Fagnano it is

[JMick]

Well, crikey. I'd hate to see how bad that play would have looked if they ran with players who hadn't practiced it????

i think it was supposed to be a reverse and they mixed up who was getting the ball first.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Fagnano didn't look any worse than ZT. ZT was awful last year and didn't get better as the year went on.

ZT was also four months out of HS, not four years out of HS.

And JT was playing with an OC he has known for years.

If you are defending Fagnano based on comparisons to a true frosh a few months out of HS, you are saying UConn is still at QB for this season.

 

[Chin Diesel]

i think it was supposed to be a reverse and they mixed up who was getting the ball first.

Almost like you should practice it so everyone knows who gets the ball first.

 

[JMick]

I am by no means a football coach but I saw that too. Felt like we played not to lose, rather than playing to win after that first drive.

there are a lot of OC's out there like this at every level. They have great football minds, are great at X's and O's, can script a first series with the best of them, but when the play clock starts ticking and the script is over, everything goes out the window and they just can't feel the game out.

 

[Dizzy21]

There was zero difference in what we saw with Zion last year and Zion got us to 6 wins. Charlton wanted his boy and its going to torpedo the season. I’d rather have Zion than JF cuz at least we know our floor with him.

JF numbers at Maine were mediocre. If they were mediocre at the non-FCS level I can convince myself. But unless you’re crushing it at the FCS level what makes you think you can play at the level we want to aspire to and thus play at?

Legit nepotism with Charlton. NC State had the same situation but with a P5 caliber QB not a scrub from Maine. Maine!

Just looking at the box score you can see this is not true in any way. I don't think the QB is the issue, but rather the inability of the OC to call plays live.

 

[Huskyforlife]

JF numbers at Maine were mediocre.

This is the only thing I’m afraid of.

I’m not nearly as negative on him yet, want to see him play lesser comp and get more of a chance before giving up.

But in 3 seasons as a starter, he was never a star, just average at best. At the FCS level. So I was pretty confident he was coming in to be a conservative backup that knew the offense.

I’ll be more concerned if he doesn’t play well next game. But he deserves another start.

 

[ZooCougar]

Never underestimate Nick Charlton’s ability to kill a drive with cute play calling.

I don’t really think I have seen enough of Joey Maine yet.

 

[JMick]

ZT was also four months out of HS, not four years out of HS.

And JT was playing with an OC he has known for years.

If you are defending Fagnano based on comparisons to a true frosh a few months out of HS, you are saying UConn is still at QB for this season.

I'm not defending him, I'm just saying he didn't play worse than anything we saw out of ZT. If ZT comes in and is the same ZT as last year then it doesn't change the outcome of the game.

We pretty much have to hope that Roberson only didn't win the job because he was banged up. Otherwise we will only win the types of games where we can rush for 300 yards.

 

[JMick]

Never underestimate Nick Charlton’s ability to kill a drive with cute play calling.

I don’t really think I have seen enough of Joey Maine yet.

The worst part about the cute play calling is that it never goes right. It's fine to have that stuff in your offense, pretty much everyone does now, but it always goes bad for us.

 

[UCTitleTown]

Almost like you should practice it so everyone knows who gets the ball first.

The announcer said, "We'll never see them run that play again." or something like that. That was embarrassing.

 

[uconnfan68]

I am by no means a football coach but I saw that too. Felt like we played not to lose, rather than playing to win after that first drive.

If they were playing not to lose, wouldn’t they have tackled better? It was Edsallesque. Really seeing what a loss of LBs looks like. Mitchell can’t be everywhere.

 

[UCTitleTown]

If they were playing not to lose, wouldn’t they have tackled better? It was Edsallesque. Really seeing what a loss of LBs looks like. Mitchell can’t be everywhere.

Agreed. That was one of the worst tackling performances I've seen in a long time. If even a handful of the tackles were made, the game result could've been different.

 

[husky429]

If they were playing not to lose, wouldn’t they have tackled better? It was Edsallesque. Really seeing what a loss of LBs looks like. Mitchell can’t be everywhere.

I was responding to a post about the offensive play calling, not the defense.

 

[Punkbo]

My biggest problem with the play calling last year was Charlton clearly didn’t trust ZT to throw the ball downfield. It made our offense much easier to defend. To our credit, we still went out and won some games.

I thought this year would be a breakthrough since Charlton had his guy in Fagnano. Unfortunately, Charlton called the game tonight as if he doesn’t trust Fagnano either. Not a good sign.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I said it in the chat and I'll say it here.

