Going to try a new format with these this week, as it makes things a lot easier and personally I feel like it's cleaner looking as well. With that being said, here are the snap counts and PFF Grades for Rutgers Football's win over Virginia Tech.

I know there are a lot of things that need to be cleaned up in regarding to coaching decisions and red zone offense and special teams but we have a legitimate Big 10 QB. He got hit multiple times today and he kept making big throws. That screen that won the game was not an easy throw with 4 defenders right in his face.

I posted a link to this podcast last year and wanted to post another this year for those that might be new, missed it or never have listened.

Zack does a really good job giving conference wide coverage with a balanced breakdown.

Definitely worth a listen and he is always giving Rutgers good/fair assessment.

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I guess I didn't realize what a huge hole losing MT would leave in our D. But man, we were gassed in the 4th QTR and got gashed badly in the run game. We also had some serious pass coverage breakdowns where a more accurate QB would have converted those opportunities into TDs. I saw a couple of times the VT WRs got behind our D and it was just luck (or poor QB) that those opportunities didn't turn into TDs.

What's going on with our D? Is this just a maturation process with young LBs and DBs, a quality depth issue, or is there something more concerning here? We just seem to have taken a step back, at least in the 2nd half. And some of these issues were apparent in the first 2 games, and against a better opponent, they just appear more glaring.

Anyone else see the similarities to wimsatt after missing 2 wide open deep shots plus several other passes? But kept them in the game with his running?

We plan on being at the Church at North Main around noon, hopefully we run into a bunch of RU fans there.

If you're in the area, looks for the flags:

OK - a variation and they have Saquon.

PS - I’m an Eagles fan so not trying to rub anything in. Glad we won!

Anyone else surprised that we haven’t lined up in any 2-3 running back sets? We have the deepest Rb room in a long time, why not try a split back formation or 3 backs? If you run it a few times, you immediately make the opposing D coordinators have to prep against it. It makes them take time during their week to plan for it, just in case they run it again. Plus, I feel like it would be effective for our O.

Hey everyone, me and my brother are planning on doing a road trip to Maryland for the game this season and just wanted to see where the other Rutgers fans that are going down there are staying.

Also does anyone know where the Rutgers section is in the stadium?

In the past, there have been shuttles from the NB train station to SHI and back- they’ve advertised it. However I’m not seeing anything about that this year. Does anyone know if that’s happening?

And I’ll be dollars to donuts that gets cleaned up by next week and we only give up one - or less.

Seems like many of us are excited about having 2 NBA draft picks in our starting lineup, but we correctly temper our expectations for this year because they’re both freshmen, plus we don’t have a dominant center.

With the news that Carmelo Anthony’s son is coming in for a visit, it got me thinking about that 2002/03 Cuse team. I was at the RAC when RU beat them, eventual national champs that year. So I know anything can happen, and there’s likely some luck involved as well.

But interestingly, that Cuse team also had 2 freshmen starters (forward Carmelo Anthony and point guard Gerry McNamara), 2 future NBA players (Anthony and sophomore Hakim Warrick), and no dominant center (sophomore Craig Forth). They had one senior starter, guard Kueth Duany.

Look, I’ll be disappointed if this RU team underperforms, but it’s also possible that we can excel in ways that Cuse team did, with the similar makeup of our starting lineup, not to mention maybe our best depth in decades.

Great win on the road in an extremely difficult place to win... in fact, we'd never won there before. However, what the f with not allowing any kick/punt returns?? I understand on some punt situations and some kickoffs if the kickoff reaches the end zone, but we've had several opportunities for returns this year - including at least 2 today, where fair catches were made instead. GS was NOT always like this....

Collectively, that was some of the worst situational decisions I've ever seen a HC make.
-Passed up two chip shot FGs inside the 5.
-Up 16 points, he chooses to kick a 53 yard FG by a kicker who is shaky at best. Thus, giving an opponent that you've dominated all day a short field to get back in the game... ON THE ROAD!
I love you coach, but that's terrible coaching.

That said, I'll happily take the W, but it should've never been that close.
@Richie O I'd love to see the reporters ask him about these decisions.

Mine goes to Beam

First time we’ve gotten any votes since….???

When the injury report came out at 1:30 and Sam Brown was no where to be found, I said we’re winning this game. We have 2 monster RBs now who are healthy and this will be the secret weapon that pounds defenses going forward this season.

Watch this below. This is big boy football vs. the ACC and like Schiano says, “breaking their will” when you do this play after play …

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my 8 month pregnant wife needs a permit for next week - if anyone is selling please let me know asap thanks!

Why we had to burn a time out while VT was running multiple defensive players on and off the field.
The referee did not allow us to snap the ball

Nate Toran had 17 in one season. I get it was a different era of football but……..