Pitt- Cuse Thoughts
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Agree with the east west passes. Those passes have Kenny moving his feet as he throws and are designed for a seven yard gain.
We are not efficient enough to play dink and dunk.
Kenny is at his best with his feet under him throwing down field. We have the wideouts. Mack, Wayne, Addison, Turner, Jacques Louis, Barden and Tipton are quite an arsenal.
Either max protect and throw it downfield or go empty an throw it quick.
I would like to see quick pitches and counters in the running game other than the jet sweep. We have speed in Vince and Izzy, we should try to take advantage of it.
I would also like to see us start empty and late shift Addison to RB for a running play.
Hopefully Krull is better than the Syracuse game. We certainly need him to be.
The ingridents are there for this offense to be good. Whipple does seem to be more about his philosophy than adapting to his personnel.
The only thing that matters next week is the effort they put forth against Louisville. They beat Cuse handily in a game they didn't put forth their best effort. Frankly, they didn't need their best effort and I never felt like the game was in doubt.
How much better do you think our offense is than Miami’s? Do you think it’s equal to it?
The Miami Qb is a heralded transfer. I watched the first half of his first game and was not impressed. He came on strong in the second half.
Obviously he played well versus Louisville. I just saw bits and pieces of the actual game.
Taped highlights showed Louisville having problems lining up properly on defense. Two HUGE busts resulted in two LONG TDs.
Against Louisville, I expect a close game. They will score, we will score too. Hopefully our defense, not special teams will be the difference.
Going back to an earlier point about Louisville lining up:
I would like to see Pitt show empty set, late shift of Addison to RB and Option pitch to Addison. That look is not on any Pitt tape. It would be interesting to see how Louisville would react to it (hopefully too late to call time)
Those weren’t really “busts” per se.
Miami’s read-option attack is dangerous. UL had to sell out to stop it. That led to their QB just faking it When the LBs would commit.
It’s no different than those vintage Nebraska teams running the option all game, and then faking it, having the QB step back, and throw to a wide open WR or TE running down field. It’s not a “bust” that those players were wide open.
We can’t threaten anybody with a read-option. So I wouldn’t take much comfort in the busts yesterday.
That this not what the announcers or the analysts running the high liters said.
The color man call the long run before it happened.
And: Pitt should run RPO. It would be a good fit for Pickett.
I don’t know what to tell you then? Watch the game I guess? Kirk had an entire breakdown of the long TD pass to the RB wide open out of the back field. Miami had been running QB power the last two weeks. They fake it, the LBs run up to stop it, King steps back and hits the RB the LBs were suppose to be covering but didn’t due to the fake.
That play is not in our arsenal.
And I think you’re confusing RPO with read option. We do run some RPO. We do not run any kind of real read option, and never will under Whipple. But I agree, and have said so often. Pickett would have been a really good fit playing in a spread, power zone-read offense. Give him a Dan Mullen or Urban Meyer type offense, and he would have been very good.
Nothing you said contradicts anything I said or would require me to watch the game.
You said nothing about how the shift out flanked them on the long run. That is a bust.
You said someone had responsibility for the back out of the backfield and reacted to tendency or a fake. That is a bust.
Translation - less than good defense
Well that’s just silly then. By your argument, any play action pass that is successful is a ”bust“ on the defense for biting on the fake. That isn’t how most people would define “bust.”
But whatever. I dont’ want to get into a semantics debate. Even by your terms, my point still stands: we don’t have the ability to do any of that. Their LBs are not going to get caught committing to Pickett. So those busts won’t happen against us. So I dont’ take much comfort in them going into next week.
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