Nope. Correct there. You have been in Franklins' corner from day one. I give credit where credit is due.
idiot David Jones ......
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Nope. Correct there. You have been in Franklins' corner from day one. I give credit where credit is due.
and that poster played Davey like Niccolo Paganini playing a stradavarius, it was epic.
LOL.
Another bump worthy thread.
Jones, April 9th, 2016
".....do the best they can with West Coast-style pass plays that don't overly tax the popgun arm of likely starter Trace McSorley. Whether McSorley can read defenses correctly, take shots at the right time without being fooled and then get the ball downfield well enough to keep safeties out of the box are all major questions. Suddenly, Christian Hackenberg's rifle will not be there to keep them honest. If defenses don't respect McSorley or Tommy Stevens, it'll mean more traffic for Barkley to negotiate."
Trace McSorley's yards per completion now leads FBS
McSorley now has lifted his yards-per-completion figure to 15.93 to tops among the 128-team Football Bowl Subdivision, ahead of even Louisville's prohibitive Heisman favorite Lamar Jackson (15.73), the runner-up in the category.
Jones, April 9th, 2016
".....do the best they can with West Coast-style pass plays that don't overly tax the popgun arm of likely starter Trace McSorley. Whether McSorley can read defenses correctly, take shots at the right time without being fooled and then get the ball downfield well enough to keep safeties out of the box are all major questions. Suddenly, Christian Hackenberg's rifle will not be there to keep them honest. If defenses don't respect McSorley or Tommy Stevens, it'll mean more traffic for Barkley to negotiate."
Trace McSorley's yards per completion now leads FBS
McSorley now has lifted his yards-per-completion figure to 15.93 to tops among the 128-team Football Bowl Subdivision, ahead of even Louisville's prohibitive Heisman favorite Lamar Jackson (15.73), the runner-up in the category.
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At least he is a consistent idiot. God I hope he picks us to lose on Saturday so I can double down on my bet.
Definitely want to see more of the negative nonsense from Jones, ESPN, etc so players can use it as motivation. At the end of the day- the Jones like commentators are just helping Penn State.
Definitely want to see more of the negative nonsense from Jones, ESPN, etc so players can use it as motivation. At the end of the day- the Jones like commentators are just helping Penn State.
Yes, without Hackenberg's rifle arm, Penn State is averaging 50% more points per game compared to last year. We're really hurting.
Of course, the additions of Limegrover and Moorhead, and the maturation of the line were big factors as well. But Davey Dickbag takes the most negative route available.
Another chapter.
Jones today. Of course he thinks Michigan would get in to CFP even if we beat Wisconsin. Michigan with two conference losses, and we'd have an additional win and be Big Ten East Division and overall champs.
Michigan may be ahead of us tonight, but we would move ahead after we beat Wisconsin.
"In my opinion, for PSU to make the CFP, both the Huskies and Tigers must lose on Saturday. Because I don't believe Penn State is passing likely No. 5 Michigan in any case - not with that 49-10 black eye in Ann Arbor on the ledger. PSU and Michigan are two tightly bunched teams and that head-to-head is a tiebreaker. We will see where the committee places the Wolverines on Tuesday night. But that's how I see it."
Jones today. Of course he thinks Michigan would get in to CFP even if we beat Wisconsin. Michigan with two conference losses, and we'd have an additional win and be Big Ten East Division and overall champs.
Michigan may be ahead of us tonight, but we would move ahead after we beat Wisconsin.
"In my opinion, for PSU to make the CFP, both the Huskies and Tigers must lose on Saturday. Because I don't believe Penn State is passing likely No. 5 Michigan in any case - not with that 49-10 black eye in Ann Arbor on the ledger. PSU and Michigan are two tightly bunched teams and that head-to-head is a tiebreaker. We will see where the committee places the Wolverines on Tuesday night. But that's how I see it."
For me, this isn't even about PSU. But if Michigan makes it in, having lost 2 of its last 3 games and its one win coming in unimpressive fashion at home and finishing 3rd in its division, then just blow up the whole system, because it's a joke.
When Penn State was 2-2, Iowa was still ranked ( despite loss to NDSU) and beat Rutgers. MSU had just suffered first loss to Wisconsin and was #8. 7-5/6-6 might have been a realistic. Minny was unbeaten and that's when the ship started to right itself and we got some momentum
Well well well, from April 6th, and all positive on McSorley.
Nice kick in the face for my little hater group headquartered in Park Forest. LMAO.
Time for a bump.
You know what, it was a bowl game that meant the difference between a #3 season ending ranking and probably a #5 season ending ranking. It didn't cost us the MNC. It didn't cost us the conference title. We played well, it was a competitive, exciting game. We go into the offseason with all the momentum in the world, ranked #1 in recruiting right now for the 2018 season. I am not bitter in the least. Exciting time to be a Penn State fan.
