The penn state game was one of the worst TV games I’ve ever seen. Both team were running the ball so clock was moving and Fox kept doing TV timeouts. Plus it seemed like Rutgers had about 10 guys go down with injury which of course meant more TV timeouts. I’d bet there were over 90 minutes of commercials jammed into this game.
The passing game did look marginally better in terms of playcalling. They actually threw over the middle a few times. The WRs are still almost never open. Allar made a great throw to Omari Evans where he wasn’t even really open, it was just gunned in there. There was an incompletion to Cephas that the announcers blamed on Allar as a bad throw but QBs don’t miss guys by 5 yards. Pretty obvious the WR went in and Allar anticipated out. Who’s wrong? My guess would be Cephas because he has been running wrong routes all year.
Allar took a big hit on his throwing shoulder on a QB run. Next play he air mails a WR screen a good 10 feet over his head, winces in pain, then takes himself out of the game. The genius announcers then speculate he must have a concussion. Seemed pretty clear it was a shoulder injury or maybe a pinched never or something.
After Allar left, they threw 1 pass. Penn State had the lead. Rutgers couldn’t score so they just ran and got out with a win.
Rutgers does have a solid defense and takes away big plays so I was not expecting fireworks. Hard to say if they would have thrown a bit more if Allar stayed in the game.
Penn State hired Manny Diaz before a bowl game. Maybe Penn State will hire a new OC quickly after the regular season ends and have him involved for bowl prep. No matter who calls plays, nothing will change until WRs get open.
