The View From Section 241

[spsct]

You were in section 241 at Byrd too?

Pretty funny

 

[businesslawyer]

I thought the S play was very good. Adams continues to show why he will be starter next year, with Jones sliding over to CB. Have we seen one Jerome Junior, oops, someone got by me with my flat angle or biting on a fake this year? One Harris Agbor, what the heck was that running past me moment? And this from kids who are still learning the position. Can you pick out a play where they could have done more, sure. But the play back there has been solid. Let's be honest - no one is going to win against our front 7 so they should be trying more over the top stuff, and yet the S play has been stout.

That's a great post. We've played three games, and the only time we've seen an opponent behind the D is when they're running a fly right on the sideline where the CB is on an island. The Safeties have kept everything, everything, in front of them, and have done it while we constantly send pressure which creates more ground for them to cover.

 

[Carl Spackler]

That's a great post. We've played three games, and the only time we've seen an opponent behind the D is when they're running a fly right on the sideline where the CB is on an island. The Safeties have kept everything, everything, in front of them, and have done it while we constantly send pressure which creates more ground for them to cover.

You, counselor, i would expect to know the definition of a critique and criticism, and I would think would be able to judge whether or not a critique is valid or not.

I have not, anywhere said that our safety play is worse than it has been in the past. It is not. It is better. That comparison has been brought into the discussion by others. The play this year, is still deserving of criticism, and passing of judgement as to the merits of a performance, any perfoirmance, by anyone, at anything, is not by definition a negative evaluation, it's simply an exercise in pointing out flaws - areas to improve.

The safety position, as it's designed in this defense, especially in the single deep formation, or a 1/4,1/4,1/2 shell, or something similar where a single deep player is responsible for multiple things, is much, much different than the safety position in the defense we played previously, where the position was simply a cog in the system where you made your programmed reads, and reacted. Safeties in this defense need to process a lot of information, and make decisions, needs to be the mirror image of the quarterback in thought process and field vision, and ours are getting better, but they've got lots of room to improve.

We've got some sophomores back there, that will be tested this week, again, by a pretty good senior quarterback.

 

[businesslawyer]

You, counselor, i would expect to know the definition of a critique and criticism, and I would think would be able to judge whether or not a critique is valid or not.

I have not, anywhere said that our safety play is worse than it has been in the past. It is not. It is better. That comparison has been brought into the discussion by others. The play this year, is still deserving of criticism, and passing of judgement as to the merits of a performance, any perfoirmance, by anyone, at anything, is not by definition a negative evaluation, it's simply an exercise in pointing out flaws - areas to improve.

The safety position, as it's designed in this defense, especially in the single deep formation, or a 1/4,1/4,1/2 shell, or something similar where a single deep player is responsible for multiple things, is much, much different than the safety position in the defense we played previously, where the position was simply a cog in the system where you made your programmed reads, and reacted. Safeties in this defense need to process a lot of information, and make decisions, needs to be the mirror image of the quarterback in thought process and field vision, and ours are getting better, but they've got lots of room to improve.

We've got some sophomores back there, that will be tested this week, again, by a pretty good senior quarterback.

What in the world would make you think I'm responding to you when I respond to someone else's post. I was not criticizing what you said -- just agreeing with the poster.

 

[J187Money]

Things never as good as they seem, never as bad as they seem. It was probably a calculated risk, the Coach Brown took, because we sent people at their QB all day long, but I do think the back side of the defense was exposed a bit, because what we're doing sending players on blitzes and was forcing the safeties to cover the entire field, and we had a nickel package and what looked like a classic 3-3-5 stack going for a while. It's just room to improve. The inside backers and DT's were loading up and shooting the A gaps all day. Maryland tried to string the ball out to stretch the D out, and it worked a bit.

I hate to use the zebras in a discussion about a game, but without the zebras, Maryland doesn't score a lot of their points. We got hosed on something that I haven't seen yet on video at the end of the third quarter, giving possession back to Maryland, and the long TD was a BS call - clearly offensive pass interference, I though Coach Brown was going to kick the referee's ass.

You can see what they called on the replay. Hands to the face on their center. Flag was thrown before the ball was kicked. That is why they kept possession. But during the game we had no idea what was going on.

Agreed on the PI. Offensive.

 

[J187Money]

Good, accurate write-up. About the only thing I don't agree with was the campus. I thought UConn is newer and has a better atmosphere with more kids walking around. Even at night everything seemed on lockdown - we had to go through checkpoints to go from the east side/Metro station back to the Marriott.

Crowd looked to be about 3-4k. For those of you in section 2 chances are you were in the post-TD crowd shots. I spotted me and my friend and took a nice screenshot. We were in row U. Crowd was loud and into the game all the way till the end. The replay caught a nice, loud version of a UConn-Huskies-woof chant and the Go Huskies chant and part of the U-C-O-N-N.

I ended up going to DC Saturday night and the green line was an easy 20 min ride into downtown with free parking by the College Park metro station. Subways ran till 3AM so we stayed out late and had a good time.

SNY messed up at the end of the 3rd quarter only because the referees messed up with that phantom facemask call. I read somewhere that Coach P submitted the calls to the league for review.

Most of us older guys (who love the UCONN campus now) are anchored on the fact that it was a dump when we went there. Looking at MD today v. reminiscing about our UCONN days. No comparison. But that's what 2-3B will get you!