Penn State vs. Illinois Postgame Show

[@charlessnyder9684]

Just a really satisfying win. Blowing Illinois off the ball and watching the RBs dominate was awesome. WR blocking is so much better this year too. Just dominant.

[@FervAnimalLover]

lol no it wasn't. 21-7 over a team we have vast talent advantages isn't good enough

[@billnyedoesminecraftjoseph8379]

It wasnt dominant. Drew didnt throw bad but i feel like he never got a chance to take deepshots. Our run defense was stout but our tackling was bad

[@sbrown4556]

@@FervAnimalLover It was (and is) a ranked team we beat, and shut them out for most of the game. Final score really should have been 30-10.

[@sbrown4556]

Kudos to the players, the crowd, and the coaching staff. After we were down 0 - 7, for the first time I felt like our coaching staff would respond appropriately. WE ARE... clearly one of the two closest teams to O$U this year. Keep getting better!

[@kevinchandler179]

I thought, the offensive line played very well, and running backs!!!

[@eliottbressler8562]

@@kevinchandler179 agreed. Although I hate the rotation when it’s coming down to the wire. Nick needs to be in there.

[@kevinchandler179]

We also, have players who are hurt and getting healthy, and by the time we play other challenging games, they will be healthy hopefully 👍 and ready to go!!!!

[@dfdla]

Time to hold some kicker tryouts.

[@timx9661]

Do you think they haven’t?

[@BoschhammerActual]

@@timx9661we sure as shit ain’t seen much to suggest they have 😂

[@KJdatdude77]

It was great to see the o-line absolutely dominate a game but like everyone else I have concerns. Allar looked like 2023 Drew tonight, it was fine against an Illinois team but that won't cut it against a better team. The tackling and penalties are raising my blood pressure every Saturday, needs to get cleaned up for better teams and my health 😂. Singleton and Allen were outstanding again. Very curious to hear your breakdown as to why Penn State didn't push the ball down the feild after you get to review the film. Great stuff as always T Frank!

[@heartbreak25]

Listening to this show it sounds like PSU lost 21-7. There are a lot of teams who'd rather win on the scoreboard instead of style points.

[@kevinchandler179]

Agreed, totally 👍!!!@ WE ARE

[@sbrown4556]

They are either Franklin haters or beat reporters

[@kevinchandler179]

Tfrank, there are issues with every damn team in college football, not just our Nittany Lions buddy!!! I am always going to be happy with a win, is there work to do, hell yes!!! But, after the first drive from Illinois, the defense settled in and looked very good!!! The offense just had a night, where they were out of sink!!!! WE ARE 🏈 Unrivaled

[@heartbreak25]

Agreed. You'd think PSU is in in the middle of dynasty based on the criticism.

[@commonabond]

On the pick 6, I don't know why Carter didn't just slow down a little to sheld the guy who got blocked in the back. Real time I also though "Welp, that's illegal block in the back. Didn't need to do that..."

[@Will-dq2sb]

Lol finally getting home from the game so I can listen to this at 330 in the morning lol

[@ChuckCloud]

Better start getting better. Special teams and stupid defense penalties are holding this team back.

[@kevinchandler179]

Agreed, because the defense after the first drive, played very well, but the off sides, and bullshit is ridiculous!!! I am happy with the offensive line though, they moved the trenches and ran the ball very well 👏

[@teekay_1]

@@kevinchandler179 And the tackling out of bounds shows a lack of discipline.

[@kevinchandler179]

@teekay_1 You are absolutely right about that buddy 👏

[@kevinchandler179]

Boy, Zane Durant is a badass man!!! A. Carter was all over the place as well!!!

[@allensaunders449]

The defense only allowed 7 points not holding them back some great second halves for the defense this season

[@peterbigblock]

Allar was middling in the pass game. Unimpressive game from our WRs. OL and RBs were terrific. Not feeling Carter at DE. He just doesn’t look right. Much better as a LB. Man, FG kicking. Ugh. I’ll take the win.

[@kevinchandler179]

Agreed, but sometimes that is the way wins go!!! It's not always going to be elite and we blow everyone out, fact!@! WE ARE 🏈 Unrivaled

[@commonabond]

If USC is smart they will take the note from BG and get the ball out quick. I think our defense's biggest weakness is the DB's not to say they are bad but they can be exploited by good passing teams. I don't know who is going to cover Smith from OSU.

