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Penn State football will only be forced from this College Football Playoff, with its guns blazing, so to speak.
Coach James Franklin and his team will continue to push the envelope with its playcalling and decision-making on both sides of the ball for however longer this expanded playoff will have them.
Doesn’t seem to matter how aggressive, risky or even foolhardy these moves may appear to fans and media: Faking punts, running two-point trick plays and pressing and blitzing on defense from every angle.
Expect that these Nittany Lions, then, to go for it on fourth down from every point on the field against the Boise State Broncos in the CFP quarterfinals on New Year’s Eve in the Fiesta Bowl, if they feel so obliged.
Franklin doubled down on this tact during a Monday afternoon Fiesta Bowl preview press conference − a style he’s seemed to embrace more fully this season under first-year coordinators Andy Kotelnicki and Tom Allen.
Dec 21, 2024; University Park, Pennsylvania, USA; Penn State Nittany Lions head coach James Franklin reacts during the first half against the Southern Methodist Mustangs at Beaver Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images
“It’s players being aggressive, playing on their toes not playing on their heels. It’s making aggressive calls … instead of going for the (pass breakup), go for the interception,” Franklin said. “We want to be as aggressive as we possibly can. If we got a play-action pass or a shot play or a trick play on offense, we want to use them.
“We want to be very aggressive, we don’t want to have any regrets. Playing to win is a mentality everybody has to embrace and be on the same page with because there’s going to be times when the defense has to have the offense’s back after making one of those decisions. Times where the offense has the to have the defense’s…
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Author : York Daily Record
Publish date : 2024-12-23 19:55:00
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