Trick plays

[uconnbaseball]

Please stop them.

With this OL, we can move the ball against mediocre teams like Duke (even with the uninspired passing game). We are not creative enough to execute these plays to make them worthwhile.

Good effort today but we need to realize who we are. Pound the ball and utilize the tight ends and wideouts via playaction.

 

[ZOOCONN]

I wanna slap sammis

 

[Fairfield_1st]

One of those plays took 5 minutes to get the ball back to the QB. Way too slow.

 

[Purple Stein]

Trick plays aren't very tricky when you're constantly running them.

 

[psilotic]

Valuable coaching time is being wasted on practicing these plays.

 

[jdb50]

Self evaluation is a big part of being successful. So after the Charlton offense and trick plays last year and epic failures how does Mora allow Sammis to do the same thing? I hope the beat reporters ask him WTF?

 

[uconnfan68]

Trick plays aren't very tricky when you're constantly running them.

They ran 3 (in my mind), but all were terrible. Every throw was going the wrong way.

 

[Palatine]

DON'T STOP THEM.

The offense is terrible. They scored 14 points tonight. The punter was getting leg weary. Our running game is okay but when Duke loaded the box and dared Evers to beat them, he couldn't. Pounding the ball doesn't work against an 8-man box. The tricks were meaningless, they didn't help or hurt us.

The special plays didn't work tonight but A LOT of plays didn't work tonight. The trick plays did not cost us the game. But they accomplish two things. They keep the defense honest and they give opponents something they have to work on. Those are two good things. Another good thing is the players love them. It keeps them engaged.

I knew someone would start a thread like this. But there is reason that the coaches think we need trick plays. And they are right.

 

[Scoe]

DON'T STOP THEM.

The offense is terrible. They scored 14 points tonight. The punter was getting leg weary. Our running game is okay but when Duke loaded the box and dared Evers to beat them, he couldn't. Pounding the ball doesn't work against an 8-man box. The tricks were meaningless, they didn't help or hurt us.

The special plays didn't work tonight but A LOT of plays didn't work tonight. The trick plays did not cost us the game. But they accomplish two things. They keep the defense honest and they give opponents something they have to work on. Those are two good things. Another good thing is the players love them. It keeps them engaged.

I knew someone would start a thread like this. But there is reason that the coaches think we need trick plays. And they are right.

It sure worked tonight didnt it. Run effective trick plays to turn momentum not momentum stopping trick plays, yeah the players love running trick plays in practice because they will always work, a little different running them in a game when you already have offensive momentum.

 

[History Geek]

Gordie needs to lose the trick plays.

 

[uconnbaseball]

DON'T STOP THEM.

The offense is terrible. They scored 14 points tonight. The punter was getting leg weary. Our running game is okay but when Duke loaded the box and dared Evers to beat them, he couldn't. Pounding the ball doesn't work against an 8-man box. The tricks were meaningless, they didn't help or hurt us.

The special plays didn't work tonight but A LOT of plays didn't work tonight. The trick plays did not cost us the game. But they accomplish two things. They keep the defense honest and they give opponents something they have to work on. Those are two good things. Another good thing is the players love them. It keeps them engaged.

I knew someone would start a thread like this. But there is reason that the coaches think we need trick plays. And they are right.

1 is enough for the “fun” aspect. 3 = overboard, particularly how poorly designed they were. We are not good enough to throw away plays.

Play action on first down (with our tight ends looking solid) should be enough to punish loaded boxes, in my opinion.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

Good effort today but we need to realize who we are. Pound the ball and utilize the tight ends and wideouts via playaction.

Oh yeah, "Let's pound the ball". That's the philosophy that has put us in the whole for a couple of decades. UConn needs to throw the ball - often. Throw the ball and move the chains.

 

[gsmooth]

DON'T STOP THEM.

The offense is terrible. They scored 14 points tonight. The punter was getting leg weary. Our running game is okay but when Duke loaded the box and dared Evers to beat them, he couldn't. Pounding the ball doesn't work against an 8-man box. The tricks were meaningless, they didn't help or hurt us.

