No OSU ran that D all night, they ran it the year before. Whenever Greggy was the coordinator they ran
I totally disagree with this. and this can not be overstated, the staff put the OL in an impossible situation! Keith Dorney on his best day could not block Chase Young on that play. No one could. They needed a scheme to account for that stunt. A straight Zone scheme would have dont it. Have the C, RG, RT TE all working together to account for that stunt, and if they play it straight, no worries either. My God they had the TE turn out on the DB who had in M/M!! How dumb. The C, RG, step the right, the RT, TE step to the left and a big wall is built. The back hits it and first down. it shouldnt be that hard. and seeing how OSU ran that stunt the year before, and earlier that year, it should not have been a surprise. The staff should have had a scheme to block it without having to make impossible blocks. That play had nothing, 0 , to do with effort, laziness and being soft. the only people who were lazy and soft was the staff for not being prepared from the year before!!!
that is really irrelevant. by alignment, he should have not even been in the play , if we block it correctly. That said, I will say I thought that play would have been a better call on third down, then 4th. The reality is, PSU was not prepared for that stunt, yet they should have been!! OSU showed that stunt for 2 yrs!! You have 2 yrs to prepare for something and dont bet the job done, that is all on CJF. .
You said you don’t run at the best player. He only makes the tackle because PSU was totally unprepared for a defense OSU ran many times not only 2018 but in 2017 as well. They ran that defense w the T/E stunt at least 4 times ( I got tired of counting) in first half of the 17 game alone. On Sunday of OSU week you have to gather your guys and start working on how to block that. PSU did not looked prepared, and there’s no excuse for that. All on CJF
PSU OL wasn’t prepared for a stunt for about 5-6 years straight. It has gotten better but still needs work. You are correct, if the OL blocks properly, that play goes for a big gain. I don’t hate the call after I saw it. It was lack of execution.
And you know that Franklin made that call how? I was at the game and told my buddy with whom I have shared season tickets since 1978 until my wife’s recent health issues that there are 8 minutes left in the game and all Penn State had to do was prevent OSU from scoring two TDs and they win the game. Well we all know that didn’t happen. OSU scored their first TD on a simple screen pass which went for a long TD. The “vaunted” defense looked like they had never seen that type of play before. I personally wasn’t enamored with the 4th and 5 call either but that’s not why the game was lost. The constant haranguing about this is ridiculous.
After watching the 2017 game in the off season, CJF should have gotten w his O staff and asked ‘ how are we going to handle this?’
Or Limegrover maybe or Rahne maybe? I'm not sure. But I would put it on them before Franklin. JMO.
the HC is responsible for the solution. He has sit down with those guys and ask, how are we going to handle this. Then they should present a solution, that CJF will either accept or reject, if he rejects it, and it is his right to do so, they need to go back and come up with a different solution. But they needed to figure that out. The HC is responsible for the big picture, and that is a big picture issue.
Amazing isn’t it??? Maybe we are way over paying these guys?? We pay an OL coach like a brain surgeon and he can’t get his guys to block a T/E stunt Smh. Maybe most guys would rather be home w their families then working 18 hrs per day. And getting on their knees for 18 yo kids who will now make more than them.
I'm thinking with Ohio State defender already in the backfield, still no first down if McSorley had kept it.
