Unbelievable win for the Huskies. This year has been a year for the Huskies dealing with injuries and fans not knowing what to expect from Mora. I always believed Uconn players from Edsall era were better than what most people thought because a lot of people believed that having a high turnover roster haul full of portal guys will help this team win, but that was not case. I am glad I saved this quote from Charlton after he was hired “There’s a misconception, because of what happened in the past here, that there’s not talent on this team,” Charlton said. “I said it to the offense right before they left for break. I was very honest. I said, ‘Men, we’re not watching last year together.’ I’ve watched that on my own, the staff has, and we’ve evaluated guys. But I have no interest in watching that tape. To me, it is all about moving forward and developing these guys and finding out who is able to play and what they do well.” I am glad Mora recruited from the portal, but I am also glad that Mora took the roster from last year especially those that were starters and elevated their game even higher in terms of development with a better supporting cast of a coach.
Offense:
- As much as I am a critic for when we do bad, I gotta hand it to Charlton for his play calling the latter half of the game. I keep forgetting that Charlton is a young play caller who is still learning the ropes of offensive play calling in the FBS and against better competition. To give a quick run down, Charlton been coaching for 7 years. Really 5 years because he was a GA the first two years and WR, OC/QB/HC in Maine. He will learn that sometimes you just have to keep running the ball down a team throats even if its boring picking up 5-7yards every carry when you are up by 21, you never deviate from it if the other team has no answer for you. I feel like all season we have done so well running the ball with whoever has the hot hand whether that be Rosa, Burns, Nate etc, we end up trying to dial up a trick play or get to fancy that it ends up hurting us the most at the wrong time. This game, I am glad Burns got most of the carries in the 3rd/4th quarter to really bruise their defense up to set up the last td.
- ZT is not ready yet, the irony is that he has 6 games under his belt and has won more than all 5 previous qbs who started before him, but that kid is a baller and his mental toughness to win us the game in the 4th is unmatched and is something that cannot be taught. ZT has the best arm in the program, but man this kid has no ceiling whatsoever to probably be a great QB for the Huskies. All he needs to work on is his decision making and going through his progression. This game he forced a lot of throws to his 1st option, but I also partially blame Charlton for putting him in a bad spot right before half time and should have just kept running the ball instead of letting ZT pass. Not every play call and execution will always go the way you want them, but you gotta have situational awareness the last two minutes before halftime when you are up. Milk the clock, settle for a fg, force them to be under the pressure. (I will say Charlton did a better job in the 4th quarter milking the clock and making liberty sweat bullets to score).
-Oline. Not much to be said. They are a formidable group.I believe another year in the weight room and with our starters Nyadu, Haynes, Seen, and Lundt returning next year, they will end up being really good for us.
-WR/TE. Is it bad that I am glad I saw more of Harrison in instead of Flynn? Well besides the point, I will say I like what I saw out of Harrison when he got in. He is a speedster, but I am glad they gave more reps to Joly and Clericius this game. Shoutout to Clercius for being clutch, this is a kid who doesn't make the catches beginning of the games, but when the game is on the line, he all of sudden has the best clutch hands on the field. Props to him and the group.
Defense- The backbone of this team+our running game. I love Mora adjustments throughout the game, coming out the gate second half, I am sure he opted to go soft coverage because we stopped them from running the ball successfully the 1st half, so probably was anticipating Liberty passing the ball in which they started doing and our dbs kept getting torched, but instead they just kept pounding the rock and it definitely hurt us, but props to Mora and the players for situational awareness especially the players for getting down when we were gassed so we do not have to burn a timeout to get a breather. I do not think our players were hurt, but just "cramping" some will say we weren't but oh well.
Secondary this group is formidable, but also we lack speed. Difference between this year and last year is we at least get pressure to the qb which forces the qb to mistimes his throw whereas last year the qb will have all the time to throw the ball even when we were blitzing because we could not get any type of push and never disguised or did any pre-snap movement on defense.
I very much enjoy this win and excited that we proved all of the naysayers wrong. These players been preaching all year about being different and they are truly different. I still believe we could have beat Utah St and Ball St to be at 8-3, but I will take 6-5 and hopefully we can finish the season 7-5 and most of all 8-5 after bowling.
Offense:
- As much as I am a critic for when we do bad, I gotta hand it to Charlton for his play calling the latter half of the game. I keep forgetting that Charlton is a young play caller who is still learning the ropes of offensive play calling in the FBS and against better competition. To give a quick run down, Charlton been coaching for 7 years. Really 5 years because he was a GA the first two years and WR, OC/QB/HC in Maine. He will learn that sometimes you just have to keep running the ball down a team throats even if its boring picking up 5-7yards every carry when you are up by 21, you never deviate from it if the other team has no answer for you. I feel like all season we have done so well running the ball with whoever has the hot hand whether that be Rosa, Burns, Nate etc, we end up trying to dial up a trick play or get to fancy that it ends up hurting us the most at the wrong time. This game, I am glad Burns got most of the carries in the 3rd/4th quarter to really bruise their defense up to set up the last td.
- ZT is not ready yet, the irony is that he has 6 games under his belt and has won more than all 5 previous qbs who started before him, but that kid is a baller and his mental toughness to win us the game in the 4th is unmatched and is something that cannot be taught. ZT has the best arm in the program, but man this kid has no ceiling whatsoever to probably be a great QB for the Huskies. All he needs to work on is his decision making and going through his progression. This game he forced a lot of throws to his 1st option, but I also partially blame Charlton for putting him in a bad spot right before half time and should have just kept running the ball instead of letting ZT pass. Not every play call and execution will always go the way you want them, but you gotta have situational awareness the last two minutes before halftime when you are up. Milk the clock, settle for a fg, force them to be under the pressure. (I will say Charlton did a better job in the 4th quarter milking the clock and making liberty sweat bullets to score).
-Oline. Not much to be said. They are a formidable group.I believe another year in the weight room and with our starters Nyadu, Haynes, Seen, and Lundt returning next year, they will end up being really good for us.
-WR/TE. Is it bad that I am glad I saw more of Harrison in instead of Flynn? Well besides the point, I will say I like what I saw out of Harrison when he got in. He is a speedster, but I am glad they gave more reps to Joly and Clericius this game. Shoutout to Clercius for being clutch, this is a kid who doesn't make the catches beginning of the games, but when the game is on the line, he all of sudden has the best clutch hands on the field. Props to him and the group.
Defense- The backbone of this team+our running game. I love Mora adjustments throughout the game, coming out the gate second half, I am sure he opted to go soft coverage because we stopped them from running the ball successfully the 1st half, so probably was anticipating Liberty passing the ball in which they started doing and our dbs kept getting torched, but instead they just kept pounding the rock and it definitely hurt us, but props to Mora and the players for situational awareness especially the players for getting down when we were gassed so we do not have to burn a timeout to get a breather. I do not think our players were hurt, but just "cramping" some will say we weren't but oh well.
Secondary this group is formidable, but also we lack speed. Difference between this year and last year is we at least get pressure to the qb which forces the qb to mistimes his throw whereas last year the qb will have all the time to throw the ball even when we were blitzing because we could not get any type of push and never disguised or did any pre-snap movement on defense.
I very much enjoy this win and excited that we proved all of the naysayers wrong. These players been preaching all year about being different and they are truly different. I still believe we could have beat Utah St and Ball St to be at 8-3, but I will take 6-5 and hopefully we can finish the season 7-5 and most of all 8-5 after bowling.
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