Explaining the nature of Manny Diaz's Penn State defensive scheme: BWI Daily
Penn State senior editor Nate Bauer and film analyst Thomas Frank Carr are back for their weekly mailbag show on the BWI Daily Edition. They discuss several topics, including how complex or straightforward new defensive coordinator Manny Diaz’s scheme is. They also field questions about the Class of 2022 and 2023, including which players, like freshman Kaden Saunders, could play early.
Penn State football notebook sneak peek
They start the show with news and notes about the Penn State football team Nate Bauer gathered this week. Then, he gives some broad details about what he learned and directs listeners to check out his articles, which you can find below.
From there, they get into the mailbag to discover what Penn State fans want to know on the second-to-last Thursday in June. The first question deals with the Nittany Lion’s first game of the season against Purdue. The line sits at -3 entering the game, and one BWI member wants to know if that’s too low or if Penn State is that bad? Bauer and T-Frank see it differently but go into the factors keeping Penn State and Purdue within a field goal.
Are Dani Dennis-Sutton and TJ Parker Elite pass rushers?
After a discussion about basketball recruiting, they switch to the topic of defensive ends. One viewer asks Bauer and T-Frank if new commit TJ Parker and five-star defensive end Dani Dennis-Sutton have a higher floor than current starter Nick Tarburton.
T-Frank describes the similarities between all three players and then gets into one quirk that both Dennis-Sutton and Parker share.
Manny Diaz is bringing a new scheme to Penn State, and the Nittany Lions seem to be in a good position with two top-150 linebacker recruits who plan on making their college decisions shortly. So, a viewer writes to ask, which scheme is easier to pick up for a player transitioning to linebacker, Diaz, or former DC Brent Pry?
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T-Frank clarifies some points about what position four-star prospects Ta’Mere Robinson and Tony Rojas play before asking Bauer to take the question. Bauer recently interviewed Diaz for BWI, and he got a first-hand account of the nature of his scheme. Bauer relates what Diaz told him and then asks T-Frank to add context to what he’s relaying. Then, T-Frank and Bauer discuss what that means for the players in the system.
The next viewer asks if Penn State will have a reliable deep threat in 2022. If so, is freshman Kaden Saunders that guy? What about fellow newcomer Omari Evans? T-Frank and Bauer discuss the viable deep threat options in the offense and give their verdict.
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