Penn State Snowflakes: The Coaching

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Was this supposed to be only about our coaches?

I swear if I see someone else act like this is all about not having an elite QB... did you not see the receivers constantly drop balls all night, the o line providing no pass protection, not to mention the defense not showing up at all. This game was not on the QB

The Pope wants to know what the fuck happened?

If you do not have a QB, you have nothing.  FSU, a BCS contender lost its 4th game because they are relegated to starting a true freshmen.  Everyone is talking about coaches failing to coach or run the right play.  If you do not have the player to comprehend what needs to be done everything turns to dust.  The FSU fans are in the same mind set looking for their pounds of flesh and gallons of blood.  They want everyone fired despite someone bringing in top5 recruting classes and has already won one NC.  College football is fast becming like the NFL that the margin of error is tiny.  Harbaugh only has two years of his players in since most of his first year were Hoke's recruits.  I will make my decision on Harbahugh and his staff when it is his seniors all on the field not sophmores and redshirt freshmen.

This is what happens to a Don Brown team when they can’t get pressure on the QB.

Didn’t have an issue with the offensive gameplan in the first half. As we all knew, once we get behind we do not have the horses to get it done in the air.

Always thought JH teams overachieved and were tough, but not now. Youth is no excuse for this spanking.

State did that as well. 

 

Offenseive routes are either twenty yards downfield or FB flats.  PSU installed a new wrinkle for barkley in two weeks.  In two years Evans has yet to get the ball in space other than on tosses. 

 

One time on third and long I just want to see an arm punt.  One time. 

 

I don't know if offense staff needs to be cleaned out but roles need to be simplified and clearly defined. 

Hmmm...I wonder if BornInAA realizes now that beating PSU by 39 last year has no bearing on the outcome of the game this year!

Our qbs do not get much pass protection from our running backs.

Honestly thought the offensive gameplan wasn't that bad in the first half.  It was focused on the run and got O'Korn some easy completions/runs.  But then they had some bad drops and the offense got bogged down.

The defense, I don't know why McCray was left on Barkley.  This game looks different (though PSU still wins) if they switch that matchup to Bush.

I love Don Brown, but his insistence on putting McCray on fast running backs is as baffling as it is inexcusable

team unity and desire. And we should have known based on what PSU did last year that this game would be there top priority. Any doubts about that?

College football is about emotion and passion. They wanted to score 60 on us. And we couldn't stop them. And we wouldn't back down from our style on defense. So they executed. Like when Kinnell went out of the game when his helmet came off, they spread the field, put Barkley in a one-on-one matchup against McCray with a backup safety in, and McSorley hit Barkley who juggles a TD catch.

 

I don't know what you do with the play-calling when there isn't a wide receiver on the roster who can make a play. Maybe that comes with development - I hope DPJ and Black come back next year with that in the arsenal. Look at that long pass at the end of the fourth quarter for Perry. Fairly well thrown, but Perry didn't make much of a play on it. Then there was some contact at the end, but it seemed well timed. Perry's looking for a flag, but you kind of wanted to tell him if you can't track the ball and you can't make a play on it, you're not ever going to get the benefit of a call on a ball like that. So the passing game goes out at about 4 ypa including the O'Korn runs. Play-calling isn't going to fix a personnel problem. On D, does Brown get a pass for some bad decisions? Or would Barkley/McSorley have owned them regardless? Hard to say. All those 3-and-outs put a lot of pressure on the D. Since Barkley only had 18 touches, I'm guessing Brown did something to take him away that exposed other problems.

Situational playcalling has been shit all year long, and never worse than calling playaction on 4th and 11 down a bunch of points. Harbaugh needs to grow a set of balls, and demote his old buddy Drevno, and maybe take over some of the playcalling himself. However, I’m sure Jim will do nothing. Thought football was a meritocracy?? Or is that just for the players jim?

What's up with Harbaugh? He looks flat on the sideline and the players look flat on the field. There is no fire on this team.

I was kinda always blah blah blah about the offensive coaches. I admit, I still believe Harb can coach up the QB's but frankly all the other guys are underwhelming. I said all along that Ty Wheatley's impact on the running game would be felt. I couldn't be more honest, these guys need someone who really coaches RBs not a fill in guy. Not impressed with Pep or the Frey guy or Drevno. We should bring in Les Miles as the O Coordinator to make the offense more dynamic. He is a phenomenal recruiter, has a great offensive mind and would probably jump at the chance to retire here. The Offensive play calling is too conservative and is very limited in their looks.We have all seen this coming for weeks yet we were hoping something changed. It hasn't and we looked terrible.

Defensively we had a rough night as James Franklin and co. clearly did their homework and developed a gameplan to counter the #1 Don Brown defense. We got spanked and it shouldn't have been that bad. The Safeties and a couple of the LB's got torched on slants, mismatches and they failed to keep containment all night. The blitz was completely neutralized and D. Bush was turned into an average player because he was forced to play a different facet of the position (chasing runners who have broken containment because he has over pursued while blitzing). Confident the Defense will rebound. because Brown will tweek the D to overcome the problems but teams will all try to game plan their offense around our blitzing tendencies and neutralize D. Bush. 

I understand that yes, as a coach you want experience on the field, yes you want a player like McCray out there. But honestly, you have to see something as a coach that some of us on the couch can see. McCray is a liability out there. He’s so slow it’s a focal point for opposing teams to key on. Once you take Bush out of the picture you get a terrific matchup with a slow ass LB. we have so many great LBs in the fold waiting for him to leave, let them in, let’s see if they can show something special out there. Maybe just maybe you put some speedy LBs in the replace him. I’ve heard so many times people mentioning Uche, Gil, MBem-Bosse, Singleton, why can’t we see some of them, god knows that they could have been useful against some speedy RBs or TEs. Even putting some in instead of Furbush could work too. All I’m saying is, is that these coaches seem so scared to play younger inexperienced guys that they are willing to lose many battles with speedier players in the games. On that note too, why is walker not in the game, I wanna see him, he has so much talent and the coaches are just wasting it. Overall I think that these coaches are overly hesitant to put in fresh and talented players because they are too scared that they might be a liability. Sometimes they surprise you and do something that practice doesn’t bring out.

I am more calm than most of you guys. I guess it's because this was for sure the least painful of the losses in the JH era.

We lost to the better team. No rivals, no fluke plays, no overtime, no refs, no "our team didn't show up and sucked randomly" bs that sends us raging. Just JH's second normal loss next to his very first game. Yes, we can improve, but we didn't look horrible, and the better team won this football game desrvingly. Also, the score doesn't tell the whole story of how this game felt. It didn't feel like we got blown out to me, it just felt like a loss. 2015 OSU was a blowout, that was a different animal than tonight's game.

 

Yes, our offensive coaches need to go. Yes, Don Brown was unfortunately outcoached tonight. But the notion that this team was unprepared is just untrue. Also, Don Brown will be fine and I am confident he will show improvement.

Anyone who is resting this loss on JH is insane. He does have some proving to do in the rest of this season, the offseason, and next year. But I am confident he will prove himself. Anyone who is even talking about his job status is somehow EVEN MORE mental than those who did following the MSU game. I would spend that energy concerned about how his lack of enthusiasm has shown up again tonight.

 

Basically, this season is playing out on paper the way we thought this young team would do. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll see an improvement in division standings, which is the very first thing I wanted. As a result of that, this has become my mindset starting tonight for the remainder of our season:

Just beat ohio state.

All will be forgiven if that happens.