HuskyHawk
The triumphant return of the Blues Brothers.
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I'm responding to a post, that brought up a critical moment of the game, where we failed, and we failed not because of scheme, or play calling, or weather, or anything else but two players executing their roles poorly - due to simply fundamentals. Reuben Frank stopped moving his legs to drive his blocker, and got blown up by a TE win good blocking position, fundamentally, and Andrew Adams, unblocked, stopped moving his legs, and made a reach for an arm tackle, with his head down, and ended up with air, and then grass, on his stomach watching the ball carrier go by.
There was nothing wrong with the defensive design or play call. It was fundamentals. We need to get back to basics of football at UCONN. It's been far too sloppy, and undisciplined for far too long. THe Fiesta Bowl is very far behind us now.
If you watched that grainy black and white coaching film from ancient history I put up on Saturday night, or whenever it was, on tackling, it's pretty much all right there. This isn't new, and it's not rocket science or 400 level football we need to be at.
Edit: and fwiw - yes the players failed, but it is also the coaches fault that the players lacked the fundamentals at that moment, that would have put them in position to succeed.
Is it fundamentals or is it execution Carl? If the D was in the right place, and the player took the right line, as he's coached to do...tacking is then on him in my opinion. The coaches can't tackle. Or do you really think these coaches aren't stressing fundamentals like proper tackling? That just doesn't seem likely to me.
Increasingly, I think HCBD is doing something he hinted at, but we didn't really understand. He's using this entire season as a massive year long intensive practice session. The rotations, the "lets see if we can just run and still move the chains", these are indeed things you do in "pre-season" in the NFL. What I hope he recognizes, is that the Program (capital P) needs fans, energy, excitement and Ws. I am giving him a partial pass because I think the monsoon in FL changed everything against USF, but at some point he has to flip the switch and say that the future is now. Temple game is a good place to start.