Penn State Snowflakes: The Offense
October 20th, 2019 at 9:26 AM ^
Black and DPJ are playing like average receivers.
October 20th, 2019 at 4:53 PM ^
I would've even say average..
October 20th, 2019 at 9:44 AM ^
It felt like last night we were attacking the right spots with the right calls on offense. Normally we're running against an extra defender but last night when they'd run blitz we'd screen outside. It was the most prepared I've seen our game plan be in years.
October 20th, 2019 at 9:48 AM ^
Bring on Notre Dame!! Offense finally looked like we expected. Still need to take advantage of our great receives. Shea keeps his head out of his Dantonio, rest of the season looks promising. Expect Ronnie Bell to have a great game next week.
GO BLUE!!
October 20th, 2019 at 9:59 AM ^
Losing really sucks, like it really, really does, but the 2nd half of the game the offense looked good. The screen game? I feel like that had been missing forever. I dunno, maybe we've finally put it together and we're sitting at 9-2 going into OSU.
October 20th, 2019 at 10:02 AM ^
the good thing about this game is it made me feel like we could beat anybody left on the schedule Notre Dame next week in the big house that could be a when. Even Ohio State is a potential win if we get a little better officiating at home! Lol
October 20th, 2019 at 12:14 PM ^
I think our offense played better than vs. Illinois.
It would look better still with in-state speedster KJ Hamler catching passes for UM rather than whoever else we took dropping them instead. Alas.
October 20th, 2019 at 9:04 PM ^
Coaches wouldn’t know how to use him so it’s good he went to Penn State.
October 20th, 2019 at 1:18 PM ^
Does anyone else think DPJ has been a huge dissapoinment for his career at Michigan? Outside of that catch against MSU last year, pretty non impactful for 2.5 years. Pretty bad ball skills on punt returns. Field position lost us this game and he was a main cause of that. We outgained them on offense by like 200 yards I think. Peppers impact on field position so was so huge a few years ago.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:44 PM ^
DPJs punt return skills are fine. In today’s day and age, punt returners are not going to gain tons of yardage unless they are extraordinary (Peppers). The main goal is to field punt and avoid extra yards after bounces, particularly with roll out punters now. To illustrate this- in 1999, over 40 NCAA players averaged over 10 yds per return. This year only 21.
As for catching the ball, he had a couple bad drops last night.
October 20th, 2019 at 5:48 PM ^
DPJ is terrible at avoiding extra yards after bounces.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:42 PM ^
Shea was a warrior. Great to see them not go quietly into the night after falling behind big. A lot f positives from this game. Beat ND
October 20th, 2019 at 9:01 PM ^
We can't attack the team players personally, and we should tread carefully in blaming any of them for everything. Just because football is big business — even if they were getting paid — and just because we care a lot — or want to show all we knew about football, sports, life, etc. — that's not a good enough reason to assail college students who are playing a game.
October 20th, 2019 at 9:01 PM ^
We can't attack the team players personally, and we should tread carefully in blaming any of them for everything. Just because football is big business — even if they were getting paid — and just because we care a lot — or want to show all we knew about football, sports, life, etc. — that's not a good enough reason to assail college students who are playing a game.
October 21st, 2019 at 7:08 PM ^
I have never posted on this site before, but I have to join this conversation. First off, let me say that I'm proud of our boys in Blue; they fought hard against a better team and in the best environment in college football. I was at the white out two years ago when we got pummeled, and I can safely say that PSU has us beat big time when it comes to stadium atmosphere. In fact, they probably have the whole darn county beat! Anyway, while we fought hard, I see a lot of posts about owning PSU in the second half, which I just don't think is true. At the end of the day, we won the second half only 14-7. We were taken to fourth down twice inside the 10, and really didn't score either time (I don't believe Shea scored on the sneak, but I'll take the free points). We are lucky that Hamler's kick return to open the half was called back, otherwise we would have been in a much much larger deficit than we were already in. Also, their first year starting QB missed 2 passes in the second half that would have meant lights out for us. Anyway, we got beat by a better team and now we can only focus on becoming better. We can pick on Frames as long as we want, but he's beaten OSU, won the big ten, and he recruits better than us (I'm sick that we don't have KJ Hamler on our team; he's from Michigan folks! we should have locked that guy up). Frames inherited a program that was still in sanctions right about the same time we hired Jim. Both teams have gotten better, but PSU has accomplished more than we have. PSU's future is bright, but I don't think we're far behind. Go Blue! Beat ND!