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Film at 11

Film at 11: Northwestern Offense

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I’m not one of these sports savants who can describe in perfect detail a specific play from a Week Twelve game against Pitt in the mid-80’s. By the end of each football season, I pretty much delete those files from my human hard drive (a.k.a. my brain) to clear room for all of the day-to-day trivial gigabytes – passwords, family birthdays, answers to security questions like the middle name of my second-grade gym teacher – to survive from late January to late August.

There is one exception, though…weird weather games.

Not sure what it is, but there’s something about players flopping around in extreme rain, snow, wind, that just stinks in my memory. Heck, 60 years from now, when my no-good unborn children stick me in a senior assisted living facility (or God’s Waiting Room, as it’s also called) I’ll still be muttering about the 2007 Steelers-Dolphins Monday Night Mud Bowl and the Brandon Fields punt submerged in the slop…well, when I’m not screaming about the nurses stealing money.

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September 27, 2023by FTB Cam
2023 Season Preview

Nickel Back?

Contrary to the offseason narrative, Penn State senior cornerback Daequan Hardy’s 2022 numbers suggest it might not take much to return to form.

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After punctuating a pleasantly-surprising junior campaign with a cinematic pick-6 at Michigan State, piercing the sheets of snowflakes in his road all-whites as the blizzard raged on, it was expected Daequan Hardy would take another giant step forward last season.

Well, that didn’t really happen.

While secondary teammates Kalen King and Johnny Dixon took to new defensive coordinator Manny Diaz’s system like ants to a picnic, Hardy failed to feast – a disappointing year-to-year regression that sort of slid under the radar thanks to the Nittany Lions overall statistical dominance on defense.

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August 14, 2023by FTB Cam
2023 Season Preview

Build-A-Back Workshop: Penn State Running Back Edition

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Hand up, this exercise won’t be as fun or nearly as debatable as Wednesday’s ‘Build-A-Blocker’ blog featuring the Penn State offensive line…but we have an obligation to fill the digital newshole, so here we are.

Not only is Penn State’s 2023 RB room more top-heavy than a bodybuilder who ignores Leg Day, the dynamic duo sitting atop the depth chart – sophomores Kaytron Allen and Nick Singleton – are vastly different runners with their own unique skillsets. And while that lack of redundancy between the two makes Batman and Fatman an ideal complementary 1-2 punch and a headache for opposing tacklers, it also makes this pick-and-choose hypothetical entirely predictable.

Heck, for the sake of mixing things up, we briefly considered adding an ‘Experience’ category to this story, so I could serve up a softball for fifth-year Minnesota transfer/Williamsport native Trey Potts…but Allen and Singleton’s individual freshmen season carries nearly eclipsed Potts’ four-year totals. So that wouldn’t have worked. Not to mention the stages and the stakes for Singleton and Allen’s runs were much grander than what Potts experienced.

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August 4, 2023by FTB Cam
2023 Season Preview

Build-A-Blocker: Penn State Offensive Line

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Lights dim.

A dull murmur that has been percolating throughout the theater for the past 10 minutes turns to silence within seconds.

The booming dialogue of Epic Movie Trailer Voiceover Guy (Sorry, I don’t know his name. You know, the ‘IN A WORLD…’ guy) begins:

“Leveraging two-and-a-half semesters of med school, a bottomless piggy bank of family money and an undiagnosed narcissistic personality disorder, one man is cobbling together genetic material from the best football players of our time to literally engineer perfect athletes.

On this leg of the journey, Dr. John Hammond swings by Happy Valley to collect samples for the perfect offensive lineman. Any missing/damaged sequences in the genetic code he plugs with Velociraptor DNA; what could possibly go wrong?”

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August 2, 2023by FTB Cam
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