The human statue would have been sacked 10 times
Give me a break. I’m thrilled they won but taking this performance from Patti and extrapolating it out to a 10-2 season if he plays all year is absurd
We clearly promised Slovis he’d start and never get benched, never, ever, if healthy. He played some of the worst quarterback ever seen in the GT, Louisville and UNC games and it was outright dereliction of duty to not have yanked him in those games. Especially the GT game. Forget Patti or Yarnell. The geeky Ivy kid, or Wayne playing QB … even full Wildcat … would have been better than Slovis in the GT game. Whether Cig or Duz, some of the worst coaching decisions ever…unless they had a deal with Slovis.
How many of his incompletions were passes that he threw away to avoid sacks? More than a few, and I will take the incompletion before a sack anytime.
That’s not the question. The question is who would have given pitt a better chance at more wins. The beta statue or Patti.
The pick six was a fluke. Wayne perfectly blocked the db who was completely out of the play, and the ball sailed when Patti tried to adjust to the defender crashing in on him.
This is from Noah Hiles in today's P-G:
Yeah I was thinking this a good bit while watching the game, can’t imagine how many times Slovis would have been sacked in that game.
There’s no doubt Patti is not as good a passer as Sovis but it’s not like Patti is terrible. And the order of magnitude greater mobility would definitely have helped in the games we lost. An intangible that may not mean much because everyone’s demeanor is different but Patti just seems to have more of a fighter’s attitude on the field.
His mobility would’ve helped and he has a bit of that gamer in him, but I’m not going to look back on the season and think Pitt was an 11-2 team with Patti under center. He was also hurt for who knows how long during that bad stretch of games. I’m glad he finished out the season with a memorable win.
I’m maybe looking back just a little and thinking what could have been. But more so, with Nick having been here 5 years, I just wished he would have gotten more of an opportunity during the season, particularly that bad stretch. Only uncertainty is whether he didn’t because of injury status.
But Patti is a better"player." An arm in isolation means little. Patti is the better QB and athlete
Not saying he was the better overall answer either. He probably wasn’t. But he should have been brought in during the GT game for sure (which was lost solely due to terrible QB play) and likely the Louisville and UNC games. Do we win all or any? Don’t know. But we sure as heck know we lost them with Slovis playing every second in them.
I have watched the play countless times.
I don’t disagree with you, I was just being objective and admitting that he wasn’t as good a passer as Slovis. But it’s not like Slovis was great or that Patti was bad. I like the other things Patti brought to the table, at least to have gotten him more if an opportunity during the course of the season.
Not very often you can honestly say a kicker was epic.
This is exactly true. Now, is he better than Slovis? I think he has more grit, and probably more brave. But you certainly can’t say Slovis isn’t a better pure passer, he definitely is.
