Football GAMEDAY THREAD: No. 11 Penn State vs. Northwestern

[Phil's Rug]

Fg good

 

[Dylan Callaghan-Croley]

Pinegar's 38-yard field goal is good, Penn State is back to a two-score advantage.

Penn State 17
Northwestern 7

14:29 remaining.

 

[maypole]

No coherent game plan.

 

[PSUQBKeeper]

lol these threads are always crazy

 

[ryoder1]

NW has confidence on O. Worried Patty is going to totally outcoach Jimmy and Manny down the stretch.

 

[BBHorn86]

I hope we don't pay the price for letting NW hang around. The weather sucks! We got to get past this game.

 

[okinburg1]

This offense can be SO frustrating to watch at times. Let's hope the D can put this away, because today just isn't the O's day.

 

[NCLION]

It’s a given that screens and misdirection coming our way
lets see if Diaz adjusts

 

[CJFisJoePaII]

No coherent game plan.

Yeah, we planned on turning the ball over 4 times. LMAO

 

[BBHorn86]

This offense can be SO frustrating to watch at times. Let's hope the D can put this away, because today just isn't the O's day.

They need to pass to set up the run. At this point we don't have the OL to control the line of scrimmage when the other team is keying on the run. What happened to the TEs?

 

[ryoder1]

Here we go.

 

[LandoComando]

The game plan has been fine. You game plan for the opponent. We aren't showing anything with Michigan in TWO weeks

 

[BBHorn86]

We are flirting with disaster!

 

[BudatPSU]

lol these threads are always crazy

Noooo, they are the epitome of reasoned coherent thought with a dash of common sense thrown in.

 

[NCLION]

We know who they are going to for heavens sake

 

[CJFisJoePaII]

Replay clearly shows the NW OL with a firm hold of 33s facemask pulling him directly into QB.

 

[cntblvitsbutter]

How was he so wide open? And what was DDS thinking there?

 

[PSUQBKeeper]

looking for flags all the time is embarrassing

 

[NCLION]

Our mental errors are killing us

 

[scrivener]

Yeah, we planned on turning the ball over 4 times. LMAO

How about in-game adjusting despite those 4 TOs? Maybe throwing on 1st down to set up the run instead of getting nothing every time we run on 1st down. We go into shutdown mode frequently over the yrs.

 

[LandoComando]

Replay clearly shows the NW OL with a firm hold of 33s facemask pulling him directly into QB.

lol

 

[LandoComando]

The refs have been the definition of consistent today and people are still complaining

 

[cntblvitsbutter]

Yeah, 25 again.

 

[scrivener]

Yeah, 25 again.

Hardy was solid last yr....a dud this season

 

[BBHorn86]

The game plan has been fine. You game plan for the opponent. We aren't showing anything with Michigan in TWO weeks

Bull. Why are we not in Ohio State's league? They show all they have every freakin' week. This is Illinois all over again! When will Franklin learn this lesson?

 

[cntblvitsbutter]

This is what happens when you play with your *ss puckered up.

 

[PSUQBKeeper]

this play by play guy is an idiot

 

[YeOldeCup]

Yeah, we planned on turning the ball over 4 times. LMAO

So what? NW has turned it over three times. That doesn't account for just "showing up" and thinking you're going to win.

 

[Obliviax]

Awful awful spot on that third down play. Back was down at the three

 

[PSUQBKeeper]

this play by play guy is an idiot

and so is Fitzgerald

 

[NCLION]

They will review that and give NW a Td

 

[ryoder1]

They are definitely reviewing this.

 

[cntblvitsbutter]

Not for nothing but I thought the NW player was down at the 2.

 

[PSUQBKeeper]

Awful awful spot on that third down play. Back was down at the three

yeah I was saying that too, horrible spot

 

[maypole]

So they planned to never pass the ball, even when d is playing 8 in the box?

 

[j-buff]

It’s not the refs we just got way to conservative on offense we are playing not to loose

 

[CJFisJoePaII]

So what? NW has turned it over three times. That doesn't account for just "showing up" and thinking you're going to win.

It accounts for ending drives genius. We've only punted 3 times.

 

[Dylan Callaghan-Croley]

Heck of a stand-by Penn State's defense there. Sorry for the late response, typing up the recap as we go. That being said Daequan Hardy has been struggling over the last few weeks, which I'm shocked by thought he was going to be in store for a good season.

 

[LandoComando]

Bull. Why are we not in Ohio State's league? They show all they have every freakin' week. This is Illinois all over again! When will Franklin learn this lesson?

If we can't beat Northwestern even with this gameplan this year we aren't contending anyway. We don't have Ohio State's talent either but, yes, you're right that Day's a better coach

 

[NCLION]

If they don’t give NW we better not run up middle on first
especially with our RB be starting flatfooted