Congratulations Chaney, your awful play calling in the 2nd half will probably allow a Louisville win
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Don't fall back into SOP ways of thinking when things start to get mildly uncomfortable. For the last 40 minutes of the game, Louisville had the ball for exactly 1 drive while within 1 score of Pitt (down 8 pts, 34-42) and they went 3-and-out, with Pitt scoring on the next drive. That's literally the worst this game ever got.
In your blame of Coach Chaney, perhaps you should take a look at the blocking provided by the offensive line...
Go Pitt.
Who cares what half most of the offense came...it was enough to do the job. It doesn't matter if it all came in the first quarter, it was a win.
I can't wait for a complete game from the offense and defense when that happens someone is going to get stomped.
Defensively they didn't play well. Offensively though, you can't just make up excuses. The players played well, it was a very well called first half. The second half though Chaney went into ultimate conservative mode. I think it's pretty clear that he's a good offensive mind, he just calls really bad plays at even worse times.
Why does everyone in Pittsburgh always blame the offensive coordinator?? You guys are nuts. Steelers and Pitt. We called the same plays in the 2nd half as we did the 1st. Difference is that the kids executed in the 1st half.
There was another team on the field, whose head coach has the fourth best winning percentage in college football.
They adjusted to'playing more nickle in the second half, not allowing the big deep passes peterman got in the first half.
Its funny, I had a thing a few days ago with someone who discounted chaney because the offense wasnt strong enough in the first half, now chaney is a moron because the offense put up 40 plus points in the first half.
They adjusted to'playing more nickle in the second half, not allowing the big deep passes peterman got in the first half.
Its funny, I had a thing a few days ago with someone who discounted chaney because the offense wasnt strong enough in the first half, now chaney is a moron because the offense put up 40 plus points in the first half.
Look it was pretty obvious that the playcalling turned super conservative in the 2nd half. Agree though that the OLine was getting pushed around which hurried Peterman and his throws. Way too many 2 yard sweeps though - guy seems to love that play.
I don't know about conservative offensive play calling in the 2nd half. Five of the first six plays in the 2nd offense had the PITT offense passing the ball. The only gainful play was Ollison's five yard run on first down. I don't think that was conservative, the plays were just not executed well.
This is college football---it happens. PITT is a good team having a pretty good season. However, they are not great and the players can make mistakes or mystify us with inconsistent play on either side of the ball.
Bottom line is this team played well enough to win an important home game against a solid conference opponent. Enjoy it now and focus on how good it feels to win 8 games and still have a chance to win 10 games this year. PITT fans have NOT been able to say that since the great DW guided the panthers to a 10 win season in 2009.
My only problem is that if Wanny and staff were coaching the game today, people would want him and the o-coordinator fired immediately. What Chaney did in the second half was no different than what Wanny did at times when protecting a lead. There was a point in time early in the third quarter when they basically wasted two straight drives by just running plays that had very little chance of being successful.
Yes, most definitely the players could execute and make the play-caller look like a genius. But if you're counting on the players bailing you out, you're probably not doing a very good job. Tyler Boyd is a great athlete, but throwing a screen to him on 2nd and 10 is usually not going to get you much. The times it does, that's on Tyler, it's not some great play that he is a genius for calling. It should definitely be a play that is used, but it's become too predictable and even though Pitt had a lead the entire second half, most of that time they really needed a score to put Louisville away.
Yes, most definitely the players could execute and make the play-caller look like a genius. But if you're counting on the players bailing you out, you're probably not doing a very good job. Tyler Boyd is a great athlete, but throwing a screen to him on 2nd and 10 is usually not going to get you much. The times it does, that's on Tyler, it's not some great play that he is a genius for calling. It should definitely be a play that is used, but it's become too predictable and even though Pitt had a lead the entire second half, most of that time they really needed a score to put Louisville away.
Okay---fair enough. Well, they got their score, right? It wasn't a touchdown but it was a good drive that fell literally a few feet short of a touchdown. BTW, that was a pretty good drive, too and there was nothing that sophisticated about it if I recall correctly.
Definitely. Can't complain too much because bottom line, they took the 3 points, they stopped them on 4th and 3, and they held on to win the game. Louisville is a very good offensive team under Petrino (even though he's a doosh.)
Still a little concerning that the offense basically completely stalled almost the entire second half though. If Whitehead plays more offensively in the second half, maybe it looks more like the first half did. Then again, maybe his defensive play suffers, and at that point no doubt defense was very important. Every team in college football though leaves points out on the field and/or allows the other team to hang around when they should've put them away, a win is a win.
I wasn't going to weigh in on this thread, but then I saw this post-do you actually believe this statement:
We called the same plays in the 2nd half as we did the 1st. Difference is that the kids executed in the 1st half.
You think maybe the wholesale changes Louisvikle made defensively after halftime might've had some small role in slowing us down?
Pitt won and that is most important. Something we should celebrate.
Proud of that these kids hung in there and got the W.
Offense play calling looked great in the first half. Some smart calls that caught Louisville off guard in the first half became Transparent and predictable in the second half. It was obvious by the formation and the players in the game by the second half what was coming and how to prepare for it.
Last week Pitt's offense played quite well in the second half. This week Pitt's offense played very well in the first half. We still have yet to see the offense put together a game where the offense has played very solid in both the first and second half.
When I made a point in a post last week that giving Ollison more carries (particularly between the tackles) helps the rest of the offense work better and win more (a point I have been making since the before the Iowa game), I had an individual respond to my post who was convinced it was a "fantasy" to think Pitt's offense does better when they run Ollison more. Even after I pointed out to him the stat that in Pitt's only three losses, Olison was given the ball 12 or less times. Even after Chris Peak mentioned the stat in his podcast that Pitt won every game when the offense ran a lot using Ollison.
Congratulations to Qadree for rushing for 150+ yards and reaching the 1000 mark. Proud of him. Glad to see Ollison have another very good game and show further proof to his critics once again why he's a good back who keeps getting better and is not only continuing to help the offense with his running but is proving he's worthy of having ALL Pitt fans believe in him. Let's get behind this kid already.
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=14188635
Proud of that these kids hung in there and got the W.
Offense play calling looked great in the first half. Some smart calls that caught Louisville off guard in the first half became Transparent and predictable in the second half. It was obvious by the formation and the players in the game by the second half what was coming and how to prepare for it.
Last week Pitt's offense played quite well in the second half. This week Pitt's offense played very well in the first half. We still have yet to see the offense put together a game where the offense has played very solid in both the first and second half.
When I made a point in a post last week that giving Ollison more carries (particularly between the tackles) helps the rest of the offense work better and win more (a point I have been making since the before the Iowa game), I had an individual respond to my post who was convinced it was a "fantasy" to think Pitt's offense does better when they run Ollison more. Even after I pointed out to him the stat that in Pitt's only three losses, Olison was given the ball 12 or less times. Even after Chris Peak mentioned the stat in his podcast that Pitt won every game when the offense ran a lot using Ollison.
Congratulations to Qadree for rushing for 150+ yards and reaching the 1000 mark. Proud of him. Glad to see Ollison have another very good game and show further proof to his critics once again why he's a good back who keeps getting better and is not only continuing to help the offense with his running but is proving he's worthy of having ALL Pitt fans believe in him. Let's get behind this kid already.
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=14188635
Great call. Oh after this fantastic post going over to the PSU board and talking sh*t was a nice touch
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