Official PSU - Minnesota Whiteout game thread

PSUAVLNC

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Penn State’s playbook:

1. Badly designed, conservative plays
2. Ridiculous, unnecessary home run plays

Conservative plays have led to two straight 3-and-outs.
Mindless home run play results in yet another poor throw by 6th-year QB and a pick.

Do they know how to run mid-yardage slants? How about a screen?
Washington was open. Clifford threw it in the wrong direction
 

Calabrin

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They tried screens & related plays against Michigan and they got blown up with ease. Slants are a great idea, however. Clifford would probably dangerously throw them over the receivers' heads or behind them, however.
They ran one screen against UM and got hit for interference.

Clifford shouldn’t be playing.
 

Moogy

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2 positive plays to TEs? Who woulda thunk it?

I can't wait for @marshall23 to swoop in and tell me how we don't know nuffin and how coaching a kid's game is so hard, so we shouldn't question coaches.
 
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Moogy

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They ran one screen against UM and got hit for interference.

Clifford shouldn’t be playing.
Buncha quick outs like the one they just ran ... and it got blown up yet again. The lesson? All the behind the LOS throws are trash for this current iteration of a PSU offense.
 

Calabrin

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Yurcich needs to be fired. Watching that OSU/Texas game made me feel even more embarrassed about PSU’s offensive play calling. We call plays like it’s still the 1950s. They can’t find an OC who understands how to run a modern, spread offense?

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It just seems like this team is coached by Sabermetrics with no feel for how the game is actually going.
We should be so lucky to have sabermetrics on our side. Then we wouldn’t do dumb stuff.
 
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Moogy

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They had three guys out there with two PSU receivers and we threw it. What do they think is going to happen?
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We just don't really score points and I'm running out of people to blame but this offensive coordinator. He never calls am interesting play or a tendency buster.
 
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Calabrin

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The most disheartening thing is that you listen to these coaches… they don’t seem to think there’s a problem.

Both Franklin and Yurcich basically said this week: “Yeah, we just need to keep doing what we’re doing.”

No. That’s LITERALLY the problem. Franklin blamed last week’s slaughter on being “undersized” on the lines. Cool, man. Uh—why are you not recruiting bigger linemen, then?
 
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Moogy

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I think we're quickly figuring out what Minny is trying to do on offense ... so the only question will be, can the offense figure out what can work, or will we keep doing the stuff that hasn't worked, thinking the results will be different? I guess another question is if the defense will bail us out with turnovers/scores. We should win, but will it be interesting or comfortable going away?
 

Paws057

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The most disheartening thing is that you listen to these coaches… they don’t seem to think there’s a problem.

Both Franklin and Yurcich basically said this week: “Yeah, we just need to keep doing what we’re doing.”

No. That’s LITERALLY the problem. Franklin blamed last week’s slaughter on being “undersized” on the lines. Cool, man. Uh—why are you not recruiting bigger linemen, then?
The definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
 
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Tom McAndrew

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Effner nearly got Cliff injured on the play where Cliff ended up avoiding the sack