Jones tries to throw some poison into the feel good season ending...
A Rose Bowl for the ages can only spawn bitter memories for Trace McSorley and Penn State
PASADENA, Calif. - It was an awful long time to wait just to have your heart broken.
The college football nation will remember this game as a marathon of thrills. It was a Bruce Springsteen concert from the 1970s. It was a free four hours in an amusement park.
But for the Penn State Nittany Lions, it can't be appreciated that way. It can only be recalled with the accompaniment of regret. And that's the greatest pain of all for a competitive athlete.
It makes the Lions' 52-49 loss, decided on the last play, all the more agonizing not just because of the result but because of the mind's echoes to come. Ask any player who's ever lost a game this memorable and they'll tell you the curse is in the memory.
That's how it will be for Trace McSorley.
As others had long since stripped their pads off and slowly unspooled the tape from their limbs, the little quarterback just sat there in a chair by the doorway to the locker room and stared. Teammates came by and rubbed his head or tapped his grass-stained pads.
You know what, it was a bowl game that meant the difference between a #3 season ending ranking and probably a #5 season ending ranking. It didn't cost us the MNC. It didn't cost us the conference title. We played well, it was a competitive, exciting game. We go into the offseason with all the momentum in the world, ranked #1 in recruiting right now for the 2018 season. I am not bitter in the least. Exciting time to be a Penn State fan.
Jones tries to throw some poison into the feel good season ending...
A Rose Bowl for the ages can only spawn bitter memories for Trace McSorley and Penn State
PASADENA, Calif. - It was an awful long time to wait just to have your heart broken.
The college football nation will remember this game as a marathon of thrills. It was a Bruce Springsteen concert from the 1970s. It was a free four hours in an amusement park.
But for the Penn State Nittany Lions, it can't be appreciated that way. It can only be recalled with the accompaniment of regret. And that's the greatest pain of all for a competitive athlete.
It makes the Lions' 52-49 loss, decided on the last play, all the more agonizing not just because of the result but because of the mind's echoes to come. Ask any player who's ever lost a game this memorable and they'll tell you the curse is in the memory.
That's how it will be for Trace McSorley.
As others had long since stripped their pads off and slowly unspooled the tape from their limbs, the little quarterback just sat there in a chair by the doorway to the locker room and stared. Teammates came by and rubbed his head or tapped his grass-stained pads.
I agree. Although I personally like Dave, I thought the article harped too much on disappointment and was too reactionary toward the side of the fan base that dislikes him. He's better than that.
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No, he's not
And you may be the only one who feels he is........which kinda' says something
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I know I am a broken record on this, but IGNORE HIM. Do not read, do not click, do not let him get any reaction from you. They hired someone, Pickel, who actually likes Penn State. Give him your support and ignore DJ. It is the only way to treat small people and the only way the Patriot might ever let him go. If a heel gets no heat he has nothing.
I'm shocked he admits we have competitive athletes. Get going on that pre-season 4-8 prediction, DJ. Spring will be here before you know it.
Written like a prick who's been waiting and chafing for 3 months to be able to write a negative article about the team. A team that proved him and his predictions wrong over and over for 9 games. It sounds like he expects (hopes) half the team will jump off a bridge and the other half with become addicted to opioids. Jones really needs to GFH at this point.
He's already working on his "this success will be hard to repeat" theme. We just caught lightning in a bottle this year, right? Nothing to do with the young, very talented players that litter this roster. With more on the way.
Suck it, Davey Boy.
No he's not. I've seen far to much of his smarmy, smirking, sarcastic act toward Penn State, on Philly Sports Talk on Comcast. He's a prick.
What's startling here is there's any admission of success in the first place.
There is something deeply, fundamentally broken deep inside David Jones. He can't wait to put the worst spin on damn near everything, and he consistently underestimates Penn State, even when they prove him wrong time and again. He can't wait to write a negative article about the team full of snide comments (the little quarterback) and I swear he does it because he thinks that maybe he can damage the program, if even just a little, by being so negative.
Is Jones interested in covering a team and writing interesting stories about that team, or is he more in it for the schradenfreud? I swear I can see it now: USC makes the field goal and he immediately jumps behind his keyboard, buggy eyes gleaming, a grin splayed across his face, and starts typing away about the pain, torment, and grief that will haunt these players forever...instead of talking about a season that NO ONE could have imagined. A season where a team that many thought would be down and out for upwards of a decade due to the sanctions won the Big Ten East, The Big Ten Championship, beat the number 2 and 7 ranked teams in the country and should have won the Rose Bowl - hell, they should have been in the CFP.
Anyway, that that article is what Jones chose to write after that season tells you ALL you need to know about him.
