How about going tempo, no-huddle out of nowhere? Peterman calling the shots pre-snap. He also exploited the hell out of the mismatch we had with Mr. Wonderful on the Clemmy LBs. The downfield pass was alive and well and our receivers were a big factor.. He was really pushing all the right buttons. Clemson was prepared to stuff the jet sweep so we didn't even bother with it for the most part. Refreshing to see this much offensive creativity at Pitt all the sudden. Fun to watch it.
Canada was masterful in that game.....
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Did that last week against Miami most of the game.
I liked when biz was the sidecar for peterman....until james shifted back
I liked when biz was the sidecar for peterman....until james shifted back
I like all the shifts that were going on. Moving the tackles, rb's, wr's all before the snap. Hard for the defense to get a read at what we were doing.
No doubt Canada has been Pitt's MVP. Imagine our record with just a average offensive coordinator. Got to give Narduzzi props for making such a great hire.
Hopefully, Pitt's commitment to establishing a championship caliber program. Starts by showing its fans by signing this guy to a long term contract.
I have watched Pitt a long time. I can't remember us having such a creative and effective offense. Shame the defense wasn't at least average. Or we could easily be 8-1 or better.
Defense will improve with a few upgrades in the secondary. The players we once thought had no business on the same field as Clemson played with speed and physicality as a product of knowing their assignments. This scheme works. Taleni and Galambos stopping #9? Really? This could be fun if not magical in a year or two.
Remember the rumors that pitt held back? narduzzi dismissed it but I bet we ran 10 different plays that game
I hope that the back-up QBs are paying close attention in the meetings since one of 'em will most likely be Peterman's replacement next season.
The thought of going into a season with a starting QB wth little or no experience is not something that I look forward to.
The thought of going into a season with a starting QB wth little or no experience is not something that I look forward to.
Opposing D's have to key on at least three moving players. The RB, the TE or shovel target and the jet sweep. Next year the QB will have this luxury along with the legs (Macvittie) to keep the ball as the 4th option. Should click by ACC time.
I can remember some people's dissatisfaction with some of Canada's play calling in the OkSt and UNC losses, but I think he's done a great job with the personnel he has. Putting up over 35 point per game without a Tyler Boyd type #1 receiver. Teams have figured out and stopped the jet sweeps, yet he's made adjustments and the O is still putting up the points. Have to pat the guy on the back for his creativity and flexibility in play calling.
Been doing it all year????? Best OC Pitt ever had and that goes back to the Majors & Sherrill Years!!! Some just waking up to it must have been ill in a Hospital, out of the country, in Prison or just missing it?
Once the Defense kicks in one will see why Pitt's Coach Pat is the better Coach than Franklin or Holgrosen and that is not putting them down, just being realistic with what i see! They are Good Coaches but right now Narduzzi is a Very good Coach using a Pro Set that wins Conferences Titles & NCS!
Spreads win 10 games but seldom no NCS since the Playoffs started. Just look at Oregon, very fast, Super QB, but totally destroyed by Pro Set Offenses and Defenses take them out until they run out steam and huffing and puffing by Third Quarters. ASU, UA, watch what happens over the season and when the Conferences are on line.
Oh Canada will be breaking in a New QB watch how fast that develops, JUST A HUNCH, but will be very good next year too!
And perfectly executed with seldom any movement, false starts, or mistakes like that, this shows great preparation, focus and excellent discipline, and some Posters can't see how these Coaches have brought a New Attitude to Pitt Players compared to Chryst, Graham, Wannstedt and Harris on Game Plan Prep, Game Day Performances, Half-Time Adjustment and Bold Playcalling??? Along with a NO QUIT PITT ATTITUDE and togetherness with little to none off the GridIron problems????
Pitt future is a big Bright Well under Pitt Coach Pat and it starts staying in the Dorm to get to know his Players and Spring Ball with feats of testing one limits and during the Games, keeping his Player's up all Game long.
The Game Plans are great, Half Time Adjustments much better, and soon bigger, faster, and discipline talent is emerging with execution being established, this was Pitt's 10th Game, and look at the improvements against a Top 5 Team!!!!
If a Parent of any Recruits wants to make sure their Sons are taken care of and learn discipline, focus, and attitude and look how many Players will keep their Scholarships on Medical Red-shirts????
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I liked the 3 Interceptions, 50 yards Rushing stops, and 4th Down stop! On Offense, Weah, Ford, Conner, Aston, Matthews, Parrish and Orndoff made great catches and plays. Remember we had no Experienced Wideouts when the season started and missing Boyd, now we are ready for this year and next year!
These spread coordinators get reputations for being "mad scientists" with their diagramming of plays. However, Canada is in that same boat. The guy is a genius, plain and simple.
