what is your impression of the physical condition of this team at this point. if you look at the season, this team has wound up having to put a lot of energy in games that most probably would not have expected before the season started.
Pitt - not sure anyone thought we would have a dog fight in this game after the last two games with them. most in this board plus Phil expected a good beat down.
Buffalo - score was not indicative of how much work this was.
Maryland - actually most expected tough game and we put beat down on turtles.
Purdue - depleted Purdue team still forced a lot of work from PSU team.
Iowa - tough game and we expected that one. very physical. Struggle to put them away.
UMich - seemed like we would beat them down, then second half comeback. PSU D on field over 80 plays.
MSU - solid win but again very physical and wound up with several injuries like Noah Cain. game score was lopsided but hard to put away a depleted Spartan team.
Minny - nobody at start of season would have thought this game was going to be a tester. their schedule and quite a bit of luck put them undefeated going into this game. another game that showed continued degradation of defense with no pass rush at all. Minny had a lot more energy. offense actually produced a lot of yards but not the points to show for it.
Indiana - this was not supposed to be a team that was testing us with 7-2 record. they played with so much more energy than we had.
trend seems to be a deteriorating defense and opponents playing with more energy. many of our games we seem to be facing opponents with more life and more to play for that might have been expected. watchin Indy get hammered by tOSU at the start of the season, i would have guessed this was a team we were going to smoke by 30 pts.
is this team worn out? are there more injured players than are officially injured? offense has lacked consistency even in big score games but the defense kept us in games. now the defense is missing and no longer can keep us in games. this does not seem to be the same team that we saw at the start of the season.
Pitt - not sure anyone thought we would have a dog fight in this game after the last two games with them. most in this board plus Phil expected a good beat down.
Buffalo - score was not indicative of how much work this was.
Maryland - actually most expected tough game and we put beat down on turtles.
Purdue - depleted Purdue team still forced a lot of work from PSU team.
Iowa - tough game and we expected that one. very physical. Struggle to put them away.
UMich - seemed like we would beat them down, then second half comeback. PSU D on field over 80 plays.
MSU - solid win but again very physical and wound up with several injuries like Noah Cain. game score was lopsided but hard to put away a depleted Spartan team.
Minny - nobody at start of season would have thought this game was going to be a tester. their schedule and quite a bit of luck put them undefeated going into this game. another game that showed continued degradation of defense with no pass rush at all. Minny had a lot more energy. offense actually produced a lot of yards but not the points to show for it.
Indiana - this was not supposed to be a team that was testing us with 7-2 record. they played with so much more energy than we had.
trend seems to be a deteriorating defense and opponents playing with more energy. many of our games we seem to be facing opponents with more life and more to play for that might have been expected. watchin Indy get hammered by tOSU at the start of the season, i would have guessed this was a team we were going to smoke by 30 pts.
is this team worn out? are there more injured players than are officially injured? offense has lacked consistency even in big score games but the defense kept us in games. now the defense is missing and no longer can keep us in games. this does not seem to be the same team that we saw at the start of the season.
