Effort of full disclosure

[sluggo72]

Certainly true - IMO, anyway - that:

The run game has seen increased diversification.
and
Increased diversification of the run game is, AOTBTS, a good thing (and a positive step).


It does not - necessarily - mean it (the increased diversification) is implemented in a way that is beneficial.... though I think by and large it has been beneficial. My opinion anyway.



As far as the overall offense "improving" though, that is a tough sell right now.


PSU Yards / Points per Game this year

1) Idaho 673 / 79
2) Buffalo 357 / 45
3) Pitt 389 /17
4) Maryland 622 / 59
5) Purdue 460 / 35
6) Iowa 294 /17
7) Michigan 293 /28


Thus far (and we are only 1/2 way through the season, so much is yet to be proven), the offense is following the exact track as last year - - - - rack up a lot of points against bad defenses / stutter and stammer and grow disjointed against solid defenses.

Could things improve? One can always hope - and there, for sure, are some tests coming up that will provide every opportunity for Rahne to show that he has a better handle on things.
But, unless and until it happens? IDK


The trend, as they say, is looking ugly.

In addition, in conference play......

PSU offensively is averaging 414 yards and 34.8 points - almost identical to last year's full season conference marks of (34 points and 423 yards) - - - - with the tougher half of the schedule still to come (although finishing with Rutgers SHOULD help ).


Where PSU HAS improved over last year is on defense.... where, thus far, PSU is giving up 251 yards per game to conference opponents (last year was 365)
That is a HUGE improvement to date.

you can show all these stats you want, one place PSU has improved is, getting a needed first down with the game on the line. Probably has given us at least 2 wins this season. Would you have really have wanted to go to TO Saturday?

 

[katchthis]

7-0, ranked #6 and you start a thread discussing who to replace our OC with...yeah, that’s normal. Maybe if we go undefeated we can replace the whole staff...out with em all.

^^^^ that’s funny right there .

 

[BobPSU92]

7-0, ranked #6 and you start a thread discussing who to replace our OC with...yeah, that’s normal. Maybe if we go undefeated we can replace the whole staff...out with em all.

Sure. Whatever it takes to get rid of them.

 

[Art]

Sorry disagree. In people years yes but Day has been a coach since '02 and an OC since '12 and has worked as a QB coach in the Pros.
Rahne has been a coach since '04, and an OC for only 1.5 years and has never been a coach in the NFL so yea I think there is some wiggle room for Rahne to be "developed".

In other words Rahne is slower to develop. I can agree with that.

 

[Art]

So you're saying Tony Elliott and Jeff Scott reached their level of incompetence this year? Why is Trevor Lawrence throwing so many INTs?

No, they have actually produced good offenses in the past and setbacks aren't unexpected.

 

[BBrown]

In other words Rahne is slower to develop. I can agree with that.

I think you need to stop confusing age with experience.

 

[Art]

I think you need to stop confusing age with experience.

I'm not. Put age aside. So you believe that there is no difference someone whose talent is recognized and promoted earlier in his career and someone who takes longer to develop and exhibit the minimum talent to do a job? Interesting if you do.

 

[cjrugger]

No, they have actually produced good offenses in the past and setbacks aren't unexpected.

So they get all the credit for coaching Lawrence to his great freshman year but when he regresses we just shrug our shoulders and call it an 'expected setback.' Got it

 

[bvillebaron]

Did Trevor Lawrence do those things as a true freshman? I thought coaching, among other things, was supposed to remedy that stuff. Lest we overlook it, Rahne is also the QB coach and has been for two years.

Did it ever occur to you that Lawrence is far more talented than Clifford and that some guys learn more quickly than others. I mean honest to god this is ridiculous.

 

[ga.lion]

I am anti Rahne
If your like me me I would like to see him replaced. With that being said.

who would you want??

I wonder if I am making too much of nothing like buying hurricane insurance in Iowa

Must be because we’re 0-7 and can’t score any points.....lol

 

[Art]

So they get all the credit for coaching Lawrence to his great freshman year but when he regresses we just shrug our shoulders and call it an 'expected setback.' Got it

Elliott and Scott have been co-OCs since 2015. Let me know when Rahne duplicates that production.

 

[Art]

Did it ever occur to you that Lawrence is far more talented than Clifford and that some guys learn more quickly than others. I mean honest to god this is ridiculous.

Yeah, it did, sometime last year. So why didn't Lawrence want to play for Rahne whose genius everybody but me sees?

 

[psu1969a]

I am anti Rahne
If your like me me I would like to see him replaced. With that being said.

who would you want??

I wonder if I am making too much of nothing like buying hurricane insurance in Iowa

I want our next OC to be best one we ever had Fran Ganter

 

[cjrugger]

Elliott and Scott have been co-OCs since 2015. Let me know when Rahne duplicates that production.

How's he going to duplicate it if we fire him after 20 games?

 

[BBrown]

I'm not. Put age aside. So you believe that there is no difference someone whose talent is recognized and promoted earlier in his career and someone who takes longer to develop and exhibit the minimum talent to do a job? Interesting if you do.

 

[demlion]

7-0, ranked #6 and you start a thread discussing who to replace our OC with...yeah, that’s normal. Maybe if we go undefeated we can replace the whole staff...out with em all.

Win the national title, drop football altogether-- give the Beav to the cattle program (grazing, ground floor slaughterhouse) chicken and turkeys in the stands.