Six consecutive TDs allowed by the D.

[Palatine]

Last three possessions against Syracuse and the first three possessions against Delaware.

When we first entered D1, Virginia Tech scored TDs on its first five possessions. But I don't believe we ever saw the meltdown that occurred in consecutive games this year. I think it's history. I don't think at Michigan or at Tennessee it reached six straight. Mora has work to do and changes to make.

 

[defense]

Inexcusable

 

[Stinger92860]

This could be yet another historically bad year by the defense. And Joe and the offense cannot execute on key downs when receivers are wide open, it’s mind boggling. If we are going to lose, then let’s lose with our potential future.

 

[uconndogs]

Good OP and it's why we lost the last two games.

To my eye, we covered up the deficiencies of the front six at the start of the Cuse game by blitzing from all over the place. They caugth on and Delaware saw the same thing. The Blue Hens ran for 250 yards. We got pushed aroudn real bad. Not sure how you fix this, but outside of King and the other LB I don't think any of those kids is on solid footing to stay on the two deep.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Matt Brock, Jimmy/Joe's, X's/O's.

The 3-3-5 has a finite window of opportunity to work well. There's a reason why almost all base defenses are a 3-4 or 4-3. If the standard 3-3-5 lineup were more versatile, more teams would try it.

For the 3-3-5 to be successful, the coordinator has to call the right set for the play (X's and O's) and the players have to execute it well (Jimmy's and Joe's).

Right now both ends are failing. The D Line started the game off looking like they were gassed. The same linemen who stuffed Syracuse's running game for 60 minutes were getting steamrolled from the first snap of the game. Delaware's linemen dominated the trenches all game. The DB's weren't much better. When Brock dials up pressure on the QB, it leaves at least one DB one on one with a receiver. If the QB identifies that match up the DB has to make the play. That didn't happen yesterday. Duplessis was better than everyone one of the Husky DB's and beat them consistently no matter where he was lined up. And then there were missed tackles which led to big gains and penalties throughout the game.

And they're not creating turnovers either.

Kinda tough to fix personnel issues mid-season. If this is really the best those D Linemen can play, UConn is in for a very long season. Because Delaware figured out how to run when Syracuse couldn't figure it out, and now every UConn opponent has it on tape.

 

[HCCForever]

Matt Brock, Jimmy/Joe's, X's/O's.

The 3-3-5 has a finite window of opportunity to work well. There's a reason why almost all base defenses are a 3-4 or 4-3. If the standard 3-3-5 lineup were more versatile, more teams would try it.

For the 3-3-5 to be successful, the coordinator has to call the right set for the play (X's and O's) and the players have to execute it well (Jimmy's and Joe's).

Right now both ends are failing. The D Line started the game off looking like they were gassed. The same linemen who stuffed Syracuse's running game for 60 minutes were getting steamrolled from the first snap of the game. Delaware's linemen dominated the trenches all game. The DB's weren't much better. When Brock dials up pressure on the QB, it leaves at least one DB one on one with a receiver. If the QB identifies that match up the DB has to make the play. That didn't happen yesterday. Duplessis was better than everyone one of the Husky DB's and beat them consistently no matter where he was lined up. And then there were missed tackles which led to big gains and penalties throughout the game.

And they're not creating turnovers either.

Kinda tough to fix personnel issues mid-season. If this is really the best those D Linemen can play, UConn is in for a very long season. Because Delaware figured out how to run when Syracuse couldn't figure it out, and now every UConn opponent has it on tape.

Didn’t Delaware have an advantage over other UConn opponents since Delaware uses the 3-3-5 too? Their offense is used to going against it in practice. Still, UConn defense needs to be much better.

 

[businesslawyer]

This could be yet another historically bad year by the defense. And Joe and the offense cannot execute on key downs when receivers are wide open, it’s mind boggling. If we are going to lose, then let’s lose with our potential future.

O.K., this statement drastically understates how bad our worst D ever was under Edsall. This team played 53 minutes of outstanding D against Syracuse, and held them to 20 for the game (17 if you don’t charge them for our long snapper’s error). And shut down Central. Are either of those great accomplishments, no, but each of those two games was drastically better than any defensive effort the team you’re comparing it to put out.

I get that the loss yesterday was inexcusable. I’m as angry as anyone else. But after 3 games, we’re nowhere near the worst defensive team we’ve seen at UConn in the recent past.