The reads begin with a rhetorical and analytical question at once. Then, we examine how the chronic turnover at wide receivers coach has affected the position in the Ohio State rivalry. Finally, it’s a descent into the agony of defeat followed by reasons for a glimmer of hope.
It’s not easy. Even harder is 0-for-15, which is what the Nittany Lions were before their only touchdown drive, executed in garbage time against a prevent Ohio State defense designed to allow underneath stuff and milk clock.
He was being kind to his own wideouts. The painful truth is, as documented in this space in recent weeks, Penn State does not have a #1 wideout to take the top off a defense, nor does it have a shifty good-hands #2 man to work from the slot. It has no one who can run a route with alacrity. Under Stubblefield’s replacement Marques Hagans, the wideouts look aimless and unstructured. The best physical specimen on the team, 6-4, 210-pound Malik McClain, has dropped enough balls that he can no longer get on the field. On this crew? You gotta be pretty undependable.2. Drew Allar was emotionally wrecked afterward – and I think that’s a good thing.
Anyone who thinks about others before he thinks of himself is a good guy to have leading a team. He just needs to get over this hump. It might be a hill or a mountain. But I still think there’s a very good college quarterback waiting to emerge from the gutted shell Allar was immediately after the Ohio State game.For all the lip service given to “what’s next,” media and fans surrounding college sports have become more reactive than ever.
But that ship has sailed, and Michigan’s defense presents a different set of issues. It’s more physical than Ohio State’s, less likely to be snookered by a power attack it faces every week in practice.
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