Ohio State v Penn State (Rapists v Pederasts)

[Parliament 14343]

That whole town is a shithole. But at midnight there's no other traffic, which would help.

On that 4th and 5, Franklin shoulda called what Urby always had Barrett do. Empty backfield, QB draw. For whatever reason, teams never spied him.

McSorly can run as well as JTB. It woulda worked.

[ClubWhatever 12159]

Franklin's post game presser was kinda cringy.  He did acknowledge the call wasn't good.  However he kept saying he was tired of just having a "great" program and they had to work harder to be "elite".  He said something like, "We've been great long enough".  No, you've had an exceptional playmaker at QB and his time is about up.

[MirrOlure 14870]

On 9/29/2018 at 10:53 PM, po elvis said:

Yeah that's the thing. Can't just call the plays. Have to work on them and have everyone block properly.

The first step in a well-executed screen is to let the pass rushers through the line of scrimmage.  We've got that part down pat.

[Bartles 769]

4 hours ago, Parliament said:

That whole town is a shithole. But at midnight there's no other traffic, which would help.

On that 4th and 5, Franklin shoulda called what Urby always had Barrett do. Empty backfield, QB draw. For whatever reason, teams never spied him.

McSorly can run as well as JTB. It woulda worked.

They had a spy on McSorley at least during the 4th quarter, and definitely would have if it was empty backfield. I thought they should have thrown to one of the single-covered guys at the top, but as mentioned none of them even ran a pattern because they wanted the ol' negative yard screen. Such a waste.

[Parliament 14343]

 

[Beau Vine 54470]

 

This is great, from edsbs.com:

Spoiler

It’s important to say this at the top: The ability to know exactly what is happening on any given football play does not exist. There are 22 moving pieces. Some of them may be tired. Some of them may be hungry. Some of them may be thinking about a fight they had with a friend, or this thing they can’t do in a video game, or maybe a test they need to pass. Maybe they’re injured and trying to hide it, or terrified, or maybe not even mentally there at all.

Maybe they’re gassy. That would really throw us off, too. It’s impossible to think with a tropical depression making rotations in the lower latitudes. The number of huge moments in football directly influenced by stuttering bowel? Probably incalculable, if everyone were being honest.

It’s important to say that because sometimes the urge to pin a failure or success on one player is overwhelming and generally incorrect. Plays can fail for a thousand different reasons in 22 different variations. The math on that seems hard, and not always reducible to simple judgments.

That all said: Good lord, this is an absolute disaster. This is a disaster worthy of a Bosch painting. There are demons dancing with pitchforks around sinners with flowers growing out of their ears here. There are hellscapes, reader.

Just look at the offensive line and tell us they were told where to go, and fully understood their assignments. Look at them and tell us this, you would be telling us only the most grandiose of lies.

And they took two timeouts to get this! Not one, but two. This isn’t what happens when Penn State decided to take to the sideline to get things right once. This is what happened when they had two full timeouts to look at the Ohio State defense, really think about their best option, and then come back and put that on the field.

They did that, and lost. Words fail us, and ultimately so do the pictures.

 

[Katfid54 8635]

the "text" in the very last pic kills me.  No idea if that was intentional or not, but if it was, it's genius.

[Beau Vine 54470]

5 minutes ago, Katfid54 said:

the "text" in the very last pic kills me.  No idea if that was intentional or not, but if it was, it's genius.

I thought it was unintentional.

 

It blows my mind that after three timeouts, the RG allowed big penetration (hey to your mom), the LT and RT barely got any contact on defenders, and the LG literally touched no one. 

How does that happen on a play they had been running all night?

[Parliament 14343]

Great write up. That safety playing way off the inside reciever was ripe for getting burned by the screen. I wonder why they didn't throw it? Looks like it was McSorly's 2nd choice?

Ohio State made hay with a similar bubble screen. When DB's line up to that, go to that. Which leads to the question. Why would that inside DB play so far off? To follow the slot guy if he goes inside? To avoid getting blocked by him? To crash inside? I know there's a good reason.