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Message: [QUOTE="rrlbees, post: 31799, member: 96"] Worst coached game I have seen in years, and I'm talking from a mental standpoint. Forget the strange play calling by Hackett in the first half (more than strange, horrible actually), the decisions made by Marrone and this staff in some key moments is mind boggling. The 3 that absolutely killed me and others with me were; 1. First and goal at the 4 and we call a quick hitter pass play to a true frosh? I hated the call in the first place on first down but we run it to a true frosh and it bounces off him for an INT? I get that that play you like a taller WR, so since we don't have an experienced tall WR...you don't run it. Plain and simple. It's not like Foster was a check down, it was the play called. 2. Up 10 and they are punting from their end zone with Rene standing at the 50 for the return. THAT IS WHEN YOU PUT ON THE RETURN! Down 10, fine go after the punt. But you are ahead and how many times do we block punts? The coaches put Wilkes in the position to fail, plain and simple. 3. 4th and 6 inches in OT and we play wussy and kick the FG? Way to inject confidence in the OL. I know if we don't get it we lose on a FG, but if we don't have the confidence to get 6 inches to possibly win the game, well just pack it up. If the OL is that unreliable then we are in big trouble because right now there is not much at all behind them. As bad s Nassib was, as bad as the specials were today, the coaches did not trust this team to win today. The players put themselves in a position to win even though we had many issues, but the coach's, on a number of occasions, instead of allowing the players to play to win, they instead chose to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Kudos to Shafer and the defense especially Davis and Lyn. Two future all league players and maybe more. Davis is Hogue or Bullock in the making. The only other thing I was surprised about was just how bad Rutgers is. They can point to the scoreboard, but if we didn't shoot ourselves in the foot a number of times, they should have been looking at about a 30-3 score in the 3rd quarter. I hope this week, instead of worrying that people might find out that your back up RB is hurt, they spend some time looking in the mirror. [/QUOTE]

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