Official ‘26 PSU - Marshall Game Thread

[Midnighter]

Been on that fan board created by one of the other members.

Nice. My family is still in C'ville area. They have a horse retirement farm now. Stopped the wine.

LdN

Nice. Not there yet. Maybe one day….

 

[KingLando]

Hansen doesn’t seem to value vision. Martin may be our best back by mid season.

Patience--even with elite vision there's not much out there right now--his film doesn't show "lack of vision'

 

[Ludd]

Penn State - Bowling Green 2024
Penn State - UCLA 2025

You said “to these teams”…meaning OOC games, not conference games…so once in the last four years. We were also winning big at halftime of our opening game last year and on here it seemed like we were losing because our running game wasn’t doing well, we weren’t dominating the LOS and our QB overthrew some passes….hmm, sounds familiar, but it’s all in how posters look at it.

 

[Calabrin]

Hansen doesn’t seem to value vision. Martin may be our best back by mid season.

Thought there was a chance for this to be the case. He played great in the bowl game.

 

[leinbacker]

These Iowa State guys are pretty good.

Corn fed beef.

 

[Midnighter]

SIAP

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

We Are!

MD

 

[LionDeNittany]

You said “to these teams”…meaning OOC games, not conference games…so once in the last four years. We were also winning big at halftime of our opening game last year and on here it seemed like we were losing because our running game wasn’t doing well, we weren’t dominating the LOS and our QB overthrew some passes….hmm, sounds familiar, but it’s all in how posters look at it.

UCLA lost to New Mexico and UNLV. Then curb stomped PSU. They were worse than Marchall.

LdN

 

[Paws057]

Bacon came to play!

 

[Bwifan]

Been on that fan board created by one of the other members.

Nice. My family is still in C'ville area. They have a horse retirement farm now. Stopped the wine.

LdN

Long time no see or hear

 

[Midnighter]

UCLA lost to New Mexico and UNLV. Then curb stomped PSU.

LdN

 

[KingLando]

Boise giving Oregon a game early...

 

[Bison13]

Bacon and Ebel look legit so far

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

They didn’t even wait for me to start the official game thread. smh

@LionJim, thanks for undertaking the task.

I’ll miss the entire game, but look forward to reading the game thread to see how things went for PSU.

leadership is a slippery slope Boss

 

[JoePaMajorCFBrecord409Ws]

This kid #10 can flatout play. Takes really good angles while rushing so he does not lose the edge. Has yet to lose containment on the edge which is really refreshing to see (our defense lost containment way too often on the edge last year.

 

[Ludd]

UCLA lost to New Mexico and UNLV. Then curb stomped PSU.

LdN

Not the point…you can’t compare a P4 conference team to a G5 team that’s supposed to be a warm up, but even so, two times in four years is not all the time.

 

[KingLando]

UCLA lost to New Mexico and UNLV. Then curb stomped PSU. They were worse than Marchall.

LdN

I mean--he's not wrong. That UCLA loss was about as bad as it gets

 

[KingLando]

Weird drive--almost like Campbell wanted to prove we can run against them--they're taking it away--going to have to pass to open the run game

 

[Big_O]

Did not like that offensive series.

 

[LMTLION]

The only negative right now is the run game.

 

[CyphaPSU]

Clearly, third and medium will not work if we try to run the ball. Very concerning, but at the very least adjust to that issue.

 

[NittanyChris]

Did Rojas get hurt? Haven't seen him in a couple of series.

 

[Grant Green]

I know it’s only Marshalll but I think the Lynn hire is going to prove to be a very good one.

 

[rigi19041]

On offense seems like there is much more of a plan.

Is running part of the offense?

What is that plan?

 

[KingLando]

Just punt the ball MC

 

[KingLando]

Is running part of the offense?

What is that plan?

Give credit to Marshall--their game plan is to take away the run and force us to beat them in the air--it's worked so far.

 

[Midnighter]

SIAP

 

[Knickslions69]

That was not a good decision even though they made it.

 

[G3624]

I can get use to this.

 

[AtlantaLion]

I know it’s only Marshalll but I think the Lynn hire is going to prove to be a very good one.

Yes, D is looking solid.

 

[LionDeNittany]

Not the point…you can’t compare a P4 conference team to a G5 team that’s supposed to be a warm up, but even so, two times in four years is not all the time.

I never said "all the time"

You seem very invested in taking a flippant comment and trying to decisively prove it wrong.

Maybe go back to my original post and reread it.

LdN

 

[KingLando]

That was not a good decision even though they made it.

Sometimes they need to put the analytics chart away

Howard for Heisman

 

[Calabrin]

Omfg. Again: no spot for this guy on last year’s team.

 

[NittanyChris]

SOOOO great to see them throwing the ball vertically and in the middle of the field.

 

[Bison13]

Why was Howard not playing last year?

 

[PSU Mike]

Playing the whole roster on D!

 

[LionDeNittany]

Omfg. Again: no spot for this guy on last year’s team.

Franklin had his favorites. Probably some NIL kickback scheme.

 

[KingLando]

Also, Martin doesn't appear to be even competing for RB2 so I'm not sure why some think he's going to start barring injury

 

[Ludd]

Also, Martin doesn't appear to be even competing for RB2 so I'm not sure why some think he's going to start barring injury

So far the ones ahead of him don’t look terribly impressive, but it’s early.

 

[Ludd]

Franklin had his favorites. Probably some NIL kickback scheme.

You don’t think Campbell has his favorites? I see a lot of Iowa State guys out there on the field. All coaches do.