Case in point. Dabo said they knew the shovel was coming and prepared for it but they changed the "presentation" of it and they were unprepared for it and he said they had no answer. It was almost like a triple option. You had the handoff option to either the jet sweep guy or Conner, the QB run option, or the late shovel pass option. I've never seen anything like it.
Case in point. Dabo said they knew the shovel was coming and prepared for it but they changed the "presentation" of it and they were unprepared for it and he said they had no answer. It was almost like a triple option. You had the handoff option to either the jet sweep guy or Conner, the QB run option, or the late shovel pass option. I've never seen anything like it.
yeah, think it's pretty evident.. Cant blame coaches for denying it, its classless and pointless to admit you "vanillafied" your offense, disrespectful to your opponent. Especially if you lose, then you look bad.. Best to just do it, deny it, get the win and move on..
Those with semi-objective ears would have heard Griese talking about and complimenting that very thing, and how the shovel action with motion that we were running was just a slightly different and very creative twist on a read option spread with sweep motion, and of the triple option. Unfortunately many of our posters apparently only heard Griese criticizing the pass defense scheme, which they of course perceived as "anti_Pitt bias".
I recall back in the Nebraska glory days a college football analyst describing the brilliance of Tom Osborne's I-formation scheme. It wasn't visible to the untrained eye but Osborne used to run the same basic plays with slightly different twists and kept mixing them up all the time. He would change the blocking techniques and angles repeatedly so the defense never saw the same play twice, even though it looked like the same play to the rest of the world.
Canada is doing some things I don't remember ever seeing before, and we are scoring a ton of points. My only real criticism has been the tendency in some of the games we've been leading in to take the foot off the gas pedal in the second half, but that is more than likely Narduzzi's influence. That's how Dantonio did it at MSU, build a lead with a lot of multiple offense, then try to take the air out of the ball and sit on that lead in the second half. Of course, that works a lot better with a strong defense.
Canada's O has scored 11 Tds vs Clemson in the last 2 games. He will get a nice pay bump after the season.
I watch a lot of NFL and it may be my imagination but I have seen much more shovel and jet sweeps than I have last season for example.
Consider Chris Clark next year. This kid has to be thrilled in how we used Orndoff this season and particularly Saturday.
On top of that....UCLA is a dumpster fire and Pitt has turned the corner.
The kid made the right choice coming here
On top of that....UCLA is a dumpster fire and Pitt has turned the corner.
The kid made the right choice coming here
Thought I read on here that he was fired from NC State and an awful hire. That poster seems to have cooled his jets on that mantra which he was posting over and over....
of course it was Souf who would ramble on about how it was a hire off the scrap heap/
No, it was another poster who really pressed on the Canada was an awful hire. Insisted NC State didn't fire him because he was talking to Pitt but because he was a special breed of awful. Other than going into a shell with the 4th quarter play calling I couldn't understand the persistent hammering on what was overall encouraging.
The same poster may have called out Blewitt during the game Saturday and has gone into hiding.
The same poster may have called out Blewitt during the game Saturday and has gone into hiding.
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"Alan Partridge, post: 1665093, member: 13569"]No, it was another poster who really pressed on the Canada was an awful hire. Insisted NC State didn't fire him because he was talking to Pitt but because he was a special breed of awful. Other than going into a shell with the 4th quarter play calling I couldn't understand the persistent hammering on what was overall encouraging.
The same poster may have called out Blewitt during the game Saturday and has gone into hiding.
There is the Rilito River in Tucson and Santa Cruz in Southern Arizona a that are usually dry most of the time. Yet, after it rains Hard it often over flows and flood the area. There is a Special Little Fish that comes out of the deep ground when that happens. He nourishes himself and then when it is muddy and starts to dry up again, he goes back underground until another Rain and Flooding?
We should call some of the Lair Posters that only show up when Pitt is losing and pontificate how they are right and other Posters are Losers, but disappear back into the mud when Pitt is making strides to rebuilding the Programs.
If that Poster you talk about ever re-emerges you should call him the Rilito Mud Fish Return! Some Posters Minds Are Always Stuck In The Mud!
The Pitt Mud Fish Posters?
The same poster may have called out Blewitt during the game Saturday and has gone into hiding.
There is the Rilito River in Tucson and Santa Cruz in Southern Arizona a that are usually dry most of the time. Yet, after it rains Hard it often over flows and flood the area. There is a Special Little Fish that comes out of the deep ground when that happens. He nourishes himself and then when it is muddy and starts to dry up again, he goes back underground until another Rain and Flooding?
We should call some of the Lair Posters that only show up when Pitt is losing and pontificate how they are right and other Posters are Losers, but disappear back into the mud when Pitt is making strides to rebuilding the Programs.
If that Poster you talk about ever re-emerges you should call him the Rilito Mud Fish Return! Some Posters Minds Are Always Stuck In The Mud!
The Pitt Mud Fish Posters?
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