Those network guys are getting destroyed by a guy on cable lol. Gutfield ratings off the charts
Poll: Starting QB--Lonergan or Surace?
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He’s not capable of doing that. He coaches like it’s 1983
A keep from making mistakes offense, keep the score close with the D, that isn't keeping up with the times is my opinion of what to expect in 2026.
With AK at quarterback and Antwan Raymond's plays last season , Rutgers was better then it's record ,but because of the coaching and expecting the D to do it's job, Rutgers record was worse then it should have been.
It's all he knows. He's a rotary phone in a digital world. His entire philosphy is to keep the defense rested as much as possible. Run the ball, run the clock, mitigate risk all over the field. Punting is good, fair catching even better. Risk mitigation. It sometimes allows you to play closer to teams that are more talented than you, but never beat them. It always always teams as talented or even slightly less to stay in games.
But that's all he knows. He didn't learn anything under Urban Meyer or any of the other coaches he was around. His entire philosophy is based on the beliefs of Joe Paterno. He's a defensive minded coach in an offensive world.
We didn’t play that way last year. I thought AK was given the green light to air out the ball. The problem was our best defense was keeping the ball on offense so there were times where that had to be factored in since the clock stops with drops.
Quite honestly - Im not sure I recall a Rutgers defense being as depressing as last year’s was to watch in my lifetime. I’m not counting on a miracle turnaround, because the talent wasn’t upgraded, but we have to improve a little there don’t we? I mean - we ranked bottom 10 in all of FBS in several defense metrics. That’s hard to do with power conference status…
With all due respect,
"light years ahead of RUTGERS?"1. Last couple of years it didn't look like that on Saturday.
2 The Under Armour
has dried up with the founder's equity diminished.3. Have you ever been to a game there? One of the kids was there four years. We saw a few games. The place is the worst stadium in the B1G. If half the seats are full for a B1G game, then that is a normal crowd.
4. Locksley will be gone by December.
Every problem we have, they have worse.
I don’t think we really played it the old school “Greg way” on offense last year though. Do you? We went for it on 4th down a ton, and Greg/Kirk had no problem airing out the ball. The red zone play calling def sucked, but not because we were afraid to throw the ball. If anything, some of the worst decisions were times when a pass play was called and we took a sack that pushed us out of FG range. We also didn’t play with good discipline in the red zone and took a few gut wrenching penalties there. These things are on the coaches - but it wasn’t like we were running 4 straight rushes up the middle to “not lose” the way we did in previous years. At least it didn’t seem that way to me. Arguably - there were times I felt we should’ve thrown less simply to avoid giving the ball back to the other team since our D was so bad.
Greg has had teams that threw a lot
we went for it more because the defense was bad and we were behind a lot. More desperation than anything else
and yet if you ask anyone who is better they will say MD.With all due respect,
1. Last couple of years it didn't look like that on Saturday.
2 The Under Armour
3. Have you ever been to a game there? One of the kids was there four years. We saw a few games. The place is the worst stadium in the B1G. If half the seats are full for a B1G game, then that is a normal crowd.
4. Locksley will be gone by December.
Every problem we have, they have worse.
lol @ have I ever been to a game there .....
look, I get it but the reality is that the perception of RU football is one of poor, lousy, shouldn't be in the BIG, worst team in the BIG, and should be booted from the BIG. Even the tards writing preseason scrap have MD a few spots ahead of us where we are 1 above Purdue.
you guys gotta get out of the bubble
We went to Lincoln NE two years ago and our experience was very different. It was a B1G event---a sellout in their cavernous concrete antique. If Ben Black didn't drop that bomb in the 25mph wind, it would have been even more fun. Better than Rapey Valley or Ann Arbor.
My wife is really looking forward to Chestnut Hill, cuz her closest nephew with two toddlers lives there.
I understand that there are some people who are jealous of Rutgers and definitely look down at our disappointing results, so we should win soon and turn that around. This season I would settle for continuing our recent dominance over
and MSU. Hopefully we get an upset or two.
