Pat Narduzzi said this afternoon that Eli Holstein has not been cleared by the medical staff yet.

Nm

Eli concussed ? Either way Nate has gotten the snaps this week so there's that .

Have seen enough and no national CHAMPIONSHIP since I was living in texas. Pat Narduzzi...... and as a friend used to say you can not make apple sauce out of monkey greese and oranges. You always think and think and THINK and sleep on it. And if you wake up and it is still a dry bagel in a donuts sheath you get the hell out of the breakfast. Gentlemen a hot name my neighbor has brought to my attention could be former steelers cosch Bill Cower. Any man worth his way in table salt can look at our coach and notice a LACK of testosterone. NEED!!!! to win the next game. Need to win then all because I am getting PISSED. Fo not mean to sound like a lose cannon but was at the last game and got home way to damn LATE to watch a poor game and then drive down 79 at 25MPH with high beems because of all the deer. Also a very thin coyote.

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I imagine this will impact Pitt games as well—at least we have convenience.

I know he got benched last week, but also threw 3 TDs against Louisville the game before. Still hard to wrap my mind around guys bailing during the season

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here is mine, loved these and similar to pitt, great uniforms in what was a pretty bad era for pitt hoops.

25 years ago today, we said good by to Pitt Stadium

Pitt's offense suffered through its fourth straight rough game in Saturday's loss to Virginia. What went wrong for the Panthers? Let's take a look at the film.

Pat Narduzzi held his final press briefing of the week on Thursday and talked about the matchup with Clemson, Pitt's record in coin tosses, scholarship allocation and a lot more. Here's video of his remarks.

Heading down the home stretch....3 more weeks before tournament selection. Each team has 6 matches remaining in the regular season......but these are the top matches left for #1 Pitt, #2 Nebraska, #3 Louisville, and #4 Penn State. The only head to head matches are Pitt at Louisville and Nebraska at Penn State. Creighton (#5) is breathing down Penn State's back and probably won't lose again. One loss by Penn State will likely kick them out of the top 4. Home matches are in bold.

Pitt

• #22 Florida State at Pitt on 11/15
• #3 Louisville at Louisville on 11/27
• #15 Georgia Tech at Pitt on 11/30

Louisville

• #1 Pitt at Louisville on 11/27
• #7 Stanford at Stanford on 11/30

Penn State

• #8 Purdue at Penn State on 11/21
• #2 Nebraska at Penn State on 11/29

Nebraska

• #16 Minnesota at Nebraska on 11/14
• #6 Wisconsin at Nebraska on 11/23
• #4 Penn State at Penn State on 11/29

I’m really concerned about Kade Bell as the OC moving forward. In the beginning the scheme was great the tempo was working. P4 coaches weren’t watching WCU film to prepare for Bell. Once teams got film and figured out the scheme it’s not working. Losing the UVA game was on the offense for failing to execute. Yes the refs sucked but we have to be better. We can’t do the little things right now and we aren’t being put in positions to make plays either.

For 5 weeks now our offense is struggling.
Offensive line- they are not able to initiate the line of scrimmage. They are getting no surge and we are unable to sustain drives running the football. Pass pro is a train wreck we are often getting beat before the QB has time to hit his hitch step or his drop. This is a problem that can’t be fixed until after the season. Tactically they are terrible. We aren’t initiating contact and it’s not getting better

Quarterback- mechanically we are bad. Eli and Nate look uncomfortable they are throwing the ball from unnatural positions the ball is inaccurate and they look bad. Often times they are not aligned to their targets and are fading away from the throws. When they are in the pocket they are not feeling pressure they are escaping into the pressure they aren’t moving correctly. This is a coaching and a feel issue. We are missing open guys when they do get open. We are too slow to throw with anticipation and missing windows. We aren’t good right now.

RB- Reid was a great story but the splash is gone he is getting hit at or behind the line on most carries he is no longer a threat in the passing game. Carter needs to see the field more he can initiate contact and break tackles behind the bad blocking.
Hammond and Davis are no longer even being used. As a group we are making no splash plays.

Receivers and TE- we aren’t getting open enough. Route concepts are terrible and they aren’t beating their man. We have forgotten that Kenny Johnson is a playmaker. Mumpfield is hardly an option any more and rarely running routes to get open. Bell has basically minimized the top 2 WR on the roster. Poppi Williams gets open but can’t catch it now. The WR group needs to be better won’t even mention the drops. The routes right now look to be choice routes constantly and that is not working we aren’t pushing secondary guys and we aren’t winning match ups.
TE aren’t being used at all. Bart most the time is running routes 3-5 yards and being covered by linebackers. We haven’t worked the middle of the field we haven’t used mismatches the TE looks like it did when Cignetti was in charge.

What has happened to the middle of the field three level route concepts. We aren’t flooding zones. We aren’t rolling the pockets. We aren’t using match up football it is bad. We look like we are playing without correction and without reaction there is nothing positive with the offense right now.

Kade Bell looks overwhelmed the offensive staff is showing they as a group are not ready for big boy football. Since the California game our offense hasn’t made changes. This group has to get it figured out right now they appear that they can’t scheme at this level. I am not saying they are incapable but right now they have to be challenged. Pat Narduzzi has to be asking this group if they belong here.

We are 7-2 the season isn’t over we can still win 10 games… time to put this stretch behind us and get back to winning football. Things have to change and it starts with the offense. The offense and the refs lost us the Virginia game. However we put ourselves in the position that the refs could impact that game. Tough to swallow 7-2 when easily we should be an 8-1 team today. Eli getting hit as we were driving to go up 20-7 changed the whole game Sauls kick gets blocked and Yarnell throws 2 key interceptions and the points taken off the board by the bogus hold and we all know about 5th down

Hello!

Just wanted to ask if anyone had a parking pass they aren’t using for the clemson game anywhere on the north shore, and what you’d want for it?

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Friends invited us. Reading it was named one of the best 50 restaurants in the US by the New York Times.

Saturday's game against Clemson will be Pitt's final date in Acrisure Stadium for the season, which means it will be the final home game for the Panthers' seniors. On today's Morning Pitt, we're talking about Pitt's seniors - their careers, their stories and a lot more.

Ishmael Leggett was probably very proud to win the ACC’s Sixth Man of the Year award last year.

And in a moment of honesty, he would probably admit that he had no intention whatsoever of winning it again.

I posted this on the football board but with basketball getting rolling and some not going back and forth I wanted to put this on here for those that want to follow along.

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Loses at home to Columbia.

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