Swap the QB's around and UConn wins by 30. Armstrong was smarter, quicker and more athletic than anyone on UConn's defense.

 

[huskymedic]

I said it in the chat and I'll say it here.

Swap the QB's around and UConn wins by 30. Armstrong was smarter, quicker and more athletic than anyone on UConn's defense.

 

[superjohn]

I said it in the chat and I'll say it here.

Swap the QB's around and UConn wins by 30. Armstrong was smarter, quicker and more athletic than anyone on UConn's defense.

I'm still trying to figure out how we only lost that game by 10 points. We looked like we were playing in quicksand compared to them outside of Rosa and Mitchell.

 

[JMick]

I said it in the chat and I'll say it here.

Swap the QB's around and UConn wins by 30. Armstrong was smarter, quicker and more athletic than anyone on UConn's defense.

It's a shame we had to waste David Pindell on one of the worst UConn teams of all time. He was better than Armstrong.

 

[ZOOCONN]

If they were playing not to lose, wouldn’t they have tackled better? It was Edsallesque. Really seeing what a loss of LBs looks like. Mitchell can’t be everywhere.

He damn sure tried, 15 tackles, 8 solo 1.5 tfls

 

[WNConn]

RBs and Oline are very good. LBs and WRs need serious work. We are still much better than we were last year. This game was 31-3 at half in 2022.

 

[ZOOCONN]

My biggest problem with the play calling last year was Charlton clearly didn’t trust ZT to throw the ball downfield. It made our offense much easier to defend. To our credit, we still went out and won some games.

I thought this year would be a breakthrough since Charlton had his guy in Fagnano. Unfortunately, Charlton called the game tonight as if he doesn’t trust Fagnano either. Not a good sign.

This was my thought exactly. The really telling part? Down 10 with 2 min to go? 3 straight check down passes losing half the time remaining in the game.

 

[mac2351]

What was the reasoning behind Mora hiring Charlton? Was there some sort of previous connection there?

 

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I'm still trying to figure out how we only lost that game by 10 points. We looked like we were playing in quicksand compared to them outside of Rosa and Mitchell.

The defense was the definition of bend but don’t break.

It really is completely different if they were just decent at tackling. It didn’t even matter if a DL got to the QB because they almost never finished.

The running game was good but I’d like to see how we look like with Roberson at QB. He can’t be any worse than Fagnano throwing the ball while being a threat with his legs.

 

[superjohn]

The defense was the definition of bend but don’t break.

It really is completely different if they were just decent at tackling. It didn’t even matter if a DL got to the QB because they almost never finished.

The running game was good but I’d like to see how we look like with Roberson at QB. He can’t be any worse than Fagnano throwing the ball while being a threat with his legs.

Roberson must not be fully healthy, has Mora really not said anything about him?

 

[Deleted at users request]

Roberson must not be fully healthy, has Mora really not said anything about him?

I haven’t kept up enough with the team to know. But Fagnano did not show enough as a passer to sacrifice what he does or JT does with their legs. At the very least it takes pressure off RBs with the RO.

 

[FlakeyFoont]

I now want to see Fagnano show what he can do against non-P5 competition over the next two games. If he shows promise, then good for our side. But he needs to be way better than just good, otherwise time to go to the bullpen against Duke.

 

[UCTitleTown]

Armstrong is a great name for a QB. I wish ours had a strong arm.

 

[Patman]

The way the UConn offense is set up, it looks like a more mobile QB would be more successful. Fagnano and the offense looked good on the first drive when he ran the ball.

in other words our WRs suck and we'd need a running QB to bail us out.

The backfield collision play was embarrassing. If that ball was somehow picked and taken back for a pick six, that would've rivaled the Jets and Mark Sanchez butt fumble play.

that really looked like the running back on that play stepped into it when he shouldn't have. the other players expected what was going on

 

[Mora4Prez]

My assessment: Same ole story - limited by the fact that we don’t have a guy who can throw further than 6 yards. Obviously an improvement from last year but pretty disappointing effort. Great crowd though.

 

[uconnfan68]

I was responding to a post about the offensive play calling, not the defense.

Except for a handful of plays, I thought the offense was Edsallesque too. I really don’t want all those rollouts. And the touch on some passes brought back memories of Zergiotis. I was really expecting better. Need to correct some correctable things for next game.