It’s also noticeable that Stout seems to lack focus on his punts. Really miss Blakeo
Numer 40 is really lost at times. He seems confused pre snap too.
Hardy? Seriously.? Way to small.”
Official PSU - Rutgers 2020 Game Thread
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Can you be any more of a drama queen? Please tell me how all of those repeated QB draws are helping any QB and their family gain the confidence to come play for this group of coaches? We are in the basement of the big ten. If you can’t understand that showing creativity and taking it to a lesser team is valuable I can’t help you. Playing not to lose and uninspired is getting us nowhere but the Belk bowl.
After an 0-5 start, I think anyone would take the Belk (now Duke's Mayonnaise) Bowl.
Don't give the moron anything to chew on. He's been on the same shtick forever and he's not smart enough to have any nuance.
The point is to win the game, and airing it out with bad QBs in crappy weather was the only way we could lose that game.
Just like starting 0-5 didn’t cause any decommits, blowing out Rutgers isn’t going to change the class either. Amazingly, high school boys have more emotional maturity than the posters here and can identify the forest from the trees
Actually, out of the 14 teams in the B1G, only 4 have more wins than PSU. Just sayin.
and in our game against one of those we got screwed on a call in OT
Is it coaching or is it the "IT" factor? I think everything is going very fast in Clifford's head this year. He seems afraid to release the ball unless the receiver is wide open. He often doesn't see secondary receivers and a lot of his passes appear to be delivered a second too late. He just doesn't appear comfortable.
I don't think the coaches help him with play calling and I think the WRs need to create more separation but a lot of it is also on Clifford.
2-5 PSU leads the BiG in total yards and 1st downs. Let that sink in.
He has always had a tendency to throw the ball high. It mostly his footwork. He's too nervous in the pocket. Doesnt get set. He does not have the "it" factor.
And when we had rhythm he was pulled and was most likely frustrated watching quick three and outs and also frustrated that the coaches put Will in those situations. The second half play calling just killed the excitement of how well we played the first half
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Bresee, Fleming, Grimes, Thornton, Rucci, McCord, and on and on. We are consistently losing the top recruits in our area and running QB draws and inside hand offs the entire second half is not going to help that. It is not about maturity it is about having the common sense that the optics of running a unimaginative offense and failing to show continued progress are NOT going to help with recruiting difference makers. Maybe try and consider from a strategic point of view instead of from emotional.
There was rain in the first half and a strong wind in the second. We had a big lead in the second half and have been turnover prone. CJF simply ran the ball to secure the win. It was smart and just.
You’re right- Breese picked Clemson, the best program in the country, instead of PSU because we run too many QB draws against Rutgers. He definitely would have picked us if we watched our QBs throw ducks and INTs in a northeaster and bring a terrible team back into the game.
You win
What about some motion? What about running to the outside, which was open? Rutgers came very close to making that a 23 to 14 game. If you can’t understand the reality of big boy football maybe it’s time for you to go back to playing fortnite in your parents basement.
Clifford's getting better in the pocket and even throwing off his scrambles more often.
Accuracy -- a work in progress (we hope there is more progress) -- throwing to the receivers generally, but often high. Should be correctable.
Because there are a certain group of posters on this board that seem to add nothing but bitch and snipe. If you don’t even want to consider the premise of my post and just want to argue and deflect, don’t expect me to be friendly. Better yet put me on ignore instead of being consistent little bitches.
Fortnite and parents’s basement, good one boomer.
No, they didn’t get close to making it 23-14. 23-14 is a 2 possession game. I’m well aware of how big boyfootball works and arguing about running jet sweeps against Rutgers is as far from big boy football as it gets
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Agree except for the series after Rutgers closed to 20-7. The 3 straight QB runs was painful to watch.
One time in each of the past two games he made a move towards the LOS, then completed a pass once he drew a defender close to him. Those were great but he still didn't seem completely comfortable.
I don't know how to make a player comfortable other than to call high percentage plays to build their confidence. It's not just technique. I was hoping that Clifford would gain that confidence as things improved but it's coming along very slow. I hope the light goes off for him because he appears to be a hard worker with a great attitude. Also, PSU doesn't have many options other than 5'11" freshman TaQuon Robertson. I was hoping that 17-0 would turn into 34-0 so we could see him take a few snaps in the 4th quarter.
I have to wonder how much of Levis' runs are by design vs. his inability or desire to hand off the ball to the running back. Certainly, on the short yardage, it seemed it was a design QB run with RB blocking. On other plays, others here can weigh in on whether it was QB design run, he was reading and based on read, kept the ball or just refused to hand off. He certainly wasn't trying to trick anyone and just became stop me if you can.
Levis' runs seemed to all be designed for him calls. He was essentially a RB yesterday.
Yeah, a fair number of those he was the only guy in the backfield. Something like this could only work against Rutgers.
There were some whiffs especially by Luketa, but there some good open field tackles too. Thought Brisker played very well. The defense stopped 2 fourth and short plays and held a team that averaged 30 points, several against some decent teams to 7 points and 204 total yards. The only TD was on fourth down when the Rutgers QB threw an absolute prayer which unfortunately answered. Hard to bitch too much about the defensive effort.
The biggest thing our offense seems to lack is the ability to recognize that, hey, the safety is coming down to crowd the box- take advantage of this.
The TD to Washington was a similar play, but we never called it again. We could have sent our TEs down the seam all day and never once tried it.
A lot of yesterday's play calling post 17-0 felt like "let's try this against an overmatched opponent until we master it or the clock reads 0:00". Clifford was high on a lot of throws and it hurts. Look at Dotson's reception on the screen. Well placed, caught in stride, and he gained 20.
Levis truly hasn't been given any down field throws. The short game started in his one half + play in the game he started. Since his regulation as a backup, has he thrown more than 3 passes? (I don't remember one myself...) Maybe he doesn't practice it very well, but I've not seen play calling that remotely looks like he's been given the same opportunities as Clifford as a passer.
I truly feel like we look to the portal this off season.
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