Bart to Neal play

[President Stache]

Really think we tried to do something stupid here.

Now... the play, as designed worked, Neal was wide open (I think it was Neal anyways). However, it is a huge headscratcher. Why do this? We where running at will, 2 runs to get a yard, we win. I dont get it. I really dont get why we do that. We do that during the stupid ass 2 point conversion contest at the end, sure. Not to win the game. It was too "cute"

Didnt like the call at all.

 

[Large Panther]

Pat Narduzzi and Kade Bell.

 

[ValentinoRossi]

Dumb. The game was already won with the ball on the one with two plays to get the TD. The only way to lose was, well…

 

[bobfree]

I think the play worked.

The field goal was pathetic though

 

[pittdrum]

Really think we tried to do something stupid here.

Now... the play, as designed worked, Neal was wide open (I think it was Neal anyways). However, it is a huge headscratcher. Why do this? We where running at will, 2 runs to get a yard, we win. I dont get it. I really dont get why we do that. We do that during the stupid ass 2 point conversion contest at the end, sure. Not to win the game. It was too "cute"

Didnt like the call at all.

That was the just the whipped cream on the Crap sundae. First was the hurry up on first down. Then needing to call a timeout second down when you couldn’t get the play in. The cherry was not going for it on 4th down.

A repeat of the ridiculous series of downs at the goal line against Clemson. Just dumb all around.

 

[SteelBowl70]

Run for 301 yards and don’t try to gain a yard when you have two downs - that takes stupidity to an entirely new level

 

[President Stache]

I think the play worked.

The field goal was pathetic though

Yeah, i said it worked. Wasnt executed well. Just kind of a dumb play there, as we didnt need a trick play, we were running at will

 

[President Stache]

Run for 301 yards and don’t try to gain a yard when you have two downs - that takes stupidity to an entirely new level

The OC is a good crazy play OC... you will have that I guess. Shouldnt have happened. Should have scored a TD

 

[ThePanthers]

Yeah, i said it worked. Wasnt executed well. Just kind of a dumb play there, as we didnt need a trick play, we were running at will

Yeah you run something like that when your other stuff isn’t working. Not when you are running at will.

 

[Burgh15]

Creative play call and and it completely fooled the defense. Not unreasonable to expect the players to execute a play that was right there. 100% on 86 failing the easy toss.

 

[PittHOFs]

Why didn’t Bartholomew just run it in?? He had the angle with no one who could catch him.

 

[bobfree]

Yeah, i said it worked. Wasnt executed well. Just kind of a dumb play there, as we didnt need a trick play, we were running at will

I don't know it was right there. Just run the ball on 4th and we win.

 

[PittPharm2002]

Really think we tried to do something stupid here.

Now... the play, as designed worked, Neal was wide open (I think it was Neal anyways). However, it is a huge headscratcher. Why do this? We where running at will, 2 runs to get a yard, we win. I dont get it. I really dont get why we do that. We do that during the stupid ass 2 point conversion contest at the end, sure. Not to win the game. It was too "cute"

Didnt like the call at all.

It was maybe the most idiotic play ever

 

[LeftCoastPanther]

Right up there with Pitt throwing two fade passes from the 1.5 yard line versus Navy in 2007. Where does Pitt find these coaches who shit the bed at crucial moments?

 

[forbesfield]

Right up there with Pitt throwing two fade passes from the 1.5 yard line versus Navy in 2007. Where does Pitt find these coaches who shit the bed at crucial moments?

Not to defend our oafs, but a lot of coaches seem to have this issue. There are very few that never make these kinds of mistakes.

 

[303vND]

I think the play worked.

The field goal was pathetic though

HUH?!!!

 

[bobfree]

HUH?!!!

Just calling it like see it.

The play worked.

 

[303vND]

Just calling it like see it.

The play worked.

Well damn...must have watched a different game because if the play worked Pitt would have won the game.

 

[Slick Manager of Champs]

Not to defend our oafs, but a lot of coaches seem to have this issue. There are very few that never make these kinds of mistakes.

Pete Carroll....hold my beer!

 

[pierre93]

Why didn’t Bartholomew just run it in?? He had the angle with no one who could catch him.

^^^^This^^^^^ Exactly smh

 

[Zeldas Open Roof]

pitt grasped defeat out of the hands of a victory, that's for sure. bad teams with poor coaching staffs always find a way to lose, even when the opposing team tries to hand them the win..

 

[President Stache]

Well damn...must have watched a different game because if the play worked Pitt would have won the game.

???

Why? It wasnt executed.

The play CLEARLY worked. The guy was absolutely wide open. It was a bad pass.

