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Fagnano it is

And weather is looking great for Saturday night in Atlanta.
 
metsfan2323 said:
The thing you fail to understand is that Jim Mora is smarter than you. Our best QB is on the field, support him or get lost. For the love of God we are one game into his UConn career and we played the pre-season 4th ranked team in the ACC, not Holy Cross.
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I don't think anyone doesn't support him, but to some he seem to hesitate a little bit after the first quarter. That could be play calling, the quarterback, or a few other things

A fan base can always critique after a loss, part of being a fan base
 
Huskyforlife said:
The only guy worse than “bench the QB” after week 1, is the guy whose only take is “coach knows best, so shutup.”

You’re adding nothing to the conversation, get lost.
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Not even close, the worst takes are the ones saying if we swapped QB's with NC State we would have won. I may be wrong, but I don't think that is an option for us. Saying if we had 21 year old Doug Flutie we would go undefeated is just as relevant.

and BTW your post really added nothing to the conversation.
 
Huskyforlife said:
The only guy worse than “bench the QB” after week 1, is the guy whose only take is “coach knows best, so shutup.”

You’re adding nothing to the conversation, get lost.
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Ok. You have no idea if any of the QBs are Bette than Fagnano.

Issue is, fans don’t like grabbing and FCS QB. If he was good, why is he in the FCS?

That colors the view.
 
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JohnFSilver said:
That colors the view.
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Yes!

It's called FCS prejudice. People are seeing what they are predisposed to see. All I'm saying is can we cut this kid some slack? He was a huge improvement over last year and we stayed competitive deep into the 4th quarter against a superior team with the refs fighting against us. Let's see what he does next week before deciding he's not the guy.
 
Lippy1 said:
Though Joe looked good the first two series running....I think this is how the Qb's competition probably stacks up...
Joe can throw but can't run
Roberson can run but can't throw.
I thought Mora may bring Roberson in a couple series to run RPO.
Joe should of tucked it and ran instead of forcing some of those passes. Our receivers aren't good at getting seperation.
We will be fine.
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Roberson has the best arm of the 3…
 
metsfan2323 said:
The thing you fail to understand is that Jim Mora is smarter than you. Our best QB is on the field, support him or get lost. For the love of God we are one game into his UConn career and we played the pre-season 4th ranked team in the ACC, not Holy Cross.
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In fairness Rosa was also 3rd on the depth chart coming into the game and he was by far our best back so…..
 
ZOOCONN said:
In fairness Rosa was also 3rd on the depth chart coming into the game and he was by far our best back so…..
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Just my opinion but I always thought listing Rosa third has nothing to do with his talent and everything to do with Jim Mora sending a message.

On one long TD run Thursday night we saw why Rosa should be our top RB and why he was listed as third on the depth chart (the flip).
 
JohnFSilver said:
Tbh. This is true. There is no evidence that Roberson is a better than option than Fagnano. None.

As far as Turner, what did we see out of Turner last year that we missed on Thrusday?
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Nothing but if they are a net equal then you give the experience to the young guy. If they’re the same what’s the benefit of starting a sr vs Soph?
 
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I think if we can establish a run game it will help the passing game. Against NC State, except for one run, we had no running game. If you take away the one 71 yard run, we only had 89 yards rushing. Less yard than we had passing.
 
Dezoworld said:
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Same typical uconn team no passing game. Can't score when it counts. Horrible tackling I'll give them a C for the first game of the season
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No offense but kind of a stupid comment. I believe NC State was ahead of us 33 0 at the half last year. We have a ways to go but we are much better then we were
 
There's a reason one QB went to Penn State and another went to Maine. Players generally find their proper level organically.
 
UCTitleTown said:
There's a reason one QB went to Penn State and another went to Maine. Players generally find their proper level organically.
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Roberson signing with Penn State hasn’t been relevant since 2018, neither has Fagnano signing with Maine. As highlighted by medic, both are at UConn now. Would you choose Tom Brady, or the first choice in his draft class, Chad Pennington?
 
KembaKek said:
Roberson signing with Penn State hasn’t been relevant since 2018, neither has Fagnano signing with Maine. As highlighted by medic, both are at UConn now. Would you choose Tom Brady, or the first choice in his draft class, Chad Pennington?
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Maine is not Marshall. Would you have not chosen Randy Moss either? And if Pennington didn't injure his arm, who knows what he could've done. Always thought he'd be a terrific coach.
 
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Slick said:
No offense but kind of a stupid comment. I believe NC State was ahead of us 33 0 at the half last year. We have a ways to go but we are much better then we were
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Yea we did get alot better but it's the samethings that made of lose in recent years. Bad tackling and no passing game.
 
