They are out there playing the schemes they're coached in, but the RU coach(es) are thick-headed. It's been said that the very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Well it didn't work against Derek Carr led Fresno St, it didn't work against Houston or SMU or Cincinnati during the final season in the AAC, it didn't work against Washington St last season. Yet once again going up against another pass-happy offense the staff employed the same game plan. They sat in soft zones, while rushing four and instead of being aggresive with their LB's in blitz packages they had them dropping back trying to cover WR's that they were unable to. They didn't allow their secondary players to play aggressive in your face coverage. Not even once. Not on 1st and 10, not on 3rd and 6 or 7, and certainly not on 4th and 5. Never mixed up the looks at all. The only way they were going to slow this offense down was if the headlines coming out of this game were something like RU sacked and harassed Washington St quarterback into 3-4 ints. But they only allowed him to sit back there cherry-picking his way to a career day. Even with the game on the line they employed the same exact tactic. They showed themselves to once again be clueless as a defensive staff and Flood also if he was on board with the gameplan on defense
Don't put this on the players!
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All the penalties are on the players. It is on Flood to fix it, but in game, those players need to be accountable. Over 100 yards in penalties is terrible.
This was a TEAM loss. I put this loss on BOTH the coaches and the players.
- Poor management of TOs - coaching
- WAY to many penalties at crucial times - coaching/players
- Poor OL pass and run blocking - players
- Secondary failing to come up with TOs (they had a shot at, at least 3-4 INTs) - players
- Playing cover 2 soft zone D most of the game, no press coverage and rare blitzing - coaching
- Poor QB play and failure to switch QBs when one was performing poorly - coaching/players
- Lack of a pass rush when rushing 4 and NO pressure up the middle - players
- Failure to consistently tackle WRs - players
- Failure to cover WRs in the secondary forever out of position - players
- TOs and penalties on crucial offensive drives that erased TDs - players
That's right you said it. Keep things in front of them. Make tackles. Like a prevent defense the entire game. And that was fine with WSU because they're not a big play offense anyway. Forget about tight coverage. Or defensing a pass. Or making the QB uncomfortable. Let's just keep on doing what we're doing because it's been working so well.
The Rutgers defense was unwatchable all game because there was no pass rush and the back seven were incapable of causing one turnover that might have been the difference between winning and losing.The lack of talent is glaring and the coaching staff seems at a loss to make adjustments that would turn the tide in Rutgers favor.Everybody sitting around me had no confidence that Rutgers would stop Washington State on their last drive which is very telling and discouraging looking forward to future games against even tougher opponents.
Well, it's somewhat on the players on the defense. Some of our fans keep on boasting about finding the diamond in the ruff 2 star players. Flood has three recruiting classes now and we do have 2-3 good-great 2 star recruits but we need at least 7-8 good players on both the defense and offense. We probably have 3-4 good players on both side of the ball. That's why we can not play the defense properly because our DC knows we can't. We don't have the players because we don't recruit very well.
Not a exactly correct. We played press coverage when it was 3rd and long or 4th and long a few times. I am disappointed because on the final drive when it was 4th and 5 instead of 4th and 10 (because of the offside penalty) we didn't play man press. We gave up the 1st down on a little curl route.
The simple fact is that if those selfish thugs didn't let down the entire program, we win this game. I can't blame freshmen DBs for not being able to cover D1 seniors. They shouldn't be out there. We got screwed by a bunch of idiots.
