Jake Waters

He's close with Terry Smith.

Obviously, Matt Campbell and Jake Waters all come into play as well.

So that's the guy you could really build on.

I think if you could keep Deontay Flemings in, which he's had interest from some big-time programs since committing to Penn State, just got an offer from Michigan, that's a blue-chip defensive back from McDowell and Erie.

And Joe Jackson or whoever's doing that, that's where you talk about a pop pass.

John, you remember the plays to Glenn Gronkowski with Jake Waters at quarterback or Daniel Sams when they hit him with a pop pass.

I'm not talking about a goal line pop pass that gets you a touchdown at the three yard line.

I'm talking about you need 60 yards.

Something tells me, because I remember Mouser said this early, maybe before the first game.

I remember talking to Jake Waters, the quarterback's coach in the spring.

And that was obviously with him recovering from his heart surgery, which we didn't know about.

I think they were raving about Manske.

This is not the first time we've heard Warren's name.

This is going back to the spring where if it hadn't gone Penn State's way with Will Wood, had he committed to Boston College or Penn State at that time, warren was looking like the pivot point there this is a kid this staff has known well since they were at iowa state they were one of i believe if not the first program to offer warren when they were at iowa state so there's a long-standing relationship not just with campbell but with quarterbacks coach jake waters the staff at omaha west side these guys know each other pretty well and warren's been locked in with missouri for a while now And I've yet to hear anything indicating that he's seriously considering shifting off that.

But I mean, we're talking about a new recruitment that Penn State is involved in the sense that Campbell made down there, extended the offer, made clear that he is wanted in State College.

We know Missouri has the ability to be very competitive financially to keep a guy like Warren in this class, so it's a matter of time when it comes to assessing what Penn State's approach is going to be.

Tyler, let's let's just before we turn the page and focus on some other positions when we talk about quarterback recruiting and it goes beyond Warren obviously and and we we mentioned this to you when we were breaking down Will Woods the commitment earlier in the week thanks for giving me the refresher on the timeline there but what is the goal if you are in Penn State shoes right now and because it's October 22nd as we speak you've got senior seasons wrapping up in the next month across America Then two weeks after that, I mean, you're going to get through Thanksgiving and then all of a sudden, whoa, signing day is here.

So what do you think are the stepping stones? What needs to be done between point A and let's call that right now and point B, which is a quarterback signing with Penn State and getting ready to enroll in January? What does that process look like to you from a timeline standpoint, maybe from a campus visit standpoint as well?

Yeah, a lot of it's playing out in real time right now with not just Campbell on the road, but Jake Waters on the road checking in with 27 quarterbacks.

They've worked through the evaluation process.

For me, it's the offensive line.

I remember sitting down with quarterbacks coach Jake Waters and asking him, so like, Have you ever been in a situation where you just need the offensive line to take over because you're having a bad game and you just need to lean on them for a while? What is that like for the psyche of a quarterback to just kind of reset the nervous system? And he's like, yeah, absolutely.

It's happened to me before.

I've had a bad game, blah, blah, blah.

Chad May's probably in front of them.

I think he's better than Jake Waters.

F Jake Waters.

Um, so I'd put Chad May.

I'd put Michael Bishop.

That has really gone out the window over the course of this last month.

And so what do you make of the notion, Tyler, that you now enter a bye week? How seriously does Matt Campbell, and collectively with his offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Tyler Mouser, Jake Waters, guys who were with Becht for m- multiple seasons at, at Ro- at, at Iowa State, how seriously do they need to take a longer look at who they want to send out at QB coming out of the bye week and for the remaining five match-ups of the fall?

I don't know if they're ultimately gonna pull the trigger on a move, but I do think it is something that they need to consider, because this offense just lacks juice right now, and Becht is a big reason why that juice is lacking.

The quarterback play is just not what it needs to be.

We talked about this the other day and, and, and it's a great point, and I don't know.

And I can't imagine that it's the coaches not giving it, giving him the freedom to check because I know having played with Collin Klein and Jake Waters, we checked at the line of scrimmage all the time, all the time.

Uh, Jake checked the f- the...

Jake checked all the time at the line of scrimmage.