You may well be right but for now I’m just happy to see we have someone who can look for an open receiver under pressure. Gavin did not have the green light to do that for whatever reason. He was programmed to throw it away if option one was well covered.
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You may well be right but for now I’m just happy to see we have someone who can look for an open receiver under pressure. Gavin did not have the green light to do that for whatever reason. He was programmed to throw it away if option one was well covered.
So many complaints about nothing vertical. Yet we got good yards and TDs on short passes... finally!
I'm not a big fan of Tom Brady and Patriots offense during his run but Brady won with swing outs and tight ends throws in the flat out in the middle and a rare bomb. The success produced long drives keeping the opposition offense off the field. That was Rutgers problem with Gavin. 3rd and 3/5 yards had no chance unless it was a Kyle run.
There isn't a single way to win, go with your strength. Nothing beats making 3rd down plays for short yardage and making a short first down. Keep their defense on the field and keep resting ours.
Greg actually said in a recent interview that punts are the most important plays in games. Pretty near verbatim. That’s his objective. Punt rather than risk turnovers. It’s a huge headwind for a team to win games against good teams without any intention of putting up big points. It’s also why our receivers are still so weak. Why would any top receivers come here to have 1 catch for 6 yards every game ?
It’s a terrible philosophy.
I think you are missing his complete thought process. If you don't get a first down, yes they are critical. And he pays more attention on blocking or stuffing punt returns. Schiano has always had a good to great special teams play on both sides off the ball. Flood and Ash had bad to terrible special teams.
No. That’s not what he said or meant. Of course punts are important when you don’t make first downs. He said they are the most important plays. He prefers punts to anything but lowest risk plays. That’s how he is. We see it every game. GW didn’t even throw to the sticks on 3rd down pass plays last year and this is why. Too risky for Schiano.
Losing philosophy against good teams.
You can’t go by pass decisions related to Gavin. The issue was he could not be trusted to accurately complete passes. His numbers speak for themselves and explain why we would often run on 3rd and 8. That’s what gave us the best chance to win
We also went for it on 4th down often instead of punting so what your saying isn’t true.
No it's not a losing philosophy. Time management and keeping the better offensive off the field is the better option. If you think that Rutgers is going to make the playoffs you need to change the teams you are routing for!
Unless they get buried or block the punt lol. Obviously you want another team to route for. Winning is all that matters.
I think Shelby thinks we have the talent of OSU and GS is the only thing holding us back rather than GS making the most of the team we have.
GS- was expected to only improve last year and he won, this year, he is expected to win. So, he is going to coach each game to win- even if the win isn’t impressive- and he is then going to build to become impressive.
I'll make it simple, Shelby isn't a Rutgers fan. Probably never had season tickets.
Decisive. Accurate. Quick. Mustard. Legs. All you can ask for.
I’m sure we will see if he can hit the deep ball in stride. I’m sure it will be good buy the looks of him.
Excited to see more!
I’m sure we will see if he can hit the deep ball in stride. I’m sure it will be good buy the looks of him.
Excited to see more!
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We do t have OSU, Mich, PSU on tge schedule- 70% or so P4 teams don’t either.
So- it matters to where it brings us this year.
Greg is certainly conservative, but we've had teams in the past, especially during 1.0, that threw deep (Teel and a stable of very good WRs), so I think it's more personnel related than philosophy. Having said that, though, AK has a good arm and we have some guys with speed and we're going to take some deep shots this year, so I don't understand not trying to work on those in a game like this that wasn't in doubt, as there's no substitute for real game reps. The "showing hands" argument doesn't hold up, as showing a few of our long pass plays isn't really going to give defenses some significant insight or advantage.
You’re the same guy that said Wimsatt would be our starter because Schiano like to run the ball. If we have a passing QB we will pass. Most on this board even question AK passing ability, don’t need to push it with a slightly above average QB. AK was not a 4 or 5 star recruit. If we need to pass the long pass, I’m sure we will do it.
We played plenty of teams that beat us with this type of passing plan and I wondered why we couldn’t do it.
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We knew this was more of a practice game then a truly competitive one, but we also wanted to see AK have a good game. And he did. Aside from the lack of the deep throw, he did everything we wanted to see.
Howard may win 10 games this year. This isn’t the Howard of old
It’s not about Howard. We were a 7-6 team last year. 4 of those losses are given. AK is brought in to beat teams like UMD and Wisc. Good news is that we don’t have the big 4.
And Oregon is going to underachieve if they don't figure out an OL pronto. This conference punishes bad line play.
Watching them the other night- they are a very solid team.
Me when I come into a thread like this!
Seems more like you come like this:
Have serious question for you. What could Greg do that would make you happy?
Seems more like you come like this:
Have serious question for you. What could Greg do that would make you happy?
It’s not Greg - he has this crazy love fest with Gavin. Our new QB threw 3 TD passes - something GW has never done in his career which includes multiple games against Wagner types.
Ashokan attributes any relative success by AK to better wide outs - meanwhile all but 37 yards in the air verse Howard were receptions by guys who were on the roster last year. And nobody made any “great” catches. All 15 receptions were passes that should have been caught.
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Right? How many passes did Gavin complete to TEs all year last year?
here is my take on Greg and GW- when he skipped a year on QB recruiting- he HAD to start GW all year.
Good news/bad news - For Greg- the good news is that GW was most likely the best QB last year. So- that decision was easy. Bad news- while he did improve from the previous year- he made no additional improvements through the year. Good news- GW with all his faults, did win 7.
This year- GS 2.0 went out to find a QB for this year- I do think he gave both guys a chance to win it. When GW was still not improving, Greg made the best call of his career.
I don't think we can be a playoff team with a QB like AK but he is good enough to get us to 7-9 wins this year. And that is going to be huge
Hopefully, we can show we have an adequate passing game that we can get better and better passing QB recruits or transfers in the future.
The schedule sets up for us to be in the playoffs. We probably lose in the 1st round but there is a chance.
While I know Greg is just going to try to win…there is a part of me that says we need to have a WR with over 50 catches this year.
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