Can someone who was at the game speak to open receivers?
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There were quite a few, especially earlier in the game. I remember one play that I think was on 3rd down where we had two guys with no one within 15 yards of them on the right side of the field and it was only until Laviano started scrambling that he saw them. He hit one of them for the 1st down but the lack of awareness was kind of scary
I'm not a fan of Laviano but the coverage looked pretty tight to me. It isn't like our current crop is known for seperation.
Receivers were open on almost every play. My mom is 79 years old and had 4 sons play football. She was sittin in the upper deck with me and laughed at one point. I asked her what she was laughing at, she said they were all open and he still didn't pass the ball. If a 79 year old women can see there is an issue why cant the brain trust?
There were open receivers. I watched Laviano's head on quite a few plays today to see where he was looking. He often stays on his primary receiver a long time. By the time he decides not to throw, it is a little late in the play to find someone else.
Yup. That was the first drive of the game. CL had all day to throw, but never saw Agadosi wide open with no one within 10 yards of him downfield for an easy TD.
Was not at the TTFP game but I suspected the same happened there.. plenty of time earlier in the game, no effort to look guys open, throw guys open.. throw to spots on timing patterns.. throw long to stretch the field, get safeties to start backing off and stop hawking the ball... everything about our offense is SLOW..
SLOW to call plays, slow to snap, slow to handoff, slow to find receivers...
Not enjoyable to watch and I doubt the players enjoy playing that style.
We need CHANGE of pace, and change of QB, change of coaching staff looks to be the only way to get that done.
I hadn't thought about that until I read this thread, but......
In addition to my RU tickets I will sometimes take my kids to Lafayette or Lehigh games which are local to us. You can see individual players with obvious talent at those games, but the one thing that jumps out at you is the obvious difference in speed of the game between the two levels of football.
Rutgers doesn't look like an FCS team, but there does just seem to be an overall slowness about them.
You should have added he was jumping up and down waving his arms. If there were 40,000 people there, at least 39,999 saw that. I specifically saw Tismis and Flannigan wide open on the same play yet Laviano chose to run for a short gain.
I can't say it's the QB's fault because none of us know what he's being told or what the staff expects him to do in those specific situations. It does give the IMPRESSION that he has trouble pulling the trigger but that may be completely wrong.
That could well be the problem. He could be reluctant for several reasons. For instance he is having trouble reading deep coverages. He might be trying to be too careful with his longer throws. Who knows?
I didn't notice the play being referenced, but it is hard to see an open receiver on the opposite side of the field if you are running for your life just trying to escape a defender. He might also not have progressed enough to look up effectively once he is running - though he has made a few good throws in that situation
In the 2nd specific instance, he was rolling toward the RU bench, one receiver was to his right and maybe 5 yards downfield. The TE was between 10 and 15 yards downfield between the hash and sideline also on the same side. At least that's how I saw it.
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