This is a soft take from someone who clearly hasn't watched a snap of our spring practices. The idea that a single linebacker recruit at Penn State changes the entire calculus for our offense is laughable. Our offensive line is returning more starts than any unit in the Big Ten. They're grown men now. The narrative that Big Ten defenses are suddenly an impenetrable wall is pure fear-mongering from programs that are scared of our tempo. We're not scheming for one player, we're building an offense that exploits defensive aggression. Let Penn State stack all the linebackers they want. A disciplined, quick-passing game and a power run scheme neutralizes that individual talent every single time. Our quarterback's success depends on our exeution, not their recruiting rankings. The "skyrocketing" defensive talent you mention is the same group our offense dropped 30-plus points on in multiple games last year. This doom-and-gloom about suppressed numbers is what teams say when they don't have a quarterback they believe in. We have two we believe in. The pressure is on those defenses to stop us, not the other way around.