The Lions' Pride

That was hilarious. And not in the way he thought it was.

Not to mention their best TE was going on 1 wheel last night..

Spulv my man I think I maybe a fan...not because you have very insightful posts ( although you deserve a little more credit ) but because everytime I come into these threads I can alm,ost hear the Booing and see the rotten tomatoes flying and it makes me laugh. Pretty impressive to rile everyone up the way you do especially because I believe its not necessarily your intention.

Anyhow to answer your question. Pete and others are right about the front four disrupting it was Bradlley/Johnson/Paterno's recipe for success or failure depending on what Saturday we are discussing. As far as any sheen you are talking about. These last two games don't mean anything when it comes to Penn St. If you loved O'Brien you still love him. If you hate him you still hate him. If you are excited you are still excited. Apprehensive well you get my point. Recruits don't know the Guy anything short of 50 points in the super bowl wasn't really going to help with that. He coached Tom Brady and a high powered offense either recruits are going to be impressed or they're not. Nothing has changed.

Fortunately we don't have the Raven's and Giants on our schedule for the next lifetime.

outdated saying......Green Bay, NO, NE several times....even Tampa scoring 48. Most have been based on offense and less on D.

it really is not my intention. I could say that Bob is great and point out every great quality of every recruit, and I would still earn 20 downvotes :)

But the key to them winning championships have come with their defensive efforts.

Im a Colts fan, I know about all offensive teams. You know when Peyton finally got a ring? When the defense showed up in the playoffs. Go look at what Indy did on defense in the 06/07 playoffs, especially compared to their regular season.

Why did the Giants win yesterday? Defensive effort. Why did the Pats make the SB ? The D stepped up in Baltimore.

Packers last year had the DPOY. It fell apart this year and guess where they went? No where.

New Orleans lost its game because of a giant D miscue. But the year they won the SB they had a D that forced gobs of turnovers.

Also NE hasnt won a Super Bowl since they lost that dominant defense years ago. And cheating too.

Offense wins games, defense wins championships.

Same with college football. What up Alabama and LSU? Oregon is loved by you Duck King, but they don't get the crown. Why? Can't play D.

Wha??? Tampa had 5 INTs, 3 returned for TDs and the other 2 led to points. Their defense put up like 31 points in that game...lol. Bill Callahan didn't even bother to change Grudens terminology. TBs defense knew every play being called at the LOS. As others mentioned, GBs defense was excellent LY. In fact, their main Achilles heel this yr was caused by the departure of their best DL and injuries to the OL.

False.

http://pennstate.247sports.com/Board/18/Staff-Recruiting-7362589/1

Boom. Roasted.

Good thread too, btw.

thus the use of the word "could" genius.....otherwise, i would have said "did."

http://www.englishpage.com/modals/could.html

I was just waiting for someone to jump on the Tampa statement.

Obviously the idea defenses wins championships comes from the consistency aspect of both sides of the ball. Really works in every sport defense/pitching is going to be more consistent than offenses.

In football it may be a little outdated with the way the game is played today and how good/consistent quarterbacks have become. That said if I was asked which side of the ball I would want to be dominant on to win a championship I would still rather have a dominant defense.