maybe it actually was still windy and i just didn’t notice it anymore, but i’m pretty sure when Clark through that INT there wasn’t a whole lot of wind anymore. It was just another one of his horrible overthrows. Clark really didn’t even need to be much of a factor in this game, though. The coaching was just pathetic. Why we came out throwing into the wind on three straight downs is just plain stupid. DWill is awesome, though…how he was able to get positive yards almost every time that stupid shotgun run was called is amazing (I think that play was called 7 or 8 times, with the pass being the one variation of it).

Our defense looks amazing against quarterbacks who aren’t that accurate, but Stanzi actually has decent accuracy and throws well on the move. The more I think about it, the less I want Tom Bradley being head coach after JoePa. The lack of blitzing and stunts to get pressure on an inexperienced and inconsistent quarterback is just ridiculous. And when we do blitz, why is it the blitzes are always up the middle??? Iowa loves to get stanzi out of the pocket…so we blitzed up the middle, and he bootlegs outside with no one to make a play on him because of the cluster$#*@ in the middle.

the one bright spot besides odrick. It seemed like he was getting thru Iowa’s O-Line pretty well. But come on, Evan Royster broke more tackles in the backfield and at the line of scrimmage than any running back with a decent O-Line should have to. He made plays out of nothing several times, but hey, he can’t break 3 tackles behind the line every time. That’s what the problem was when we got to and near the red zone…the O-Line just layed down. I think we all know running backs get about 3/4 of their yards because of the O-Line. So, when a RB has a bad game, I’d say 3/4 of it is the fault of O-Line.

However, what I want to know is,

What happened to the screen pass?

Iowa blitzed over and over again to get pressure on Clark and stop the run game and we did nothing to try and counter it. Once again, this game came down to coaching.

Definitely the production of Williams hasn’t matched the hype. Williams just isn’t that great of a receiver. He’s fast, but not particularly great at getting open in closed spaces. He’s also not a guy who will make an athletic catch.

He is a useful multi-purpose player, though not a dominant player. Seeing him in the return game exemplifies his skill set. When he gets the ball in space and only has to make a few jukes, he’ll burn by anyone. Unfortunately, that puts him in the category of great athlete, not great football player. Fast, moderately agile, but not good at reading the play or breaking tackles.

On a deeper team, Williams would be a role player. But he’s the closest thing PSU has to a burner. Yesterday running Williams from the direct snap was working 90% of the time. Williams deserves some serious credit for getting consistent yardage out of that formation on a day the passing game wasn’t working and the O-line in general was not holding its own.

because the defenses are getting tougher.

Granted, I believe Jay Paterno is a completely incompetent boob who has no business being an offensive coordinator in the Big 10…but, we all became awestruck of Daryll Clark after watching him dominate sorry defenses in a less than respectable non-conference schedule.

Its the ups and downs of a long football season. He’ll come back…although the over throws in zone coverage are scary. (a few against ohio state, a few at iowa…besides the obvious one). He did miss a few times in Wisconsin, there were just so many opportunities against the Badgers that they were easily forgotten.

It is a completely fair comment to say that PSU players don’t progress (or when they do, it just feels a little too late…LJ, MRob). There are certainly plenty of arguments to back that up over the past 8 years.

White DB’s are the problem? Rubin had the play of the game against OSU. Scirrotto has been solid for 3 years.

Didn’t Lydell Sargeant drop an interception that undoubtedly would have altered the outcome?
Who bit on the 3rd and 14 pump fake that went for an Iowa touchdown?

I guess he wasn’t as lucky to have escaped a dropped INT the way your name/picture sake Titcus Pettigrew was in 2000.

Seriously…

As in the all white road jerseys. They gotta go.

Tradition, Tradition, I know…but please, those things are terrible.

Have you ever dressed entirely in white and then ran around? You just feel unathletic.

Penn State has stunk on the road for too long. The only consistent thing is JoePa and the road uniforms. You pick, but one has gotta go.

And, no, I don’t have any recommendations. Maybe some blue stripes…maybe a thick blue stripe. But something, anything.

Down with whitey.
Its time for change.

But the white DBs can stay.