[@jamesmusser6160]

Allen is not Manny. But his defense will be sound none the less. WE ARE..

[@brianfergus839]

0:45 Nope it was the defense. Just held a top twenty team to seven points.

[@Beerman111980]

We have a real problem with our kicker. How can we not recruit a soccer player as a blue chip program?

[@zaphodian2511]

Just a friendly "Spellcheck that thumbnail" :-)

[@bluewhiteillustratedvideo]

*deep sigh* I did but sometimes my brain does not let me see my mistakes. Thank you

[@jkay8it]

Our biggest problem in this game was ourselves. And the final couple minutes of defense was what made our defense so elite last year. Manny let our athletes play freely and get at the QB. That’s what we did in the final minutes and it worked.

[@RSeaker]

Badgers DL ran out of steam in the second half against USC... PSU's D meanwhile seems to have the horses to last through the entire game. A plus. The things needing immediate attention include... an inconsistent, panicky Allar, weird situational play calling in the red zone, and FG kicking.

[@johnhatton730]

you averaged 1 yard a carry, thats why you lost…

[@jonbutton3259]

I disagree with the characterization that coach k was taking the ball out of Drew's hands. Why was a huge passing game needed? It wasn't. RB's and O line were definitely controlling the game, why go away from that? This was a film game: play bully ball because we can now, and make sure that opposing teams have no idea what kind of game they're getting from us. Love this approach.

[@bluewhiteillustratedvideo]

After watching the game back, I agree with your assessment. Sometimes what you see and think you see in the moment is different than reality. There's always things I get wrong on the postgame show trying to give an account of the game we all just watched. Gotta get better each week. --T-Frank

[@michaelorberg3041]

PSU imposed its will on both sides of the ball.

[@brettk9316]

Tyler Elsdon is still pretty terrible but I didn't think the defense was too bad. We need to up our pass game our WRs still do not get open well. Our kicker super stinks too!

[@chaseschneier1076]

Happy for the victory, but are we confident when OSU comes to town? They gotta clean it up. Sloppy sloppy.

[@heartbreak25]

Good news is that the playoffs exist so we can just focus on playing our best game.

[@BoschhammerActual]

DAMN this was a fun game to be at. Desperately need to clean up the penalties and find an actual football kicker. Both solvable problems. Run game looked fantastic and the defense was suffocating. I don’t mind “only” winning by 14 when we hold the opponent to a single touchdown on their first drive. Thats still a 3 to 1 score ratio which says more to me than “only won by 14” does

[@dennisgriffin6742]

PSU dominated both lines against my Illini. Your crowd won PSU the game by causing critical mistakes…bad snap 1st and goal at the 2 on a probable TD drive, then another procedure penalty 2 snaps later, and then again on 4th and 1 when we were driving late in the game. I’m optimistic about where we are compared to what we’ve been accustomed to. PS: A LOT of people made money against that ridiculous point spread. :) Good luck the rest of the year.

[@kevinchandler179]

I agree with you buddy!!! I don't give a shit about the spread, literally!!! Every game is different and doesn't play out the way we want to, and dominate on offense and defense!! I was actually very impressed with the defense after the first drive, and offense really just ran the ball and realized we could win that way!!! WE ARE 🏈 Unrivaled

[@dennisgriffin6742]

The talent disparity between guard, guard, center on both sides of the line and the LB play was obvious and exploited by PSU.

[@kevinchandler179]

@dennisgriffin6742 Thanks, we are not a perfect team by any means, but I think we are very good and dangerous team going forward!!

[@billnyedoesminecraftjoseph8379]

The spread wasnt that insane, PSU wasnt explosive today and would have won by 21 if they just had a decent FG kicker

[@dennisgriffin6742]

Ya BS…you forgot about that bad snap already? That was a probable TD at the 2 yard line on 1st down. That would have made it 14-7 and who knows what that may have done in regards to momentum. But don’t act like that sequence wasn’t a turning point.

