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• Thanks to the 4^th Estate assigned to cover all the ins and outs/nooks and crannies/snaps crackles and pops of Penn State Football, we learned this week that the Gen Z Nittany Lions are huge fans of cranking the loud speakers up to 11 and blasting Phil Collins at practice. Who knew? Since that’s the case, might we suggest skipping the haunting tones of In The Air Tonight or sick synth beats of Sussudio and instead just play Land of Confusion on a continuous loop this week and next? Because no song title hits the nail on the head better when it comes to describing the current state of the Penn State offense.

• Yes, the Nittany Lions pushed their FBS-best streak of 30+ point games to 12 today. But it wasn’t easy. And it definitely wasn’t pretty. EVERYTHING THE OFFENSE DOES JUST SEEMS HARD. I don’t know how else to explain it. Zero flow. Zero rhythm. Zero consistency. Zero identity. As we wrote in our ‘Dial M For Methodical’ blog post earlier this week, “…like a disgruntled significant other who sat you down for one of those ‘We Need To Talk’ talks, it’s not just ONE thing. It’s a lot of things.’”

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• Taking a cue from our spirit animal, Thumper The Rabbit: The Nittany Lions offense excelled in putting together an expansive library full of teachable/correctable film today. Is that nice enough? Good job, good effort.

• Penn State Twitter/X needs to chill out. Far be it from us to stand on a digital soapbox and tell you how to live your life, but…IDK, perhaps consider taking a breath and letting the game age more than 8 real-time minutes before your twitchy fingers extrapolate Chicken Little absolute truths from a half-dozen plays? On the opening drive, Penn State’s defense surrendered 46 yards, 3 first downs, and 0 points. That’s it. That’s all. And yet, in response to that decent initial effort, the online venom flowed like Niagara. 5 turnovers, 3 sacks, and 7 TFL later, well, those 12:19 EST tweets/X’s aged worse than a two-term U.S. president.

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