Diaco on Passing and Play Calling (Silver and Fuller)

[whaler11]

I imagine it means exactly what it says.

 

[ZooCougar]

Diaco was pretty much still holding OPEN TRYOUTS at the running back position on Friday night. Can someone let him know that NFL preseason is over?

You know what the definition of insanity is right? After two quarters... Well I will just shut up.


Discount? Please it's the truth and you know it. Wining five games to close the regular season was nice however.

 

[Colt house75]

What's our record without the early turnovers? Definitely better than 1-3.

Jmoney...we are 3 & 1 without the early TO's.
A team can put players, especially young ones in a position to win....another thing getting over the hump.....we will get through it...
............hang onto your jocks boys-this is going to be a freakin great ride and not all of it smooth. This is not for the faint of heart. Maybe, just maybe...some of the people who leave early or can't get into a game on time need to grow a pair or trade in their block C blue hats for a freakin pink hat!!!

Maybe, just maybe IMHO.... it's time some of those that frequent our midst out there question their own very heart and soul and not whether a coach wants to win as was expressed in another thread...please spare me . This football program was taken DOWN right under a lot of noses and most of the UCONN fandom didn't see it. To a few of you on the BY to your credit, you saw it 3 years ago as did the guys in our group..... If you don't watch and enjoy the ride with these very young Husky pups, you will miss the ride back because it's only going to happen once. We finally have a coach with the testicular fortitude to get us there, again and make us great-again!. (Hear that Hathaway)...... Maybe, some of the UCONN pink hats need to examine their own DNA....Multiple mens BB championships, #1 womens BB program in the world, a state that sits in between NY and Boston with the Bruins, Patriots, Giants, Red Sox and Yankees. We abound and sit in and amongst greatness and very successful teams. not all can be smooth all the time...even Friday's ugly debacle but with the ugly comes the awesome.

You are 2 players away on the OL from being 3 & 1 with a team that has a majority of players that haven't had to shave yet...
You are 2 early turnovers from being 3 & 1....

Enjoy the ride...see you at Temple.

 

[whaler11]

Jmoney...we are 3 & 1 without the early TO's.
A team can put players, especially young ones in a position to win....another thing getting over the hump.....we will get through it...
..hang onto your jocks boys-this is going to be a freakin great ride and not all of it smooth. This is not for the faint of heart. Maybe, just maybe...some of the people who leave early or can't get into a game on time need to grow a pair or trade in their block C blue hats for a freakin pink hat!!!

Maybe, just maybe IMHO.... it's time some of those that frequent our midst out there question their own very heart and soul and not whether a coach wants to win as was expressed in another thread...please spare me . This football program was taken DOWN right under a lot of noses and most of the UCONN fandom didn't see it. To a few of you on the BY to your credit, you saw it 3 years ago as did the guys in our group..... If you don't watch and enjoy the ride with these very young Husky pups, you will miss the ride back because it's only going to happen once. We finally have a coach with the testicular fortitude to get us there, again and make us great-again!. (Hear that Hathaway). Maybe, some of the UCONN pink hats need to examine their own DNA....Multiple mens BB championships, #1 womens BB program in the world, a state that sits in between NY and Boston with the Bruins, Patriots, Giants, Red Sox and Yankees. We abound and sit in and amongst greatness and very successful teams. not all can be smooth all the time...even Friday's ugly debacle but with the ugly comes the awesome.

You are 2 players away on the OL from being 3 & 1 with a team that has a majority of players that haven't had to shave yet...
You are 2 early turnovers from being 3 & 1....

Enjoy the ride...see you at Temple.

So I was smart before but an idiot now and my heart and soul as a fan is a bigger question than the coach.

Um ok.

 

[whaler11]

It's not crazy. If the strategy that leads to a 28-0 loss gives you a better chance to win than the strategy that dooms you to a close loss than it's a better strategy.

Maybe some people understand blackjack. You can stand on 16 against a face card and lose a lot of close hands. It doesn't give you the best chance of winning even if a good amount of the time you hit something that busts you.

 

[tjhusky]

Hmmm. How many fumbles in the monsoon? 0
How many turnovers for points after the turtle strategy? 0
The running game almost looked good at times. (But not consistantly). Penalties destroyed any momentum we had.
Late shotgun seemed to give CW another 1/2 second, but didn't keep him from getting sacked in Q4. Gutsy call in extreme wet conditions. Helped him find receivers (and see the rush).
Arkeel consistently returned kicks beyond the 20.
First Defensive points of the season I belive.

Not pretty. Not a win.

HCBD is playing the hand he was dealt. With a porous OL you don't have many options and you can't fool the opponents into thinking you do.

