Franklin’s brilliant time management skills were on display at the end of the half.
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I’ll argue they score with or without the flag, a non event
He has no receivers to throw to. That has been the problem all year.
Is it really Yurcich? We’ve seen baffling play calling, other than JoeMo, for ten years.Nick starts moving the ballYurcich forces the pass
Back to back chunk yardage plays to wide open TEs
Dude can’t get out of his own way.
simple lack of discipline. No consequences for the offending player.
I hear this kind of stuff about every OC we’ve ever had….it’s tough to compete with couch coaches who have the benefit of hindsight on every play.
The question is if the hold happened before the strip sack?
If the strip happened first King was blocking Harrison.
Last week against UMass , again it;s UM, ran right side maybe 6 or 7 plays in a row , run it till they stop it . Nick was chunking up big plays and they got away from it. Stupid series, at the end of it anyway.
Announcers didn't have any idea. My guess would be whether the hold was a post-possession foul or not.
When I can watch other teams who have coaches who know play calling sequencing, the difference becomes pretty obvious.
Right. The point by klatt being that it was legit defensive holding and not called because of the PSU play in the backfield.
If they lose this game Franklin will be 1 and 9 against Ohio State that's says everything.
Pribula is a future Hall of Famer. That's all I know, dude!
You know what they say, better late than never…
JoeMo bailed out by Barkley, Gesicki, McSorley, Godwin, etc. He’s been exposed since. There is only one constant on this team….
If this continues, I'd sit Drew for a couple of series. Maybe create a spark.
I don't think anyone has " turned on him". He's not playing well.
OK, so first half thoughts -- Allar doesn't have much time back there and OSU knows he's going to check it down every time so they're clogging up all the lanes. Our WR's can't get open in the first 6 games and they're not doing that here either. In a lot of ways, Pribula would add a bit of a wrinkle in that he could take off a la McSorley and keep OSU balanced. There have been a lot of times where Allar has read-optioned and he could have kept it with big yardage because OSU doesn't respect his run ability since he hasn't shown any. With Pribula in there, just for one series to see what could happen, they'd have to respect his running ability and maybe that opens up some slots for 13 and 10. Defensively, gotta get more pressure on McCord and make him get it out quicker. Kalen's doing his best on Harrison but even that isn't good enough for that guy. So the front 7 is going to have to get more pressure so it forces shorter passes. Harrison has been the only receiver that has hurt us thus far so gotta find a way to take it away.
The other thing they were probably clearing up if it was holding or illegal contact. The latter isn’t illegal once the QB leaves the pocket. Without seeing things synced up it’s hard to know if that was 100% the right call. But I agree it’s pretty suspicious that these always seem to go against Penn State when playing OSU or UM. We know we aren’t going to catch any breaks. Sure looked like a hold up the middle on the long pass to Harrison toward the end of the half that didn’t even get discussed. It’s not just what’s called it’s what’s given on one side of the ball.
I agree, just start pounding it and stick with it win or lose. Or, stick with the pass game and lose.
About 6 weeks ago I got hammered for even suggesting that Yurcich have a package for Pribula… just to have DC’s have to prepare for something different. Blasphemy!
Since we've been in the Big there is always one crew , Witovet, Lemonyay, and when i seen the first holding call on PSU , i knew we were in for a long day.
You can’t put pribulA in. Drew has to grow up since we sat him last year. No wr to get open and unwilling to go ground and pound. Not much else you can do unless we get a freak jail break play and the defense pitches a shutout.
No illegal contact in college. That's just an NFL rule. You can chuck all the way down the field as long as there's no hold or the ball is in the air.
We're lucky OSU doesn't have a QB or we would be in deep SHI-.
Agree with all of that. I double Harrison almost every time. Haven’t had too many others step up for OSU at this point. The play calling needs to be better and Drew needs to be a bit more “gutsy” for me. He seems to bail out. Sometimes you need to make the throw and know you are going to get hit.
if he had some time to throw, I'd agree. A lot (not all) of his incompletions are because he has been forced to release the ball early (like before the receiver makes their break) due to pressure. If that doesn't get addressed and corrected during halftime, relying on Allar's arm seems like a recipe for a couple of INTs.
How does it get corrected? I've never been an OC, so I'm not sure. It would help if PSU could avoid down/distances that make their offensive options pretty predictable.
I wanna see more Kaytron. He had success and then we went away from it. Hopefully we're setting up the 2nd half. Let's lean on em.
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