I don't know whether your secondary is any good or not. Is it:
1. You weren't generating a pass rush, so you had to sit in a soft zone to prevent the deep ball? (i.e. the weakness is DL).
2. You weren't generating a pass rush BECAUSE your coaches were afraid of getting burnt deep and therefore playing coverage instead of pressure. (weakness is secondary).
Not sure, but a couple of notes.
- Ya'll didn't run a single stunt on the DL the entire game I don't think. I found that strange. Not sure I've ever seen anyone just try to man up like that. It was gap sound and contained the run game, but you couldn't get pressure like that.
- On 1 of the big TE plays, it was a tackle eligible type play. We split out the RT to look like a WR, and put the center between the LG and LT. Thus, the TE was only 2 players to the left of the center, looking like a LT but eligible, and your secondary didn't pick up on it and viewed him as an ineligible lineman.
- The other big TE plays were actually on blitzes. One reason you didn't blitz much is because the few times you did turned into big plays for us. I believe the streaking TE is a hot route for PSU, but we're still learning our own offensive system. That would mean you didn't disguise it well and Clifford read blitz before the snap.