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JMick said:
I won't be surprised if the offense is better than last year but the defense is worse. Bell is gonna be a problem for everyone on our schedule. And I love that he's our best outside blocker too. Guy is a complete football player.

Maybe (hopefully) it's just a repeat of bad first game D like last year, but the DL and LB look like they regressed. DBs looked pretty good though.

My biggest surprise of the night was Evers. Looks like a totally different player. Decisive and whipping it around.
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I am apprehensive that some of UConn's games this year could be like the Rhode Island game a decade or more ago. Ball State for instance. And Syracuse today could have put up more than 59 against UConn.
 
JMick said:
I won't be surprised if the offense is better than last year but the defense is worse. Bell is gonna be a problem for everyone on our schedule. And I love that he's our best outside blocker too. Guy is a complete football player.

Maybe (hopefully) it's just a repeat of bad first game D like last year, but the DL and LB look like they regressed. DBs looked pretty good though.

My biggest surprise of the night was Evers. Looks like a totally different player. Decisive and whipping it around.
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Parham looked great IMO. This was not a good performance from King, but we know what he is capable of.

The back 7 should be fine. The DL is reminiscent of our 2019 squad and could derail our entire season unless multiple players step up.
 
Just to point it out, CCSU does not “stink”. They are in the “others receiving votes” in the FCS Top 25 and are expected to be pretty good at that level. We beat them so easily because we are getting bigger and better. We should crush an FCS team.

The lack of a pass rush is really disappointing. Not only is it needed, but it’s one of my favorite parts of the game. An effective pass rush is exciting. I remember when Don Brown was here, I much preferred defense to offense because his pass rush was electric. I really hope that can be remedied.
 
KembaKek said:
I choose to trust Matt Brock. Hopefully he can make adjustments in 7 days....
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The D will get better as a unit. The DL is another story. If you can’t get a sack or any meaningful pressure against an FBS squad all day, it’s a nontrivial problem.
 
People are surprised by Evers but remember at the beginning of last season most never wanted to see Fagnano again because of what they saw the previous season.
 
JMick said:
I won't be surprised if the offense is better than last year but the defense is worse. Bell is gonna be a problem for everyone on our schedule. And I love that he's our best outside blocker too. Guy is a complete football player.

Maybe (hopefully) it's just a repeat of bad first game D like last year, but the DL and LB look like they regressed. DBs looked pretty good though.

My biggest surprise of the night was Evers. Looks like a totally different player. Decisive and whipping it around.
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I really like that they put Evers in and let him throw the ball on his first 3-4 plays rather than having him hand it off/keep it himself. And agree that we'll see defensive regression. I think that with Joe getting the ball to Bell, Cam, and Brown, the offense will do more this year to hopefully take some pressure off the D
 
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UC1995 said:
I think we unveil a 4 man line next week. We didn’t need to expose our defensive plan against CCSU for Syracuse to plan.
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I sure as heck hope so. And run to the right a couple of times.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
Positives:

Stomped a team that UConn was supposed to stomp.

Negatives, and these are BIG NEGATIVES:

1) Parking was a mess. I was stuck in traffic for almost 15 minutes coming in at noon despite only 15-20 thousand people in the stadium. This was bush league.

2) They didn't fully stock the concessions. There were items on the menu that were not actually available. This is bush league stuff that makes it look like the program is not even trying.
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I forgot to mention that the big screen has glitched. There are black rectangles all over the screen.
 
Purple Stein said:
Parking at the Rent sucks. It's a victim of the lack of mass transit in greater Hartford. And one of the reasons people leave early is because they want to beat the traffic.

If UConn wants butts in seats for four quarters it needs to find a way to get people to the stadium so that they worry less about how they're going to get back out.
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Park at the Aircraft Club. Real facilities too. Easier ingress and egress.
 
uconnbaseball said:
Positives:

-OL play. After a shaky first drive, they dominated in the run and pass game against an overmatched opponent. We also seem deep, judging by how well the backups played.

-WR depth. We have several guys who can get open downfield and make plays. Bell is obviously our #1, and we added a bunch of secondary and tertiary players in the portal who should be able to take advantage of the attention he draws.

-Juice. He's a weapon. We have 3 very good tight ends, all with different playstyles.

-Evers. He looked sharp, even on his incompletions. Joe was fine and put up a nice statline, but he did miss some open guys & left some meat on the bone as a result

-Playcalling. We were aggressive on both sides of the ball without showing Syracuse too much.

-Coverage from the back 7. Chadwick got beat once but otherwise we had them locked up. Their QB made some legitimate throws and still couldn't crack a 50% completion rate, despite the lack of pressure. Mills and Parham were terrific portal adds.


