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Sean Fitz said...
Just looking back over the press conference, one thing did jump out to me. Joe credited Jay Paterno with the decision to go for it on fourth down, but following the game Galen Hall and Tom Bradley both said that Joe was the guy who made the call. Joe said everyone on the staff except Jay wanted to kick the field goal.
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Sean Fitz said...
Just looking back over the press conference, one thing did jump out to me. Joe credited Jay Paterno with the decision to go for it on fourth down, but following the game Galen Hall and Tom Bradley both said that Joe was the guy who made the call. Joe said everyone on the staff except Jay wanted to kick the field goal.
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CRSPSU said...
Reality check: 14 - 10 is a win, it isnt pretty it isnt blowing out a MAC team, but it is a win. We all understand you want a coaching change, I even agree with you, but for god's sake why do people need to post this crap on every thread?
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PureRockFury said...
Would you rather he lay out a blueprint on what he's going to adjust for all NCAA coaching staffs to have in their pocket?
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Sean Fitz said...
Here are the quotes I missed in the running recap:
On the two quarterback system…
I don't know what I'm waiting for. I think both those kids are so close and both those kids deserve to play. One of these days I would like to be able to say, hey, we are going to play one quarterback.
But I want to be fair. As I said last weekend last week at the press conference, I said one thing I want to do is I want to be fair to them. I want to be fair to the team. If I felt that the team was much more comfortable with one than the other, then I'm repeating myself from last week, then that obviously would be a factor, but that's not the way it is. They don't -- half the time I don't think they even know who is at quarterback. Because I've talked to the kids.
I talk to them all the time. I'll say, how are we doing? How is Mack doing or how is the other kid doing and I don't get any negative feedback about either one of those kids. And I watch them practice. They both practice well, hustle and plays, out there early. They do everything you ask them to do. And it's very difficult for me to tell you so and so is better than the other one.
And so I don't know maybe I'm making a mistake in not deciding. Because as you said, I'm not real comfortable having two quarterbacks. I'm not comfortable with it. But I also wouldn't be comfortable if I did something that I felt ended up being unfair to one.
So I have a dilemma.
I'm confused, he wants to be fair to the quarterbacks and the team?? Well picking a qb would be fair to both.... He wants to be fair to each qb? how about being fair last year joe?!?! This is without a doubt the most unbelievable thing I have seen in my few years of following college football. I'm so much madder about his answers than i am the situation.
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FireJayPa said...
Reality Check: In college football, the coaches top-25 has a direct impact on where you play in bowl games. More over, they look at quality of wins when determining rankings. For further proof look at PSU vs (insert team here) in 1994.
Reality Check: You're delusional if you think a 14-10 win is a sign of a good team. They are a MAC team, and if PSU had been in the top-25 they would have moved down the polls significantly due to it. However, when you're fine with 7-5 seasons and playing in the Car Care Bowl margin of victory isn't THAT important.
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Sean Fitz said...
Here are the quotes I missed in the running recap:
On the two quarterback system…
I don't know what I'm waiting for. I think both those kids are so close and both those kids deserve to play. One of these days I would like to be able to say, hey, we are going to play one quarterback.
But I want to be fair. As I said last weekend last week at the press conference, I said one thing I want to do is I want to be fair to them. I want to be fair to the team. If I felt that the team was much more comfortable with one than the other, then I'm repeating myself from last week, then that obviously would be a factor, but that's not the way it is. They don't -- half the time I don't think they even know who is at quarterback. Because I've talked to the kids.
I talk to them all the time. I'll say, how are we doing? How is Mack doing or how is the other kid doing and I don't get any negative feedback about either one of those kids. And I watch them practice. They both practice well, hustle and plays, out there early. They do everything you ask them to do. And it's very difficult for me to tell you so and so is better than the other one.
And so I don't know maybe I'm making a mistake in not deciding. Because as you said, I'm not real comfortable having two quarterbacks. I'm not comfortable with it. But I also wouldn't be comfortable if I did something that I felt ended up being unfair to one.
So I have a dilemma.
On the defensive play his season and Saturday…
I think we played well defensively. I think we're a pretty good defensive football team. The thing I liked about Saturday we made turnovers in the clutch. We made some things happen for ourselves when we had to.
There was some people disappointed about that game when we came off the field. And my first reaction was, oh boy, we got a long way to go. But then when I started to talk to some of the kids and when I talked to some of the coaches who were on the sideline and that's one of the disadvantages about not being on the sideline, there was a bunch of guys who were pulling for each other, the defense was talking to the offense about hey we're going to get the ball back for you guys, when we get it back.
So there was not a defeatist attitude on it. So I think that -- and the thing that I liked the most as I started out to say was the fact that I think that defensively we made some things happen and then the offense took advantage of it.
They had the 70-yard touchdown pass called back in the clutch, when we really needed it. Had it called back. That did not kill them. We had the fourth down and about a half a yard to go, everybody wanted to kick the ball except Jay Paterno.
We would have kicked that ball if it wasn't for Jay. Jay said no, we'll put it in, we'll get it in. And he said something to the quarterbacks about, hey, you tell those guys they gotta get it in. And we got it in.
And obviously then we came up with the interception. So there's things we're doing better, yeah. But I'm not trying to get up here and tell you I'm completely pleased with the way we're going, but we're certainly a lot better than some of you think.
On the quarterbacks being allowed to audible…
These are all situations on the signal. That's why once in a while when you see some indecision on the line of scrimmage, it's because the people are changing the defense on them. They may have made a call and then -- and Temple did a good job earlier. And some of you -- I know most of you were very observant and knew right way that we started to go on quick so we made them line up. But when you start to make them line up quick that means you don't have a lot of time to change the play on the line of scrimmage. So you gotta get them into some kind of pattern. And Temple did a good job, as did Alabama, keep changing up on us.
And I think the observation that you've got to be able to adjust, change a play on the line of scrimmage is true. But sometimes you can't get to it. Because they're late coming.
If you watched, if I put the Alabama picture up here, you would see they played it two deep, until the very last moment, they were quick enough they could come up there as the ball was being snapped, change the whole defensive scheme. So it was very difficult to make some kind of a change in the play when the ball has been snapped. Because there's a lot of people involved in the change.
So you start going on quick to make them show it quicker. And when you go on quick, then obviously you've got to take what you called in the huddle. It's a chess game out there. And it's the problem everybody has. It's not just one that we have.
I'm not up here crying about it. That's part of the game.
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Sean Fitz said...
Just looking back over the press conference, one thing did jump out to me. Joe credited Jay Paterno with the decision to go for it on fourth down, but following the game Galen Hall and Tom Bradley both said that Joe was the guy who made the call. Joe said everyone on the staff except Jay wanted to kick the field goal.
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CRSPSU said...
We won the game, we've gone 60 - 19 since 2005 including 2 BCS berths, FireJaypa's comment isnt relevant to the press conference or the teams performance, as we're winning games at the same rate Joe has always won them. Am I happy that we didnt win the games that would have put us in the MNC hunt in 2005/2008, Hell no.
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rmj147 said...
On the audibles... BULLS#@T! If you look at Gem's article, I agree with him. There were times when the blitz was obvious and you have to audible out of it... We didn't! Joe's whole answer is straight BS. Horrible, but I don't think that I should expect anything else... Take the friggin mitts off and let Bolden audible.
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LaJollaLion said...
At this point if you are in college and can't audible out of busted plays...something is wrong. Every QB will miss a blitz every now and then, it happens. If your QB is smart enough to see it coming though, he should be smart enough to get out of it.
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