Having Fun (I Forgot What it Feels Like)

Not that I think they were the defining factor, but sometimes weird things go your way and sometimes they don’t (like at Indiana). I mentioned the ball off of the ref’s foot and Redd’s fumble back to himself in the other thread. But also, didn’t Suhey come down with a tipped ball? We recovered the fumble, etc. At Indiana, we didn’t recover fumbles, tipped passes generally came down in the Indiana receivers’ arms, and a field goal attempt hit the uprights and bounced out (why couldn’t it bounce in?)! Those are the types of breaks that I’m talking about and during the first half, they all seemed to go Penn State’s way. I think you’re just being obstinate here.

But that’s okay. I believe in luck. Napoleon, before bestowing a Marshall’s baton on a general would ask if the general believed he was lucky. If he said no, then no baton. Luck helped the team in several instances. I’ll take luck, and if you match it with solid line play, WRs actually holding on to the ball, RBs with wicked zhu-zhu moves, and a defense that is suffocating, then it’s even better.

The whole choice was last for a reason. Some might call it trollish. They might be a little right.

Cookies crumbling are part of every game, and definitely part of this game. We here, in this living room, have bitched about and been (correctly, imo) admonished/corrected, if a little sensitively iirc, by our gold-pants-ed friends for not giving enough credit to the vanquishers for having caused/forced/prompted the mistakes by our team that we were lamenting in losses the past couple years. So I’ve learned from them, and wouldn’t dare do the same to our team on the heels of such a victory by our own lads.

All that said, there was some crazy ass shit that took place out on the field yesterday.

This choice and the sound reasoning.

New meme?

And also heavily respected.

Can’t wait to watch this fucker again.

Actually, no idea how much that Underdogs cat reads BSD or what his screenname is here (Cairo/Jschnauzer if you’re reading, send him a link please), but consider this an open letter to him to make more posts out of his re-watch analysis. I read the Indiana State breakdown and see this one on Twitter, but if he’s gonna spend that much time re-watching and taking notes, please take an extra hour or two and make a post out of it? Here’s the link to all anyone needs to download and carve up video; would love to see more play by play observations, with a few video splices thrown in.

Urban Meyer & Chris Spielman were great. Great! Can’t wait to re-watch and re-listen.

But this assumes Joe is making play by play calls, which many followers would not believe accurate, given the little we know about an admittedly wacky offensive play-calling arrangement.

Joe did admit in the post-game presser, tho, that he had been ‘disappointed’ in some of the Oline players play (he refrained from naming names) and that they (the coaching staff) ‘challenged’ some of them this week in practice. So, to me, it’s clear that Joe Paterno had his thumb on the pulse of that drive. I mean, I can’t imagine it’s that hard for even the deepest of PSU cynics to admit that these kids want to play hard and perform for JoePa. The Oline and the ‘young backs’ certainly did so on that manly drive.

Here’s a nice link to WFY’s post-game video links which include the post-game presser. Note the hilarious empty pause about the 8-minute mark where none of the beat writers had any fucking questions! (this is hilarious to me b/c it’s on the heels of last week where all the inquiries were of the drown-the-witch variety).

Who knows what kind of celebratory stories we could witness if the D had one more sack in their bag, so to speak. Four straight sacks and the 4th being a safety to end the game would have been unspeakably beyond.

Not sack sack sack

But I’ve read he might be the best pure cover corner on the roster and never plays, because he’s in Joe’s doghouse. So you could maybe include Thomas in the list of future potential NFLers.

Also, I’ll take 3 more years of Adrian Amos, please, and then hope he gets drafted by the Steelers he goes on to a productive life typical of most great Penn State football players.

Fixed it for you.

Definitely need to watch this bad boy again. From memory, I think I remember plenty of four man rushes, but I also remember quite a few fives as well. Will have to chart it all out on re-watch to get the facts straight.

But I agree with your notion that Successful Blitz is Successful, and thereby ‘well-timed.’

Reminds one of Enis, or Aaron Harris.