[@ryangentzler5713]

If I have to complain about something its gonna be penalties. The offsides at this level is just unacceptable. At least they didnt line up in the neutral zone over and over, they just failed at predicting the snap count and jumped, so at least there's some improvement. A player has to know better than to shove someone in the back on an interception return. 7 points off the board there. Special teams is gonna hurt us. Leaving 6 points out there because we can't kick 2 field goals is the kind of thing that could make a difference against USC and Ohio state. So we left between 6 and 14 points off the board because of special teams. Offense helped out by scoring after the interception was called back but we cant leave those points out there against the top level teams we have yet to play. I think they can clean up the penalty stuff.....field goals maybe not

[@larrybarberio2777]

As great as Coach K has been so far, I feel like he got pass happy at times when it was clear ILL could not stop the run. Then they insisted on running when it was clear the defense was expecting run and they should’ve thrown it. Am I wrong?

[@billnyedoesminecraftjoseph8379]

I disagree that they didnt play drew because of his not stellar performance, me and my buddies were saying “just run the balllll” so much during the game because it felt like every time they ran they would get 8 yards, it just worker. I wouldnt have passed either, however, in the red zone it made me very mad they kept running instead of passing to the endzone

[@timx9661]

My personal pet peeve. When a defensive team intercepts the ball and there is no one in front of the ball carrier to tackle the defender running with the ball, peel back and block the people coming from behind who can actually tackle him. That was 7 points left on the field. You do no good running into the end zone blocking nobody.

[@panosalexakos4877]

Agreed. If they can't stop the run there zero reason to throw it. 2nd half Michigan last year. 1st round QB zero throws

[@teekay_1]

In hindsight, the Illinois defense was overrated. They played a defense with a plan to prevent the big play and it meant that the run game was there all game. As to their O-line, it really just points out that Nebraska wasn't nearly as good as people thought they were. That said, it was a workman-like game. Other thoughts: Beau Pribula simply isn't a good QB PSU needs a different kicker No, Allar was not off, the game plan was off in the first half. They defense took too long to jell Poor play calling in a lot of 3rd and long and especially in 4th down tries.

[@dennisgriffin6742]

It should have been 14-14 (bad snap) But it was 7-14 until you scored a garbage TD to make it 7-21 So either our defense is better than average or your offense is overrated. Which is it?

[@PennState_Jets_Fan]

Agree ILL should have scored from the 2. Disagree the final TD was garbage. Also, Franklin should have kicked a 35 ish yarder to go up 10

[@allensaunders449]

Illinois only gave up 21 not very much

[@crazy88909]

Kicking & defensive penalties are going to cost us the game in the future.

[@eliottbressler8562]

Your main pt was Drew was bad? Huh

[@johnhatton730]

he wasnt good

[@kevinchandler179]

Drew wasn't good or bad!!! He didn't have to do too much tonight people!!!! Andy realized that the offensive line was getting huge push off the ball, and ran it down their throat

[@commonabond]

If Drew was good why did we only score 21 points, one coming off a short field from a pick? 135 yards and no TD's? Give the kid the Heisman already!

[@eliottbressler8562]

@@commonabond must’ve missed where I said he had a great game and deserves the heisman? Drew’s performance is like 9th on the list of things you could complain about in this game. Stop being a dramatic baby.

[@bluewhiteillustratedvideo]

No, my main point was that Penn State bludgeoned Illinois into submission.

[@natelombardo]

I hate saying this, but does any of this matter? This team couldnt compete with top 5 teams before NIL. Now the gap is even bigger. All OSU skill players are top tier NFL talent. Dont see a world where PSU can compete.

[@KJdatdude77]

I want to disagree with you but I can't. Watching the Bama and Georgia game at the same time last night I kept thinking to myself "PSU would get boat raced by these 2".

[@JohnRoberts-n5e]

TFrank, You’re starting to sound like a know it all . Chad

[@bluewhiteillustratedvideo]

Thanks Chad

[@agduke3354]

Undisciplined JF team

[@kevinchandler179]

I kinda agree, Franklin can't go out there on the field and do it for them??? Literally, players have to be held to accountability as well?? WE ARE 🏈 Unrivaled

[@kevinchandler179]

And, we ran for almost 250 yards!!@