#PITTvsGT Coach Collins Postgame Press Conference

Supersize that order mutt said:
I wish somebody in the press would just ask him point blank what's wrong with our red-zone offense. P'Nut admitted during the week that there were problems, but he didn't say just what those problems are, and Collins needs to be forced to admit that too. IMO the problem with the red zone offense is P'Nut, and nobody else.
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Two words: O ööööing L
 
00Burdell said:
Two words: O ööööing L
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I have absolutely no idea what you were trying to say in your post. Try posting without childish profanity that gets censored, and maybe you have a point. Otherwise who knows what you meant? If you think what I said was wrong or silly, then please explain to me why we have had so many trips to the red zone in the last 2 years (at least 10 different times now), with no points, and usually a wasted timeout and a penalty or tackle for a loss. P'Nut doesn't have a clue what he is doing.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
I have absolutely no idea what you were trying to say in your post. Try posting without childish profanity that gets censored, and maybe you have a point. Otherwise who knows what you meant? If you think what I said was wrong or silly, then please explain to me why we have had so many trips to the red zone in the last 2 years (at least 10 different times now), with no points, and usually a wasted timeout and a penalty or tackle for a loss. P'Nut doesn't have a clue what he is doing.
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Offensive Line. You asked what our problem in the red zone is and that was my answer with an exclamation point in the middle.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
OK. Thanks for clearing it up. I don't disagree with you, but I think it's more than that. I really don't think P'Nut has a clue what to do when we get there.
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He doesn't know what to do because the 11 defenders are bunched up on what little field there is left. You literally have to move people out of the way. Misdirection will work occasionally but if the other team knows you can't push them out of the way then you are gonna get stuffed. I have lost count of how many first and goals we've had this year that produced zero points but I know it was 3 vs Clemson. Think about that - 10 snaps from inside the ten and zero points. That's all OL.
 
00Burdell said:
He doesn't know what to do because the 11 defenders are bunched up on what little field there is left. You literally have to move people out of the way. Misdirection will work occasionally but if the other team knows you can't push them out of the way then you are gonna get stuffed. I have lost count of how many first and goals we've had this year that produced zero points but I know it was 3 vs Clemson. Think about that - 10 snaps from inside the ten and zero points. That's all OL.
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The OL pretty much sucks across the board, but the TV announcer on the post game Clemson show said if P'Nut (or Collins) had not called that TO on that final drive, we would have scored and won the game because the Clemson D was disorganized and unfocused. There have been a couple of other inside the 5 plays that worked.....the draw play last week (?) that Sims scored on and Sims' unbelievable fake on the goal line where he kept the ball and went against the flow, and nobody on the field (refs or players) knew he had scored until he showed the refs the ball in his hands. So, yes the OL is bad, but there are ways around even a bad line. P'Nut seems to play to their weaknesses instead of at least attempting to capitalize on what few strengths they have.
 
knoxjacket said:
I feel like the turnovers being pointed to as the reason we lost is ridiculous. There was no indication that Pitt wasn’t going to score from anywhere on the field.
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Our defense was gassed by the 2nd quarter as a result. Combine that with a lack of DL pass rush and it sucks. We had the same DL line last week but Pitt has a better OL than UNC. Many teams are struggling on the LOS. We are newbs at getting better. This is why we are inconsistent from week to week. Maybe coaching as well. Haha
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
The OL pretty much sucks across the board, but the TV announcer on the post game Clemson show said if P'Nut (or Collins) had not called that TO on that final drive, we would have scored and won the game because the Clemson D was disorganized and unfocused. There have been a couple of other inside the 5 plays that worked.....the draw play last week (?) that Sims scored on and Sims' unbelievable fake on the goal line where he kept the ball and went against the flow, and nobody on the field (refs or players) knew he had scored until he showed the refs the ball in his hands. So, yes the OL is bad, but there are ways around even a bad line. P'Nut seems to play to their weaknesses instead of at least attempting to capitalize on what few strengths they have.
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We call multiple wasted timeouts every game.
 
ramblin_wreck08 said:
I’ll say this for Collins. He’s getting more pissed with losses than he has in the past, and is getting a more serious demeanor about him. I was far less frustrated by this presser than I have been by pressers in the past.
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But he needs to start holding his coordinators & Key responsible - to the point that he replaces them during the off-season if the team doesn’t show marked improvement the rest of the year.
 
