Poor defense and little offense, combined with over 100 yards in penalties

[Caliknight]

won't win many games. Laviano goes for 204 yards, 1 td, 2 turnovers. For a run heavy offense, that isn't good enough from the QB position against a subpar D.

Would have been an incredible win given how poorly we played, but the better team won.

 

[JQRU91]

We had over 400 yards on offense with over 200 of it on the ground. You can win games with that. The untimely penalties killed us.

 

[rutgersdave]

We had over 400 yards on offense with over 200 of it on the ground. You can win games with that. The untimely penalties killed us.

No way we are running against any good teams if that's all they are defending.

IT'S the defense and not only the defensive backfield.

 

[Caliknight]

We had over 400 yards on offense with over 200 of it on the ground. You can win games with that. The untimely penalties killed us.

Their D is horrible. We also had 3 turnovers and are lucky it wasn't 4.

 

[RC85]

We had over 400 yards on offense with over 200 of it on the ground. You can win games with that. The untimely penalties killed us.

blown coverages and no pass rush doomed us

 

[RUBOB72]

won't win many games. Laviano goes for 204 yards, 1 td, 2 turnovers. For a run heavy offense, that isn't good enough from the QB position against a subpar D.

Would have been an incredible win given how poorly we played, but the better team won.

Are you delirious?...As bad as we played ...as poorly as coaches can be...we still had this game...hold onto the pass and the game was over...you people aren't Rutgers fans ...only the same ones who normally call for Flood's head...a new QB etc. also rarely go to a game...

 

[RU#1fan]

We had over 400 yards on offense with over 200 of it on the ground. You can win games with that. The untimely penalties killed us.

No, our putrid defense killed us.
The other team had well north of 500 yards on offense.
No Sacks on over 60 passing attempts ....Really ?????

 

[JPhoboken]

We had over 400 yards on offense with over 200 of it on the ground. You can win games with that. The untimely penalties killed us.

Agree,

two touchdowns called back were bad, but we had other drives stalled due to penalties as well. We also had 2 dropped interceptions, the last one on the first play of their winning drive, would have probably iced the game for us.

You almost never win a game when you are -3 in turnovers and the one Laviano threw going backwards was just silly.

 

[bac2therac]

and yet all the defense had to just like last year vs Penn State is defend 90 yards with little time left in its home stadium. Instead it once again allowed to a team to march down with no resistanc. Despite the issues with offense and penalties...its the defense were most of the blame lies

 

[MS-RU]

and yet all the defense had to just like last year vs Penn State is defend 90 yards with little time left in its home stadium. Instead it once again allowed to a team to march down with no resistanc. Despite the issues with offense and penalties...its the defense were most of the blame lies

Yup. The worst is when people dont learn from their mistakes/experiences. This isn't the first time Rossi's awful scheme cost us a game..

 

[RUckusbuck]

Yup. The worst is when people dont learn from their mistakes/experiences. This isn't the first time Rossi's awful scheme cost us a game..

The scheme is sound. The execution needs to improve.

 

[JQRU91]

My initial post was directed at the OP's assertion that the offense wasn't good enough. For a "run heavy" offense, 200+ yards rushing paired with 200+ yards passing is pretty much ideal.