The Penn State offense played coy with most of its playbook during the Blue-White Game this past Saturday.\u00a0But\u00a0that doesn\u2019t mean\u00a0we\u00a0didn\u2019t catch\u00a0glimpses of what is in store for the fall in what they did show.\u00a0One aspect of the offense was its dynamic versatility\u00a0to\u00a0get\u00a0the football to different players.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I think\u00a0like\u00a0you saw today, a bunch of guys touched the ball and made plays. We were able to\u00a0distribute the football around,\u201d Head coach James Frankin said when speaking about the team\u2019s receivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, the best way to look at the offense is through Penn State redshirt freshman Andrew Rappleyea<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0The tight end position is critical to any offense, but it was\u00a0especially interesting\u00a0during the Blue-White Game. We\u2019re breaking down Rappleyea\u2019s performance in T-Frank\u2019s Film Room.\u00a0<\/p>\n Examining\u00a0Rappleyea\u2019s game is an excellent window into the offense for several reasons. Firstly, tight ends are involved in the run game, pass protection, and route running. This past weekend, we got a diverse set of plays from the Penn State redshirt freshman and have a holistic sense of his progress so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n Secondly, we can see elements of the base offensive schemes that Penn State will use because of Rappleyea\u2019s involvement in those areas.\u00a0We\u2019ll examine\u00a0run game\u00a0concepts, play-action passes, and progression reads from quarterback Drew Allar.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n After the game, Allar gave his assessment of the performance from the Penn State offense.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, overall. I think we had a good day offensively,\u201d Allar said. \u201cYeah, I think there\u2019s just it\u2019s gonna be a lot of learning on tape. But I think the goods outweigh the negatives. And I think the negatives that we did have on the field today are really easy and simple to fix and correct.\u201d<\/p>\n We\u2019ll examine some of those correctable mistakes and how certain players and\u00a0situationis\u00a0put Allar in a bad spot. Conversley, we\u2019ll show a play where Rappleyea had a likely touchdown if the Penn State QB had stayed with his original read.\u00a0<\/p>\n Finally, we\u2019ll look at run-game concepts that pulled the defense out of position and created a touchdown for Penn State running back Quinton Martin<\/a><\/strong>. Allar described how the offense achieves these results.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cJust how much I realized, like,\u00a0how much stress you can really put on a defense pre-snap with all the movement shifts and motions and things of that nature and unique formations that we\u2019ll get to a ton this year.\u201d<\/p>\n The post T-Frank\u2019s Film Room: Tight End Andrew Rappleyea is a window into the Penn State offense<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Penn State offense played coy with most of its playbook during the Blue-White Game…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48220,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48181\/revisions\/48220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Penn\u00a0State\u00a0second-year tight end sees\u00a0increased\u00a0role on\u00a0Saturday<\/h2>\n
Offensive performance\u00a0<\/h2>\n