I'm not sure key is the issue. It's hard to win with a bad ol, but key has a rather strong record on ol.
 
76tornados said:
Our defense was gassed by the 2nd quarter as a result. Combine that with a lack of DL pass rush and it sucks. We had the same DL line last week but Pitt has a better OL than UNC. Many teams are struggling on the LOS. We are newbs at getting better. This is why we are inconsistent from week to week. Maybe coaching as well. Haha
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One of the turnovers was a pick-6 (no defensive play) and the other had them defending a short field (picking up around where Pitt’s first possession ended anyway). The turnovers didn’t cause the D to get gassed, chasing Pitt’s receivers from behind all day did that.

JRjr
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
The OL pretty much sucks across the board, but the TV announcer on the post game Clemson show said if P'Nut (or Collins) had not called that TO on that final drive, we would have scored and won the game because the Clemson D was disorganized and unfocused. There have been a couple of other inside the 5 plays that worked.....the draw play last week (?) that Sims scored on and Sims' unbelievable fake on the goal line where he kept the ball and went against the flow, and nobody on the field (refs or players) knew he had scored until he showed the refs the ball in his hands. So, yes the OL is bad, but there are ways around even a bad line. P'Nut seems to play to their weaknesses instead of at least attempting to capitalize on what few strengths they have.
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Everybody knows Goober is Collins’ boy and he’s not going to fire him. If you’re not confident in your ability you don’t surround yourself with guys more capable than you. I thought after the directional U debacle to staff got the message their necks were on the line. We had 2 good games and it appears we went right back to puppies and sunshine.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
OK. Thanks for clearing it up. I don't disagree with you, but I think it's more than that. I really don't think P'Nut has a clue what to do when we get there.
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Once again you are blaming the OC for the fact that our OL cant block anybody. We could not run all day. So then we have a TE trip on a route that would've been a TD, a targeting that got overturned, a pass to McCollum where he was being tackled before the ball got there and no call, a TD called back by a phantom hold, and all of that is our OCs fault. Ok.
 
Liberty said:
Everybody knows Goober is Collins’ boy and he’s not going to fire him. If you’re not confident in your ability you don’t surround yourself with guys more capable than you. I thought after the directional U debacle to staff got the message their necks were on the line. We had 2 good games and it appears we went right back to puppies and sunshine.
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Exactly, when you are out of your league you don't hire assistants with more experience than you. You want to at least maintain the smartest guy in the room projection.
 
GoGATech said:
Once again you are blaming the OC for the fact that our OL cant block anybody. We could not run all day. So then we have a TE trip on a route that would've been a TD, a targeting that got overturned, a pass to McCollum where he was being tackled before the ball got there and no call, a TD called back by a phantom hold, and all of that is our OCs fault. Ok.
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Our OC is in charge of the offense.

The targeting tacle was clean, the holding bringing back the TD we had Malachi Carter pulling the jersey off his shoulder pads. Kinda hard to miss. If Gibbs cuts inside there’s no holding an a TD, but that’s not an OC deal that’s a player trying to make a play and picking the wrong cut.

Trying to blame today’s öööö show on refs is hard to understand as we got whipped from wire to wire, had atrocious play calling, etc.
 
Can someone explain to me what is so special about Brent Key other than he was a "Tech" man? Being one of the 47 coaches at Bama, coaching top shelf talent can't be that difficult. Has he ever taken a mediocre line and made it better? Also wasn't he OC at UCF when they were winless?
 
KrazieJacket said:
By now they could have a good-serviceable ol if they were doing a good job. They are not.
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We should by now have a good OL and better TEs.

After 27 + months of lifting weights, running sprints, doing drills, eating at the GT Training Table, our OL should be way better than they are now, same goes for our TEs.

To not get better play by now from those 2 position groups means they must have a very low ceiling or they were really poor Athletes when they first showed up at GT, maybe a combination of both.
 
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