Is Jones interested in covering a team and writing interesting stories about that team, or is he more in it for the schradenfreud? I swear I can see it now: USC makes the field goal and he immediately jumps behind his keyboard, buggy eyes gleaming, a grin splayed across his face, and starts typing away about the pain, torment, and grief that will haunt these players forever...instead of talking about a season that NO ONE could have imagined. A season where a team that many thought would be down and out for upwards of a decade due to the sanctions won the Big Ten East, The Big Ten Championship, beat the number 2 and 7 ranked teams in the country and should have won the Rose Bowl - hell, they should have been in the CFP.
Anyway, that that article is what Jones chose to write after that season tells you ALL you need to know about him.
It's very simple. He is a Ohio State grad and (admitted) fan who has been given a position to comment on and write articles about Penn State. His motivation is crystal clear if you just look at it through that lens.
Actually Mark Brennan and Dave are good friends. Which says EVERYTHING about you, freak.No, he's not
And you may be the only one who feels he is........which kinda' says something
Now, go stalk some more people, but do better legwork, lmao.
Five will get you ten this small, insignificant man will take a DWI arrest in 2017.
Consider the Heisman voters include guys like Jones, Dennis Dodd, Skip Bayless, Dan Bernstein, Rece Davis, Finebaum, Desmond Howard...good effin' luck.
Well, if your memory isn't failing, you may recall that:
Jesus still thinks you're a Douchebag
So....that kinda' "says everything" about You
To those who know him, yes. To those who know him well, it's either "Lazy" or "Habitually Drunk." I think the later is a family name...
Dave adds to his idiot legacy in today's column. "He recruited the players who committed the rape." Oh ffs. He's supposed to have some sort of special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand? That's some stupid shit. Maybe Dave should talk about how Urban Meyer recruited Aaron Hernandez.
It's fair to say Penn State's image will forever bear the stain of the horrors endured by Sandusky's victims. That is as it should be.
Again, there were severe doubters. Franklin had some baggage including a lurid and, at the time, ongoing rape scandal in which four of his recent Vanderbilt recruits were involved. There were also some comments out there made on Clay Travis' local Nashville radio show a year prior that suggested Franklin judged his assistant coaching candidates by how their wives or girlfriends looked. That bothered some people.
But, especially in light of Sandusky, it was the rape case that unsettled many, myself included.
Joyner said he and university investigators vetted the case thoroughly and that he believed Franklin acted quickly and appropriately in every fashion:
"We had extreme due diligence on that. And we knew how James reacted in an extreme crisis situation. He had a very serious crisis he had to navigate. And he dealt with it very well."
But he recruited the players who committed the rape. That didn't give Joyner some trepidation?
"Not really. Because sometimes, you just don't know a hundred percent when you recruit somebody.
"There were personal connections I found out I had with him that I didn't know when we started our search. And they all told me what a fine person he was."
"They were winning at Vanderbilt where they never had. Plus, he was improving the academic performance there every year at the same time they were winning."
It's fair to say Penn State's image will forever bear the stain of the horrors endured by Sandusky's victims. That is as it should be.
Again, there were severe doubters. Franklin had some baggage including a lurid and, at the time, ongoing rape scandal in which four of his recent Vanderbilt recruits were involved. There were also some comments out there made on Clay Travis' local Nashville radio show a year prior that suggested Franklin judged his assistant coaching candidates by how their wives or girlfriends looked. That bothered some people.
But, especially in light of Sandusky, it was the rape case that unsettled many, myself included.
Joyner said he and university investigators vetted the case thoroughly and that he believed Franklin acted quickly and appropriately in every fashion:
"We had extreme due diligence on that. And we knew how James reacted in an extreme crisis situation. He had a very serious crisis he had to navigate. And he dealt with it very well."
But he recruited the players who committed the rape. That didn't give Joyner some trepidation?
"Not really. Because sometimes, you just don't know a hundred percent when you recruit somebody.
"There were personal connections I found out I had with him that I didn't know when we started our search. And they all told me what a fine person he was."
"They were winning at Vanderbilt where they never had. Plus, he was improving the academic performance there every year at the same time they were winning."
When I Google Dave Jones, I come up with a grease spot and this double wide.
That's actually CruisingRoute66's house on the other side of the tracks in Bergen County.
David Jones is not an idiot. People who buy his bull crap "hook line and sinker" are though.
Did you see the comments on that piece of crap article? Those people are ready to nominate Joyner for a Nobel Prize. He's still scrubbing the blood off of his hands and the hiring of a coach is not going to make me ever forget what he did.
The coaches of many sports at PSU absolutely LOATHED Joyner. Had some unsavory personal characteristics, to say the least. Of course Jones would love him.
It's click bait. And let's face it TM is not a true QB. If he was then he'd be slated for the NFL draft. Also, until our offensive line run blocks like Wisconsin I won't be satisfied. That Lime Grower fella had best produce or he can get on out!
Alright then. Let's see if TM is drafted as a QB! There's the truth teller, feller.
