James Peoples

Nick Singleton could erase mistakes.

Um, but you're not getting that at all from Carson Hansen or James Peoples.

Like, they're, you know, they haven't shown that, all right, like, someone gets through, we can still make a miss.

We can, you know, make, you know, uh, break a tackle and, and get going.

Like one minus one equals zero, and that's where they are in the run game, is even if they take a step forward, there is two or three steps back, and that's what happened in this particular game with the, with the positives and negatives.

So some of those gap-blocking schemes did produce positive results for Carson Hansen and for James Peoples specifically, was able to get through the trash at the line of scrimmage, right? So there's this concept that we've been talking about with the run game, and these running backs are not good at generating their own juice, their own yards after contact consistently.

James Peoples is turning into that guy in short areas at the line of scrimmage.

The problem is he also took a couple of negative plays, and that set the offense behind schedule.

This is not an offense that can sustain being behind schedule.

So if you look at the plays in which they just had positive gain, where they didn't get tackled behind the line of scrimmage 'cause the offensive line provided them, uh, with a player in the backfield, you know, in their lap.

Uh, James Peoples averaged, I think it was 5.8 yards a carry if you just, uh, m- meet out the negative runs, just negate those for a second.

And so what you see is he is creating at the point of attack.

This is the problem.

They went to James Peoples as a lead back.

I think he makes guys miss in the backfield.

We all saw that run in the goal line where he just made three guys miss and got eight yards, right? The goal of this run game is to not get in the way.

So USC, 493.

James Peoples has 200 yards rushing this year.

Receiving is just – And on the matchup predictor on ESPN, they have Penn State as a 62.8% favorite to win.

How is that possible? I don't get it.

Speaking of the backs, there are four of them, and the presumptive starter, Iowa State transfer Carson Hansen, he's been underwhelming.

Ohio State transfer James Peoples has shown flashes but hasn't been demonstratively better.

And Penn State has a couple of holdover, uh, Quintin Martin has had his moments, as has Cam Wallace.

Take away a 61-yard and a 59-yard carry for, for the two retained Nittany Lions," in other words, the holdovers, "and those 5.4 and 5.7 yards per carry all of a sudden turns into 3.3 and 3.0 yards per carry." So if you wanna check out the rest of that, uh, Q&A that Chris Trevino had with Blue and White Illustrated, when you're done watching this episode of Locked On USC...