POLL What Should the Line Be For the Washington Game
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Right, clearly a sampling of guys on a Rutgers Football message board is a great population to use for this study.
+7 for their home field advantage. You can't use data from broken Rutgers 2015 to figure out a point spread for 2016.
Throw away what you saw in the Spring game. That is not what the team will look like.
Throw away what you saw in the Spring game. That is not what the team will look like.
This.
The RU offense will be totally different than the tapes from last season that Coach Petersen and his staff will review. The line for this game is based on the false perception of a Flood led underperforming team and overmatched Coaching staff that no longer exists. Get ready for a real surprise on September 3rd.
I wish this game were later in the season after the team gained some experience with the new offense.
:-) Lets wait and hear what RU Al says in his analysis, and reduce his RU score by 10 and go with that.
Watch this. This is a game in which Carroo's replacement had to come in and pick it up. There is life after Carroo.
Not for nothing but Washington was ranked below Washington State in passing defense last year.
When we played WSU last year, Grant had most of the receptions, and Scarff, Flanagan and Bergen saw a lot of action. Carroo did not score any touchdowns that game. We can all sit here and twist statistics from last year, which are meaningless because it is a new offense this year and a new coaching staff.
Three things jump out at me from this game:
- Carroo and Martin were having a contest to see who could get the most TD's.
- There were some damn good passes in this game, which doesn't fit into the narrative of those who detest everything Laviano.
- Even against Indiana's O Line, Laviano did not always have a lot of time back there.
- Okay, a fourth thing: great to see Paul James get that TD - that was an echo of his capability before that Navy defender took out his knee.
And that could be one of the issues. I really, really wish we played Howard first, then UW, so we could break in that offense under game conditions against an inferior opponent.
