Miami QB Darian Mensah on Why Malachi Toney Can Win the Heisman, UNC Preview, Work Ethic

The athletic department started the Heisman campaign for you and Malley. I won't be so silly as to ask you why you should win, so I'll ask you why should Malley win. I think, you know, the biggest thing that sets him apart from everybody else is his, you know, eagerness to go out and block for his teammates. I think if you turn on the tape, he does it at such a high level that it's just different. And, you know, I think that he's obviously a great person, but he wants to see his teammates win, and I think he's just a selfless person, so I think that's why he should win. And one quick follow-up. Can you just sort of give us a sense? A lot of you guys talked about even knowing after Saturday there were things to clean up. Just how has that process gone in your estimation this week? Thank you. I think it's gone great. Just like every week, there's stuff that we kind of tune into and focus on when we try to get better, and obviously the penalties and the pre-snap penalties He's something that we're focused on this week, and I think we've done a good job of putting that up. All right, next we'll go to Adam. Hey, Darian. Thanks for taking the time today. Shannon Dawson said Monday, I asked him about, you know, your ability to be accurate under pressure, and he called it your superpower. Can you just kind of talk about, like, what you're thinking when an opponent's blitzing, there's guys in your face, guys at your feet, just what's going through your mind trying to find, you know, the right read to make, the right pass to make, or the right decision in general? um well i think i have a pretty good pre-snap process and i you know a pretty good idea of what the defense is going to do pre-snap obviously they can shift post-snap but um you know just focusing on my keys focusing on you know where your eyes need to be on every every single play can help uh and kind of eliminating you know your the the then want to you know wander your eyes at certain stuff when the defense is trying to show different blitzes but um i'd say that and i just have a lot of trust in my guys up front to protect me and my guys to get open as well all right next we'll go to Jordan yeah hey Darian uh first off uh thoughts on UNC's defense and the pressures and the challenges that they could bring this weekend yeah really good defense um i think they do a lot of good stuff on that side of the ball uh physical uh physical group that flies around um and they got some good players in the back end as well so um yeah we'll have to be ready and then wanted to ask you about uh Dre Jacobs and Samorian Wingo seemed like they got a lot more involved in the offense against Pittsburgh just how much what have you seen from them in practice and that allowed them to be able to get more playing time and just the importance of getting more weapons involved in the game and how much that can help the offense when you have so many different options to work with on any given play yeah i think it's important because it uh it keeps the defense honest you know they can't just focus in on uh a few players or you know what you're doing they've got to guard the entire field um but i think that what they've shown in practice is just reliability like they've been much more reliable as the season's gone on and that's definitely needed all right matt you'll go next all right great um hey Darian uh so you know Bill Belichick sort of this defensive guru type guy and he's no doubt going to try and figure out a way to slow down Malachi he already was saying they're planning that uh i was curious can you talk a little bit about how much other teams have already tried unsuccessfully to slow him down and what makes him so uncomfortable I think his football IQ is what makes him so uncomfortable he understands what you know defenses are trying to do to him and he understands how to hurt defenses and so when you have a receiver like that has almost like a quarterback mindset um and him and i are always on the same page it um it's hard for defenses to stop uh we have our last two we'll go to anthony and then sarah you'll wrap us up hey darian got a couple for you first kind of jumping on adam's question on the pressure your numbers under pressure pretty much suggest you just you're just as efficient even with a clean pocket just if you could point to one thing that stands out about your preparation when you practice under pressure what would that be i guess i'd have to point at my O-line you know i think they do a great job of picking up blitzes um and you know i'm in there in the protection meetings and um so i can understand you know why we're um protecting things the way that we do um and so i think you know my offensive unit uh up front does a great job at preparing for you know what defenses uh are trying to do to us week in and week out and last year you had the experience of going to chapel hill going facing UNC just what do you remember from that matchup that you think can still be brought up again in this one yeah it was pretty electric it was a night game um they had the place rocking um and i'm sure it will again you know i think that us coming in there uh will bring the crowd out and you know i'm excited for that matchup all right Terry you'll wrap this up hi darian um just going back for a second to that dual Heisman campaign what is it like to have this dual campaign and the support by the school alongside your star wide receiver who you said you have a very close connection with like how has that been between the two of you Yeah, it's a dream and a blessing to have the support of, you know, this university and, you know, my teammates as well. But like I said, kind of before I all focus on going 1-0 this week, we've got a big time matchup coming up. And so I haven't really tuned in to that too much.