IF Cignetti's job was in jeopardy, did Yarnell and Hammond save it last night?

[thebadby2]

By many metrics Kenny was already an elite college QB in 2020, but the rest of the offense and the scheme was holding him back. He was at the bottom in the nation in YPA and balls thrown down field. Pickett would have balled out in any half-decent coordinators offense in 2021 and likely would have killed it in 2020 with any half-decent coordinator.

I give credit to Whipple for developing him because Kenny does. But a good QB developer does not necessarily make someone is a good coordinator and firing him after back-to-back atrocious offenses would have been the right call.

So what do you think changed with the way Whipple called his offense from 2020-2021?

I’ll answer that for you: when Pickett agreed to come back on the condition that Whipple was retained—and make no mistake Whipple was not going to be retained—another condition was that Narduzzi stay out of Whipple’s hair and let him run his offense his own way.

Whipple’s playcalling was night and day different in 2021 than it had been in 2020.