Rutgers to regain our mojo and the voters confidence. I'm feeling a 56-0 beat down
I get what you're saying, but voters arent going to give IU credit for beating Rutgers 56-0
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With zero healthy running backs.Rutgers to regain our mojo and the voters confidence. I'm feeling a 56-0 beat down
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OP needs to read my preseason post about the six games leading up to the Oct 17 Buckeye beatdown all being variations of vanilla ice cream with game plans and play calling
Brasky is showing life, so there is a much better possibility to get a scoop of chocolate chip in that one.
@gros-louis Campbell is healthy I think, right? Great opportunity for him and I thought he looked good for the carries he's had. If it's got to happen, this is probably the best conference opponent to have. I think they'll nurse carries for Turbo, and Beebe if he can play, and I think that's still pretty likely. If we can get a comfortable lead, very well might be Wilson in there and Campbell for much of the 2nd half.
I get what you're saying, but voters arent going to give IU credit for beating Rutgers 56-0
well they won't punish us for it either ... which the last two weeks is what has happened
Need some turnovers, great special teams play and throw the ball 50 times ... just score baby
With basically no running backs who aren't dinged up, I think there will be more possessions for both teams and a chance of a higher score. At least that's what I'm telling myself after I made several over bets around the 1Q, 1H and game totals before seeing Beebe was questionable.
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Rutgers to regain our mojo and the voters confidence. I'm feeling a 56-0 beat down
I thought I saw the game is a sellout? If so, there might be around 10000 IU fans there. They had 43000 for USC, and the place holds 54000.
If we get off to a good start and have a bunch of fans in the stands it may be a good watch.
Rutgers to regain our mojo and the voters confidence. I'm feeling a 56-0 beat down
It would be great if you're right, but I think that kind of a score is very unlikely.
There's no getting around the embarrassment and humiliation of Rutgers' season-opening loss to UMass, but they've been highly competitive since. Their losses to USC and BC were by one score, and they showed some serious fight. As Sammy noted in his piece, they have a couple of offensive weapons (Raymond and Duff) who could prove to be Sunday players.
That said, QB Lonergan has a tendency to throw picks and he doesn't have the athleticism that we saw in Chiles. He doesn't have Chiles' ability to extend plays. I'd love to see us unload on him early in the game and record a couple of sacks in Q1. That would set a good tone.
Watch out for a trick play or two from Schiano. RU successfully converted on a fake punt on 4th and 21 from their own 16 against USC, and it led to a TD later in the drive. Also, Rutgers has been known to attack the opposition late in the game when they (the opponent) are in the victory formation. I don't know that it's ever led to a turnover, but it can lead to an injury. It's kind of a shitty thing to do, but that's Schiano.
Why? Who cares what the rankings do now? IU will get the bump they need after OSU. Otherwise only win.
We dismantled them. 2 long pass plays is all they got. Our 2nd drive has to be a TD. And a missed field goal and extra point. Outside of that ... looked pretty darn good.
@hoosiers94 They're progressing, for sure. Secondary needs to get better at finishing plays. And our short yardage running, while getting better, needs to keep improving. No reason to think those things won't continue to improve though. And if they do, we have a CFP level team again, we might already even if they don't. Which is incredible. Obviously we'll have a much more clear picture at the end of the day on October 17th. But we looked pretty darn good for most of the game on Saturday night.
I think the guys getting experience in our secondary due to a few injuries are getting closer to making it a weapon instead of a weakness.We have some good players. Saw a lot of good stuff Saturday night, and Rutgers' QBs are not bad. A ways to go, but reason for optimism.
I was down on Zachmann for his 'help' on the one long completion because he had their guy almost fronted, but instead of continuing to hustle where he may have been able to turn and play the ball, he slowed and watched, thinking his teammate was making the play... Instead they caught it. But, otherwise, he hustles and hits hard and seems to do a lot of things. So I'll let the coaches sort it out.
@openwheel I noticed that exact same thing with Zachman on that play. It felt like it should have been an interception. I haven't gone back to watch the replay yet though so maybe I'm wrong.
There was also a play by Bell, I think, on the other long pass near the end zone where he looked like a kid who over runs a fly ball and started trying to back up and wasn't able to make it.
On the whole though, I was thrilled by Saturday. That was the first game this season where it was more or less a complete game with minimal miscues & penalties. And big credit to Hoover on getting the timing on that over the top throw to Charlie. His accuracy was really good across the board. Even that one that missed in the corner of the end zone was high on purpose (I think) to get over the defense and it just missed. I remember thinking it was a really pretty play overall.