College football analyst Mike Golic Jr. likes Penn State's new hires and its playoff potential.
Penn State has been among college football's top teams recently in talent acquisition, player development, NFL Draft production and consistent winning, college football analyst Mike Golic Jr. said. Now it's time for the Nittany Lions to put it all together in the College Football Playoff.scouted Penn State's playoff chances, how coordinator Andy Kotelnicki will change the offense for the better and James Franklin's place in college football.
... So when you look at Penn State's offense, and I went back and watched the Penn State-Ohio State game again, on some of those critical downs and distances, a lot of it was just, 'Hey we'll have some switches, we'll have some movement in the route concepts to try and rub guys.' But pre-snap, it was a little bit stagnant.
Penn State quarterback Drew Allar drops back to throw during the Blue-White Game at Beaver Stadium. / Matthew O'Haren-USA TODAY SportsFootball is a hard game in a lot of ways but a simple game in others. You are what you repeatedly do. And so if you're repeatedly being brushed away from doing those things, or having to check it down because stuff's not open, you're not going to feel as comfortable in high-leverage situations.
Another thing that Andy did at Kansas was use big personnel groups, put multiple tight ends on the field, multiple backs on the field, to try and get advantageous matchups on the defense. Then he used that to create more favorable one-on-one spots where you can get guys open.Consistency, especially when you're handing it off from Manny Diaz, who had such a specific imprint on this defense: the way that he wanted to blitz and fire zone, the way he would send bodies from almost anywhere.
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