I watched the Northwestern-Penn St. game today from amazing seats. 50yd line row one upper deck. (see below).
Wow...I was unimpressed with the PSU offense. At half time Barkley had negative yards.(ended with 75 yards). Northwestern practiced "containing" Barkley. Don't let him get to the outside. Make him stay between the tackles. Several times Barkley tried to circle wider to get to the edge and was tackled for big losses. In the second half Barkley picked up most of his yards for the day on a single 53 yard run.
Northwestern focused upon putting 7 in the box and playing zone coverage on the back end. There were daring McSorley to beat them. They also hit McSorley a lot. Northwestern got to him frequently and I can envision Hurst and Bush and Gary getting there often and doing damage. McSorley is a very accurate passer. We gotta put him under pressure, buit again keep him in the pocket. When he gets outside he is a good runner and will look down field. McSorley will also have a lot of planned an semi-planned QB keepers. He must be physically punished for that.
On offense NW simply could not run the ball up the middle and lacked the speed to get to the outside. We will have a tough time running but we must establish the run. Finally in the second half NW surrendered to simply passing on almost every down. NW has a fine QB in Thorson
I thought NW had a "chance" to beat PSU today. In the first half it looked like a close game. In the second half Northwestern just ran out of gas. Too small, too exhausted
Penn St looked very beatable today by a good Michigan team
Wow...I was unimpressed with the PSU offense. At half time Barkley had negative yards.(ended with 75 yards). Northwestern practiced "containing" Barkley. Don't let him get to the outside. Make him stay between the tackles. Several times Barkley tried to circle wider to get to the edge and was tackled for big losses. In the second half Barkley picked up most of his yards for the day on a single 53 yard run.
Northwestern focused upon putting 7 in the box and playing zone coverage on the back end. There were daring McSorley to beat them. They also hit McSorley a lot. Northwestern got to him frequently and I can envision Hurst and Bush and Gary getting there often and doing damage. McSorley is a very accurate passer. We gotta put him under pressure, buit again keep him in the pocket. When he gets outside he is a good runner and will look down field. McSorley will also have a lot of planned an semi-planned QB keepers. He must be physically punished for that.
On offense NW simply could not run the ball up the middle and lacked the speed to get to the outside. We will have a tough time running but we must establish the run. Finally in the second half NW surrendered to simply passing on almost every down. NW has a fine QB in Thorson
I thought NW had a "chance" to beat PSU today. In the first half it looked like a close game. In the second half Northwestern just ran out of gas. Too small, too exhausted
Penn St looked very beatable today by a good Michigan team
