Welcome back into the Lions 24-7 podcast. I am Tyler Downhew. They are Mark Brennan and Daniel

Gowan and we are underway with game week number nine of this Penn State season, which has

spiraled from a number two national ranking to a three and five record here on November 3rd.

We're fresh out of Terry Smith's weekly press conference.

We learned a little bit more about this team. He vocalized some of the frustrations that we

have discussed here on the podcast. We had a postgame show up on Saturday. Hopefully you caught

that. Daniel and I spent about 30 or 40 minutes discussing a 38 to 14 loss for the Ninty Lions

in Columbus. It was one that was 17-14.

Buckeyes at halftime saw some signs of fight.

Thought maybe upset alert could be brewing out there.

Instead, Ohio State hits the gas pedal, 21 and nothing the rest of the way,

and a loss for the Nittany Lions, five consecutive, nine straight against Ohio State.

You didn't hear from Mark Brennan since then. He was out there in Columbus, along with his daughter, our photographer, Grace Brennan, and Daniel Gowen. So, Mark, now that you both are back in Happy Valley, we had a chance to hear from the head coach multiple times now since the game ended. Where do you want to start? Where do you want to take the conversation? The mic's in your hand to begin this episode. It literally is in my hand. I thought that for there are 30 minutes,

Penn State played really well. And you got an indication again that, you know, this team has

enough talent to be successful, maybe not to beat a team like Ohio State, but clearly not as bad

as a team that has lost five straight

games. But in the second half, there just was no execution whatsoever. The thing that stuck out to

me, you know, last Wednesday, we come out of the, out of Terry Smith's scrum, and he basically,

he didn't basically said, he directly said the two things that were going to be the most important things in

the game number one outrushing ohio state whatever team wins the the uh the ground game wins the rushing

battle is going to win the game and number two don't let the two great receivers get behind you

and they did that pretty well in the first half. There was one, you know,

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