Rutgers Snowflakes: The Offense

Submitted by LSAClassOf2000 on September 26th, 2021 at 4:00 PM

This is the thread for snowflakes regarding the offense and offensive playcalling.

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CompleteLunacy

September 25th, 2021 at 7:32 PM ^

Some of that may be true, BUT:

(1) Rutgers wasn't able to really move the ball consistently until Ross got injured

(2) Scoreboard still reads 13 points. 

The goal is to score points on offense and prevent points from being scored on defense. The defense did its job. Wasn't pretty, but they did what they needed to do.

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abertain

September 25th, 2021 at 7:06 PM ^

It’s odd that even harbaugh said l, we called a perimeter run…I mean, how do you not run to the outside consistently in this game? It’s not like they hadn’t shown it before. But honestly, that’s gattis. He struggles when it starts to go south. 

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cobra14

September 25th, 2021 at 7:07 PM ^

Wait I thought all the coaching changes would solve the issues? They are young remember.


love the Gattis hate like this isn’t Jim’s vision. There is no way Gattis wants to play that many shitty TEs

 

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cobra14

September 25th, 2021 at 7:21 PM ^

I’m cracking up. People like you still don’t get it. Harbaugh says here is what I want go make it work(playbook). This still isn’t Gattis offense! You fire Gattis literally nothing changes!! It’s control the clock play for 3 mentality. I’m 41 and that’s what Michigan is because of one guy that everyone thinks is god yet it turns out he was really a scumbag 
 

You are on drugs if you don’t think Harbaugh wasn’t on the head set wanting those runs. It wouldn’t of kept happening if he wasn’t saying keep doing it. It would take one second for Jim to change it. 
 

 

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mitchewr

September 25th, 2021 at 7:32 PM ^

If you think I’m absolving Harbaugh then you didn’t read my comment. That being said, we’ve never actually seen Gattis anywhere else as the OC so we don’t actually know if he would do anything different sans Harbaugh.

We do know that Gattis has talked extensively in interviews about his philosophy and how it’s predicted on running the ball. So he’s either been just regurgitating what Harbaugh told him to say or he genuinely believes in what he’s doing. Either way we’re screwed. 

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waittilnextyear

September 25th, 2021 at 7:07 PM ^

This was a weird one.

M came out and had their way (albeit in smaller chunks) on the opening drive. Added a TD on their 2nd drive. Then on, it was punt and FG city. I wonder if McNamara hits Schoonmaker for a TD late 2nd QTR, if that keeps the positive performance going? You'd think the Rutger DT ejection would've helped the M offense, but basically the opposite thing happened.

Cade needs to work on not getting down on himself after making a mistake. He also had some happy feet there late in the game, which didn't help with the accuracy.

Silver lining? Still no giveaways through 4 games! Woo!

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funkywolve

September 25th, 2021 at 7:08 PM ^

I saw what I needed to see. UM is going to run the ball between the tackles. When it works, the offense is going to look good. When it doesn't work, they are going to continue to try and run between the tackles and the offense will look bad. Same as it"s been for a while now.

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username03

September 25th, 2021 at 7:09 PM ^

I don't think it's fair so many people blaming this on Cade. How many times can your head coach tell you he doesn't trust you to throw the ball before you start to believe him? 

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MichAtl85

September 25th, 2021 at 7:10 PM ^

Harbaugh year 7! There’s a possibility with the right bounces we can make it to the Little Cesars Pizza Bowl! Now winning said bowl is a bit to much to expect in year 7. That’s a year 12 goal. 

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BLUEinRockford

September 25th, 2021 at 7:12 PM ^

Unimaginative vanilla play calling...

No threat of the QB ever running.....

Playing not to lose mentality....

Pathetic goal line offense again.....

Extremely underwhelming again....

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Fralebomb

September 25th, 2021 at 7:12 PM ^

I honestly wonder if Cade might’ve hurt his shoulder at some point. Dude doesn’t normally have a huge arm but he looked like he was having to put everything into all his throws in the second half

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NJblue2

September 25th, 2021 at 7:14 PM ^

They refuse to learn and adapt. They absolutely fucking refuse in every aspect to modernize the offense and change what they do throughout the game. The want to run the ball down the middle like the 80s regardless of what the defense is giving them. It's the same problem as the last couple of years. They just refuse to adapt. You need to be able to pass the ball effectively point blank period in today's world. I think Cade can be a good QB, but he's not a runner. Every other college can run RPOs where the QB mostly passes, but not Michigan for some reason.

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Jordan2323

September 25th, 2021 at 7:14 PM ^

Vedral doesn’t have a strong arm either. We don’t run anything that helps any quarterback we have. They all must run a certain offense even if they can’t. How many quarterbacks have to come in and fail before we see where the problem is at? Instead of scheming passes that Cade can complete, we will leave him out there and live and die with the run until we fire him to throw down field. Their best corner wasn’t even playing and we couldn’t throw on them? It’s coaching 

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Sllepy81

September 25th, 2021 at 7:15 PM ^

Reminds me of 97. We all want more out of the QB but he's not turning it over and scoring just enough. Only difference is this is not the 97 defense, offense will hurt us in the future. Specifically, qb who seems to be timid under pressure.

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carolina blue

September 25th, 2021 at 7:16 PM ^

I think we need to give JJ a shot. That’s two poor games from Cade. He shortarmed several throw today, and apart from one or two good hits in the first half, really didn’t play well. He refuses to pull the ball except for the one or two times where he absolutely shouldn’t. 
The only thing that would convince me that he should stay the starter right now is if you can show me that JJ is too risky with the ball. Because for all of Cades shortcomings, he protects the ball. 

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