How many long passes in six games?

The Spin Meister

The Spin Meister

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Help me out. I am an old **** but only remember two passes over thirty yards in six games. One was the TD to Ross against Oregon with only 7:00 minutes left in the game. Too little too late.

Allar has the strongest arm in college ball. Yet we never threw deep.

Can’t be just the receivers. A couple of the youngsters like Denmark are said to have good speed. Put Singleton wide and let him fly.

And it’s not just the o line. I see QBs very quickly throw deep all the time. Just put a lot of air under it and throw to a spot.

Try it on third and long once in a while. A sixty yard interception is better than a 45 yd punt. Just tell the receivers if you can’t make the catch be sure to tackle the d back. They should already practice and have that skill.

Throwing deep a couple times makes the d backs play honest. Making them hesitate a half second opens up stop routes and quick outs. Making them defend the whole field opens the middle for crossing routes or TE delayed routes.

It also opens the running game. Ds play back giving backs more room. Force them to play man coverage which is easier to run against.

Throwing deep a couple times early in the game helps open the entire offense. Defenses don’t fear us so they play tight.
 
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The Spin Meister said:
Help me out. I am an old **** but only remember two passes over thirty yards in six games. One was the TD to Ross against Oregon with only 7:00 minutes left in the game. Too little too late.

Allar has the strongest arm in college ball. Yet we never threw deep.

Can’t be just the receivers. A couple of the youngsters like Denmark are said to have good speed. Put Singleton wide and let him fly.

And it’s not just the o line. I see QBs very quickly throw deep all the time. Just put a lot of air under it and throw to a spot.

Try it on third and long once in a while. A sixty yard interception is better than a 45 yd punt. Just tell the receivers if you can’t make the catch be sure to tackle the d back. They should already practice and have that skill.

Throwing deep a couple times makes the d backs play honest. Making them hesitate a half second opens up stop routes and quick outs. Making them defend the whole field opens the middle for crossing routes or TE delayed routes.

It also opens the running game. Ds play back giving backs more room. Force them to play man coverage which is easier to run against.

Throwing deep a couple times early in the game helps open the entire offense. Defenses don’t fear us so they play tight.
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Why was Singleton splitting time with Allen during the UCLA game?
 
The Spin Meister said:
Help me out. I am an old **** but only remember two passes over thirty yards in six games. One was the TD to Ross against Oregon with only 7:00 minutes left in the game. Too little too late.

Allar has the strongest arm in college ball. Yet we never threw deep.

Can’t be just the receivers. A couple of the youngsters like Denmark are said to have good speed. Put Singleton wide and let him fly.

And it’s not just the o line. I see QBs very quickly throw deep all the time. Just put a lot of air under it and throw to a spot.

Try it on third and long once in a while. A sixty yard interception is better than a 45 yd punt. Just tell the receivers if you can’t make the catch be sure to tackle the d back. They should already practice and have that skill.

Throwing deep a couple times makes the d backs play honest. Making them hesitate a half second opens up stop routes and quick outs. Making them defend the whole field opens the middle for crossing routes or TE delayed routes.

It also opens the running game. Ds play back giving backs more room. Force them to play man coverage which is easier to run against.

Throwing deep a couple times early in the game helps open the entire offense. Defenses don’t fear us so they play tight.
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IMO, Two main things need to occur simultaneously for a successful deep ball, and they rarely did. —The WRs need to get leverage/half a step on the DB, and the OL needs to give the QB 3+ seconds without significant pressure . This rarely happened. —We have many problems, but the absolute biggest ( and most inexplicable) is the regression of the OL. If just this ( of all the problems) had been functioning properly ( like January),we would be 5-1 ( maybe 6-0), and Singleton’s problems would be lessened. I’m seriously dumbfounded at this, as we retained virtually all of last years OL
 
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27Pellis said:
IMO, Two main things need to occur simultaneously for a successful deep ball, and they rarely did. —The WRs need to get leverage/half a step on the DB, and the OL needs to give the QB 3+ seconds without significant pressure . This rarely happened. —We have many problems, but the absolute biggest ( and most inexplicable) is the regression of the OL. If just this ( of all the problems) had been functioning properly ( like January),we would be 5-1 ( maybe 6-0), and Singleton’s problems would be lessened. I’m seriously dumbfounded at this, as we retained virtually all of last years OL
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Yep. O line collapse is biggest mystery.
 
