Here are eight key themes for focus and improvement as the Blue Hens embark on the rest of the season:
Asked Monday where he’d particularly like to see the Blue Hens improve, Carty said “our fundamentals.”That was magnified, he added, by the loss at William & Mary.
“We had three drops in the game,” Carty said of passes receivers couldn’t hold onto. “We missed more tackles this week than we missed in the previous five weeks. A couple missed assignments here and there. We misfit some gaps on defense.”
Delaware has the talent, Carty added, to compete with everyone on its schedule. Failing to succeed at the game’s finer points can often be decisive.
Delaware has been fortunate so far in that it has not lost a key player to injury, though Blue Hen hearts certainly sank Saturday when quarterback Nolan Henderson, the player Delaware can least afford to lose, was attended to by trainers and helped off the field after getting hurt trying to retrieve a bad snap.
William & Mary recovered the football. Henderson, who had 20- and 23-yard runs on that possession, did return to direct Delaware’s two subsequent series, though his ability to run may have been compromised.
