Instant Reaction: Thoughts following Miami's sixth spring practice
Through the Smoke: A Miami Hurricanes football podcast
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The Miami Hurricanes football program wrapped up its sixth practice of the spring on Thursday morning.
InsideTheU's David Lake and Gaby Urrutia recap the day in this instant reaction style podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | We are back with an instant reaction style podcast here to spring practice number six, |
| 0:06.6 | wrapping up here at the University of Miami. |
| 0:09.6 | Dive into it. |
| 0:10.1 | Go support our sponsors, Kane's Connection, Nick Musserino and Aaron Pascal, all their |
| 0:16.6 | information in the show notes. |
| 0:18.6 | I want to dive into just what we saw today. |
| 0:22.3 | David Lake joined by Gabby Orutia. Gabby, I thought, you know, the thing that jumped out to me today from the media |
| 0:29.4 | viewing portion of practice, Miami was in upper shoulder pads and shorts today at practice. |
| 0:43.3 | But the thing that jumped out to me was while we could watch, I thought the offense really was impressive, skill players, wide receivers were kind of having their way with the DBs. |
| 0:49.9 | Interestingly, after practice, Mario Cristobal said he wants to see the receivers on the outside. |
| 0:57.1 | He did delineate it. |
| 0:59.0 | He said the outside receivers need to do a better job of kind of winning on the outside in one-on-one situations. |
| 1:06.2 | So it sounds like once they went outside to Green Tree, maybe the DBs picked it up a little bit. |
| 1:11.1 | But man, this offense is going to put up a lot of points. |
| 1:15.7 | Darien Mensa throws an impressive ball. |
| 1:18.5 | We almost, or at least I feel like Gabby, I kind of take it for granted at this point, |
| 1:23.3 | like how good Mensa is because we've watched Camp Ward. |
| 1:27.0 | You know, last fall camp, we got to watch |
| 1:29.0 | Carson Beck. And those are two high level college quarterbacks. And now, you know, Mensa has |
| 1:34.4 | come in and looks just as good as those guys, right? And we kind of take it for granted. But he makes |
| 1:40.0 | it look easy and he's doing a good job. And Malachi Tony, another guy where it's like, man, you, you know, compared to like what we |
| 1:49.4 | saw last year in spring football and what we saw in fall camp, it is kind of like, man, |
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