UConn football looking for someone to replace longtime starter Joseph at middle linebacker (Ostrout)

[Chief00]

Wow, you really went out on a limb.

Kevon Jones, Beavers, and Tyler Coyle might have the necessary talent level. If Krajewski is a next level talent we might really have something brewing. Supposedly he was the third best QB in Georgia and the first two are at Clemson and Bama.

Coyle is one of the guys I thought about. Need to see more of Jones, Beavers (although I liked him toward the end of last season) and Krajewski. I can only get up to practice only so often.

 

[Chief00]

I hope he is moving away from that scheme. It’s a complete loser in the absence of “tweens” with both speed to cover and exceptional strength to battle much larger opponents. The middle is soft and gets gashed, and as DBs come up to anticipate the run, they get beat on the pass. It’s a crappy D, unless you have complete animals that have the mentality to go head to head with bigger players and take the beating. We saw what our DBs/transitionals did last year... ankle tackles, torpedo tackling, getting stuffed on blitzes, bad angles....

Couldn’t agree more.

I got together a couple of weeks ago with someone who played D1 DB in a major conference and I was telling him about what I saw last season. He brought up an interesting point. Small DB’s constantly taking on OL’s and tough running backs wear on a DB and will impact coverage later in the game. The receivers will be fresher and less banged up.

 

[Chief00]

We could have had Belichick as our defensive coordinator last year and I don't think it would have been much better. Let's see what happens with year 2 of the scheme now that kids have a better idea of what their assignments are

I get it and I assume this is hyperbole - but Belichick would have gotten better results than Crocker.
I don’t think we will see year 2 of this being our base defense. I think that chapter is mostly closed. Randy will probably let Crocker play it some to wean him off it but it’s not a major part of the future. We did over recruit DBs now that we won’t need 6 at a time for much of the game. If someone has decent size Randy may move him to LB.

Pass coverage always starts with pressuring the QB.

 

[JMick]

I get it and I assume this is hyperbole - but Belichick would have gotten better results than Crocker.

Of course it would have been better but I don't know how much. Even belichick has moved to the big nickel against pass heavy teams which is basically the NFL equivalent of the 3-3-5

 

[uconnphil2016]

I get it and I assume this is hyperbole - but Belichick would have gotten better results than Crocker.
I don’t think we will see year 2 of this being our base defense. I think that chapter is mostly closed. Randy will probably let Crocker play it some to wean him off it but it’s not a major part of the future. We did over recruit DBs now that we won’t need 6 at a time for much of the game. If someone has decent size Randy may move him to LB.

Pass coverage always starts with pressuring the QB.

We’ll still need 5 DBs unless we played a 3-4 or 4-3 as our primary package, neither of which is gonna happen

 

[BlueDogs]

We could have had Belichick as our defensive coordinator last year and I don't think it would have been much better. Let's see what happens with year 2 of the scheme now that kids have a better idea of what their assignments are

True...and it should be interesting to see what shakes out