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What makes sense about it? Some local kid who turned the Pitt program down because he thought he was a superstar and then washed out at ND and BC???
Makes no sense at all.
Lower profile example, but everyone seemed to welcome MJ Devonshire back after he shunned Pitt out of HS. What’s the difference here?
So the choice is between our current QB that is terrible in play action running a play action heavy offense.
or
A QB that gets injured tying his shoe.
Sometimes I think what it would be like if I was born to an Ohio State family that lived 30 miles west.
or
A QB that gets injured tying his shoe.
Sometimes I think what it would be like if I was born to an Ohio State family that lived 30 miles west.
If we have Cignetti as OC and an immobile oft injured QB like Jurkovec(but he is a yinzer so big yinzer points) this is a 5-7 win team who then has to reload the next year.
Go out and get a good passing OC and then let them look at the transfer portal for some mobile talented QB who is leaving a major program after getting passed over or a QB looking to move up from a lower level.
Jurkovec had one decent year and has one year left coming off a season ending injury. If he wasn’t a yinzer no one would have interest in him.
Go out and get a good passing OC and then let them look at the transfer portal for some mobile talented QB who is leaving a major program after getting passed over or a QB looking to move up from a lower level.
Jurkovec had one decent year and has one year left coming off a season ending injury. If he wasn’t a yinzer no one would have interest in him.
Oh, I remember them all talking about how he always dreamed of going to ND. Well, you know what? He went there, spurned his hometown team to go "big time" and it bit him in his rear end. Sorry, but I just don't want another one year QB who isn't coming here to play for the program. He'd be coming here to play for HIMSELF and that bothers me.
The dude could have owned this town if he'd have come to Pitt out of high school. Could have been the next local kid who played QB at Pitt. In the line of Marino, Rutherford, Palko, Sunseri...
Wouldn't have had to be the star, Pittsburgh would have loved him any way. He choose otherwise.
Sorry, not interested.
Like a jilted boy friend you feel compelled to live in your misery . Jurkovec is light years better than a 7 on 7 “ don’t touch my hair” slovis
You're right; he probably wouldn't grasp this completely foreign-to-him offense we're running or get along with its coordinator. What the heck was I thinking?
Again, not saying I love the idea. I most certainly don't. But to say there isn't at least some logic behind it... I mean.
snap...You are certainly entitled to your opinion as am I. We don't have to agree on this or any other subject. That being said, what exactly is it that you see in Jurkovec (a young man who has transferred from 2 different schools already) that makes him "light years" better then Kedon Slovis? The reality of it is, when their college careers are complete, Slovis will be viewed by an overwhelming majority of objective football fans as the better QB.
I agree. You shouldn't have
been "subjected to ridicule"
for that post. However, if you
are likening yourself to him,
you shouldn't expect anything
but ridicule.
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Speaks volumes about our QB recruiting when our options seem to be another year of Slovis or a recycled Jurkovec.
Cruzer
Cruzer
Only two problems.
We don’t know that Slovis is actually leaving.
We don’t know that Jurkovec actually wants to come here.
We don’t know that Slovis is actually leaving.
We don’t know that Jurkovec actually wants to come here.
If Jurkovec wants to come to Pitt, he is a take. That's a no brainer, strictly from a numbers standpoint alone, with or without Slovis.
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"Grasp this completely foreign to him offense"?? My God, you can go get most of the local high school QB's in the area to run this offense. The problem is not Slovis, Patti or Yarnell, it is the OC. It is the same issue that Kenny Pickett has to deal with now with canada as the steelers OC.
If Slovis was to leave (and to be very honest, why wouldn't he???) Jurkovec would not be my #1 choice to play in this type of offense. I'd be praying that I could convince former GT QB Jeff Sims to come here to play.
Not to speak for others, but the "foreign offense" comment reeks of sarcasm, given Jurkovec's history with Cigs.
And your comment about a high school offense is just way off. If anything, it's the offense being too complicated that is the drawback. It's not near as simple to learn as the air raid.
I know there are injury concerns, but I think Jurkovec could make a good tight end.
