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10 takeaways from Rutgers: Drew Mehringer read your angry Tweets about deep passes

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One of the common fan complaints with last season's offensive attack was the lack of deep throws, especially when Leonte Carroo wasn't on the field.

That didn't change much in the debut of offensive coodinator Drew Mehringer's spread -- and the fans didn't let it slide by on social media.

Because Mehringer is a social-media-active 28 year old, he saw it.

"If you look at my Twitter feed, I got hit on the deep ball thing quite a bit," Mehringer said.

"We took a few shots down the field and didn't connect. Part of our job as an offense is to play a team game as well.