Negatives:

-Defensive line. This was our biggest concern coming into the year, against against a CCSU OL with 3 freshman starters, they did nothing to alleviate those concerns. They put very little pressure on their QB and we were not stopping the run well until their (impressive) starting RB got injured. We missed a few tackles in the LB corp, but not an unusual number for the first game of the year. If we fall short of our goals this year, the DL will be the #1 culprit in all likelihood.

-WR perimeter blocking. Porter and Brown were egregiously bad at this, although the latter had a good game otherwise. With the number of short passes we like to run to our talented receivers and tight ends, we have got to block better against good competition to turn 3 yard gains into 8 yard gains.

-Special teams. Missed FG and a bad snap on a punt give this unit a poor grade. I don't think this is an area of concern going forward, however. I'd like to see Harper return kicks over Brown.
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I saw part of Syracuse Tennessee game. Syracuse has a MASSIVE offensive line. It’s not going your way be easy next week.
 
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What lot are the people complaining about parking parking in? I have only ever parked in the Blue lot and have always gotten out quickly. I beleive they years back they closed access from Main St for the other lots (I may be wrong on this) That would have a big effect on the other lots if it is the case
 
The other thing that pleasantly surprised me is that we saw three QBs play for us and not because one got hurt and will miss a chuck of the season. It was nice to see Evers and MacDonald out there because the coach just wanted them to get some live reps. Next week won't be easy, but if they can hang with the fruit and figure out how to get pressure on the QB while taking away our limiting the fruit's passing attack, we could be in for a decent showing.
 
Concerning that our D-line was that invisible against an FCS school that started three freshmen on their O-line.
 
Random thoughts. Will have to watch game to formulate fill thoughts. Was excited for season and overall happy this morning:

  1. First time in yesrs I was unable to tailgate before gsme, was encouraged by traffic around 1 pm and was surprised how full lots were. That said 30k is fair estimate for crowd. And its beyter than I thought.
  2. Offense did what we thought after shaky start. Good weapons. Look part overall, but as other said Joe left a lot out there. When they watch all 22 there were guys running uncovered that he missed consistently. He also was not overly accurate.
  3. Bell. Awesome. Receivers and backs are really good. Depth seems really good too.
  4. Kicker is really good despite miss.
  5. Defense has issues many point out. Bend but dont break feel at best. That said, last year they got better and better game by game. Also biggest improvement week 1 to 2. I hope so otherwise we will need to score 50 to win next week.
  6. Just happy its football and I can expect us to look like a legit D1 operation and the team delivers on that. We may not be great but we are light years ahead of 4 years ago.
 
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Scrutineer said:

Kind of scary to read JM's comments about the injury to Malachi McLean. "Not a head injury and not life threatening, but he's very concerned".

Let's give him our best wishes and hope JM is just being a very cautious coach.
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Was watching in my seats. He was walking around after the play and then just dropped face down and motionless. Looked like the refs whistled really quick when it happened and the other teammates seemed to watch it happen too because they reacted and seemed the trainers were headed out quickly. Scary to watch.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
1. You can't get to 2-0 if you don't win the first game.
2. Two minutes of WTF followed by 58 minutes of what we expected.
3. Took a couple of series but left side of the line was dominant.
4. Chan went from not being on the two deep earlier this week to starting.
5. Skill players appear to he skillful.
6. Defense working as a unit is a work in progress. Stunts/blitz timing a bit off.
7. Defensive penalties on 3rd down in which there was a stop has to stop.
8. I knew Freeman was gonna miss that FG towards the end of the game. He ran on t9 the field late and never got set.
9. I started off watching the game on the UConn+ app. It hurt me to watch the cameras and lack of focus and video quality. End of first quarter I switched to the Fox feed off of Roku TV and it was much better.
10. Evers looked and played better than last year. That being said when he had to run I kept thinking he is one hit from another concussion.
11. McDonald has some good looking arms.
12. Bring on 'cuse.
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The UConn+ feed was awful. It was like watching football back in the 60's. I hope they figure it out.
 
Slick said:
I saw part of Syracuse Tennessee game. Syracuse has a MASSIVE offensive line. It’s not going your way be easy next week.
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After Syracuse got down 17 points in the first quarter, they played Tennessee even over the next three quarters. They’re likely better than the final score indicated.
 
TMB4405 said:
Offense did what we thought after shaky start. Good weapons. Look part overall, but as other said Joe left a lot out there. When they watch all 22 there were guys running uncovered that he missed consistently. He also was not overly accurate.
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Everyone on this board knows I'm a big JF guy, but we need to accept that he is an average FBS quarterback. And that's great for us. But he is going to miss reads and miss guys. He's going to have too much zip when he should have touch and he's going to have too much touch when he should have zip.

Based on the purgatory we've been through, his competence feels like Vince Young. But he's just Joe.
 
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