BSD Staff Predictions: Northwestern Wildcats
by Kevin HD on Oct 30, 2009 11:11 AM EDT
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Your staff preview of this season's "let's get overly concerned" sandwich game...
Mike Says...
Evanston has been a place where Penn State can never seem to get an easy win. They have a 4-2 all time record there, but three of those wins have come by less than five points. Even the 2005 team needed a miracle pass from Michael Robinson to Isaac Smolko on 4th and 15 to pull out the win. So it's tempting to say this is going to be a difficult win for Penn State. But I'm just not seeing it.
The game in 2005 came a week before Penn State put it all together against Minnesota. This Penn State team has already played itself into a weapon of mass destruction. Northwestern has nothing that scares me on offense. And the defense is starting the waterboy and two managers in the secondary. This is not Northwestern circa 1995. Bring on the Buckeyes.
Penn State 35, Northwestern 17
Kevin Says...
They asked Pat Fitzgerald what he thought of the 2009 Penn State football team and his basic response was, "Man those guys are good." He's mostly right. The offense is first in the league in total yards, second in total points, and seems to have finally picked up an identity.
And I expect nothing less than proverbial bloodshed while Northwestern has the ball. Lee practiced all week and should be available to help defend against the short passing game Kafka brings. You've got what might be the very best defense in the country (1st nationally in points allowed, 4th in total yards) against a Northwestern team that ranks 60 to 100+ in most major offensive categories.
I expect 2005-Illinoisish chaos. In a good way.
Penn State 52, Northwestern 7
Ruts Says...
No reason to worry here. Northwestern's severely hampered by injuries in the secondary, so Penn State should be able to move the ball at will. Oh, and Northwestern can't run the ball. If this is any less than a mauling, I'll be disappointed.
Penn State 44, Northwestern 14
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RUTS is also
apparently late for his flight to Chi-town. Make sure to bring a spoon in case you get pizza.
BSD
by Kevin HD on Oct 30, 2009 11:12 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
maybe a shovel
after all…it is DEEP dish. WORDPLAY!
We decide when you hear the snap count...
by thedrizzle on Oct 30, 2009 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Is there such a thing as "undertime"?
Because that’s what I put into BSD this week. Taking last minute suggestions for things in Chicago, though.
Twitter: @scrappled
"When it’s third-and-10, you can take the milk drinkers and I’ll take the whiskey drinkers every time" - Max McGee
by Run Up The Score on Oct 30, 2009 12:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Must see in chicago is the hancock building....
You cant beat a martini on the 96th floor….
Bar hopping is best done on clark street right outside of Wrigley field
And you can easily get into some live blues joints at Blues chicago downtown, or a couple spots in lincoln park on halsted ave, Kingston mines is one of them.
I know a lot more than they know. I'm going to do what I believe is in the kid's best interest. That's what this whole thing is about.-Joe Paterno
by JoePaPa on Oct 30, 2009 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
drink on clark street
in wrigleyville. Go to the goose island brewpub there; one of the first craft brewers to make it big.
I wouldn't trust old rooster me neither.
by spakajewia on Oct 30, 2009 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
No suggestions, but I did just hear this from the freakonomics guy:
“A Chicago prostitute is more likely to have sex with a Chicago police officer than to get arrested by a Chicago police officer.”
I have no idea if it’s true.
BSD
by Kevin HD on Oct 30, 2009 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
There's a joke there.
For some reason I can’t quite find it. I’m slipping.
by Cairo on Oct 30, 2009 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Contrary to Mayor Daly's hopes, IOC members were *not* impressed?
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Oct 30, 2009 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Trump Tower
Outdoor bar on the 33rd(?) level that overlooks the Chicago River and within sight of the Navy Pier.
by Cairo on Oct 30, 2009 2:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
34-10 good guys
2 touchdowns through the air to Powell, 2 on the ground for Royster. Wagner goes 2-3 on field goals with a long of 45, one busted play in the secondary leads to a NW touchdown and a turnover leads to their field goal, Kafka finds no room to run, D’Anton Lynn comes up huge. Boom
by jimbo2psu on Oct 30, 2009 11:30 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
could you be more specific, please?
