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How conservative/gutsy do you want the first playcall to be?

How conservative or gutsy do you want the opening offensive playcall against Iowa to be?

  • Very Conservative (run up the gut)

    Votes: 3 10.3%
  • Conservative (run to the outside, short pass)

    Votes: 1 3.4%
  • Little Gutsy (play action with a look 10-15 yds downfield, fly sweep to Boyd)

    Votes: 18 62.1%
  • Gutsy (looking deep, double-reverse, homerun-seeking trick play)

    Votes: 7 24.1%

  • Total voters
    29

pittpitt

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I'm going with Gutsy. Not only will the defenders all be tense & anxious on the first play of a big home night game, but they'd never see it coming.

Boyd and Weah (yes, I already know this won't happen) split wide, both looking to go deep. Weah on a straight go route that hopefully picks up a safety over the top. Boyd is going deep but with some movement toward the middle of the field in the space likely vacated by the safety helping Weah's CB. In the slot is Henderson who is streaking across the field at full speed about 5-10 yards deep toward the side Boyd started on. Peterman has 7 blockers. His first read is whichever WR is single covered deep. If those 2 attracted 4 DB's, then Peterman looks for Henderson who is much faster than whoever picked him up, so get him the ball in space with the nearest defenders about 30 yards down field.
 
I'm going with Gutsy. Not only will the defenders all be tense & anxious on the first play of a big home night game, but they'd never see it coming.

Boyd and Weah (yes, I already know this won't happen) split wide, both looking to go deep. Weah on a straight go route that hopefully picks up a safety over the top. Boyd is going deep but with some movement toward the middle of the field in the space likely vacated by the safety helping Weah's CB. In the slot is Henderson who is streaking across the field at full speed about 5-10 yards deep toward the side Boyd started on. Peterman has 7 blockers. His first read is whichever WR is single covered deep. If those 2 attracted 4 DB's, then Peterman looks for Henderson who is much faster than whoever picked him up, so get him the ball in space with the nearest defenders about 30 yards down field.

I like the play. TB is a definite weapon while the size and speed of Weah and the speed of Henderson would certainly get the attention of the defense. Would love to see Jester catch a bomb in this game - would change everything...

Go Pitt.
 
Truthfully, rather see Pitt bumble around early in this one. Didn't the winner of each of past three come from behind? I thought Pitt needed a somewhat late TD with Shady to win the first of the four game set, no?
 
Flea-flicker to Boyd. 77 yard TD.
YES!!! I remember in '04 just waiting every game for us to run the flea-flicker. Palko to Lee, worked almost every time that season. I'm sure Iowa won't be fooled that easily, but I would love to see Pitt open the game with that play.
 
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We're hoping he tries that too.
[Hah. Yeah, I imagine this thread has given Iowa guys a hoot, especially if you saw any of our first two games (and if you did, you must not live in Pittsburgh, because hardly anybody HERE did). Obviously, my reply is a bit of sarcasm, because of adjacent threads about our quarterback duel this week. There's been just a bit of hyperbole back and forth. As far as those hyping Peterman (the most likely starter), the claim is that he stretches a field so effectively that it turns into a CFL and Arena League game in one. This is based on the whopping buck-fifty he put up on the 1986 Chicago Bears on Saturday ... I mean, Akron.

To be fair, those advocating our other QB hype his running ability, when in reality he's had maybe a handful of truly impact runs. In fact his longest run last year ended in a fumble, and his second most noteworthy run ill-advisedly placed our game-winning chip shot FG attempt on the extreme right hash (and our kicker promptly "blew it").

In other words, don't be too concerned on Saturday.
 
Quadruple reverse punt. They'd be so confused they'd shit their pants in fear.

Here is the coolest trick punt return I've ever seen because it is outside the normal scope of what a trick play is, and it worked in an NFL game last year:
 
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