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Buffett10 said:
Don’t even do that. His defense is allowing 34 points a game. Absolutely pathetic considering we’ve faced 2 FCS teams and the 2nd worst team in the country.
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Defense has been bad but is light years ahead of 2018 and 2019. Every game but two the opponent has had to play its first team offense all year. in 18 and 19 most opponents started second half with second or third team offense.

Defense has actually gotten better this season. DB's are pressing and making plays on the ball an DLine is getting it's stuff together.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Defense has been bad but is light years ahead of 2018 and 2019. Every game but two the opponent has had to play its first team offense all year. in 18 and 19 most opponents started second half with second or third team offense.

Defense has actually gotten better this season. DB's are pressing and making plays on the ball an DLine is getting it's stuff together.
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Have they? We’ve played 3 trash teams the last 3 weeks.. Army would still put up 52 on this defense
 
Geez I am so happy that I did not listen to the second half. Outscored 15 to nothing!! I would have been climbing the walls.
 
Waquoit said:
I felt bad for those waiting to watch Toledo - Central Michigan. After these guys leave, we need to deep clean the coaches offices. I mean get the guys that do murder scene clean-up. After all...
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Bring in The Wolf.
 
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Buffett10 said:
Have they? We’ve played 3 trash teams the last 3 weeks.. Army would still put up 52 on this defense
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Yes, the metrics all say this year's defense, while really bad, isn't nearly as bad as the 2018 and 2019 teams.
 
Blades said:
Then when they tried running off clock they still had them running plays with 30 sec on the play clock middle of the 4th and 10-15 secs left late....Total frickin' clown show on the sidelines !
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Exactly. My bro in law who I’ve gone to most home games since aren’t open said when UConn was up 21-0 that Yale couldn’t come back. I said, um this is UConn of the last 10 years. Don’t bet on anything. And if you are up 12 with 7 minutes left and intent on just running, use all of the play clock, which of course they didn’t.
 
RSTuthill said:
Interesting that you say that when the score was 21-0 at the half. Unless ESPN has the final score wrong.
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Oh, actually u r right. UConn's third TD was right after the half. Sorry.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Yes, the metrics all say this year's defense, while really bad, isn't nearly as bad as the 2018 and 2019 teams.
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Wasn’t talking about 2018 and 2019. This defense hasn’t gotten any better. We’ve just faced horrible teams since this “getting better” has happened
 
They were actually getting a pass rush today with blitzes and stunts, but for whatever reason coaches stopped doing it in second half and went back to 3 man rush which kills us. I just saw Vandy lose the game to S. Carolina because on the final drive the Vandy coach only rushed 3 and gave the QB all day to throw. You held them to 14 pts all game to change your defensive philosophy on the final drive. Its amazing how scared these coaches play. The one thing our D-Lineman need to work on is over pursuing. Several times they had direct shots at the QB and took bad angles or over pursued and the QB just makes one little move and they blow right by the QB. Need to work on that.
 
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RSTuthill said:
Interesting that you say that when the score was 21-0 at the half. Unless ESPN has the final score wrong.
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I DVR'd the game ...rewatched the 3rd quarter....Yale hot the ball first then punted to us... we drive down the field 1st possession of that half. SK with a QB keeper down the sideline... The UConn website shows this too. ESPN sees us as an afterthought anyways (historically)
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ATLDYKA said:
Coaching was atrocious. Tried to give the game away. For the first time all year they blitz in the first half and were very successful. What do we do in the second half, rush 3 and almost give the game away. Why not keep doing what was working. Can they please stop trying to run up the middle, this offensive line cannot run block or create holes. And please, stop with the screen pass, we lose yardage every time. The play calling is just so painfulIy predictable week after week.
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Agreed on our running plays in the 2nd half. Honestly, it looked like we ran dive plays after dive plays...after dive plays... made it easy for Yale's defense in the 2nd half i thought.
 
ktuck911 said:
Agreed on our running plays in the 2nd half. Honestly, it looked like we ran dive plays after dive plays...after dive plays... made it easy for Yale's defense in the 2nd half i thought.
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We actually don’t run many dives. We run a lot of stupid inside zone blocking, run read plays which are slow to develop, create uncertainty in execution at the line and put pressure on the back to find a hole. When we actually do the rare run with assignment blocking, it picks up yards. The staff flat out sucks and doesn’t know what it’s doing. It would be like creating an offense to have me beat the edge… I can’t no matter how many times you call it.
 
giddyup said:
We actually don’t run many dives. We run a lot of stupid inside zone blocking, run read plays which are slow to develop, create uncertainty in execution at the line and put pressure on the back to find a hole. When we actually do the rare run with assignment blocking, it picks up yards. The staff flat out sucks and doesn’t know what it’s doing. It would be like creating an offense to have me beat the edge… I can’t no matter how many times you call it.
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I know brother. It just felt like dive plays, because it got stuffed every time because everybody knew it was coming before the ball was snapped.....

