Official PSU - NW '25 Game thread

[Big_O]

Why blitz there?

 

[WestSideLion]

Wide open in the middle on 3rd and 8. Right where the blitzer came from. It doesn’t get easier than that.

 

[PSUcup]

We really don’t have anyone better than Deluca??

 

[Bison13]

His chart didn't tell him to

It should

 

[BobPSU92]

Third and long, no problem!

Blitz gets no pressure. Receiver wide open. Always.

 

[Calabrin]

Marching right down the field agian.

 

[BobPSU92]

Another open receiver for a first down.

 

[MtNittany]

Wow a slant pass! Haven’t seen one of those at the Beav in a while.

I envisioned Pena catching 30-40 of them this year. I envisioned wrong.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

PSU blitzes from their left, and the NW QB completes it for a 1st on that side

 

[KingLando]

We really don’t have anyone better than Deluca??

They don't even have someone they're willing to play with DeLuca and Campbell

 

[Paws057]

Blitz gets no pressure. Receiver wide open. Always.

Sure seems like it

 

[KingLando]

It should

The chart should have...but this is the chart CJF uses

 

[CoolBean]

This defense can't even stop Bugs Bunny and he is 85 years old

 

[Psu00]

Why are the defenders so far off the receivers? Honestly, I don’t see any teams as poor on pass D as the PSU defensive backs. They all should play in the Big 12.

 

[Psurock]

Wow a slant pass! Haven’t seen one of those at the Beav in a while.

Can anyone cover 17? Anyone

 

[BobPSU92]

Cannot cover. Unreal.

 

[StamfordBridgeVikingatLeftOffensiveTackle]

I just had a horrible thought. This could be the year that PSU loses to rutgres.

 

[Calabrin]

Unreal. Throwing right to the stick every time and consistently getting it. Wasn't the secondary supposed to be good?

 

[Tom McAndrew]

damn, Collins with tight coverage, but Wilde makes the catch on a slant for a 1st down at the PSU 20

 

[KingLando]

So, the defense is going to blow another lead lol

 

[BobPSU92]

Just think how easy it will be for Tosu.

 

[m.knox]

Defense wins championships.

LOL.... All they need do is run right up the center / guard gaps. PSU cannot defend it.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

another fricking run by NW right up the middle for 9 yards, on 1st down.

 

[Moogy]

And that “short-intermediate” passing game is what has been missing from AK’s offense, as I’ve been saying. Slants, seam pops, etc.

AK relies on too many behind the LoS, and then downfield routes that take too long and aren’t well drawn up, regardless.

You soften up the defense across the middle of the field with the passing game and you free up your running game, and you occasionally break one.

If they do throw shorter beyond the LoS, it’s usually to a stationary target or to the outside. Let them catch it in motion and see what happens.

 

[KingLando]

damn, Collins with tight coverage, but Wilde makes the catch on a slant for a 1st down at the PSU 20

He beat him pretty clean off the line on the replay

 

[Midnighter]

I just had a horrible thought. This could be the year that PSU loses to rutgres.

 

[EricStratton-RushChairman]

Embarrassing defense

 

[StamfordBridgeVikingatLeftOffensiveTackle]

Hot knife through butta.

 

[Paws057]

Looks like one team wants to play football

 

[WestSideLion]

Just incredible what NW just did.

 

[CoolBean]

$3mil later and the defense is worse

 

[PrtLng Lion]

Inability to stop both run game and pass late in the game is stunning. Was Knowles a sabotage job?

 

[Calabrin]

$3.2 million for this DC.

 

[WillyMO]

Man, that was an impressive drive by Northwestern. Weak D up front.

 

[PSUcup]

That was absolutely embarrassing

 

[psu0408]

Soft. Send 4 or 6, doesn’t matter

 

[KingLando]

lmao

 

[ZouaveLion]

3-9

 

[KingLando]

Got out-physicalled and just beat with pure speed--by Northwestern
Hope we lose

 

[Tom McAndrew]

TD, NW, on a run. He was stopped, but breaks through Gilliam.

NW is going for 2.

NW with a run, and they are stopped well short. DeLuca with the stop (joined by other teammates)

22-21, NW, with 4:51 left in the game.

An 11 play drive by NW