That’s been the story of this offense all season.
And it starts with the quarterback.
And it starts with the quarterback.
Nobody on offense that can make a play.
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Kenny is off today. But I think it starts with the inability to catch the ball when it’s right in your hands. And many times, it’s Mack and Ffrench (before injured). Agree with you on lack of playmakers. Especially our backs. Line not good and backs not up to par with prior Pitt backs.
Yeah but all of these guys come back next year so a bunch of players that have never flashed anything are going to get really get next year. Or something.
I wished they would give Paris Ford some snaps on offense like they did with Whitehead.
Extremely fortunate to be 7-3. If the offense could just stop screwing up, and play field position, we’d still be on the game.
Picket missed the TD pass that was open. I'm not sure he even knew it was there he was focused on the call
Good point. But he was very good against UNC. He’s not great, but he would be much better with receivers and TEs who could catch and even the semblance of a running game.
I think I agree he’d be a little above adequate if surrounded by talent. But they’re not even close so....
You can’t have a starting QB who has one good game per season. He had guys open the entire 1st quarter and every pass was off-target. Mack was open for a potential TD and the pass was short and thrown to the wrong side. Three times he had open receivers and threw the ball late and slightly behind them. Gave VT a chance to get a hand on each one. It makes it look like good coverage when it’s actually poor throws.
Any time a ball "hits a receiver in the hands" guys on here assume it's an easily catchable ball and the receiver is to blame. In reality, Kenny fires passes with wickedly unnecessary velocity often hitting the receiver out of stride leading to a drop. I've seen a TEs wide open in the flat and Kenny throws a laser two feet above the TE's head, TE manages to get a paw on the pass but drops it and everyone blames the TE. Before blaming receivers really think about having one of these Kenny Pickett passes hit you "in the hands" and think about how hard it would be to make the completion.
How many QBs have not been very good against UNC this year?
I guess it depends on exactly what you call "very good", but the answer is at least five, maybe six.
I go by what the coaches say too. They’ve been hugely disappointed with the drops. How many drives ended with drops? Ffrench last play of Miami. TEs have caught almost nothing. I do agree Kenny sometimes lacks touch, especially on the deep middle balls with no arc to them, but our receivers and TEs have been atrocious with drops and fumbles all year. Pickett’s lack of touch may be 10% of drops.
At the same time, Mack has made some outstanding and difficult catches too. I give him credit for those.
Hey it’s a team failure. Bad line play. Continually blowing drives with pre-snap penalties. Bad throws by Kenny. Way too many fumbles. No holes and no backs who can break tackles or make a big play. No TEs. Been a bad offensive season.
Yep. The last paragraph sums it up. We really aren't one fix away from even being good on offense.
Not great? I’d say He’s not even serviceable breh. He can’t get his offense across the goal line. And better talent around him wouldn’t make him any more accurate or better with his reads and decisions. Some of the drops people are grousing about were throws that were off. A little behind, a little too far in front, wrong shoulder, etc. He’s just not a sharp, accurate passer. He could be better next year-but I’m not optimistic about that.
He just isn’t a good college QB.
Kenny played pretty well against UNC and psu. He has mostly been just solid, but he has had bad games against uva,Miami and vt. I think at this point he is what he is a solid but streaky division 1 qb. Even when he is "on" he still misses some easy throws and makes catches tougher than they need to be at times. That being said if Pitt didn't commit so many stupid false starts, holds and drop so many balls this offense scores enough that this team is likely 8-2, even with picket playing the same way. So he isn't the main issue he just isn't the main answer either
If he was “solid” this wouldn’t be one of the lowest scoring teams in D1 football. He is wildly inconsistent at best.
Come on let’s call it like it is here. Posters are giving the guy a pass because he had a couple of big passing yardage games-one against a 4 win team with a terrible D, one in a loss where the offense only scored one TD and bungled its red zone possessions. They want to blame receivers, refs, coaches, weather, etc for poor Kenny’s struggles but the fact is he’s not a good enough quarterback to get the job done. If this team was playing this season with any one of Narduzzi’s past 4 defenses we’d be lucky to have 3 wins.
This, Southside’s post above and Mike’s are all spot on. Blaming the receivers for drops when the ball isn’t where it needs to be is misplacing the blame. The receivers have had their drops to be sure-Shocky had a really bad one last night-but many of those “drops” were poorly thrown balls that “looked” on target until you see the replay. A throw only has to be off a little bit to allow a defender to get a hand in or to make it virtually uncatchable. A good knowledgeable color man like a Herbie or Blackledge points these things out during a telecast. A crew like the one that did the game yesterday doesn’t know a football game from a water polo match.
These receivers just aren’t good enough to make Pickett look good on a throw that’s a little off. There are no Antonio Bryants in the group.
You mean that game where we threw it 51 times and scored one TD?
Ok I’ll give you that one. So we have that and the big passing game for the OT win against a 4 win UNC team.
What’s your excuse for the rest?
I blame the coaching staff for not making the receivers where orange cones on their heads during games like Morrissey had on his head in Kenny’s trick shot video below. I mean if your going to let your QB put in so much time and practice (likely weeks he spent) into getting good at something so productive and helpful to the improvement of your offense for upcoming season as a trick video... ... you might as well use something from it when he isn’t successful with the actual playbook.
Here is the other reason...for some reason this fanbase is all in on Narduzzi, so they are doing anything to excuse his recruiting fails.
come on. You can’t have it both ways. A lot of you cherry picking Kenny’s couple good games are the ones telling me all that matters is the overall record, not the strength of schedule, etc.
the fact is that Pickett ranks 76th in QBR. That is not good.
Did I say that Joe? The original question was when was Pickett on. Replies were UNC & PSU. Neither of us said Pickett is playing lights out at QB. Quit trying to cherrypick to keep playing your agenda under multiple handles.
lol! There it is! The multiple handles accusation!!!
cut your agenda. Narduzzi is a failure. In year 5 we are going to have at best the same record as the team he inherited in year one against an inferior schedule.
Further, Chryst was crucified for not having a solid QB, and outright mocked about voytik. PICKETT IS WORSE THAN VOYTIK...yet here you are defending him.
Thank you to you and the others herein that are pointing out the # of drops that are not entirely on the receiver but also due to where the ball is being thrown in many cases. I’ve thought all along that the receiver drops issue is so overblown because this is never acknowledged. Yeah, many are still catchable but are nonetheless more difficult because where the ball is being placed.
And when many of these are caught, we’re often giving up a good bit of YAC because of the receiver not being hit in stride.
In my mind, we’ve only had one guy that has had a recurring problem of dropping balls thrown perfectly to him.
Pickett is just really inconsistent with his accuracy. It's a mixed bag. Some good throws, some awful throws, everything in between. There are some legit drops, there are some plays that look like drops but on close inspection the ball was not placed in a catchable spot. Very slightly behind and up high on the trailing shoulder of a covered receiver is a very low catch percentage play for the receiver. Even in the UNC game Pickett missed several big play opportunities to wide open receivers due to inaccurate throws.
One tendency of his that has jumped out at me all year is on many of our inside screen plays he tries to force the ball to his man in a pack of defenders, or he will lead his man right into a defender. He doesn't have the feel or wherewithal to abort the play and avoid potential disaster. When a play isn't there, it isn't there, and he seems to struggle with that concept.
