite won't stop until Alabama has a signed deal to report or Michigan has hired someone else.

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Giving up 25 offensive rebounds is the kicker. In a nutshell, team produced 25 defensive possessions where they successfully forced a missed shot and gained absolutely nothing from it.

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Good rebounding is good defense. Doesn’t matter if they play good defense up to the point they induced a miss if they can’t get their hands on the ball.

Got a better replay after I turned it

What the hell was that foul at the midcourt

I want to think we can run up a lot of wins in conference play but you cannot rebound this poorly and win jack shite consistently.

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Looks like Tua Is Done in Miami

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This is tough because on one hand I think Miami has been a very poorly managed franchise. The owner is actually pretty good at not meddling but he just can't hire a GM worth that amount of free rein. Tua has enjoyed one season where his OL ranked in the middle of the pack in the NFL. The rest of the time, he's essentially had a bottom tier OL unit. It is criminal that a GM drafts a QB with Tua's injury history and he's had a functional OL 1 out of 6 years.

On the other hand, Tua is legitimately a shell of his former self. I think the hip injury limited him and he's been losing zip on the ball every year since he returned from that injury. The interception he threw in the MNF game was cocky and dumb thinking he could beat cover 2 on a corner route with no underneath receiver to hold the corner. He doesn't have the arm to even consider that throw anymore. Maybe he could've beaten that corner bailing from the flat in 2018 or 2019 but not in 2025. Truthfully, no quarterback should ever make that throw.

And that's the other part. I think his processing speed is abysmal now. He has trouble identifying coverages and he's late with the ball too often. The compounding effects of several concussions may be really impacting Tua in an aspect of his game that ought to have kept him on the field as a mid-tier starter for several more years: throwing the ball accurately and on-time short to medium.

So Tua has no zip on any ball in the air longer than 20-30 yards. He is not a decisive pitch and catch receiver underneath. As tough as it is for me to say it about a Crimson Tide hero, he's not a starter caliber QB in the NFL anymore.

I think Simmons and Coleman would both be takes at the right price. However, I agree that the NIL side is probably only backing up the Brinks truck for LOS.