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sparcboxbuck
What happened to my ¤cash?
1) They would have not been on ignore if they were right in the first place.
2) The best predictor of future performance on a criteria is previous performance in that criteria.
Ergo: Still wrong
And, probably more annoying two weeks later.
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Strange game. McSorly does well in that offense. Saquan looked good in the right places but I will be surprised if he lasts the whole game against Ohio State. Looks like he's taking a pounding and they play TSUN the week before us. Their defense looked very good early on, but I don't think they will handle Ohio State for four quarters if the Buckeyes get the passing game sorted out. They surely didn't look top 5 to me yesterday.
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jakenick06
Hall of Fame
I'm in the same camp. I'm not as worried about PSU this morning as I was after the 1st Q last night.
One thing Ohio State HAS to do is not let SB get his touches in space. Iowa did that more often than not and he was getting huge chunks of yardage. Key on him every time he's on the field, and never deviate.
McSorely (sp?) doesn't scare me at all. This season has only proven that the heave it up approach's success last season was more luck than anything. He's not hitting on those at nearly the same rate this year, IMO.
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HorseshoeFetish
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I got two things from watching that game last night. If our Dline doesn't make plays against them just going through their right tackle all night it's because he's holding. After watching SB come up hobbled after that cut later in the game I'm less upset about JK not being given all day to run.
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Biggest message for me: Manage the damn clock. By no means, leave the Pedsters a couple minutes in the 4th to come back and beat you, because if nothing else is true, they do perform well under pressure. (As in, driving down the field in the last minute and scoring the winning TD throw in a hostile stadium as the final couple seconds expire.)
Oh, and I wasn't still watching then, but I believe I saw something about McSorley kicking the ball into the stands after their victory.
Stay classy, Trace.
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Systems_id
Head Coach
I don't think Bama has had a dominant OL since Fluker and co. left. They've had some good for sure though.
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Systems_id
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At least they ain't out here giving up 400 passing yards to the likes of Indiana though.
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Systems_id
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Did he get benched for looking like garbage against terrible team the next week?
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Clearly you are referring to these guys.....
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And they let a third string qb, who would lose his job the next season, bitch slap them in the playoff.
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HorseshoeFetish
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And they let a third string qb, who would lose his job the next season, bitch slap them in the playoff.
Yeah but they were committed to stopping the run game.
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My takeaways:
- Barkley is a beast. We knew that, but yea. He's their threat in running and passing.
- If our DBs dont figure out how to turn around and look for the ball it'll be a long day against McSorely - "throw it up and let tall receivers find it" (or beg for the PI)
- Their Oline has major weaknesses
- Doesn't look like a top5 team to me but they got some pieces that could give us problems (Barkley, tall WRs/TEs that dont drop half their targets and make QB look better than he is, QB with a pulse)
- Ferentz' anemic offense and style doesn't make for a very good barometer of PSU defense imo; it plays right into their hands and one side has much better chess pieces.
- Penn State needed a lot of help from the refs ... especially on defense... blatant targeting / late hit, got away with 2 players roughing the kicker, criminal holding every play on the final drive, a lot of contact our DBs can never seem to get away with, etc.
- Iowa plays good solid D and very opportunistic creating turnovers. They should give teams in the West problems and vie for a trip to Indy. If our offense cant beat this style of defense, we have major issues.
- Their corners are tall, they have some good ol' Midwestern kids at LB... the corn-eating kind that everyone says are 3stars then go on to play in the NFL for years as solid nameless contributors.
- Their offense is just humdrum to me. Similar to PSU it's built all around Wadley, but he's not the hero Barkley is.
It'd be amazing if Iowa was before Penn State as a step-up from the Rutgers and UNLVs of the world before a top-10/15 team like PSU. Iowa is the kind of team on the fringe of the top-25.
But alas, it's after PSU. So I'm really only worried about Penn State vs. our D and whether our O comes out the other side of this existential self-discovery navel gazing mode ... if that works out, then we can worry a little about a post-PSU hangover going to Iowa.
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dragurd
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Honestly it reminded me of the PSU game last year. Iowa was getting dominated but PSU wasn't putting points on the board. The difference was they finished the drive with egregious holding while we had JT stand back and get sacked repeatedly. Though both teams had DB's holding receivers left and right.
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