Dogs and Cats living together...Mass hysteria!

1. I agree. Still a very flawed team with youth at key spots. 2. High ankle sprains aren't conducive to "more" anything. 3. Not sure there's a solution to this one. Not much can be done when your middle linebacker just lets the tight end run past him. 4/5. Koger and Webb have been coming up very small recently. Webb has had a drop in basically every game it seems. Do people still not want Alex Smith? 6. We're not at the point where D-Rob is a luxury that can be mixed in on one play and then taken out. We are still at the point where he has to see significant time, aka a whole series. Koger's drop did nothing to help matters. 7. I thought the opening kickoff/drive of the second half was the nail. 8. I haven't seen any huge difference between Shaw and Brown. Both are blazing fast with rather average vision and not much in terms of power. 9. This may actually be a bizarre intangible that prevents Gardner from redshirting. The discomfort in the cold weather is a mental thing, and if Tate and Denard (more Tate though, which is...odd) don't adjust to it, Gardner will push them. FTR, I'm not overly concerned about that, at least for next year. Odoms looked like he wanted to crawl away and die in November last year, and he's looked just fine in the cold this year so far. They'll adjust. 10. Ortmann is going to want to forget that series. And Moosman is what he is. It's getting to the point where I just expect him to fuck up at some point each game. 11. RR says he called the spike...I think he's covering. I think Tate just panicked after fumbling the previous snap and taking forever to get back up and spiked it in a rush. Could be wrong, I don't think we'll ever know. Maybe just take RR at his word when he says he called it, which is inexplicable. 12. No comment on Ezeh. 13. Next week's game will tell us a lot about the inner workings of this team. Illinois is a team in freefall, and they've pretty much mailed in the season as Zook shuffles three QBs trying to find one. Their defense can't stop anybody. Michigan should go in there and beat them by two touchdowns. If it comes anywhere close to a repeat of last year, this team has bigger problems internally than any of us realize. They're saying all the right things about the seniors circling the wagons and the coaches keeping the players confident. They need to walk that walk next week.

Defensively, we played poorly. There is no point in discussing a play here or a play there; we didn't get the job done. Granted, Penn St. execution was very good; well executed plays, no turnovers. We on the other hand had 4 turnovers, 3 of which were significant. I think Denard has a lot of promise, but as a freshman...he had no business throwing that pick into triple coverage, if I counted right, and what is up with the fumbles? Offensive execution, particularly dropped passes and some mis-judgements on Tates part. Turnovers, poor execution, defense, and a very good job by the Penn St. offense...we still have a ways to go...which after 7 games is somewhat disappointing...

But if it makes you all feel better, take comfort that at least you don't have to wake up tomorrow within a few hours drive (through an army of cars sporting blue and white paw-print magnets) to State College, and/or deal with all of the assholes who've been eyeing up my block M adidas hat since the end of April. I'm relatively pleased to see that my house hasn't been subject to any PSU hijinx. Today simply sucked. Sucks.