 

[jdb50]

Early on Coach Diaco decided to try and extend the game. I have no problem with that. Trying to throw when we were starting drives inside our 20 would have been setting the team up for a real embarassment. I thought we could get one long run to loosen things up but it didn't happen. We had one QB, he played it safe. On to Temple. 80 degrees, no rain. 4 o'clock start, GO Huskies!

 

[noeynox]

The amazing thing is that you said that with the intent of insulting Diaco and many of the lunatics on this board will read it as an insult.

I don't look at it as insult. I didn't like Randy but he is a decent coach.

If there is one difference between the two that I like off the rip is that Diaco is always selling UConn. I can point exactly to the interview where I soured on Edsall, but at this point who cares about him.

I believe in this coach, but there are things that can be questioned about his strategies. I do think he was a good hire and just the improvement in the physical conditioning of the team makes him an improvement over the last guy.

The offensive line is a major weakness. It limits a lot of things I get that. You have to incorporate more than one pass attempt for your best player.

 

[whaler11]

I'll ask you a pretty simple question:

What's a better strategy hypothetically?

1: You get blown out 90% of the time and win 10% of the time

2: You lose closely 95% of the time and only win 5%.

I'm guessing you'll say #1. Now if you want to argue there was no option 1 on Friday that's fine. That's a completely different argument than you've been making and hopefully you now understand the point people have been trying to make: That the risk of a blow out loss is worth the opportunity to win because 17-14 and 28-0 are the same outcome at the end of the day.

 

[noeynox]

Just open it up late in the game when your down one score. Down two scores the last TD felt like window dressing.

 

[Carrkus]

Pasqualoni was incompetent and outdated. diaco is arrogant and....ignorant? stubborn? incompetent?

Yikes. 4 games and you have him all figured out, huh? #rushtojudgement

 

[ZooCougar]

It's not crazy. If the strategy that leads to a 28-0 loss gives you a better chance to win than the strategy that dooms you to a close loss than it's a better strategy.

Maybe some people understand blackjack. You can stand on 16 against a face card and lose a lot of close hands. It doesn't give you the best chance of winning even if a good amount of the time you hit something that busts you.

It's either high risk, high reward, or low risk, no reward.

Diaco chose the latter.

 

[whaler11]

I'm not saying those percentages are precise in this situation but if you don't agree with the concept you are projecting 'moronic'.

 

[Nostical]

USF's punter and kick coverage constantly kept us pinned back. Their punt returners caught everything they were supposed to catch and their FG kicker made his one attempt. This more than anything else is what stopped HCBD's strategy from working.

Absolutely correct. A few more third down stops by our D and Diaco's strategy may just have worked, but in such miserable conditions it was USF's special teams that prevented it.

 

[Bonehead]

If we are building for next year can we start playing next year's QB? When will Boyle be named the starter? Why not do it now?

I understand rewarding Chandler for coming back but he can read the writing on the wall and he said in the pre-season press conference that he was content to be the back-up.

Let's put Boyle under center, give him max protection, run the ball a lot, go to shotgun on third down, tell him to throw the ball out of bounds if someone breaks through the line, and lets see what happens. Maybe something sparks the way it did with Casey last year. There is no reason to wait any longer.

Losing will be easier to stomach if we are developing next year's QB.

Because next year it will be Davis - he likes the mobile QB...
Max Protection? Thats funny - there would be no one running a route!! So Boyle should play if we change the blocking schemems - classic.

 

[J187Money]

News flash!!!!we're rebuilding,enjoy the ride up currently we are feeding on the bottom

I get this sentiment. I think what is frustrating (and I don't blame this on Diaco) is that I just didn't think that it would get this bad. There was more promise in 2003 when we opened the Rent than there is right now, even ignoring the conference affiliation issue. This isn't rebuilding, it is starting over.

 

[BlueDogs]

I get this sentiment. I think what is frustrating (and I don't blame this on Diaco) is that I just didn't think that it would get this bad. There was more promise in 2003 when we opened the Rent than there is right now, even ignoring the conference affiliation issue. This isn't rebuilding, it is starting over.

Sadly, you are correct. The quality of athlete has declined. I fear it will decline further in our current predicament. My biggest fear is the program tanks and goes out with whimper. Year over year horrid performance will start wearing on even the more committed fans. Diaco walked into a tough situation with the clock ticking, but he's the one who said he could turn it around. Let's see how finish the season. I'm looking for improvement week over week at this point.

 

[freescooter]

What's our record without the early turnovers? Definitely better than 1-3.

What's our record if we were allowed to use the 1985 Chicago Bears? Definitely better than 1-3.

 

[Bonehead]

What's our record if we were allowed to use the 1985 Chicago Bears? Definitely better than 1-3.

1985 bears D today - 2-2. although Singletary looks like he could stop you with a look he has dropped some sideline to sideline speed in the last 30 years.
Bears D in 85? 3-1. Bad play calling costs us a game.

Lets really get this going - what would our record be if Boyle was the starter?