Absolute bullshit.

think we win this game if we had him healthy.
i think we brought in a lot of oline recruits over the last couple of years. hope we keep developing them quickly.

Tech - defense fell apart and we were lucky to hang in

Washington - completely dominated us but they shot themselves in the foot

Nebraska - Defense played lights out and tackling was much improved. in the 2cd half and offense showed some ability to move. Ben Black is gonna be a good one and Duff is already on his way. We abandoned the run which we won't do in the future

We had so many opportunities and win this game 8 times out of 10. We played the entire 2cd half in Nebraska territory - Greg will get this cleaned up

Fully expect the team to rebound next week and our offense should be able to show better balance

My only complaint is Greg's utter refusal to try and return punts - there were at least 2 punts that we didn't field that rolled about 25 yards - the risk adversity is working against him

He was wearing a brace or sleeve on his knee?
Was this asked to Schiano post game?
Was he wearing this second half vrs WASHINGTON?

How does that not even get reviewed

Do we officially have “the five?” Are there any ongoing battles? I can’t remember a year where we settled on a starting five so
Early in the season.

Ouch.
Evan Simon did not play yesterday, but maybe their HC will rethink that.

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Why not put Brown in on that 1st and goal from the 2. He's a load to stop.
Why did we not try to block the kick at the end, which ended up a 79 yard punt?
Why is Ben Black not playing all the time?

The 1952 AL MVP is the oldest living player-No.3 overall-for 4 different franchises:The Athletics,Cubs,Houston,and the Phillies but not for the Yankees nor for the Cardinals as the top two guys,Art Shallock and Bill Greason,played for those teams.
The No.4 guy,Frank Saucier,and the No.5 guy,Ed Mickelson aren't the top dog for any team as one of the top three have them beaten out.
If Bobby makes it one more time around the Sun,it'll be the first time in MLB history that 3 centenarians are concurrently living.
Stay,Bobby,Stay.

Based on today and last week, it's finally time to address the elephant in the room. The '22 OL class hasn't produce much tangible on the field and it doesn't look good for the next two years. This was supposed to be the group that took the reins and gave the team starters and stable depth.

Asamoah is the only one to get any regular playing time and he's not developed into a complete OL. Chin was a disaster last week and White hasn't shown a lot today. These are all 3rd year players. If they are not showing flashes at this point it's tough to project them out to being strong players over their final years.

Now the class did lose three to medical retirements for different reasons. Hard to say what their contributions would have been since they never saw the field.

Did we waste 7 scholarships in that class? What would you grade this group?

Future looks bright at QB with him and AJ.

The first time in I don’t know how many years RU has the personnel to be a truly balanced offense. We have a gem of a rb in Monongai who ran 19 times for 78 net yards and quality backups along with the best potential wr corps since 2007 with Miller, Strong, Duff, Black and even Long thrown in and a capable pass threat te in Fletcher.

You could argue that Kirk could have given the rock a few more times to Monongai and/or Brown but do folks actually believe that RU can beat quality opponents in the BIG and play from behind on the road by running one back more than 25 times? Even with the most prolific offense in RU history in 2007 with a 2k yd rb in Ray Rice, Mike Teel threw for 3k yds and had two 1k yd wrs in Britt and Underwood.

Folks, you’re not going to get to the area of 8-10 wins without throwing the ball. You could argue that Kirk needed better designed plays or that Kyle needed a couple more touches but RU does not run to the outside and the Neb interior defense was as stout as could be and our offensive line play left a lot to be desired.

Athan threw 37 times and RU ran 32 times. I’m fine with the run/pass ratio to win games. The line play and play designs are another issue.

Let’s beat the Badgers.

GO RU

Although you never think anything is a lock, one does view some opponents as a good one for a win. Until this week, I felt we looked pretty good against Wisky and Minn. But, with both of them pulling off big wins, I may have to reconsider. Hell, even Washington got their act together which may help us a bit with perception. Any team that puts up 52pts. like Wisky did yesterday has to be taken seriously. Yes, Purdue is hardly a heavyweight, but they do have a respectable D. Even UCLA kept it respectable with PSU.

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Thursday October 17, 6:30pm

During the Nebraska game, I noticed that our special team's plays were not going the way they should. We had a botched fake FG, couldn't return the ball well, etc.

Is there anything different that we're doing differently this season compared to last season? Our special teams were crucial to winning games we almost shouldn't have last season. To drop the focus on that while we're still developing our program is questionable at best and disheartening at worst.

Haven't had time to review the tape, but after watching the game with 20 or so Rutgers fans, the general concensus is that our offensive game plan was truely offensive.

My theory is that Kirk draws up a solid amount of plays and has very good schemes, but he really doesn't have a feel for the flow of the game and timing to call the correct play.

Any thoughts??

For how bad the defense has been in the first four games and early in this game, they really came on and played lights out the rest of the game.

The offense had countless opportunities to score and should have come away with 7 on Blacks dropped pass, 7 after the blocked TD and 3 on Patels missed fg. Thats 17 sure points left on the table.

You can't say the same thing about Nebraska because they did not really have any opportunities outside of their two scores.

It seemed like Kirk was lost on what to call at times, especially in the first half. Started out the game just running which was successful but had an obvious negative impact on AK when trying to throw on third down and convert. Then he got away from the run which was working and killed Kyle's rhythm in the second and Nebraska shut down the run. We were 2-13 on third down and 2-6 on 4th. Hard to win a game like that.

Also Nebraska must have been covering well in the secondary because AK, especially in the last two drives, would stand in the pocket for a while without having anyone to throw to only to end up being sacked or pressured.

We also need to get away from this silly non return plan with kicks and punts. It puts us in bad starting field position.

I put this loss a bit on Kirk, his gameplan and his play calling. Obviously the players have to execute but it seemed like it was a scattered offense.

We were two mistakes away from 5-0. Black's and Patel's.

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Why don't we run outside or off tackle? All runs are between the tackels and he bounces outside and is usualy successful.

Sorry, just venting after frustrating game.