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Message: [QUOTE="Chin Diesel, post: 5335319, member: 34"] I'm not going through twelve pages to read everything. I can't imagine I saw anything different than everyone else. This loss is fully on the defense. Scoring 41 points should have been more than enough to win. And yet, there is still the reality the offense can't put away a game in the fourth quarter when they have the lead and the chance to run out the clock. Joe F has another very good statistical game but still misses key throws (Bell on the WR screen to the left and the 4th down bad pass at the end). I went in to more detail on a different thread but the 3-3-5 has little margin for error to work well. The defensive set and pre-snap adjustments need to be right and the players need to execute. Once the ball is more than 5 yards pass the line of scrimmage (either by run or by pass) the defender has to make the play. Missed tackles, poor angles and bad DB positioning all led to long TD's by Delaware on plays where the defensive call was right. Delaware's O Line abused UConn's D line from the first snap and dominated the trenches all day. Didn't look like much for adjustments from the coaches. In the Delaware game week thread, I said this was a win for UConn and they should cover. I'll eat that crow but die on the hill of UConn found a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for the second week in a row. And I'll end with this is Mora's mess to fix. Two weeks in a row both sides of the ball failed to close out a game UConn had a better than 90% chance of winning with less than five minutes to go. When both coordinators screw up two weeks in a row, there's only one person in the organization who they both report to. [/QUOTE]

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