GG
You are 100% correct.
Coach Whip has in the past and does run RPO.
KP was just so erratic on long and short passes with receivers open the offensive was dead in the water.
I do not want to pile on KP as I remember the fans venom towards Billy Stull, Tino and others that became overly negative for the program.
However One of KP biggest misses was a wheel route to #19 VC. KP threw the ball so far behind VC with low pressure that the ball landed behind VC and the UVa defender. One is the worst passes I have ever seen for a college QB at any level.
If KP plays that bad Pitt cannot be a good team.
FTP
NGF
Good post. It shouldn't get personal but it's not "negative", it's just fact. There were two drops in the game, and 2 or 3 true defensive jailbreaks allowed by the OL that were the cause of failed pass plays.
But it was more about a dozen bad throws or ill advised bailouts by the QB before there was any genuine pressure.
The kind of throws that a D1 P5 starting QB on scholarship has to be able to make.
After 15 or so starts it seems he can't.
If this is interpreted as just another yinzer calling for the backup, it is, in a sense. But frankly I think it is too late even for that. The conclusion above needed to have been reached by Narduzzi and Whipple long long long before this. So that they could have considered what they had on the roster, and if deemed none of the alternatives were worthy (a true crime if not only the starter but the 3 other scholarship QBs are considered so hopeless, but I digress).
If so, Whipples first item of activity, 10 minutes after being hired, should have been to scour the ranks of Juco and Grad transfer QBs who could have been brought in to run his offense.
And if Narduzzi couldnt allow that, Whipple shouldn't have taken the job.
But none of this occurred and now, already a game into the season, past spring ball, past informal summer workouts, past August camp... it's frankly too late to throw the reins to any of the backups now, and expect much of anything.
Open competition was needed... but it was needed in April. Sooner really.
This is nothing new. It's the same thing Graham should have done as well. A blind lobotomy patient could have realized Tino couldn't run his offense. Graham did nothing, and having such a mismatched QB was a big reason his stint here was such a disaster.
Coaches who make such massive salaries really pull some real SMH moves.
