Pasqualoni: "We'd like our offense to be a big play offense."

[huskymedic]

So would we...

Quote from today's presser. Couldn't resist.

 

[phillionaire]

hard to be a big play offense when half of your plays get blown up in the backfield

 

[husky210]

Big play for the opposing d

 

[huskymedic]

On QB Whitmer, #Uconn coach Pasqualoni says "he really showed some poised." Like this toughness, too.

Desmond Conner ‏@desmondconner
"@PaulPasqualoni says WR Tebucky Jones Jr. is working hard didn't rotate much this past weekend but Jones is next up to get in."

Chris Elsberry ‏@elsctpost
Pasqualoni: "DT Shamar (Stephen) will go this week, I'll say he's questionable, but we'll see."

Ed Daigneault ‏@EdDaigneault
PP coy on Ted Jennings: "The trainers know what they're looking for and they're looking for that." Well, OK.

Jeff Jacobs ‏@jacobscourant
Pasqualoni: "There's a couple plays [McCombs] could have helped himself a bit. But it's a team thing.

 

[Kgun7]

On QB Whitmer, #Uconn coach Pasqualoni says "he really showed some poised." Like this toughness, too.

Desmond Conner ‏@desmondconner
"@PaulPasqualoni says WR Tebucky Jones Jr. is working hard didn't rotate much this past weekend but Jones is next up to get in."

Chris Elsberry ‏@elsctpost
Pasqualoni: "DT Shamar (Stephen) will go this week, I'll say he's questionable, but we'll see."

Ed Daigneault ‏@EdDaigneault
PP coy on Ted Jennings: "The trainers know what they're looking for and they're looking for that." Well, OK.

Jeff Jacobs ‏@jacobscourant
Pasqualoni: "There's a couple plays [McCombs] could have helped himself a bit. But it's a team thing.

I think P is saying that LM43 needs to be a little more patient and set-up his blocks a little better.

 

[mattp]

PP coy on Ted Jennings: "The trainers know what they're looking for and they're looking for that." Well, OK
.

wow. this might me my new favorite ambiguous coach answer of all time.

 

[SubbaBub]

I'd settle for organized offense, competent offense, or even regular offense at this point.

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[businesslawyer]

There are two ways for P and George to succeed on Saturday. The first is that the offense becomes a big play offense. The odds of that are stratospheric. The second is that the offense simplifies, takes what it can get, doesn't turn the ball over and lets the defense win us the game.

Nice to know that George and P are focused on the solution with winning the lottery odds, rather than the one they could actually hope to pull off on Saturday.

 

[huskymedic]

There are two ways for P and George to succeed on Saturday. The first is that the offense becomes a big play offense. The odds of that are stratospheric. The second is that the offense simplifies, takes what it can get, doesn't turn the ball over and lets the defense win us the game.

Nice to know that George and P are focused on the solution with winning the lottery odds, rather than the one they could actually hope to pull off on Saturday.

Gamemanship... they know what's @ stake if they lose.

 

[Hoophound]

There are two ways for P and George to succeed on Saturday. The first is that the offense becomes a big play offense. The odds of that are stratospheric. The second is that the offense simplifies, takes what it can get, doesn't turn the ball over and lets the defense win us the game.

Nice to know that George and P are focused on the solution with winning the lottery odds, rather than the one they could actually hope to pull off on Saturday.

This is alarming because if P thinks the only problem was that we didn't try enough flea flickers etc, he wasn't watching. How can you make a big play when you don't even try to make one? Second, how can you consistently make big plays when your QB can't get into a rythm due to the wildcat nonsense?

I would be happy with short passes, varied inside/outside handoffs and no interceptions.

 

[mattp]

i think our players could be very successful if we focused on 5-15 yard routes that loosen up the defense a little to give McCombs some space to run. Whitmer throws a really nice ball in that range, and we have players that can get some yards after the catch. a MD player said after their game against Temple they focused and practiced stopping the run, even on 3rd and longs. They could probably roll that defensive game plan against us this week and have a lot of success if we don't loosen up their defense.

 

[Carl Spackler]

I disagree with the concept of conservative offense and letting a defense win the game for you. You win games by scoring more points than your opponent, and it's easiest to score points when you've got possession of the ball, not when you don't. It's that simple.

A long time ago, I said that the C position this season is going to be much more important to our success in 2012, than the QB position was important to our success in 2011 last year. A lot of people said I was nuts. A lot of people still think I'm nuts.

I'm not among those that thinks our offense is not being designed for our personnel, I think they're doing everything they can to get the ball into the hands of our athletes, but that our offensive line play hinges on making the right reads from all 5 guys, and it starts in the middle of the line, and we're starting a new center, and if the line isn't making it's decisions fast, and playing fast, the rest of the offense is in trouble - because they're going to get blown up by the defense teeing off, and i think that NC State, recognized that when you play 2 or 3 guys at center - it probably means that you don't have a center........and they came in with the game plan, to confuse our offensive line, and it worked.

