Adding insult to injury

[blueoyster]

First off, I can't imagine how absolutely horrible Athan must feel right now...that hand-brain dysfunction will surely haunt him for a long long time!

That said, just to make you even more sick about the play and loss, consider this...Strong and Duff are lined up wide left. PU is playing man-to-man with all other nine defenders lined up over and skewed towards the side of our line opposite Strong/Duff. Strong and Duff then look like they take their defenders deep, the other nine defenders collapse forward looking to defend a run. Fletcher swings out left with NO ONE WITHIN 10 YARDS of him in the space Stong and Duff (with thier defenders) have vacated. If Athen simply makes the connection with Fletcher, it seems a TD is likely and most likely we vanquish years of PU frustration!! What a FANTASTIC call by Kirk!

SO sad, really...that was game/set/match right there.

 

[RUforJERSEY]

First off, I can't imagine how absolutely horrible Athan must feel right now...that hand-brain dysfunction will surely haunt him for a long long time!

That said, just to make you even more sick about the play and loss, consider this...Strong and Duff are lined up wide left. PU is playing man-to-man with all other nine defenders lined up over and skewed towards the side of our line opposite Strong/Duff. Strong and Duff then look like they take their defenders deep, the other nine defenders collapse forward looking to defend a run. Fletcher swings out left with NO ONE WITHIN 10 YARDS of him in the space Stong and Duff (with thier defenders) have vacated. If Athen simply makes the connection with Fletcher, it seems a TD is likely and most likely we vanquish years of PU frustration!! What a FANTASTIC call by Kirk!

SO sad, really...that was game/set/match right there.

He probably got too excited and lost all semblance of poise. Tried to go too fast. Can't happen.

 

[Kbe4]

He probably got too excited and lost all semblance of poise. Tried to go too fast. Can't happen.

He's a senior. I've seen lots of freshmen over the years that didn't get too excited in situations like that.

 

[RUforJERSEY]

He's a senior. I've seen lots of freshmen over the years that didn't get too excited in situations like that.

Senior or freshman you've either got composure in big spots or you don't.

 

[RUBlackout]

Yes would have been a TD or at very least short yardage left in a 1st & goal

always a “what could have been…”

 

[BossNJ]

He probably got too excited and lost all semblance of poise. Tried to go too fast. Can't happen.

As a 5th year senior that’s unacceptable

 

[PSU_Nut]

It happens especially on a cold night. Even Tom Brady has fumbled snaps in key situations. It wasy for us to job wearing aour warm gloves or sitting in our living room nice and warm. In reality it happens all the time.

 

[Knight Shift]

As a 5th year senior that’s unacceptable

Some of you keyboard warriors are hilariously merciless.

 

[Pils86]

Aren't qb's trained to hold two hands on the ball until the backward motion starts, or is that old school, or am I wrong?

 

[BossNJ]

Some of you keyboard warriors are hilariously merciless.

I hear what you’re saying and I’m not normally hard on what amounts to a kid. I just don’t think he’s cut out for the biggest moments as he’s had missteps virtually every time the chips were down.

It’s also borne out of decades of frustration with Rutgers never seeming to be able to get a “big” win. And big is in quotes for a reason.

 

[RU#1fan]

It happens especially on a cold night. Even Tom Brady has fumbled snaps in key situations. It wasy for us to job wearing aour warm gloves or sitting in our living room nice and warm. In reality it happens all the time.

It also happened at the very end of the Minnesota game. Can’t have those mental lapses. We learn and move on.

 

[Knight Shift]

I hear what you’re saying and I’m not normally hard on what amounts to a kid. I just don’t think he’s cut out for the biggest moments as he’s had missteps virtually every time the chips were down.

It’s also borne out of decades of frustration with Rutgers never seeming to be able to get a “big” win. And big is in quotes for a reason.

Fair enough, but I respectfully disagree. To condemn the young man for a single (maybe two) game losing mistakes in view of his entire body of work and the vast suckhole the QB position had been in since Gary Nova (and for those that did not hate the guy-Chris Laviano under Flood)--that's 10 or more years, to crucify the guy for a mistake or two seems unduly harsh.