Glad we weren't the only ones who saw it.
Surely you’d think one of the greatest technological Institutes in the world can figure out a turf and cleat combo that doesn’t suck. Hey Geoff, go over to that place with all the fat books and ask one of those dorky looking kids at the desk looking things with all the weird formulas & fancy charts and graphs. One of them has to know how materials perform under different conditions.
That in fact did get discussed, but I reminded them that Pitt gashed us for over 300 yds rushing last year. Damn Pickett was making ham sammiches in the pocket for his OL on virtually every play. Did anyone ever lay a hand on him outside of a designed running play?
I actually saw him turn and ask one of the Pitt cheerleaders if she could go get him a couple of chili cheese dogs and an FO, while he was in the pocket. When she got back with the order, he was still in the pocket going through his progressions, again. It was bad
Well…it goes like this: good coaches see what we are doing and say to themselves, “Wow. They are really bad at this. Let’s exploit it by doing this.” Then we come out and do the bad thing over and over again for the rest of the season.
This is the right answer. Going back to CPJ days when we talked about a deep and experienced secondary, they were never as good on field as they were on paper. Same is true now. We have a damned option qb playing one of the CB positions. He may be a great athlete, but he isn’t a CB.
Yea, they seemed to target him, especially early. Similar to Matt Ryan targeting Pat Clark, who converted from WR.
Not sure if he coaches DBs, but at other places he has coached DBs
Nathan Burton (safeties) and Jeff Popovich (corners).
Why was a 6-6 320lbs+ guy that is also a 6th yr senior trying to cut block on a pass play involving a deeper route?
You’d cut depending on the entire route combination of the play, and you’d have to start by knowing which of those was the primary to entirely judge whether cutting was rogue.
Sims was looking at at a deep crossing route (he said so in a Post Gm presser), does that give you enough Info to know more about what our OT did?
I was giving him the benefit of the doubt because he landed on his belly across the LOS and didn’t touch anyone. There were a lot of plays where Johnson seemed to either whiff or took himself out of the play. Frankly, his run blocking is generally suboptimal and is a consistent weak area for him.
No. You still don’t know what his progression was. We only know where he was going with it. We don’t know the route combination as well as the pre- and post-snap reads dictating the decision.
If you are taking about the second pick, the deep route WR was wide open. If Sims doesn't get hit and delivers it clean, huge gain/TD
