Obli's Observations, a win is a win is a win
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First off, conp
First off, I agree with second paragraph. It looks much more balanced and Allar has made big steps in leadership and accuracy. While not expert that WV was a go route and the INT was a fade. I am tired of fades so I do pin it on Franklin. No need when we can run ball on first down. Bad calls can lead to good outcomes and good calls can lead to bad outcomes. I just did not like that call. Never have and many instances on this blog hating play over years
No need man. Not attacking you. Talking about troll comments from other poster. I agreed with your statement
One was a perfectly placed pass, the other wasn't. Wallace could have caught the INT if it was put in the back corner (where he was going). I'd be curious to know what the actual call was and why our QB threw short and WR kept going.
He stated this in the post game presser. he read man-to-man coverage (or visa versa, can't recall which) and got a zone. he failed to recognize it. On top of that he underthrew the ball. he said it was his fault.
Allar better learn how to throw to more than just 2 receivers. Someone must step up.
He's happily targeted:
Wallace
Evans
Warren
Singleton
He's only thrown 37 passes as well. It's more important that what we are doing is working vs getting more players arbitrarily involved.
If he WRs are getting open, then why is Allar not finding other WRs like Fleming and passing to him? Allar has to improve on spreading the ball around when PSU enters B1G play. The B1G teams can focus on shutting down Wallace III and Warren (TE). Then what happens?
I was put out that the bye was the third week but as it turned out may be a better time than anyone thought especially me.
Game plan? Taking what the defense gives?
I don't think we have to arbitrarily spread the ball around more. Wallace has been open. Evans. Warren. Singleton. Allen. Based on current playing time, we have the following to get involved:
1. Fleming
2. Clifford
3. Dinkins
4. Reynolds
5. Rapp / Saunders
The key is moving the ball and scoring points. As long as somebody is open and it works, does it matter if our 5th option has similar stats as our top 4? Look at OSU. They have 2 primary pass catchers. With nearly double the attempts, they have 6 more players with 1 or 2 receptions only and that's with a lot of garbage time.
I completely agree with that but I also think some players would finish with their with their teammates except for the fact that they are now enticed to follow the money.
Not having rapport with his receivers, was a big part of last year‘s problem, in my opinion. All preseason and all season long… Franklin kept saying that somebody had to step up. Nobody did… So the coaches just kept revolving them in hopes that someone would. it’s a mystery why Lambert Smith couldn’t do more…
All that I care about is production… NFL teams rarely target seven or eight different players equally in a tightly contested game… If they did, we wouldn’t have wide receivers in fantasy football
All that I care about is production… NFL teams rarely target seven or eight different players equally in a tightly contested game… If they did, we wouldn’t have wide receivers in fantasy football
I disagree. There needs to be more variety in the passing game to make defenses play more straight up. B1G teams will be able to take away Wallace III and the TEs. Hopefully Coach K is developing plans to get more WRs involved.
Not looking for similar stats but Fleming has barely been targetted.
By variety in the passing game, do you mean changing up who is the primary target for a given passing play?
Because if your read is that your primary receiver is open, then you make that throw.
The spreading around needs to be from a conceptual standpoint. But sometimes it just works out that way that one receiver is featured and used to exploit an opponent's weakness.
And until they take your weapon away, why not continue to expose and exploit.
JMO.
He was on the INT. I'm not positive about the rest, I don't have access to all 22 footage. Maybe. Maybe not.
He was a non factor for 3 reasons:
1. His 1 reception was wiped out with a penalty and another was deflected (Allar could have led him a bit more, but credit where it's due, DB made a great play).
2. Warren had 8 rec 146 yards (a new PSU TE single game record).
3. Allar only threw 20 passes.
Additionally, our RBs ran for 7 and 9 ypc.
The offense just needs to be productive enough to score more points than every opponent we play. While I too would like to see more variety and sharing of the wealth, I'm not going to be overly concerned as long as somebody is doing it.
It's impossible to take away more than 1 player typically. You can't double 2 guys every down. Right now, we have 5 viable players who have to be game planned for. How many did we have last year?
I think Fleming will be targeted more as the season progresses. I'm honestly ecstatic that Evans is showing deep play capability. If not for 1 drops and an OPI, I wonder if we'd be having the same conversation? Wallace's drop and hold (that wasn't) negated catch as well.
Perhaps as you said, changing up the primary target. Tendencies are noticed and the opposition will scheme to force the offense to go against their tendencies. I do believe Coach K will continue to broaden the offense as the season progresses. It seems I've forgotten this is another new offense for the players to grasp.
So, if his primary targets are open he should look them off and force the ball to secondary guys that are not open? I thought coach K was calling the plays. You guys are confusing me. 😂
If his first read is open, he's not going to look for another player beyond that. We don't know the read progressions for every play. The players he's been throwing to have been getting open. Warren was wide open all day against Bowling Green.
Great point. So far this year, Allar's completion rate is 24 of 37 (65%) for 420 yards in two games. That is over 11 YPC with 5 TDs and 1 INT. His QB rating is 199. And I can recall three critical drops (Evans and Allen against BG that both caused us to punt the ball away) and a phantom holding call that negated a fantastic 20-yard gain.
It is hard to argue with those numbers.
BTW, we've had 69 runs vs 38 pass attempts. (26 to 24 Singleton to Allen respectively).
This is another thing people are overlooking. We simply haven't run a ton of plays on offense, and only 38 passes in 2 games is a very small sample size compared to many teams. 24 completions isn't many when you are looking for how to spread the ball around. Franklin said yesterday we haven't been sustaining drives long enough on offense, it's either been 3 & out or a quick score in a small number of plays, while the defense hasn't been getting off the field quickly enough. That combination is leading to not running many plays. Despite that, through 2 games I've been very pleased with what I'm seeing on offense, including in the passing game, and how quickly Kotelnicki appears to have made strides with his players.
I'm sorry but there are gasbags on air and then you have the clandestine gasbags. PFF are the clandestine gasbags
Not saying that. Is Wallace the primary receiver of every passing play? Probably not. So he should be able to pass to other receivers. It would be interesting to know if there is charting showing if Allar is focusing his passing primarily to the location where Wallace is running his routes. I believe Allar has shown vast improvement in his passing, pocket awareness, running, and leadership on the field. For games against B1G teams can he process his reads quickly enough when Wallace - who he throws to alot - is covered and Allar has to look elsewhere?
i'll never understand why, if they see the problem in the first half, why wait until halftime to fix it.
Different offensive coordinator different style of play.. I think he demonstrated he could go through his reads last year. Too many reads too much fear of throwing an INT. A slow progression time and time again often skipping guys that were wide open. This year he doesn't have more options but he will have more receivers open earlier on in his read progression. Just my guess..
