What happened with the third down play at the end?
"Talking about the critical third down at the end, the one that was returned for the score, I think it was a four seam route, and they blitzed, and whether he's going to the inside guy or the outside guy, the ball got compressed, got squeezed, and the DB just squeezed it and made the play."
"We discussed about three different plays in that situation, and felt like we had a good safe play, but it didn't turn out that way. The combination of the squeeze and the blitz kind of got us."
-Paul Pasqualoni
www.uconnhuskies.com
That's immediately following the game, and they're still not sure what happened specifically (four seam route - a route tree with 4 receivers centered on the hash marks) - he says they blitzed, b/c he clearly saw them come up to the line, but he hasn't seen the film yet that they only brought 5 and the LB's were dropping out of the blitz) and knew that a hot read (inside guy or outside guy) had to be coming out because they only had 6 people to block 7 at the line.
He realized the ball went the wrong way, too on the hot read, because the ball (the field) was "compressed". In that situation the hot read should have been on the seam on the short side of the field or outside to the far hash, or wider.
They discussed a couple different plays, and settled on that one "a good SAFE play".
No is P going to say it was a situation where they didn't need to get the first down in the media three days later, (even though I've yet to see it cited) when there are polls in the papers that are totally against the call, when the entire fan base has been conditioned to play P**SY football.
Nobody cites anything, everybody knows what happened, and should have happened, but nobody looks at the actual game, and when I do, frame by frame, as I did before, as many of the 22 as you can see on the TV feeds - my posts are too long. it gets tiring.
I've given you folks all a lot of glimpses, I've talked about what it takes. I've put up all kinds of stuff on te emotion and intensity that needs to go into this game, in the past year. It still kills me the reponse I got when I suggested that Todman wasn't going to get drafted very high. Hell Edsall thought he would go.
I'm done. I'll continue to read like I always have and gobble everything I can up about this game I love, and my program. But I'm done, headed up to the stadium now. Looking forward to some old fashioned northeast football beating down those big old farmboys from Iowa.
