Feast or famine – the UMass pass defense – Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Feast or famine – the UMass pass defense – Massachusetts Daily Collegian

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For about 90 percent of its competitions against Toulido, the pass of the football team in Massachusetts showed a remarkable improvement during the first week against East Michigan. Unfortunately for Minutemen (0-2), 10 % of others raised his ugly head on Saturday.

Ructis (2-0) Gortrobc Taker Gleston threw 175 yards and three touching lands on his way to victory 38-23. These numbers in themselves appear gradually an umass, as in the previous week, 241 yards allowed and one landing to Eagles’ Cole Snyder. However, you have to look beyond the statistics, to know the effectiveness of their defensive appearance of Minotim, secondary and deep coverage.

The three declining passes in Gleason 37.5 per cent of its total completion per day-where one of these spaces was Proto Gate for the wide future Jerjuan Newton. Eight completion of only a day in 23 attempts, UMASS ability to reduce consistent success from a passing game GLASON, a person who has a functional completion rate exceeds a little of 50 percent, is something to suspend his hat. Of the 175 yard, 152 of them came from only three plays. These three large gains consisted of two landing and the long fishing by Vandeross III, which put Tolido for a landing process of four Yilli Show III.

Nine different businessmen passed on Saturday afternoon, which is much more than the four they mobilized in the first week. With many receptions all over Mac on the Rockkets menu, UMASS has mostly good to reduce the amount of damage that receivers such as Newton and Vandeross.

But this restores the idea that Saturday was a feast or famine for men. Just looking at the average time of possession embodies this more. Toledo, in a game she won through two degrees, was possessing more than a quarter of the match.

The story is similar when looking at more statistics under the cap. The Rockets had six three engines and seven engines that lasted less than a minute. The UMASS defensive chart and Saturday’s game plan were effective, and it was improving its previous performance on this side of the ball.

Initially, it seems very easy to blame the scrolling defense on the results of the Saturday match. However, I believe that the improvements made in the passenger defense between weeks were one of the only reasons that make this game competitive as it was.

But in fact, these statistics do not concern. What matters is the end result. There can be all the words in the world about how if one or two goes in a different way, the minutemen will go to Buffalo with an opportunity to win the win. But UMASS does not go to Buffalo with an opportunity in a winning record due to the defensive performance that made this game competitive in the first place.

“We are more competitive, but this is now over. Brown said:” We know that we can compete in these games, we just have to clean all mistakes and continue the direction in a positive direction. “

Despite the permissible plays, despite the loss and despite the fact that the Mac is now 2-0 against them, Saturday was a step in the right direction of Minutem men. You will need to find a way to reduce the big plays that took place on Saturday, or we will conduct the same conversation again in the near future.

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