The Rundown Take
D'Eriq King Flashes, Brevin Jordan Gets Ignored: U Talk Rips a Conservative Win Over UAB
Fresh off Miami's season-opening 31-14 win over UAB, Devin and his co-host fired up an emergency post-game reaction show, and the mood was closer to a wake than a celebration. The panel and a full slate of callers agreed on the scoreboard but split hard on the vibe: was this a shaky, no-spring-ball tune-up the panel could write off, or the same conservative Miami they've been watching for years, just with a faster quarterback?
Key Takeaways
- D'Eriq King's debut: explosive scrambling and sharp RPO reads, but a shaky arm — he missed a wide-open Jeremiah Peyton in the end zone and settled for a field goal.
- Brevin Jordan, the panel's self-declared best tight end in college football, was targeted only three times all night — and the panel would not let it go.
- OC Rhett Lashlee (garbled on air as "Lashlee") caught heat for running King on third-and-long instead of throwing, and for near-zero intermediate passing.
- Cam Harris left the game with an apparent leg injury; the panel spent much of the show hoping for good news on his status.
- Miami covered the 14-point spread but the panel wants a statement game against a Louisville team expected to headline a primetime ABC slot next week.
The Lashlee Question
The panel's biggest gripe was play-calling. Devin and his co-host counted possession after possession where Miami ran King up the middle on third-and-long instead of trusting the passing game, calling it a return to "the same offense from last year" despite the new quarterback. Caller Ryan Devaney, from Fort Myers, put a finer point on it: the offense lived in extremes — deep shots or nothing — with almost no use of the short-to-intermediate game that could have kept the offense on schedule and off Miami's own defense, which had already logged heavy snaps in the first half.
Brevin Jordan Deserved Better
Three targets. That number got repeated more than any stat on the show. The panel argued that a tight end of Jordan's caliber should be a security blanket on third down, not an afterthought, and pointed to his lone touchdown as proof of what more usage could have meant. Devaney tied it back to King's accuracy issues, noting the young quarterback missed several connections that should have been automatic completions against a lesser UAB defense — throws the panel expects won't be there against Louisville, Florida State or Clemson.
"It's either a run or we're going to try and pass for 30 yards. It's like — where's the intermediate passing?"
Kane Nation Weighs In
The phone lines stayed busy. Braden Davis defended the performance by pointing to 337 rushing yards and a first-game pass on execution given the lost spring; a caller identified as Cuban Cane, a former Miami recruit who grew up around Clinton Portis, Andre Johnson and Frank Gore, delivered an emotional plea for the program to rediscover its old edge and killer instinct. Marquez Williams, a Miami alum turned regular on the show, checked in to plug his own football pick's page and confirmed he hadn't heard fresh word on Harris's condition. Devin closed the show giving Lashlee "a pass" for week one — with a warning that the leash gets shorter the moment Louisville's primetime kickoff arrives.