BWI Daily: Rebuilding a contender; Looking at Penn State's 2019 defense to find answers

Penn State football has been a .500 team with embattled quarterback Sean Clifford at the helm for the past two seasons. However, many fans are frustrated that Clifford is the presumed starter heading into next Fall. So the host of the BWI Daily Edition, Thomas Frank Carr, is endeavoring to find out how the Nittany Lions can be successful next season by looking to the past. He’s examining the 2019 Penn State football team through PFF data to determine what they did to win ten games and threaten a College Football Playoff spot. The key to winning is surrounding quarterback Sean Clifford with a team that can help shoulder the load. Of course, a critical part of any winning team is a solid defense, and today, T-Frank looks at that side of the ball. However, it’s not a clean translation since the departure of former defensive coordinator Brent Pry. So while T-Frank starts in 2019 to give a sense of what that team was like, he quickly transitions to what Manny Diaz did at his zenith in Maimi. That means he looks instead to the 2018 Miami Hurricanes and the DNA of that defense under Diaz. T-Frank looks at the main features of the defense, critical stats, and overall team production to find common threads. JOIN Blue White Illustrated: https://www.on3.com/teams/penn-state-nittany-lions/join/?plan=annualSUBSCRIBE to Blue White Illustrated on YouTube and enable alerts - new highlights and videos uploaded regularly: https://www.youtube.com/c/bluewhiteillustratedvideo?sub_confirmationBookmark our homepage: https://www.on3.com/teams/penn-state-nittany-lions/Subscribe to BWI Magazine and Newsletters: http://bluewhiteonline.comDownload our podcasts: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/LRL3155877513?selected=DSVV2664982394Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BlueWhiteIllustrated/Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/PennStateOn3 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.