If jurkovec comes here bartholomew may stay. If slovis returns as starter bartholomew may be gone
I'm obviously referring to the fact that Jurkovec is familiar with Cignetti, whose offensive complexities were apparently a huge problem this season.
Jurkovec doesn't move the needle for me either. Trust me. But it certainly makes some degree of sense, on a multitude of levels, to bring him here.
Agree 100%. The thing I would be most curious about, assuming Slovis leaves, is whether or not we would bring in two quarterbacks in Jurkovec's situation to compete. I mean, it seems like other teams do this all the time (Hooker vs Milton, and many other examples). But for some reason, it seems like the locals have this expectation that Pitt has to bottle feed them (i.e. guarantee him the starting position, in this case), or else they won't come here.
Given the choice I'd rather stick with Slovis for another year. Jurkovec just seems like such a lazy addition to me.
You would have just been destroyed by Michigan and on suicide watch. Their definition of success is way different than ours.
I think they should absolutely bring in a couple more to compete.
In terms of losing Wayne, I've heard more then once that Means has the highest ceiling of anyone in that receiving room.
True, but my post was also inaccurate.
I should have said, that our best case scenario is between...
You don't act like a child in this. Look, that is the same attitude on the other side in the "butthurt" thread. You let bygones be bygones. You don't think Jurkavec wouldn't have come here after ND? He knew he wasn't beating out Pickett. So what he spurned us out of HS. So did Devonshire, he's working out okay.
I do understand the "sarcasm" in the OP and in regards to the "high school offense" I do not believe that I am that far off as you may think. I call it that because it is the same type of an offense that we ran in high school as did most of our opponents. Sadly, it is still being ran in a majority of SWPA football programs to this day. Most of the high school coaches run the ball a majority of the time because in their opinion, they do not have a QB talented enough to throw the ball downfield.
Now, I do not know how cignetti feels about his QB/WR?TE's, but he does seem to enjoy running the ball more then throwing it down the field. Only in the last couple of games have they even tried to do so. I know when I was in high school and we'd be playing other schools, it was run the ball...CONSTANTLY. It didn't matter the down, the distance needed to get the next 1st down, it didn't matter, we RAN the ball.
All I ask is that the Pitt football team run an offense that looks like it fits into the style that the top college football programs are running today. You could bring a star QB in here like USC QB Caleb Williams and he will not look any where the QB we all see when we watch USC play on tv.
And Claypool had the highest ceiling in the Steelers WR room, too.
How did Jurkovec know that he wasn't beating out Kenny Pickett. My God, the guy was the #2 Dual Threat high school QB in the country coming out of Pine-Richland, why would he think that he couldn't beat out 2018 version of Kenny Pickett??? I doubt that was the case. Pickett was "decent" back then far from the Heisman Trophy Finalist that we saw last year.
If I believed that Narduzzi would actually let Yarnell and Jurk compete for the job and give it to the most deserving candidate, I'd be good with it, however, I have my doubts after what we saw playout this year.
Slovis did seem to marginally improve in November, and did show sparks in the WVU & UT games. So I agree. But if Slovis is gone, makes sense for Jurkovec just because of the success he had with Cignetti. Next season isn't looking real promising with the tough OOC schedule and losing starters, so having a seasoned QB could probably make the difference between a winning and losing season.
Even dating back to 2017 when it was clear that DiNucci (or Pickett) should’ve been played ahead of Max Browne a lot sooner than he did. Heck, I think the only real QB competition we’ve had since he came here was Voytik vs Peterman in 2015.
Wouldn't doubt it. But this is year 4, not year 1 or 2.
Pitt also doesn't have anywhere near the skill position talent that USC does. The talent gap is huge.
I'm sure Pitt would like to throw the ball downfield a lot more than they have this year. Every OC has to adjust their playcalling to what the offense can actually execute. And fwiw, I'm sure the offense would look vastly different in terms of play calling if Pitt had a Caleb Williams at QB.
What do you mean when you say that you want Pitt to run an offense that looks like it fits into the style that top college football programs run today? There is a vast difference between styles in what many of the top programs run. The reason they are top programs is because they have superior talent.
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