I disagree a bit. We should have run this play on 4th down. And we would have run it on 4th down if we didnt score. And if we did we would have lost.

 

[bobfree]

Would the Philly special been a bad call if the foles dropped the ball?

How about when we ran it against UCF?

They practiced the play and executed in practice.

I despise this coaching staff. Think it's an embarrassment. Think their decisions in the game were ludicrous.

But this particular play worked.

 

[303vND]

???

Why? It wasnt executed.

The play CLEARLY worked. The guy was absolutely wide open. It was a bad pass.

I disagree a bit. We should have run this play on 4th down. And we would have run it on 4th down if we didnt score. And if we did we would have lost.

Execution is the primary aspect of a play. You can plan and design your arse off but if you don't execute it's all null and void.

 

[303vND]

Would the Philly special been a bad call if the foles dropped the ball?

How about when we ran it against UCF?

They practiced the play and executed in practice.

I despise this coaching staff. Think it's an embarrassment. Think their decisions in the game were ludicrous.

But this particular play worked.

A bad call versus a successful call are two different things. You wrote the play worked...it did not. Like I just wrote - execution is the primary aspect of a play. Was the fake punt the Steelers ran against the Commanders a bad call or a good play design..yes, was it successful...NO!

 

[bobfree]

A bad call versus a successful call are two different things. You wrote the play worked...it did not. Like I just wrote - execution is the primary aspect of a play. Was the fake punt the Steelers ran against the Commanders a bad call or a good play design..yes, was it successful...NO!

Fake punt worked too.

We are just talking semantics. It's not thay big of a deal.

 

[HopeandChangeforAntoons]

It was bad but not as bad as Wlat calling literally any play but one that would get the ball to Fitz in the Charlotte bowl against UVA.

 

[pittbb80]

pitt grasped defeat out of the hands of a victory, that's for sure. bad teams with poor coaching staffs always find a way to lose, even when the opposing team tries to hand them the win..

Don’t mean to be a jagoff but Pitt has been snatching defeat from the jaws of victory since Jackie Sherril left. The football program had turned Pitting into an art form This was just the latest piece of work

 

[pittbb80]

A lot of coaches try to get too cute

BYU had a couple of “trick” plays that Backfired Iowa state had a third and goal from the half and ran a toss sweep for a loss of 4 yards.

To me the most egregious aspect was not going for it on fourth down. Just flat out cowardly

 

[303vND]

Fake punt worked too.

We are just talking semantics. It's not thay big of a deal.

We clearly have a difference in what constitutes plays work versus failure. If the fake punt worked - why did the Commadores take over at the previous line of scrimmage in the Steelers redzone?

 

[bobfree]

We clearly have a difference in what constitutes plays work versus failure. If the fake punt worked - why did the Commadores take over at the previous line of scrimmage in the Steelers redzone?

You got it man!

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

We just need Walt Harris to come back and tell us all that the play would have worked but the players didn't do what they were coached to do.

No way Pat Narduzzi coached those guys to not complete that pass. No way.

 

[Slick Manager of Champs]

To me the most egregious aspect was not going for it on fourth down. Just flat out cowardly

Not so much cowardly as gross coaching incompetence. To not be aware of the situation in OT is inexcusable and would have been forgiven if Narduzzi would have just taken responsibility for making a coaching blunder. Instead we got an answer that was a microcosm of every Narduzzi press conference the past 10 years. A word salad of 10 ya' knows followed by some incomprehensible explanation of why he made the call he did.

One more year, hot seat in 2025. Has to achieve the goals I posted before or he has to be fired (beat WVU or ND, at least 9 wins and top 25 finish).

 

[pittbb80]

Not so much cowardly as gross coaching incompetence. To not be aware of the situation in OT is inexcusable and would have been forgiven if Narduzzi would have just taken responsibility for making a coaching blunder. Instead we got an answer that was a microcosm of every Narduzzi press conference the past 10 years. A word salad of 10 ya' knows followed by some incomprehensible explanation of why he made the call he did.

One more year, hot seat in 2025. Has to achieve the goals I posted before or he has to be fired (beat WVU or ND, at least 9 wins and top 25 finish).

Quite honestly with the CFB landscape and Pitts history of hiring coaches even if the do let go of Duzz it will be more of the same

I’ll still follow the team regardless but I’ve accepted the fact that Pitt Football is almost guaranteed to disappoint annually.

 

[TD_6082]

It was maybe the most idiotic play ever

I thought you liked OCs that scheme guys open instead of playing Neanderthal yinzer football. He schemed a guy open.