LionDeNittany said:
Why was Singleton splitting time with Allen during the UCLA game?
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You need to watch Landon Tengwall's latest video He has inside sources. This clown Franklin totally mismanaged the NIL for this year and couldn't control the egos of returning players. So because of that he was too timid to bring in top shelf portal guys who Krafty wanted because he thought that would disrupt the lockeroom. He also probably promised Singleton he would get carries and that is why Singleton came back. Then when Singleton plays worse than a high school player he does nothing, nada, just watches as the team loses games. Total fraud. He should be paying Penn State back for the money he stole.

The other thing Tengwall reported is that Franklin and his agent actually went to Kraft this off season and wanted an extension! Krafty said "No, show me what you can do this year" and then Franklin and the agent go behind Krafty's back to the admin to try to weasel through an undeserved extension! This caused bad blood and who knows if Franklin really put in an honest effort for this season because he was mad and pouting. This guy absolutely needed to be canned!!
 
ryoder1 said:
You need to watch Landon Tengwall's latest video He has inside sources. This clown Franklin totally mismanaged the NIL for this year and couldn't control the egos of returning players. So because of that he was too timid to bring in top shelf portal guys who Krafty wanted because he thought that would disrupt the lockeroom. He also probably promised Singleton he would get carries and that is why Singleton came back. Then when Singleton plays worse than a high school player he does nothing, nada, just watches as the team loses games. Total fraud. He should be paying Penn State back for the money he stole.

The other thing Tengwall reported is that Franklin and his agent actually went to Kraft this off season and wanted an extension! Krafty said "No, show me what you can do this year" and then Franklin and the agent go behind Krafty's back to the admin to try to weasel through an undeserved extension! This caused bad blood and who knows if Franklin really put in an honest effort for this season because he was mad and pouting. This guy absolutely needed to be canned!!
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Yes. On the last part. That's who Franklin is. Asking for more money before he earns it.

I watched the video. I do get a kick out of how this guy speaks like everyone knew Singleton was worse than Allen.

That's not true. Up until the NW game, people still blamed the OL. 'Just get Singleton out there in space'.

To that, I say watch Singleton's 9yr reception on the last series against NW. Guy got manhandled in the open field by some scrub Northwestern safety/cornerback one on one.

That's our 'star' player there. Should have been the mismatch of the ages, and the NW guy takes Singleton down easily.
 
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An extension would have been crazy.

The players that are going to the NFL better get used to different salaries across the team

Kraft mentioned the transfer portal in his press conference several times.

Singleton should not be RB2. There are other roles he could fill.
 
Nemo said:
An extension would have been crazy.

The players that are going to the NFL better get used to different salaries across the team

Kraft mentioned the transfer portal in his press conference several times.

Singleton should not be RB2. There are other roles he could fill.
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Given Singleton's ability to run directly into the first opponent he sees, fullback
 
Players who don't completely buy-in or trust their coach's decisions will lose the games they're expected to lose 97.3% of the time. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
 
I'm watching Duke-GT. The Duke QB hits his target 90% of the time. Right in the chest. Fluid and no panic. 10-20-yard passes spread around the field.
At PSU it's the QB, the coaching, and/or the system. To have the types of offenses that most other teams have every year, this needs to be figured out.
 
GregInPitt said:
Offense would have produced more TD's if half of the plays called as Singleton runs would have been deep passes.....
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True, but keeping your wrs within 10 yards of the LOS keeps the secondary there too. That makes it too crowded for him to find gaps and room to make defenders miss.
THROW THE BALL DEEP to back up the defense and remove bodies from the LOS. Our offense sucks.
Indiana has completed more 20+ yard passes tonight than we have attempted all year. Make Kotelnicki a Jayhawk again.
 
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