Carson Beck stood at the podium after Miami’s 26-20 overtime loss to SMU. And the narrative he was constructing was that this loss wasn’t about what he did wrong; it was about what SMU did right.

When asked to walk through the crucial overtime throw that put the Hurricanes’ season hopes in jeopardy, Beck’s first instinct was to give credit where he felt it was due. “Yeah, I mean, he made a good play. They had a good coverage on for our play. Everyone’s inside leverage man, corners are outside, you know, trying to press everything out. We have all in breaking routes which, again they they got us and they made a great play on the ball. So props to them,” Beck said.

He painted a picture of SMU’s defense executing a near-perfect coverage scheme. The reality, though, was a bit more complicat

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