Football How are you feeling going into the college football playoffs?
- Thread starter Dylan Callaghan-Croley
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Obviously,
We need more billionaire players on board.
Is this too hard to understand?
We are likely to get a favorable matchup unless we play Bama (and even then the Crimson Tide are beatable). But my biggest concern is that the pressure of needing to win a "big game" gets to Franklin and impacts the team to underperform.
Still I like our odds against Clemson or SMU (or even Indiana if that happens)
Still I like our odds against Clemson or SMU (or even Indiana if that happens)
It’s been over a decade since the big ten had to issue the apology for the osu officiating debacle and nothing has changed.
PSU makes too many blunders in big games and should have run the ball more vs. the Ducks. Blame the officials all you want but it was 28-10 in the second quarter. How many mistakes did Oregon make? No turnovers and 1 major penalty. PSU had 2 TO’s, 4 major penalties, and a missed FG. You can’t do that vs. #1!
Bingo. Was the officiating terrible? Yes. Do we see it all across CFB? Yes. No holding penalties also means none were called against us either...which PSU fans always forget the other side of the equation during their moaning.
U hit it on the head...to get steamrolled early and once again not be ready to go out of the gates is a terrible trait to have. Spotting that team a 28-10 lead, especially with four different personal foul penalties was so typical...and low IQ football from this program. We aren't a very smart or poised team, which also leads to NEVER winning these games since 2016. Let's not forget 4 or 5 drops, which hurt big time. Let's face it, we come up small and have done so since 2016.
Our secondary once again got exposed, as did the lack of LB recruiting and true game changing DL. Haven't seen a worse group of LBs collectively than I have under JF. That's an area (even as much as WR) that really has lacked.
Oregon is really well coached, made virtually no big mistakes and exposed us, particularly on defense, where we have lived with smoke and mirrors vs terrible offenses. We are small on the DL, don't move people, get ZERO pass rush without Abdul, linebackers that don't do much, and a secondary that gets cooked in games like this. IMO, we have a long way to go from a team construction/design to move the needle.
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Oregon did have a PF penalty not called on the first drive of the second half that would have put us in the red zone looking to tie. Instead we got nothing out of the drive.
Danielson said “this is not the time to make that call and insert yourself (the ref) into the game.”
in other words, ignore a correct call. Wtf.
Agreed. If the refs don't want to insert themselves into the game, then they should call it by the book, without their personal judgments on whether or not it's the "right time". By NOT making the call, they are inserting themselves into the game. Idiotic comment by Danielson.
It’s easy to not have penalties if they don’t call any against you. If you think Oregon played error free football, I have some land in Florida to sell you.
So if PSU committed this penalties but they weren’t called, then PSU would have been well prepared? It’s easy to be well prepared if nothing gets called on you.
King has been a good LB. Rojas has been far from elite. The 2-5 strategy took a big hit when Winston got hurt. I'd prefer Carter at LB more often.
How sad that LBU hasn't been able to recruit top LB talent.
I'm feeling pretty good given that we don't have to play another game with the corrupt low-life b2g hack Officiating Crews.
Good post.
The lack of focus and discipline is unfortunately a trait that falls directly from Franklin himself, and especially the types of kids he would recruit. Franklin is by his nature very enthusiast and celebratory. But that doesn't work between plays when players should be regrouping and getting ready quickly for the next play. The whole team does it. It's like a culture, and it isn't good. This is why we get so many destructive penalties. Heads are not where they should be after the whistle blows. Before it blows the extra emotional energy also gets channeled the wrong way at times. Players tend to over-pursue and miss tackles. This is the mental game. Don't know how you practice it but someone has to come up with a way that is better than someone saying "we need to clean that up."
King is a good linebacker, and so is Carter when he gets moved there, so let's not totally trash the LB group. Nevertheless, Franklin dropped the ball in an area that had been a historic strength at PSU. The gap is so large that our safeties are critically important in playing run defense.
If officials really called downfield pass defense contact as it should be called this defense would be in big trouble. Yesterday they could literally push a receiver out of bounds and get away with it. Without that we would have to use our safeties as safeties, and when we do that the linebackers get exposed.
This is why, despite Carter's dominance as a rusher, he really needs to be a blitzing linebacker. This team doesn't have the linebacker strength from sideline to sideline. Other than King and Carter, the others get blocked easily or find themselves out of position.
Carter is like having three players in one. You don't want him taken out by doubling him or having the QB rolling away from him. And you don't want him taken out by just having him get held by an offensive tackle, a penalty that isn't being called.
The gap at LB needs filled so that the other parts of the defense can play their positions. Carter is the man to do it given how the games are being played and officiated.
This team is going to be in big trouble once it loses Carter and King. I can't imagine what it will be like to play Oregon in early September next year. Need some hard work in the Portal.
Excellent points about LB...especially how the woes have forced the safeties to help with the run more than they should have to.
As to culture and the penalty issues...it's JFs job to change things in that regard since it always "starts with him." But, it's the same rinse and repeat issues annually.
Again, feeling pretty good given that we don't have to play another game with the corrupt low-life b2g hack Officiating Crews. IOW, the diametric opposite of duhO$U who is probably going to get smoked by another SEC team in the postseason without their security-blanket corrupt b2g hack Officiating clown crews. Care to guess what duhO$U's record is against the SEC all-time is?...... duhO$U is 2-12 against SEC teams in postseason losing tons of games as the higher ranked favored team (and their first game against an SEC opponent didn't occur until 1978). PSU'S record against SEC in postseason since 1978? 10-7 with lots of wins as the lower ranked underdog.
Complete nonsense that duhO$U doesn't hugely underperform in postseason or that the corrupt b2g clown crew officiating doesn't have a lot to do with their going into postseason highly ranked and then shatting the bed as a heavy favorite against SEC.
Complete nonsense that duhO$U doesn't hugely underperform in postseason or that the corrupt b2g clown crew officiating doesn't have a lot to do with their going into postseason highly ranked and then shatting the bed as a heavy favorite against SEC.
