I HATE wallpaper

[coachRD]

"Coach DeLeone knows so much football he could wallpaper his house with plays." We have heard this 1,000 times. I get it. He has been around forever and is learned in the game of football. But you know what? This is what I see:

1) His offensive "system" took a team KNOWN for a punishing run game and respectable pass coverage for the last decade and destroyed it in his 1st season in charge, despite having a lot of proven experience up front. A reasonable mind could perhaps give him somewhat of a pass to install his system, blah blah blah. Whatever-the OLine went backward in every way last year. The dropoff was TOO big in my opinion for a free pass here.

2) Year 2 always shows the most progress in a new system. That's how the saying goes. Couldn't run for S&$t against UMASS and more of the same today. I'm sure we will continue to make progress this season, but I fully expected our "launch point" for this season to be well ahead of where it is right now.

3) His Oline had THREE false starts in the 1st half alone. Including one due to his offensive "wrinkle" of replacing an effective Wildcat QB with a Wide Receiver to try and do the same job. Clever.

4) Three instances of 3rd or 4th and very short. Give to a FB who never carries the ball. Stopped. QB sneak with a SMALL QB. Stopped. Call a pass play that doesn't even result in a throw. Stopped. Clever.

5) I think our team is talented enough that we can have a successful season. We have a defense with a great deal of potential and a lot of experience.

As for DeLeone, I will be happy to see him retire. Even with a fair amount of improvement from the offense he would still only rise to the level of "acceptable" in my book. I am guessing he will get to that level, but as a fan I'm mad that I have to be hopeful we "rise" to acceptable offense.

 

[huskymedic]

Hoarder...

 

[whaler11]

Jimmies and Joes not xs and os. Norm Chow. Charlie Weiss. It's not a mystery.

 

[coachRD]

Jimmies and Joes not xs and os. Norm Chow. Charlie Weiss. It's not a mystery.

So you think our offensive talent is MUCH worse than it has been in the previous decade?

 

[whaler11]

So you think our offensive talent is MUCH worse than it has been in the previous decade?

Skill positions same. Offensive line is a disgrace.

 

[coachRD]

Skill positions same. Offensive line is a disgrace.

I agree Oline is a disgrace. But last year's Oline had lots of returning experience that had performed well, and they still took a huge backslide. That's what leads me to believe DeLeone didn't do a good job at all.

 

[whaler11]

I agree Oline is a disgrace. But last year's Oline had lots of returning experience that had performed well, and they still took a huge backslide. That's what leads me to believe DeLeone didn't do a good job at all.

Chalk it up to new system. This bad I have to assume is players. No system is this bad.

 

[sdhusky]

Whitmer is lost right now. He shows flashes and needs to make better decisions.

Don't forget this is only his second game at this level. He is really like a redshirt freshmen in terms of experience.

Let's see where he is at the end of the year before we quit on our staff.

 

[coachRD]

Whitmer is lost right now. He shows flashes and needs to make better decisions.

Don't forget this is only his second game at this level. He is really like a redshirt freshmen in terms of experience.

Let's see where he is at the end of the year before we quit on our staff.

I agree about Whitmer. I am a BIT nervous that he came in to the offense off a year in which he threw a lot of INT's and VERY early on it doesn't look like he has improved his decision making. I agree though-he is essentially a Redshirt frosh with his first real game experience. He can throw the ball pretty well, and he showed great toughness and playmaking ability twice today when NCState had a defender immediately in his face/hanging on him. He made a couple Favre-like "wrist flicks" to players for completions when he looked dead in the water.
I am hopeful & pretty confident he will be a good player for us as long as he improves his decision-making-something he has complete control over.

 

[Yonick]

DeLeone's wildcat has given UConn no more than 3 yards over 2 games. I think it's about time to scrap this idea.

 

[sdhusky]

DeLeone's wildcat has given UConn no more than 3 yards over 2 games. I think it's about time to scrap this idea.

Does that mean we should scrap everything else on offense that hasn't been productive over two games?

I don't think we'll win many games punting on first down.

 

[coachRD]

Does that mean we should scrap everything else on offense that hasn't been productive over two games?

I don't think we'll win many games punting on first down.

Ha! True....Although you have to admit, it will cut down on the considerable number of INT's we have thrown over the first 2 games.

 

[Yonick]

Does that mean we should scrap everything else on offense that hasn't been productive over two games?

I don't think we'll win many games punting on first down.

Hell, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine this wildcat doesn't work at all.
Nobody suggests that we do stupid things like 1st down punts. Simply scrap the things that don't work and work on plays that do work. To me, this wildcat is a momentum breaker.

 

[pj]

I'm not quitting on the staff, if that means calling for DeLeone to be fired or retire, but it is a failure of the offensive coordinator that plays that had convincingly demonstrated a <5% probability of success were being called with regularity late in the game. Moreover we have a young but promising QB who needs reps facing BCS defenses. Neither the UMass game nor this one prepared this offense for Big East competition. We've lost the preseason and two games in terms of getting the offense up to speed. The film review from this game will tell the coaches what they have to do. Better get cracking DeLeone!

 

[UConn07]

DeLeone's wildcat has given UConn no more than 3 yards over 2 games. I think it's about time to scrap this idea.

The ONLY time the wildcat should be run is inside the 5 yard line going in with a fresh set of downs, that's it.

 

[jdb50]

The McCummings offense, to work has to be run like the WVU offense with Pat White. The QB has to be the main threat and also throw the ball. You can't accomplish this with one or two plays at a time as the blocking concepts are different and all we are doing is running. It is either one or the other or we will set Whitmers development back . Why M Smith is taking snaps seems like a mad scientist delusion to me. I hope WM talks to PP today about this.

 

[Rjc32563]

Watching the the o-line consistently and Bennett and Masters specifically as they were close friends of my son on the team. They had excellent games. Jimmy thoroughly dominated his position and with the exception of one play I don't think Adam missed a block either. Some of the offensive line blocking schemes for this offense does not coincide with what our lineman do best. But you attempt to do what your coaches want you to.

 

[BlueMAB]

Our offense looked better against our defense in the spring game than we did against NC St. So either we have regressed since the spring, or NC State has a defense even better than ours.

I guess we'll find out over the next couple of weeks which is true.

 

[mets1090]

Our offense looked better against our defense in the spring game than we did against NC St. So either we have regressed since the spring, or NC State has a defense even better than ours.

I guess we'll find out over the next couple of weeks which is true.

Doesn't the first team offense go against the second team defense?

 

[BlueMAB]

Doesn't the first team offense go against the second team defense?

Damnit. Our offense really blows.

 

[mets1090]

DeLeone's wildcat has given UConn no more than 3 yards over 2 games. I think it's about time to scrap this idea.

While I do agree that the Wildcat has been wildly ineffective, they had the 30ish yard pass against UMass on the reverse to Whitmer.

 

[Uconnalliance]

When you think no one sees what we see your wrong,offensive system is on borrowed time won't be long before AD gets sick of this bullshit scheme,god were gonna be the most predicable team in the country by yrs end.

 

[Uconnalliance]

Damnit. Our offense really blows.

Reminds me of a horrible song from my childhood "we've only just begun" I think I just got chills!

 

[FrostyNuggets]

Reminds me of a horrible song from my childhood "we've only just begun" I think I just got chills!

Venus Flytrap played that song for Arthur Carlson.

 

[whaler11]

Venus Flytrap played that song for Arthur Carlson.

Percentage of people here who have any idea what you are talking about: 6%. I'm sure if I saw it now I'd think it was terrible - but I loved it then.