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
by jtothep on Oct 30, 2009 11:46 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Landolt stubs his toe coming out of the tunnel...
but sucks it up and vaults himself into Heisman consideration with 13 pancake blocks.
by jimbo2psu on Oct 30, 2009 4:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, sweet sweet chaos.
That 2005 Illinois game was a sight to behold. Tamba Hali destroying Tim Brasic off the blind side is easily my second favorite Tamba moment.
38-6, PSU.
Also, are we second in points to Michigan or Purdue? I’m just assuming it’s one of those two teams.
We are gonna shock them with 5,000 mega watts of raw ROO POWER.
by psuwxman on Oct 30, 2009 11:52 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
And FYI
Ohio State is third. Purdue is 5th.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Oct 30, 2009 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not that our schedule doens't help us out in a big way
But them getting Delaware State makes their season stats almost meaningless. That team is currently ranked 184th in Sagarin and they put up like 800 yard without even trying.
BSD
by Kevin HD on Oct 30, 2009 12:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow, way to bring it RUTS
Four sentences?
by NoLimitLion1 on Oct 30, 2009 12:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Worth every penny!
Twitter: @scrappled
"When it’s third-and-10, you can take the milk drinkers and I’ll take the whiskey drinkers every time" - Max McGee
by Run Up The Score on Oct 30, 2009 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
On an unrelated note
Evidence of how entrenched in my life BSD has become. Who watched Always Sunny last night? The scene where Sweet Dee is waiting at the bus stop for the Army GI she had been corresponding with online…Frank shows up with a present for the guy to persuade him to participate in the wrestling match the guys are putting on. The present Frank brings? Jean shorts. Tell me you didn’t watch that show and immediately laugh. Dee: “Jean shorts? You brought him jean shorts? Get the hell out of here Frank.”
PSU – 48
UN – 10
by PSUJunny05 on Oct 30, 2009 12:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Screw John Cena
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Oct 30, 2009 12:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well that was random.
That would be like me responding to a “Grading the Penn State Offense” post with a comment that said “I hate Wayne Gretzky.”
by PSUJunny05 on Oct 30, 2009 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You mentioned jean shorts and wrestling
Soo, John Cena.
Nothing random at all.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Oct 30, 2009 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I wasn't familiar with his personal style. Nor the fact that wrestling was still on TV.
Rowdy Roddy Piper was in the episode, though. That was pretty cool.
by PSUJunny05 on Oct 30, 2009 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah I saw it.
I like that show.
PSU 35
Wildcan’ts 7
by penntatefan on Oct 30, 2009 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Penn State in Paris
Good news everyone, I figured out a solution to watching the OSU & Indiana games while in Paris visiting the girlfriend. We broke up and now I’m going to the game next week instead. Talk about easy solutions.
With all the we’re going to destroy NW comments, does that mean we get a serious look at Newsome tomorrow?
by BooyahPSU on Oct 30, 2009 12:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I LOL'd
Sorry to hear at the same time. :(
+1
by GreatScawt on Oct 30, 2009 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Did you break up...
so you could watch the games?
As an aside, I don’t recommend dating anyone when you or the other is living in Europe. It doesn’t end well for all involved.
Never mistake effort for achievement.
by Esteban d' Amur on Oct 30, 2009 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
She bad mouthed JoePa
No, it had nothing to do w/PSU and everything to do with that large watery thing called the atlantic ocean.
Luckily I have a group of 20 friends heading to the game and already planned a huge tailgate, rented a house, figured out transport, etc….so that’s quite the fallback option all things considered.
by BooyahPSU on Oct 30, 2009 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Better than my friend
He paid the plane tickets to bring his girlfriend over to Rome when we were studying abroad, and when she arrived she broke up with him.
That’s a 9.5 out of 10 on the itchbay scale.
by Cairo on Oct 30, 2009 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
A weekend in Montreal
So, my friend & his girlfriend are planning a weekend in Montreal. Each of them is bringing a best friend – I’m coming with friend & his girlfriend has her friend. I find out in the hotel that night that his girlfriend told him just before we left that she didn’t see herself marrying him some day & she wanted to break up. You can imagine how much fun the rest of that weekend was.
