UGH. That is all I can say. I didn't start until I got home on DVR when the game was already at half time but my texts betrayed how bad we were playing. Here are some thoughts.
- I'm really happy that our players are mentally tougher than our fans. Some of the posts on here are embarrassing. Yes, we probably were not as good as most of us thought we were.
- It's hard for me to pin any of this on the coaches. I don't see Narduzzi as someone that takes any team lightly. It was just a bad night where everything went wrong.
- Holstein isn't right. Whether it's the shoddy o line play or not wanting to have another game like the Cal debacle, he's not hitting open receivers and is bailing from a clean pocket when he has one. 3 fumbles also aren't going to do it.
- I'm not about to discard the Bell offense because we see guys open on replay. However, we do not have a good run blocking line and played a stout run defense so why we continue to try and run for it on 3rd and 2 is beyond me.
- We need to get some linemen in the portal. We aren't going to run any offense with what we have this year but hopefully we see some improvement.
- Lost in all of this was a pretty good Kenny Johnson game. Season high 8 catches and his first TD since YSU.
- Congrats to Malachi Thomas on first college action and TD.
- I have to say, I really like Jake Overman. Shame he's a senior.
- That was the worst tackling I've seen from a Pitt team since I don't know when. I do think there were a few standouts even if our defense mostly sucked. Louis, Lovelace, McMillon (glad he's ok), Lynum, Bass, Edwards, Matlack, and Marcelin all flashed.
- If I had to guess where we end up, I'm saying 9-3. I think we will handle UVA and BC and likely lose to Clemson and L'ville. But I also think 10 wins is still possible either through a bowl game or a big time performance in either of the two potential losses. If I told you before the year that we might win 10 you'd have thought i was drunk. Luckily, no matter how bad we lost that game, it only counts as one loss.
- BONUS - PSU really is always the sum is lesser than the parts. OSU tried to give that game away. They were up 10-0 after the pick 6 and never scored an offensive TD. Smith stopped running on what would have been a walk in TD in the 4th. Warren is an incredible player and you somehow only have him touch the ball 7 times. On the final drive, OSU ran a read option twice and both times no one took the QB. Then you have Franklin jawing with a fan calling him out about being a man a week after hiding behind a curtain refusing to answer questions about yet ANOTHER rape under his watch.
