- I blasted Heather for scheduling this series when it was announced. It was stupid. I said they scheduled 1 guaranteed loss and for no extra fans and no extra buzz. Said the same thing about Wisconsin though they'll probably bring 5K fans. Cincy brought 750. Duquesne would have traveled better. Their is no SOS in college football, well not for Pitt anyway, since we dont compete for the CFP. Pitt should be playing 1 P5 team, 1 FCS, and 2 G5. Playing Michigan State, Iowa, Cincy, Wisconsin, Utah, OK St, etc accomplishes absolutely nothing. You are going to lose and no one in Pgh cares about those teams.
- These are the ONLY P5 teams that Pitt should schedule: PSU, WVU, Ohio St, Mich, Ten, Fla, UGa, Bama, LSU, OU, Texas, USC, Oregon. That's the list. We will lose but we're going to lose to the other teams anyway. At least you get a packed stadium and maybe you pull off a miraculous upset.
- As for the game, I picked Cincinnati because they beat the equivalent of a mid-level MAC team by 53. Scoring margin often tells the tale. I was afraid they were pretty good. 2 minutes into the game, my fear was realized. Watching them live, they were bigger, better, and faster. Looked like a mid-tier SEC team out there with their size and speed. We had our chances but they were significantly better.
- Before I get into my QB analysis, let me first criticize our WRs. I said last week that this is the worst WR core I can ever remember. I'll even go so far as to say you can swap them out with ANY G5 WR core and there'd be no drop-off. UMass, Troy, South Alabama, doesnt matter. Our WRs are interchangeable with theirs. Guys, they werent open all night. I dont know who was covering Means but he had no chance to ever catch a pass. The guy was glued to him. Phil was bad but the WRs are a huge part of the problem.
- The OL was bad. Made Cincy look like an SEC DL. 5 sacks and lots of pressures is inexcusable.
- Phil: If anyone thinks he is better than Kedon Slovis, you need to sign up for that study because you are on crack. He moves a little better, but he has the arm talent of Trey Anderson. I mean, yes, the WRs were never open but he wasnt even close to hitting them. He reminded me of when Chuck Knoblauch wasnt able to throw from 2nd Base to 1st anymore or when Rick Ankiel couldn't throw a strike and had to switch to OF. Its like he has the yips as they say in baseball. He wasnt even close. 10-32 is maybe the worst QB performance I have ever seen. I cant think right now of a worse one. And 2 of his 10 completjons were terribly underthrown balls we got lucky on.
- Satterfield Year 1 js better than Narduzzi Year Whatever. I said it before and I will say jt again. Narduzzi is 7-5 Pat with a lucky Covid Year for Kenny. We can do worse than Narduzzi. But we wjll forever be 7-5 or may luck into 8-4 every once in awhile. If you're ok with that, cool. This year, however is going to be 5-7 or 4-8 due to the schedule and lack of anything resembling an FBS offense.
- I'd give Jurkovec one more game. He needs to beat WVU. If not, its Villeaux time. And we arent going to beat WVU.
- These are the ONLY P5 teams that Pitt should schedule: PSU, WVU, Ohio St, Mich, Ten, Fla, UGa, Bama, LSU, OU, Texas, USC, Oregon. That's the list. We will lose but we're going to lose to the other teams anyway. At least you get a packed stadium and maybe you pull off a miraculous upset.
- As for the game, I picked Cincinnati because they beat the equivalent of a mid-level MAC team by 53. Scoring margin often tells the tale. I was afraid they were pretty good. 2 minutes into the game, my fear was realized. Watching them live, they were bigger, better, and faster. Looked like a mid-tier SEC team out there with their size and speed. We had our chances but they were significantly better.
- Before I get into my QB analysis, let me first criticize our WRs. I said last week that this is the worst WR core I can ever remember. I'll even go so far as to say you can swap them out with ANY G5 WR core and there'd be no drop-off. UMass, Troy, South Alabama, doesnt matter. Our WRs are interchangeable with theirs. Guys, they werent open all night. I dont know who was covering Means but he had no chance to ever catch a pass. The guy was glued to him. Phil was bad but the WRs are a huge part of the problem.
- The OL was bad. Made Cincy look like an SEC DL. 5 sacks and lots of pressures is inexcusable.
- Phil: If anyone thinks he is better than Kedon Slovis, you need to sign up for that study because you are on crack. He moves a little better, but he has the arm talent of Trey Anderson. I mean, yes, the WRs were never open but he wasnt even close to hitting them. He reminded me of when Chuck Knoblauch wasnt able to throw from 2nd Base to 1st anymore or when Rick Ankiel couldn't throw a strike and had to switch to OF. Its like he has the yips as they say in baseball. He wasnt even close. 10-32 is maybe the worst QB performance I have ever seen. I cant think right now of a worse one. And 2 of his 10 completjons were terribly underthrown balls we got lucky on.
- Satterfield Year 1 js better than Narduzzi Year Whatever. I said it before and I will say jt again. Narduzzi is 7-5 Pat with a lucky Covid Year for Kenny. We can do worse than Narduzzi. But we wjll forever be 7-5 or may luck into 8-4 every once in awhile. If you're ok with that, cool. This year, however is going to be 5-7 or 4-8 due to the schedule and lack of anything resembling an FBS offense.
- I'd give Jurkovec one more game. He needs to beat WVU. If not, its Villeaux time. And we arent going to beat WVU.