The special plays didn't work tonight but A LOT of plays didn't work tonight. The trick plays did not cost us the game. But they accomplish two things. They keep the defense honest and they give opponents something they have to work on. Those are two good things. Another good thing is the players love them. It keeps them engaged.

I knew someone would start a thread like this. But there is reason that the coaches think we need trick plays. And they are right.

running a trick play on 3rd and 7 on that last drive was a waste of a play. Even if UConn gets a 3-4 yard gain on that play, then maybe that sways Mora and the staff to go for it on 4th down which they should have done anyways, but 4th and 7 is more daunting than 4th and 4 or 4th and 3.

 

[uconnfan68]

Oh yeah, "Let's pound the ball". That's the philosophy that has put us in the whole for a couple of decades. UConn needs to throw the ball - often. Throw the ball and move the chains.

And not sideways either.

And note to defense: when they stack 2 wide, put 2 guys out there. No wonder they always get blocked.

 

[JMick]

We're running trick plays on normal down and distance because we don't think we can hit on a normal play. It's pretty obvious...

 

[uconnbaseball]

Oh yeah, "Let's pound the ball". That's the philosophy that has put us in the whole for a couple of decades. UConn needs to throw the ball - often. Throw the ball and move the chains.

Pound the ball 50% of the time while slicing defenses apart downfield the other 50%. See Green Bay last year with Jordan Love. That wasn’t a loaded team by any means but they sure were effective, even with a ton of drops (by NFL standards).

 

[NEforceUConn]

When did HCJM start channeling the ghost of Bill Veeck?

Stop all these stupid trick plays. OK maybe you can use just two for the last two games.

 

[REB1094]

Trick plays are fun when they have positive results

 

[KryHavok]

Wanna do a truck play, do it on 3rd or 4th and short by sending in Stafford making the defense think run, then have the trick play to get more yardage... something like that. Didn't watch the game, only heard the live audio, but none of the tricks seemed well thought out and were ill timed.

 

[scotty0330]

I wanna slap sammis

As bad as it was at times and frustrating it might have been can we at least say my god it’s not that Edsall offense of your grandads 90’s ground and pound with no wrinkles and was an insult to a vanilla offense.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Please stop them.

With this OL, we can move the ball against mediocre teams like Duke (even with the uninspired passing game). We are not creative enough to execute these plays to make them worthwhile.

Good effort today but we need to realize who we are. Pound the ball and utilize the tight ends and wideouts via playaction.

Not having Rosa in the backfield with Edwards hurt UConn a lot. If Rosa had been healthy, having both Edwards and Rosa would’ve meant having 3 backs, including Evers, who could run the ball on any play. Then utilizing a TE or Skyler Bell becomes another a huge weapon. Or even put Stafford in the backfield and give him the ball.

 

[hardcorehusky]

The common mistake in all of those trick plays was someone was not blocked and pressured Fagnano. Also, defenders were disciplined and stayed home, meaning there weren’t wide open receivers.
Last year, we had guys taking each other out in the backfield, so these didn't look as wonky.

 

[Platt81]

It’s funny, for years fans have been complaining how vanilla the offense is and that it’s just run, run, pass, punt. Sammis comes in throws in some wrinkles, has a little more complex of an offense, three things fail and everyone’s response is “with the OL we have stick to running”. Even with that narrative let’s give credit to why the OL is so strong, Gordon Sammis. Give the guy a break, we’re three games into him as OC.

 

[Palatine]

If our offense was effective and efficient we wouldn't need trick plays. We are NOT good enough to line up run off tackle and throw swing passes to beat people. Alabama and Georgia rarely run trick plays. They don't need to, we do. We need to do everything possible to move out offense.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

The common mistake in all of those trick plays was someone was not blocked and pressured Fagnano. Also, defenders were disciplined and stayed home, meaning there weren’t wide open receivers.
Last year, we had guys taking each other out in the backfield, so these didn't look as wonky.

My trick play would’ve been to put Stafford in the backfield and just give him the ball and tell him to follow Lundt. We’re very lucky the asinine trick plays they did run didn’t get Ever’s injured again.