Eh, I'm not sure if you can make that judgment just yet. The 2016 class is Maurice Ffrench and Aaron Mathews; we've seen what those guys can do. The 2017 and 2018 classes, though - both were subject to last year's offense where the three leading receivers ranked 13th in the ACC in passing targets per game. So I think it's tough to draw a lot of conclusions about what those guys can do or where they are in their development.
Tough to get out of your holding pattern when the OC is doing much of the holding. I am very anxious to see how this situation develops under Whipple.
Guys like Butler-Jenkins, Michael Smith and Jacques-Louis need to show some productivity this year and I'm not talking aboput being good down field b
makes 2 of us!
I still expect Ffrench and Mack to get the bulk of the looks, but you are dead on about the other guys. Also expect Aaron Mathews to have a pretty big year. I think he will be used a whole lot more. And his downfield blocking is excellent.
Ffrench is pretty much the fastest player on the field in all games. 4.3 or something like that I recall?
I think those that are expecting this 30 year coach that nobody on this board had ever heard of prior to his hiring at Pitt to be some kind of offensive messiah/savior are likely to be disappointed. On top of that, he’s not exactly inheriting am embarrassment of riches especially at his most important position. Upgrade over Watson? That wouldn’t be too hard to pull off. Turning us from what we were last year into a suddenly formidable offense? That’s a different story.
WTF are you talking about? Whipple was a coach for the Steelers, and was in the news quite a bit.
Yet we looked like we were wearing concrete boots against PSU, UCF, Clemson and Miami.
For what, 2 years, 15 years ago?
You are the one that said nobody heard of him. He was in the news all the time because he was tied to Ben. You are wrong. Move onto the next topic.
Whipple had a very good rep when he was hired. I don’t know where you get that no one heard of him. For cripe sakes the man was a Steeler coach when Ben was starting out. Whether he will jump start this offense or not remains to be seen but I don’t know why it seems to bother you that fans are optimistic.