Dezoworld said:
Yea we did get alot better but it's the samethings that made of lose in recent years. Bad tackling and no passing game.
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Unfortunately we will have to run. Our talent level is just not there to have a decent passing attack. Run first and try to get some play action. Hopefully the tackling improves or it will be a long season.
 
Jackson Mitchell had 0 FBS offers. UConn tried to get him PWO. Good players are good players and fcs has plenty. Porter was offered by the top programs. Hopefully he is good too.
 
metsfan2323 said:
Yes!

It's called FCS prejudice. People are seeing what they are predisposed to see. All I'm saying is can we cut this kid some slack? He was a huge improvement over last year and we stayed competitive deep into the 4th quarter against a superior team with the refs fighting against us. Let's see what he does next week before deciding he's not the guy.
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I think a lot of people are saying that he didn't seem to be a "huge improvement" over Zion. It absolutely is tough to say one way or another based upon one game against what may be the second toughest opponent on our schedule.

But here's the thing a quarterback change, particularly one that is decided shortly before the start of the season is always going to be scrutinized and questioned. In my opinion it's kind of silly to say fans shouldn't debate it. Hopefully, we're all feeling better about the choice after next weekend.
 
UCTitleTown said:
There's a reason one QB went to Penn State and another went to Maine. Players generally find their proper level organically.
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In the end they both ended up at Connecticut, so isn't that your theory saying that they are roughly equivalent?
 
I can’t imagine that we won’t see TR this season. After a loss many just assume the other one is better. I haven’t seen much of TR. is he an effective runner? Is he turnover prone?
 
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I haven't read the last 4 pages but I believe Georgia St last opponent, URI(?), threw for 400+ yards. If we can't manage at least 300 and it looks like a Fagnano is on target on his throws, Charlton really needs to be put on notice. His offense has been very unimpressive and I'm slowly believing it wasn't ZT last year that was the issue with our passing game.....
 
UCFBfan said:
I haven't read the last 4 pages but I believe Georgia St last opponent, URI(?), threw for 400+ yards. If we can't manage at least 300 and it looks like a Fagnano is on target on his throws, Charlton really needs to be put on notice. His offense has been very unimpressive and I'm slowly believing it wasn't ZT last year that was the issue with our passing game.....
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We don’t have a true Wr1…. And maybe… just me but most teams tend to not open up their playbook fully.
 
I am a big Zion fan ..he was a highly recruited high school player and I thought he played well last year as a freshman and that as a sophomore he would make a big jump… but the coaching staff picked Fagnano… they obviously know the players better then i do… so i trust they made the right decision…I think as we play more games Fagnano will be more comfortable and get better… I don’t think Roberson is ready yet… it’s only been a year since his knee surgery
 
Bongo Fury said:
I can’t imagine that we won’t see TR this season. After a loss many just assume the other one is better. I haven’t seen much of TR. is he an effective runner? Is he turnover prone?
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Thing with Roberson is he really doesn’t have college film besides that Iowa game with PSU and 1 drive vs USU with UConn. I agree we probably do see him this season one way or another. As someone else on this board said a couple weeks back, we haven’t had the same QB1 from Week 1 to Week 5 in many years.

He is definitley an effective runner, that has been known as a key component to his game since High School. Turnover prone, cant say much because of lack of film.
 
Jimdish255 said:
So I've had a look at four teams with new quarterbacks and how their offenses performed. UConn, NC State, Umass, and Colorado. While no definitive conclusions should be drawn after one game It seems obvious that our production fell significantly below the other three teams.

Again we should wait another week to see how things shake out but it would seem like there's only a few variants that would be in play when assessing or comparing. One would be the quality of the competition. I don't think any of those games involved teams that were far above them including ours. I thought Colorado might lose badly today. Wrooong! Second would be the quality of the offensive line and I will have to say that our QB wasn't exactly running for his life every play at least not the way Casey Cochran had to. Abd his stats were generally pretty decent. Third would be the quality of the wide receivers and not being an expert for me that's pretty hard to judge. Finally coaching preparation and play calling definitely come into play and again not being a coach it's hard to judge. One thing I will say is watching the UMass game if the standard stays the same we'd have a lot of trouble against them. It would be a very close game despite our edge in overall talent So hopefully we're able to iron out whatever inefficiencies we have at QB, or if not we have somebody chomping at the bit who can give us more of an effective dual threat which thise other three guys seem to provide. Should be interesting to see what happens.
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If we're being real and honest UConn hasn't had a good QB since Orlovsky. I still firmly believe Terry Caulley is the best and most dynamic offensive player we've ever had followed by Orlovsky. It's a shame we're over 20 years later and that's still the most exciting ball the program has ever played.
 
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