Pitt may have entered the fourth quarter of last Thursday’s game against North Carolina with a two-touchdown lead, but the players and coaches knew better.
They knew the Tar Heels weren’t going to lay down in the face of a 24-10 deficit. So defensive line coach Charlie Partridge turned to his two best players with a message.
“Coach Partridge was just like, we have to man up and the walls are going up and somebody has to make a play,” redshirt sophomore defensive tackle Jaylen Twyman said after the game. “Big-time players make big-time plays and stuff like that.”
For Twyman and redshirt junior defensive end Patrick Jones, “stuff like that” meant playing every snap for the rest of the game.
https://pittsburgh.rivals.com/news/in-crunch-time-pitt-leaned-on-its-dl-stars
They knew the Tar Heels weren’t going to lay down in the face of a 24-10 deficit. So defensive line coach Charlie Partridge turned to his two best players with a message.
“Coach Partridge was just like, we have to man up and the walls are going up and somebody has to make a play,” redshirt sophomore defensive tackle Jaylen Twyman said after the game. “Big-time players make big-time plays and stuff like that.”
For Twyman and redshirt junior defensive end Patrick Jones, “stuff like that” meant playing every snap for the rest of the game.
https://pittsburgh.rivals.com/news/in-crunch-time-pitt-leaned-on-its-dl-stars
