SWC75
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- We are 0-1. This game could turn out be the reason we don't go to a bowl.
- Drew Allen looked like a career back-up, 17 for 38 with no TDs and 2 picks. He didn't show much accuracy on the long or intermediate passes, (Nassib was great at the intermediate throw over the middle). He tends to throw sideline passes to the inside if the receiver, where the defense can get at them, not to the outside where only his guy can get it. That last interception was badly under-thrown and so was the long one Kobena had to turn to catch. Jeremiah should never get tackled from behind like that. And a guy good enough to be recruited by Oklahoma, which runs a similar offense, who understudied Sam Bradford and Landry Jones, etc. should be expected to do better than this.
- But Allen didn't get much help from the coaching staff, who took forever to get the plays in. It looked like the old Coach P days. Last year we had a card system that allowed the QB and offense to get in rhythm. What happened to that? Also, Allen said in the news conference that his receivers didn't communicate well enough. A lot of those incompletions maybe because somebody zigged instead of zagged.
- DaQuan Jones was a load. Nick Robinson had no answer for him and neither did anyone else.
- Our running game never got untracked and the idea of wearing Penn State down never materialized.
- The defense was very good- except for that one possession when Robinson went through it like a hot knife through butter. Didn't we think they would be going to him when he got in the same? And we lost by 6 points.
- I can understand playing it close to the vest with a new QB but running the ball three straight times with 55 second left in the half when you are down by a field goal?
- Ross Krautman was 18 for 19 in kicking field goals as a freshman. He's 31 for 44 since. I think we have to conclude that he's a 31 for 44 guy, not an 18 for 19 guy.
- We went a decade rooting for teams that couldn't move the ball or score when they needed to and hoping the defense could keep us in the game. For one year we had a truly potent offense. Now we are the little engine that couldn't again.
- That was Penn State. And we had a chance to beat them for the first time in a quarter century. And they went away happy.
- Drew Allen looked like a career back-up, 17 for 38 with no TDs and 2 picks. He didn't show much accuracy on the long or intermediate passes, (Nassib was great at the intermediate throw over the middle). He tends to throw sideline passes to the inside if the receiver, where the defense can get at them, not to the outside where only his guy can get it. That last interception was badly under-thrown and so was the long one Kobena had to turn to catch. Jeremiah should never get tackled from behind like that. And a guy good enough to be recruited by Oklahoma, which runs a similar offense, who understudied Sam Bradford and Landry Jones, etc. should be expected to do better than this.
- But Allen didn't get much help from the coaching staff, who took forever to get the plays in. It looked like the old Coach P days. Last year we had a card system that allowed the QB and offense to get in rhythm. What happened to that? Also, Allen said in the news conference that his receivers didn't communicate well enough. A lot of those incompletions maybe because somebody zigged instead of zagged.
- DaQuan Jones was a load. Nick Robinson had no answer for him and neither did anyone else.
- Our running game never got untracked and the idea of wearing Penn State down never materialized.
- The defense was very good- except for that one possession when Robinson went through it like a hot knife through butter. Didn't we think they would be going to him when he got in the same? And we lost by 6 points.
- I can understand playing it close to the vest with a new QB but running the ball three straight times with 55 second left in the half when you are down by a field goal?
- Ross Krautman was 18 for 19 in kicking field goals as a freshman. He's 31 for 44 since. I think we have to conclude that he's a 31 for 44 guy, not an 18 for 19 guy.
- We went a decade rooting for teams that couldn't move the ball or score when they needed to and hoping the defense could keep us in the game. For one year we had a truly potent offense. Now we are the little engine that couldn't again.
- That was Penn State. And we had a chance to beat them for the first time in a quarter century. And they went away happy.
