According to the MTSU QB...

[superjohn]

It's not "insane".

No one knows if cobbling 3 or 4 games together in a tough covid environment would have been better than focusing on physical and mental development on a set schedule.

It turns out....it doesn't matter. It wasn't playing games....or physical development this team needed. It was better coaching and more talent.

"Focusing on physical and mental development" lolz. Of course it's an insane take, you're never better off as a team not playing.

 

[hank970]

Does it really matter if UConn football sucks when the basketball team gets to play in a tournament at MSG? That's everything, right?

 

[Duncan Idaho]

One major criticism (and this goes to the entire defensive staff) is that across the board it appears that nobody on our defense knows how to close on a ball carrier while maintaining contain leverage. I don’t see how this is possible but we have had countless missed tackles (or worse, whiffed tackles) that were followed by an additional 8, 12, 20 yards gained. We’ve seen our defensive linemen make reasonably mobile QBs look like Michael Vick. We’ve seen flare outs or bubble screens turn into 25, 35, 50+ yard gains. We’ve seen ridiculously poor fundamentals when it comes to containing and tackling the ball carrier.

An additional item that I cannot see how it continues is we often are outnumbered (usually two defenders covering three WRs on one wide flank) in a standard defensive set. This is exacerbated when the opponent is aware enough to run a WR screen, where the two defenders are easily blocked by two WRs, allowing the third (who caught the ball) a huge gain. How is it that our coaching staff hasn’t learned how to defend this?

You're taught at a very young age that the baseline or sideline is your friend. Watts as an example takes very bad angles to the QB. I was hoping for big things from him.

 

[LBird33]

Those of you who love harping on the decision to not play last year....I have a question...

UConn sucked in 2018...they sucked in 2019...they sucked in 2021....do you really think cobbling together 3 or 4 games in 2020 would have changed that?

Whether UConn played or not last year has had absolutely no impact on where this team is today. As we have seen after 9 games this season....playing more isn't improving their performance. This is just not a good team.

No worries. I don’t lose sleep over it just being sarcastic about our former coach.

 

[huskysupporter]

I got a question.other Tyler P, do we have any other QBs that can read defenses? Honestly asking. I say that because it just seems we lack that ability out there. We're so in a rush to beat the defense with a hurry up offense with scripted plays, it's like we have a guy that just doesn't see how to take advantage of other options down field. We're playing checkers and the opposition is playing chess

I’m curious as to why you think Tyler P can read defenses. He appears to have a ton of supporters here but I did not see an above average, or average passer - to be expected from a frosh.

I still don’t think our starting qb is on the current roster.

 

[SwingDog]

I’m curious as to why you think Tyler P can read defenses. He appears to have a ton of supporters here but I did not see an above average, or average passer - to be expected from a frosh.

I still don’t think our starting qb is on the current roster.

Based on his performance (albeit a small sample) prior to his season-ending injury, I think Tyler had earned the opportunity to grow into the role. To say it another way: the QB position was his to lose.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

As if anyone they’ll hire will be an improvement.

UConn is no better at selecting coaches than I am at selecting the correct wine to have with dinner.

We are the gang that can’t shoot straight.

I think you’re wrong about that. Calhoun, Geno, Jim Penders, Dan Hurley, Joe Moorhead, Rob Ambrose, Rhett Lashlee, Andrew Breiner, Skip Holtz, TJ Weist, and Todd Orlando. Even Jay Paterno, Kirk Ferentz, Lou Holtz and Sam Rutigliano have coached for UConn football. We also have had a couple of great AD’s in Lew Perkins and John Toner, and I have a sense that Dave Benedict will follow them with a good hire for the next head football coach and his staff.

 

[Husky68]

DL is exceptionally slow. LB's are slow. Not many FBS QB's are unable to buy plenty of extra time for their receivers to get open or run for 1st downs against UConn. UConn's best defense is inaccurate pass by opposing QB.

 

[kemba]

I think you’re wrong about that. Calhoun, Geno, Jim Penders, Dan Hurley, Joe Moorhead, Rob Ambrose, Rhett Lashlee, Andrew Breiner, Skip Holtz, TJ Weist, and Todd Orlando. Even Jay Paterno, Kirk Ferentz, Lou Holtz and Sam Rutigliano have coached for UConn football. We also have had a couple of great AD’s in Lew Perkins and John Toner, and I have a sense that Dave Benedict will follow them with a good hire for the next head football coach and his staff.

Our biggest issue is that PP and Edsall 2.0 should have never been considered. PP was hired because he liked CT and the high school coaches like him and Edsall was hired because he was willing to come here for cheap. All ridiculous reasons. Diaco at least had things going for him on paper. He ended up being a terrible hire, but every program has made terrible hires. You should be able to survive one. When you don't even give yourself a chance to strike gold though its a killer

 

[ktuck911]

I’m curious as to why you think Tyler P can read defenses. He appears to have a ton of supporters here but I did not see an above average, or average passer - to be expected from a frosh.

I still don’t think our starting qb is on the current roster.

That's a fair assessment. When you're losing really bad consistently nobody's safe.
I still think Tyler has way more potential out of the current crop of QBs we have though.

 

[phillionaire]

Does it really matter if UConn football sucks when the basketball team gets to play in a tournament at MSG? That's everything, right?

yeah the team would definitely not suck if we were still in the AAC and we'd get to play a tournament at an arena named after jeans