This game was there for the taking today
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Miami chopped Pitt up today when it mattered
But blewit is was terrible
After a couple of bad calls or no calls by the refs and 2 bad reviews, the first Miami td ball never got to end zone 2nd td receiver stepped on the white in the end zone, Pitt missed a lot of tackles on and behind the line of scrimmage, looked like they were playing touch football with the Miami QB and some of the running backs and some bad play calling, all in all the season was a successful one, no matter what some of you think
A lot of missed tackles and poor pass defense, this loss was a combined team effort
With all that... our kicker sucked... and opposing kickers are now 24 for 25 against us.
It is so deflating when your kicker kills you like that.
But we got the stop and held them to 3. Then we went 3 and out and they came back out and scored in 2 plays. That was the killer. And yes, for the last time, that secomd TD was a legit TD. All these armchair refs can't seem to notice on multiple replays that the receiver's trail foot was already on the ground while he had possession, even if the lead foot was out-which it wasn't. The turf divot mark they showed was also completely in bounds, with the divot itself laying just out of bounds. some of our board experts seem to believe the chunks of turf on the OB side was actually a mark in the ground.
Anyway, we got our asses handed to us the whole first half and it could have been a lot worse. You can't start like that and expect to pull out a win. I'm glad we kept playing hard, if not well, right to the end. That has been a trademark all year.
I wouldn't be so hard on Blewitt. Both of those were long kicks and one hit the upright. The wind was blowing pretty hard (it appeared from TV) on the second one and it looked like it influenced the kick. He didn't win the game, but he didn't lose it either.
The wind was mild and it didn't impact Miami's kicker at all.
It was a Blewitt fail today. His team needed him, especially in the fourth, and he BLEWITT.
We just couldn't do anything right today. Even when we made a good play it didn't work out perfectly. Like Boyd catching the long pass an stumbling out of bounds. That cost us 30 seconds we could have used.
I've been watching College ball for 50 years and every team has a game like this during the year, the great teams overcome them, the rest of the teams well its 50-50 if you can overcome, but this team never quit. They almost pulled it out and the loss was a team effort, but they never quit. Did I say they never quit? By the way the coaching staff showed that even when they have a bad game, they never quit.
To be Fair, I have found UPitt'89 to be spot on his observation and respect his FB knowledge.
Pitt lost two games this year, one on a late kick and Pitt not making kicks in the Miami game.
A learning experience for the Coaches & Teams and a game or two when the Kicks won the game. A wash, but not bad for a First Year Coach.
Don't you think its worth Blewitts time to apply for a name change especially if he continues on to the next level. Who cares what his family thinks.
I suggest Nailedit but its his decision!
I suggest Nailedit but its his decision!
Our kicker didn't kill us, it was a combined effort, poor tackling at the line of scrimmage and behind it, it looked like touch football, they tabbed the QB a number of times, and if our offense wasnt Lacking, we wouldn't had to have settled for field goals tries, just was not a well played game. Miami 2 touch downs both reviewed and both , should have been overturned, the first td ball never made the goal line and the second, the receivers foot hit the ob white in the end zone. So don't blame blewett, like the loss was his fault
Miami "settled for FGs" all day long. The difference is, their kicker was 5-for-5. Ours was 1-for-3, and the exact opposite of clutch.
The team battled to get themselves back into the game. Clawed and scratched their way back into it..... and then their kicker missed a FG that would've made it a one score game...... after missing a FG in the first half that would've stopped the bleeding.
It's deflating to the team to battle back like that only to come away with 0 points and their momentum killed because their kicker sucks.
Swap kickers between the two teams today and Pitt wins.
