Now That The Giddiness Has Worn Off It Is Time For Some Reality..

GoGATech said:
We 100% were. We were up 12 with under 4 minutes to go and Pitt had the ball inside the 1 yard line. Then after we scored again, we were still in it because we were back up 12 again with under 2 minutes to go. I don't mind the prevent defense, but if we're going to run it, the point is to make them make short/intermediate throws in the middle of the field and keep clock running/use timeouts. We gave up too many chunk plays laying back.
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Some of it seemed like our DBs got a little tight. The coverage wasn't terrible on a couple of their throws, but the DB was falling down or scrambling a little.

Also, credit where it's due, there were a couple of passes and catches that were just good plays by Pitt. Their QB in particular seemed like a different person on that 99 yard drive, delivering a few strikes with pressure in his face and/or on the move.
 
LaFlavor said:
Some of it seemed like our DBs got a little tight. The coverage wasn't terrible on a couple of their throws, but the DB was falling down or scrambling a little.

Also, credit where it's due, there were a couple of passes and catches that were just good plays by Pitt. Their QB in particular seemed like a different person on that 99 yard drive, delivering a few strikes with pressure in his face and/or on the move.
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Yeah I re-watched it yesterday and was able to pay attention to more things rather than just being in the moment hoping we didn't let another close one slip away. They made one ridiculous catch on the first TD drive late, then on the 2nd one they made another ridiculous catch at the sidelines and even the one for their last TD was a great play. We had good coverage on all three of those plays they just made spectacular catches.
 
GoldenIsle said:
Hats off to the GT defense … outstanding game. If we keep creating turnovers we have a good chance to win some games. If we were in some kind of prevent victory defense those last few minutes we need to dump that.
Now to the offense … hats off to Stewart in the FG department. On the flip side, we’ve got to convert more of those drives into TD’s.
Pass protection is awful, I saw so many whiffed blocks and missed assignments when Pitt did twisted stunts that Sims was running for his life most of the time. You’ve got to be mobile to play behind our line.
My question is can our O produce enough points if not aided by 4 turnovers? Face it … Pitt played poorly but you have to credit our D with a lot of that. Bottom line … if the offensive line can improve, which late in the game last night they had Pitt’s DL on skates in the run game, and our D continues to be opportunistic, I think we can win some games scoring 24 - 28 points.
One other note … we need to protect the punter a little better. He was in such a rush last night to get the kick away that most of them were low line drives very returnable.
Duke will be a good test next week. They are pretty balanced offensively but I noticed they have given up some yards on D, especially against Kansas. We will find out if last night was an aberration like last years UNC game or are we climbing out of the nightmare known as the G**** C****** years.
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yep, a QB with a passing% below 50 and a 100 yds in air is not going to beat many--even given with a bad OL..
 
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