Born and raised in the shadow of Mount Nittany
by Elihu on Oct 30, 2009 5:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I Win
I broke my engagement on a vacation with my ex , a friend of mine and two of his (it was not planned so don’t call me a bitch). I did not have a way to leave and was stuck there for 5 days. Fun for everyone
Lucky gun, fake fifth, 8XY bitch
Daryll Clark, The Penn State Football Story Is...
by letsgopsu on Oct 30, 2009 5:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
no i win
my ex fiance called off our wedding, 3 months before the wedding, 2 days after i had picked up the invitations, the day after my grandmothers funeral. and on teh way back home, my car broke down.
"They say in Happy Valley that if God wasn’t a Penn State fan, why is the sky blue and white?" Fortt said. "Who am I to argue with God?"
by amandakt on Oct 30, 2009 8:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Divorce...
Trumps breaking off engagement. I was married for 13 years – wife had an affair and I found out on family vacation in Duck, NC…My ex-wife went to Northwestern.
by dontcallmescooter on Oct 30, 2009 9:41 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
I guess you can always get back
together after football season.
Of course, right now some Frog is helping lift her spirits from the abyss where you left them so you may not want to go back there.
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
by rahpsu92 on Oct 30, 2009 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Don't even get me started on the French.
Eat some Freedom Fries, you’ll feel all better, Booyah.
by PSUJunny05 on Oct 30, 2009 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Kevin Newsome
Seriously, is this the game we get some serious Kevin Newsome action in the 2nd half? Maybe even mixing him into a couple plays early in the first half to throw NW off-guard? Or do they save that for OSU or am I just crazy?
Seemed to have worked pretty well when they got Clark into the Alamo bowl a few years back. I’m not comparing #14 & #17’s play, but this seems to be a great opportunity for some more in game action.
by BooyahPSU on Oct 30, 2009 3:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Paterno never seems to really give us any second string QB looks.
The QB is pulled until is very comfortable, and when it’s that comfortable Paterno simply doesn’t throw the ball. I can’t recall a single game where the second string QB was able to come out and really use all the tools available.
For example: Morelli got in during that 2005 Ill game I mentioned above, and in the entire second half of play I think he threw 2 passes. Both of the screens, I think.
BSD
by Kevin HD on Oct 30, 2009 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
No.
I kind of smell a Clark for Heisman campaign starting up. I think he’ll put up some big numbers today.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Oct 31, 2009 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Prediction
PSU 31
jNW 13
Never mistake effort for achievement.
by Esteban d' Amur on Oct 30, 2009 3:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Optimism
I don’t like optimism in large doses. This may be a by-product of being a coach’s son, but, oh, optimism unnerves me.
So here:
Northwestern scores on 2 of their first 3 drives before the defense adjusts (not atypical for Penn State against spreads). The O turns it over multiple times in the first half. The tighter the situation, the tighter the playcalling.
Still … even I’m not seeing a loss: Penn State 27, Northwestern 17.
by tuscaloosalion on Oct 30, 2009 3:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
PSU 33
jNW 24
I think they give us enough of a scare to worry about our pass defense next week.
"Is that right?" Joe answered. "That’s not a problem. But you’ve got a problem. You don’t relate to me. And that’s a big problem."
by dmoney350z on Oct 30, 2009 4:58 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
With all the practice our DFC'ers have had
I see no reason to worry about our pass defense next week.
by confirmy on Oct 30, 2009 6:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
People are still worried about our secondary?
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Oct 30, 2009 11:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It is still pryor next week, right?
Worry FAIL
Deus nobiscum, quis contra?
by chocochuck02 on Oct 31, 2009 1:21 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i'm with kevin
NW is wounded, ps rolls big in this game and i think we do see some newsome time in the 3rd, 4th qtrs
PS 49
NW 6
by mbailey71 on Oct 31, 2009 12:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
woops, if we end up losing, that might look like I was really mad
I’m not, but I’m going to try to retroactively unjynx us
NORTHWESTERN 52, PENN STATE 7!
What?, that can’t happen because it’s already 13 to 13? pfft, like I care.
by PSUisMyHeart on Oct 31, 2009 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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