#499: Miami Bye Week Grades | The Meatball Sub

Miami is 5-0, sitting at No. 4 in the AP poll, and finally getting a week off. With the bye here and Hate Week up next, the boys hand out mid-season grades for every position group on the roster.

First, Dabo. According to Dabo Swinney, if you take away the pick six and the field goal off a turnover, Clemson was right there. Ro, Jenners, Scoop and Toast have some thoughts on that. They also get into Brian Kelly lecturing Shannon Dawson about how to be a coordinator, Greg McElroy calling Miami the best team in the ACC by a mile, and why Nick Saban keeps going all in on Mario's team. Plus the right guard's selfie from the surgery table, the latest on Lightfoot and Buchanan, and whether a 5-0 start means anything after what happened last October.

Then it's report card time. Darian Mensah is completing 84% of his passes with zero picks. The defensive line is leading the country against the run. And the linebacker room, the group this show has complained about for eight straight years, might be the best surprise of the season. Not everybody is handing out A's, though. Toast brought the red pen for the secondary.

We close with a Gainesville radio host calling the cops on a caller after Jadan Baugh's rough night against Missouri, then picks for FSU at Louisville, UNC at Pitt, the Red River Shootout, UCLA at Oregon, LSU at Kentucky, and Georgia at Alabama, if that one gets played at all. Episode 500 drops next Thursday with the FSU preview. Don't miss it.

Go Canes.

00:00 Welcome to Episode 499

00:44 Dabo Swinney and the backhanded excuses

06:18 The right guard's surgery selfie

07:45 Still No. 4 in the AP poll + the USC announcer

11:55 Brian Kelly lectures Shannon Dawson

13:44 Greg McElroy, Nick Saban and a complete Miami team

17:29 Injury update: Lightfoot and Buchanan

19:39 5-0 at the bye: did Miami hold serve?

24:07 Sponsor break

29:31 Jadan Baugh and the WRUF caller

33:44 Mid-season grades: quarterbacks

36:54 Grades: running backs

41:10 Grades: wide receivers and tight ends

43:57 Grades: offensive line

49:41 Grades: defensive line

53:02 Grades: linebackers

56:51 Grades: DBs, special teams and overall

1:02:40 Last week's picks + FSU-Louisville and UNC-Pitt

1:08:27 Picks: Texas-OU, UCLA-Oregon, LSU-UK, UGA-Bama

1:13:31 Naming the episode and the Episode 500 tease

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