Either Hagans needs to go, or you need two more receivers in the portal. ZERO catches by Penn State wide receivers. You cannot win the biggest games with this glaring deficiency.
Blame Allar all you want but you can't win big games without wide receivers. Period.
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This has to be the worst WR core I’ve ever seen. Might be the worst in power 5
There is 1 constant in all of this: Big Game James and his 3-15 record when it matters. He always finds ways to lose. Why even call that play? You have piss poor field position and a qb who sucked all night. But that is Franklin for you.
Let this sink in: In an important, power five playoff game, Penn State completed zero passes to the wide receivers. I don't care if you have Tom Brady back there, you can not win this kind of game.
Again it's a bad call but you are not winning this game until you put competitive wide receivers on the field.
It wasn’t a deficiency. The reason they lost the game is because they were still making high risk, ill fated passes downfield when they were blowing Notre Dame off the line of scrimmage, fooling them with misdirection and defeating their blitz with screens and flares. They didn’t need wideouts to win this game and even trying to use them lost it.
Allar has to hit singleton on the early pass… cost team 4pts
Allar was horrible. We should have been up 14-0. And that was the worst decision I have ever seen at that point in the game. He's a choke artist. He's right up there with Shaffer against Oklahoma in 85 for putrid QB play.
That comment is laughable. Of course you need wide receivers to win important games. I have never heard ANYONE in football say you can win without wide receivers.
Allar sucked and won’t ever win big games under Franklin. Had the game won twice and blew it.
He was 7-8 in the second half before the pick. ND is the best pass D in the country but okay...
We lost because we up 24 points in the second half. That's not on Drew. Maybe 3 but not 21
Singleton was also wide open on the interception. He could’ve taken the ball to midfield. Drew was trying to be the hero and cost the team the game.
It is also true that WR corp is awful.
Wide receivers made 8 catches for nearly 100 yards against Miami in 1986. And that was 1986, not 2024.
How would any QB have success without a solid WRs?
Ours are decoys at best
Allar is a kid who has been “coached up” for 10 years. He doesn’t have “it”. And unfortunately we will get to watch it for one more year. I’ve got 5 boys who have heard me say for 3 years he doesn’t have it. They are finally starting to understand.
That happens with young QBs that are Drew's level. They trust their arm too much. It's why you put them in position to succeed. We didn't today
True. But they should have stayed with that instead of high risk fades in the end zone and down field passes across the middle.
Penn State choked that game more than ND won it. Allar’s worst game of his career.
Agree but I'm going to say something controversial. Warren is a beast but at times the staff is too dependent on him and that hurts us. That next to last drive was easy for ND to sniff out. Warren could be a decoy for a pass to Reynolds. My guess is he would have a good chance of being open.
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Except he didn't call that play. Koltenicky called it and Allar choked on t the throw to a clearly covered player.. also he knee capped Singleton....on a walk in td on the first drive. So, he bookended game with bad decisions and throws..Also, .Franklin did not slip on the grass resulting in a gimme TD to ND.
They are Franklins guys and they just fell short. Oh, well.
And Singleton should have caught it anyway. It was at his knees, not at his toes.
Two ducks that were intercepted in end zone bailed out by penalties
Missed a TD To Singleton
Missed check down all night
Bad Int
Allar came up small in a big moment again
Time to move on
Missed a TD To Singleton
Missed check down all night
Bad Int
Allar came up small in a big moment again
Time to move on
Our best QB since Collins...by far....clearly sucks lol
Definitely a choke job, up 24-17 with minutes 4 left and lost on regulation is a choke job. Good night
Drew was terrible. Penn State was afraid to let him throw the ball and the announcers felt the same way.
All season long people are making excuses for the wide receivers. They stink. And we lost because of it tonight. Period.
They weren't afraid to let him throw. See the 4th & 1 pass. See us throwing at the end of the game.
Drew wasn't good today. No one has said otherwise but he's not the sole reason we lost.
Notre Dame has the #1 pass defense in the country. This officiating crew allows clutching and grabbing. We don't have a receiver that can beat man coverage other than Warren
He missed too many throws but 24 should have been enough to win tonight. That's not on Drew. Yell at King and Tracy and Miller and countless others. Those thinking this is all on the QB have no clue.
I've said he was bad tonight. Probably the worst he's played. That doesn't alter the game isn't solely on him
24 has to be enough to beat a team like ND when you're + in the turnover margin. We should have been up comfortably at the end.
Cost 11 points. He missed him twice ( wide open). —Allar has improved a great deal since last year, but he sh*t the bed today. He continues to to throw while falling backwards…. He almost never steps into the throw. Until he fixes this, he will have problems.
—Good season