If the guy that's lining up over the ball, isn't unconscious, ready to fire that ball back and get the necessary 'push' to start the play, the entire line is going to be slow, and you get an offensive day like we had last week.

I agree, with the idea, that the easiest way to get an offense to play fast, is to simplify - but I'm not sure that scrapping the system at this point is the right thing to do, to get the players to be able to take the practice to the game. I think we've got two guys right up the gut of this offense in the C and QB, that are learning the speed of the college game, in real time, and they've got to get up to speed with their decision making, so that they're not tripping over themselves and/or each other, and tripping up the entire offense as a result.

THis game on Saturday, is clearly the biggest game so far, that this current program has had on the menu.

It does bother me though, greatly, that we've gotten to this point, and still have the question marks we've got.

I don't know, I just want to see an offense on the field from UConn, where I'm confident that the ability to score touchdowns, is actually - a realistic thing.



I hope they learned a lot last week, and are able to apply it this week.

 

[Jimdish255]

There are two ways for P and George to succeed on Saturday. The first is that the offense becomes a big play offense. The odds of that are stratospheric. The second is that the offense simplifies, takes what it can get, doesn't turn the ball over and lets the defense win us the game.

Nice to know that George and P are focused on the solution with winning the lottery odds, rather than the one they could actually hope to pull off on Saturday.

Not as diplomatic as usual, but I like the way you think.​

 

[sdhusky]

There are two ways for P and George to succeed on Saturday. The first is that the offense becomes a big play offense. The odds of that are stratospheric. The second is that the offense simplifies, takes what it can get, doesn't turn the ball over and lets the defense win us the game.

Nice to know that George and P are focused on the solution with winning the lottery odds, rather than the one they could actually hope to pull off on Saturday.

Mr. "Just win baby" - why don't you wait until we lose before you complain about why?

You have made it very clear over the years that winning is the only thing that matters. Doesn't matter if you have a complicated offense or simple offense or with a bend don't break D or an attacking D.

 

[buckley503]

Not as diplomatic as usual, but I like the way you think.​

Professor Terguson: Is she right? 'Cause I know that's the *popular* version of what went on there. And a lot of people like to believe that. I wish I could, but I was *there*. I wasn't here in a class room, hoping I was right, thinking about it.
[shouting]
Professor Terguson: I was up to my knees in rice paddies, with guns that didn't work! Going in there, looking for Charlie, slugging it out with him; While
[shouts]
Professor Terguson: like you were back here partying, putting headbands on, doing drugs, and
[shouts]
Professor Terguson: listening to the goshdarn Beatle albums! Oh! Oh! Oh!

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Think they played 10 so far on the OLine with Cruz and Bullock also playing game 2.
I believe Cruz has played both OG postions, I'm guessing in case Masters needs to be moved and he has come in early for Greene for reasons. So it seems most of the moving around has been with the interior of the line. Shortell comes in as an addtional blocker. Perhaps this will get further shortened down to mainly using Cruz and Shortell.

 

[Stinger92860]

Big play for the opposing d

Based on what I've seen so far, I'd rather see more short passes and move the chains.

 

[Uconnalliance]

Hey Stephens is back this wk adds a little beat the out of you up front! God dammit were's Teddy?

 

[Husky68]

PP is clueless. Bad schemes (2 TE's, LM on all running plays, QB sneak 3 and 1, wildcat with no read) and too many plays that give away the intent before the hike = offense in shambles. Seems like every other team in FCS settles into an offensive scheme that hurts the defense and gets mismatches except for Uconn. NCST figured out the short crossing routes. Uconn offense looked like the NCST defense was in the huddle even to the last series. It just isn't as hard as PP makes it look. Stupid penalties = stupid coaching. How many teams has Urban Myers coached where you say "boy they make a lot of stupid penalites"?

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I disagree with the concept of conservative offense and letting a defense win the game for you.

Do you believe the outcome of last Saturday's game would have been the same if the turnover differential was zero?


Answer honestly please.

 

[willie99]

big play offense?

lets work on picking up a first down, then take it from there

 

[Excalibur]

Do you believe the outcome of last Saturday's game would have been the same if the turnover differential was zero?


Answer honestly please.

Given our 1.1 ypc average, I don' t think we can say with certainty that we would have won if we were more conservative, but I think this misses the point entirely. Only one of the turnovers was on what you could consider to be an "aggressive" play. We're confusing "conservative" and "simple". Our offense so far has managed to be frighteningly complex, and yet still conservative.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Do you believe the outcome of last Saturday's game would have been the same if the turnover differential was zero?


Answer honestly please.

If the turnover differential were zero, statistics suggest that we would have had a better chance to win the game. But you're asking what I believe.

I believe that if our offense was able to score more than 10 points, we would have won the game.

 

[uconndogs]

If I see Smith line us as a QB and Whitmer as a WR again I may need to be restrained.

In football as in business, folks who think they are going to outsmart everyone are usually fooling themselves.

 

[businesslawyer]

Our offense so far has managed to be frighteningly complex, and yet still conservative.

Well said