PSU D vs McCarthy
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This statement is pretty much true for every QB at both the collegiate and pro levels. Hoping Coach Diaz dials up the pressure as the DBs hold up in man coverage and their 1st year starter gets rattled into more bad decisions. That is a path to a W in Ann Arbor I think this team can take.
The Diaz defense is high risk and high reward …. utilizing very smart, high end athletes. Athletes not seen by this QB, to this point. He’ll make some plays… we’ll make some plays. —Only concerned with ; potential injuries, turnovers, and phantom holding/PI calls. Our athletes match up very well with their athletes. If they let them play, it’s a coin flip game on Michigan’s home field. Gonna be a fun game
No doubt. We need to get them "off schedule" as Franklin would say. Need sacks and tackles in the backfield. Make the QB beat us with more than short passes.
Exactly. I have him on ignore so I don't see any of his posts but all the rebuttals to his pro scUM garbage. Unfortunately he has reared his ugly head in this thread.
I am with you on the PI calls, although not on the phantom aspect of it. Our DB's are very frisky.
Uh what’s Michigan’s signature win this year? Creamed 3 of the biggest cupcakes at home to start the season; beat Maryland by a TD at home by 7 points while being the beneficiary of several favorable calls, best Iowa whose offense absolutely sucks and thus the offense was able to west the Hawkeyes defense down and Indiana who lost by 2 TDS to Nebraska for god’s sake.
I've watched them a few times. Kid is legit. You must limit his escapbility because he is then a dual threat to run and throw. Hopefully PSU can get enough pressure to force him to throw quicker than he wants to and keep him hemmed in. Diaz might assign someone to "spy" McCarthy.
Neither team has a signature win this year. You could argue that Purdue, Auburn and Northwestern are marginally better than Maryland, Iowa and Indiana. But none of those teams has looked great.
No way are our d-backs more frisky than those of duhO$U or scUM. duhO$U and scUM have routinely mugged, clutched and grabbed receivers for years - no flags.
Most good defenses commit a lot of PI these days. It seems that "best practices" indicate that you should almost dare the refs to throw flags. I believe the thought is it is better to (potentially) collect a few flags than let receivers run free and clear.
Start at snap 1. Do it until the end. If you get the WRs doing it back out of frustration, the refs then start letting them go outside of not turning your head or just tackling the WR.
Average to below average.
Words saying that things have been done differently this year. So, we'll see Saturday.
Can we please stop pretending beating Auburn was impressive?
It's as bad as him claiming beat Iowa was impressive.
I think Auburn and Ohio were impressive wins for Penn State. Ohio is a cupcake, but you won by an amount that you expect to see vs a cupcake.
Winning by 20 vs a bad team is not the same as winning by 40 with all your subs getting in.
Beating a bad team by 50 is more impressive than beating a bad team by 19. IMO, all three of Michigan's cupcake games were more impressive than your win over cupcake Ohio.
When Bama annually pastes some FCS team by 50 in November, they don't get docked for playing a bad team.
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should be interesting, JJ had most of his issues against maryland when they dropped 7-8 in coverage, and my understanding is diaz loves to blitz..side note, JJ had a labrum injury that caused him to miss all of spring practice, chose rehab over surgery and didn't round into form until the last 2 weeks of fall camp...seems to be progressing steadily every week...biggest concern going into the season was that he would try to play hero ball on every snap, force the ball and try to make splash plays..surprisingly, he's been very disciplined in taking what the defense gives him..two seemingly well matched teams, wish it were a prime time game, but have to please the Fox Overlords.
In a driving rain storm. Ask Fritz... PSU is the fastest and deepest defense NU had seen. Will be for Michigan as well. You might win but I'd suggest you stock up on cigarettes because it will NOT be a walk in the park as you think.
Unless you are in a 3 deep prevent, 7-8 man coverage is tough to throw on. Blitzing is also tough to throw on. Every QB has trouble with pressure. But it has to get home.
Actually, the OP's premise is not correct - forget where precisely I saw it, but a complete breakdown of JJ's throws reveals that his completion percentage drops precipitously (somewhere in low 30% range) when throwing under pressure (which has only happened since they began b1g play and why scUM's MOV dropped from 55 in OOC play to 13 in their 3 Conference games to-date against very mediocre Conference competition.).
Your assessment is what I think about him although I know far less about him.
He is disciplined and will take what the defense gives him. PSU needs to disrupt his rhythm and get Mich off schedule. Big, big key to the game. If what Diaz dials up is not disruptive enough and/or Mustipher, Chop Robinson, Jacobs don't have an impact then PSU will struggle.
Found this:
"Through Michigan's first six games, McCarthy wasn't pressured often (14 plays) but completed only 50% of his passes for 72 yards, while taking four sacks, according to ESPN Stats & Information. When not pressured, McCarthy has completed 81% of his passes with eight touchdowns and one interception."
Why quarterback J.J. McCarthy raises Michigan's College Football Playoff ceiling
Said one Big Ten coach of what McCarthy does for Michigan at QB: "That's been the position they've just not been elite. He changes that."
Found this:
"Through Michigan's first six games, McCarthy wasn't pressured often (14 plays) but completed only 50% of his passes for 72 yards, while taking four sacks, according to ESPN Stats & Information. When not pressured, McCarthy has completed 81% of his passes with eight touchdowns and one interception."
Why quarterback J.J. McCarthy raises Michigan's College Football Playoff ceiling
Said one Big Ten coach of what McCarthy does for Michigan at QB: "That's been the position they've just not been elite. He changes that."www.espn.com
I can live with under 2.5 pressures per game.
If we can't rattle him or get him out of rhythm he is not going to make self inflicted mistakes. I don't see us winning unless we force him into errors. That starts with him needing to pass more (more chances of a mistake) than he is comfortable with because we have slowed down Corum and their run attack.Found this:
"Through Michigan's first six games, McCarthy wasn't pressured often (14 plays) but completed only 50% of his passes for 72 yards, while taking four sacks, according to ESPN Stats & Information. When not pressured, McCarthy has completed 81% of his passes with eight touchdowns and one interception."
Why quarterback J.J. McCarthy raises Michigan's College Football Playoff ceiling
Said one Big Ten coach of what McCarthy does for Michigan at QB: "That's been the position they've just not been elite. He changes that."
When you pressure a QB, it forces them to make an instant decision - often times there is no good option at that point in time and it causes the QB to make a snap decision and potentially force a throw.
Exactly. He looks calm and cool because he has ALL DAY to find a receiver. Diaz needs to use the athletes we have on D to wreak havoc and totally disrupt what he wants to do.
not sure how much pressure psu will generate, but if he feels the heat, JJ is more likely to take off and run rather than just throw the ball up for grabs. and if psu is in man coverage, those escapes from the pocket become big gainers..if you haven't seen this kid run, he's not going to turtle and fall on the ground, legit 4.5 type of speed.
Great, expecting a big game from JJ! Apparently no weaknesses!!
nobody has said he has no weaknesses, rather, he hasn't made the mistakes you would expect from a young first year qb...when you pressure the qb, yeah, a qb that can run is a threat if your rush doesn't get home...is that being a homer.?pretty much just stating the obvious..
I think of it this way: The odds on psu playing poorly 3 straight games are less than the odds on psu playing well after 2 poor games AND a bye week.
I think he's historically been a fire zone type of guy primarily. He's playing a lot of man with his blitzing this year because he trusts 4-5 corners and 4 safetys, but they still mix things up some.
Teams are only completing 48% +/- of their passes vs this defense and that is with average LB coverage and giving the middle quite a bit.
Teams are also throwing quick. 1.8-2.4 seconds quick.
