They definitely have some skill players. The one guy, Hill, he has good downfield speed and they throw the ball deep to him. As a team, skill-wise, they can make plays. You just have to make plays against them. Idaho had their chances and just messed up a couple times. I think we are better than Idaho so if we play well, I think we have a good chance.
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Roy can be as good as anybody in the league. Charles has as much downfield ability as whatever is out there. He's not up there with Randy because he's not as fast. But he's pretty fast. And Mike is a huge man who runs well who doesn't know what he's doing.
On film we saw them just come up and snap the ball, ... But Sunday he was going into a cadence and when everybody comes up there and he sees blitz, then he throws it deep downfield. Maybe it's because of all the big plays we gave up the weeks before, and they used that to their advantage.
If nobody's open downfield and there's 50 yards or something ahead of you, you take it,
My arm strength is my biggest advantage. I can throw the ball downfield well. I love playing defense too. I just love the emotion. You can get really excited when you're out there.
He has fantastic long-ball, and ball reactions, ... Very few people can snatch a ball right out of the air like that quick. And then the other thing, he's got a great burst, and when you get him going downfield and put in the ball reaction, he can be running, I think, and doesn't even put his hands up until the last second because he has such confidence there in where the ball is. Even though he's a shorter receiver, I think he's very much a downfield threat because of that, and then, of course, he's got great speed.
We have the ability to attack the whole field, to distribute to all of our skill players, ... What we do, and everybody rolls their eyes when I say this, has a lot in common with the wishbone. The thing we have in common is, it's about distribution. The wishbone offense, you'll see all the skill positions touching the ball. ... We can just go further downfield than they can.
He may have played his best game of the season tonight. His ability to distribute and throw the ball 60 yards downfield, and boot it 70 yards downfield allows Leach and Smith to become very dangerous offensively.
They run the ball. He throws it downfield. They pick up third downs. They control the game.
You try to take advantage of whatever your strengths are. We've retooled our offensive line, and I'd love to give that ball to Steven and pound it in there and pound it in there and take our shots downfield when we feel like it. That's fun football. That means we've got control of the game.
He didn't like any play-action, ... He liked to drop back and go downfield. Of course, we didn't have much of a running game in those years.
Here's what Penn State has now balance in their offense. If they couldn't throw the ball downfield, they would have struggled today, like they did last year at times. Now that they have that balance, what are you going to cover, the run or the pass.
Last week we did a lot of maximum protection, ... Tony was in pass protection a lot. Also, tight end stuff takes a little more time downfield. If you get harassed in our play-action passing and that kind of stuff where Tony's a major key in, and the quarterback's getting knocked around, you use less of that.
The system hasn't changed, but the emphasis has. In different ways Coach Erickson has said, Let's not be afraid to put the ball downfield, to make things happen.
They have tremendous chemistry, especially on the downfield stuff. You'll see Chad will take a little off the throw and give Laveranues a chance to jump for it, and he's going to make that play 10 times out of 10.
I think he's had that since birth. I played with him in college at Michigan and he was always cool. That's the key for a quarterback in the league. If you're cool back there, you can make plays. He's not afraid to get hit. He just steps in the pocket and delivers the ball downfield. He's not looking at anybody else but his receivers.