Ben Black isn't why we lost, certainly didn't help but not the reason we lost. That was one of the worst coached games of his careerWe went to Lincoln NE two years ago and our experience was very different. It was a B1G event---a sellout in their cavernous concrete antique. If Ben Black didn't drop that bomb in the 25mph wind, it would have been even more fun. Better than Rapey Valley or Ann Arbor.
My wife is really looking forward to Chestnut Hill, cuz her closest nephew with two toddlers lives there.
I understand that there are some people who are jealous of Rutgers and definitely look down at our disappointing results, so we should win soon and turn that around. This season I would settle for continuing our recent dominance over
He would go for it on the first drives of games. Not just because we were behind. Certainly, the defense being bad was a factor in that as well as play calling, in general. There were head scratching plays that made zero sense including the one I referred to before where we took a sack that took us out of FG range. I remember thinking to myself, why throw there? Worst case, just take the 3. Lots of calls I didn’t agree with but not what you and Cali referred to. He didn’t play it conservative. He was probably conservative with GW, not because Greg refused to allow the game to be called to win but simply because Gavin was allowed to be QB (his awful decision) and couldn’t complete a pass to save his life. (Even worse - yes, I know…). I’m just saying - for better or worse, I don’t think we’re going to play to hold onto the ball and not take any chances. I’m sure Greg knows damn well the D won’t be good enough to compete that way. He has to.
I'm going to respectfully disagree. Everyone is harping on the Ohio game celebrating the aggressive nature but if he doesn't we lose. He's not smart but he's not outright stupid either. Greg hasn't changed his tune to the bell curve,
Which recent games did you feel we played conservatively? I don’t recall any except Nebraska but that was a wind storm. I’m not saying the play calling was good - just that I don’t recall thinking we weren’t willing to take any chances. I just didn’t love the chances we decided to take.
I'm going to slightly disagree here. Greg is extremely smart. But even extremely smart people can make poor decisions under pressure because of an underlying tendency (play conservative). Play calling can be stupid, which can be more frustrating for a smart person. But I am picking nits here.
If Ben does not drop that pass that hit him on the shoulders on the Nebraska 5 yard line he walks in and scores. We win .
definitely not extremely smart. He's not out right dumb but smart isn't something I think you can say. He's dedicate to process and that masks a lot of dumb stuff and normally protects one from appearing smart. Smart would be having better relative awareness, having the ability to break a mold and do new things without reverting to the mean, having a better grasp of the overall process of choosing coaches for task at hand, not reverting back to his situation sheet devoid of any real feel for what's going etc etc etc.... I mean, we've got a litany of examples to go by that would refute 'extremely smart'
Plus with Raymond in the backfield it will be all running the ball and trying to control the clock with this defense. Same **** with this guy. Duff at least keeps the defenses honest.
Speaking of Nebraska, gotta think they have their October 17 game against Oregon circled, and Raiola may not even start. Raiola sounds like a huge doucher here:
That's what kept 2024 and 2025 from being much better seasons than they turned out to be, among other things.
UMASS? Sorry, that game tells us little. The BC game is the one and USC fer sure...
I disagree as far as the offense goes: I think that will tell us a lot about how our new QB, whether Lonergan or Surace, is meshing with our receivers and the offense overall. Yes, it's UMass, but seeing the O work as a unit with a new QB is really independent of who the opponent is, outside of a team like Howard of course.
As for the D, I think the BC game is the one where we'll get more of a judgement on that. The D should roll over UMass.
I agree
it's always better to see how we play at full speed
fair enough. That part is true but I think it is much easier to do those things against much lessor competition and as example a QB not running for his life.
(or more importantly a Head Coach having to make tough calls in a tight game lol). HA.
Have no idea didn’t vote. Ceiling is a 5 or 6 win season. Until we get a better X and O coach. And a super donor like Cuban. Nothing will change.
Watched the training camp podcast and first topic was if jersey mikes subs patch would be on the uniforms. Then they were worried press box would be moved for luxury boxes. Totally Rutgers type mentality discussion. Turned it off.
Watched the training camp podcast and first topic was if jersey mikes subs patch would be on the uniforms. Then they were worried press box would be moved for luxury boxes. Totally Rutgers type mentality discussion. Turned it off.
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