This team has talent, clearly, though... looking fwd to those grass being greener days...
 
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Blades said:
+1 ...Just so much incompetence on this coaching staff I don't know where to start, they make Diaco and Edsall look like HOF'ers.
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Now this is either a bad joke or the most ridiculous post by anyone in a long time. Just sayin
 
giddyup said:
We actually don’t run many dives. We run a lot of stupid inside zone blocking, run read plays which are slow to develop, create uncertainty in execution at the line and put pressure on the back to find a hole. When we actually do the rare run with assignment blocking, it picks up yards. The staff flat out sucks and doesn’t know what it’s doing. It would be like creating an offense to have me beat the edge… I can’t no matter how many times you call it.
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Agree, and the slowness to hit the point of attack means the guys blocking have to hold their blocks for so long that the plays often get stopped cold. They just do not have the talent to hold blocks that long not to mention that the plays take so long to develop the LB's sniff them out.
 
uconnfan68 said:
The free play at the end would have been a killer way to lose. Can’t believe it came that close.
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Wasn’t surprised. Terrible play calling and clock management. Twice on second and short they used short wide plays that both resulted in a loss. I’m pretty sure second and short calls for either an interior running play to get the first down, or more aggressively a shot longer down field with the thought that if it fails, you can run for it on 3rd. Yale had some key penalties that helped us.

The brightest note is that we have several pretty good younger skill players. Some are currently injured. Need better line and LB play. QB still a question mark on elevating our O even with Tyler. I don’t think we know what his passing proficiency will be over a long haul. With the coaching change and ease of transferring , who knows who will be around among the current potential returnees or the 2022 commits. Or if a new coach will attract some quality transfers. Hey, we won. Life is temporarily good.
 
I would like to see our next coach as Jamey Chadwell from Coastal Carolina. But we could do worse than Lou Spanos, such as another Diaco.
 
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LoyalFanCT said:
I would like to see our next coach as Jamey Chadwell from Coastal Carolina. But we could do worse than Lou Spanos, such as another Diaco.
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The objective isn't to not do worse than Spanos, it's to do better.
Yesterday, we all saw a staff trying not to lose. We've been watching that movie for the past 11 years and that movie sucks. Time to find a staff that plays to win and knows how to step on a throat and keep the foot on the throat.
 
Chin Diesel said:
The objective isn't to not do worse than Spanos, it's to do better.
Yesterday, we all saw a staff trying not to lose. We've been watching that movie for the past 11 years and that movie sucks. Time to find a staff that plays to win and knows how to step on a throat and keep the foot on the throat.
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Exactly the should of came out in the second half ready by bury them and hang 40 up. I think that dropped fade and short pass the wind hung up in the air scared the coaches n went right back to the conservative BS
 
Also you can't be giving your opponents a help with undisciplined penalties. The double dip after our last touchdown giving them the ball at the 50 can turn momentum quickly. Watts' foul on their QB with third and long continued a td drive I believe. Watts has been a problem the last three weeks with the personal fouls leading to scores. Was hoping for a big year from him but something is up perhaps a lingering injury from start of the year or it's something else.
 
With all due respect, the talent of this team far exceeds the talent RE inherited 4 years ago. The staff has recruited very good players over the past 3 years. I just believe RE was too locked into 1990s game plans and both sides of the ball suffered. I hope whoever the new coach is he/she keeps at least one coach who has been a top recruiter over the past 3 years.
 
So I was overdue on some stuff yesterday afternoon and could not follow the game after the third UConn TD. Did I read this correctly? UConn tried to eat clock by staying on the ground, but stayed with a no huddle hurry up offense? Is that really true?
 
Rosebud70 said:
Exactly the should of came out in the second half ready by bury them and hang 40 up. I think that dropped fade and short pass the wind hung up in the air scared the coaches n went right back to the conservative BS
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You drinking, or texting while you drive? But I get the gist.
We can’t hang 40 on anyone. But running on 3rd and 7 you have no shot.
 
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