Faster, bigger, stronger

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LittleVol said:
To me, it looks like Tennessee is bigger, faster, and stronger than Pittsburgh.

Coaching will have to be better on Pitts side to win imo


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To be honest WVA's OL is smaller than Pitt, they have tall WRs, the defense is smaller than Pitt's. WVA gave that game away at the end, WR had pulled in that pass, who knows?
 
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Devo182 said:
Our run blocking could have been better yes. No Tiyon Evans stinks too.

BUT our pass pro was fantastic.

Also...once we add HH runs outside of just the goalline, that is the difference maker. We'll have to run him vs Pitt and UF and it will make a huge schematic difference.
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Zone reads need to account for at least 1/3 of our running game. Hooker’s most dangerous aspect of his game is his running ability. Him being a threat to run opens up a lot more opportunity for the RB
 
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HarderKnox59 said:
Bama had zero sacks in their blow out win. Don't hear sports show host whining about that.
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They also played a team that finished in the top 25 last year that went 11-3 and shut them out and held them to 57 yards passing. We played a Ball State team that went 6-7 and had they not fumbled at the endzone would’ve put up 17 on us and they put up over 250 yards passing
 
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LittleVol said:
To me, it looks like Tennessee is bigger, faster, and stronger than Pittsburgh.

Coaching will have to be better on Pitts side to win imo


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I agree with you LittleVol my only concern is we don't always play bigger faster and stronger especially in the trenches. I hope to see that Saturday
 
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BelieveTheHeup93 said:
They also played a team that finished in the top 25 last year that went 11-3 and shut them out and held them to 57 yards passing. We played a Ball State team that went 6-7 and had they not fumbled at the endzone would’ve put up 17 on us and they put up over 250 yards passing
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The Bama comparison is dumb because this staff’s whole philosophy is that they bet that you can’t put up the kind of numbers we will. So sure we let them dink and dunk and pad some passing stats, but we also held them to 74 rushing yards. And what would it have mattered if they scored 17 points? We still scored the third highest points of the Heupel era and had 569 yards of total offense.
 
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There’s no doubt in my mind, we’re gonna kick theirs, LSU’s, KY’s, and USCjr’s a$$. I know it was just the first game, but those teams looked terrible imo. I can’t pick the FL game yet. I need to see how they perform against KY.
 
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BelieveTheHeup93 said:
They also played a team that finished in the top 25 last year that went 11-3 and shut them out and held them to 57 yards passing. We played a Ball State team that went 6-7 and had they not fumbled at the endzone would’ve put up 17 on us and they put up over 250 yards passing
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This is the dumbest comparison ever
 
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I will say this. Kurott Garland (99) does need to step up this game. Ball State's center (53) gave him fits at times this game. If I was to point out something on the D-Line that concerns me it would be his first few series. I fully expect him to have this information passed on to him, for him to be angry with me personally, beat the pants off of Pitt's center then drive to my place and beat the pants off of me as well.
 
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Eastknox865 said:
I agree with you LittleVol my only concern is we don't always play bigger faster and stronger especially in the trenches. I hope to see that Saturday
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Maybe we should play all the freshman then🤔😃
 
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BelieveTheHeup93 said:
They also played a team that finished in the top 25 last year that went 11-3 and shut them out and held them to 57 yards passing. We played a Ball State team that went 6-7 and had they not fumbled at the endzone would’ve put up 17 on us and they put up over 250 yards passing
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you realize If Tennessee had wanted to they could have kept the starters in, tried and probably scored somewhere around 80……..right?

Ball didn’t have a score until Tennessee had like 45 points and was in their 2’s and 3’s.
 
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LittleVol said:
To me, it looks like Tennessee is bigger, faster, and stronger than Pittsburgh.

Coaching will have to be better on Pitts side to win imo


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Pitt has talent and experience on both lines but they didn’t look all that impressive against West Virginia. We struggled to run the ball against them last year. Take out the one long QB scramble (55 yards) by Milton and we had 82 yards on 32 carries. I hope our line blocks better this year and we can establish aground game without relying on Hooker all the time - I like for his runs to be less frequent but back breakers on the D. Not sure if Pitt’s DBs are any better this year or not but we had no problem getting open last year - we just overthrew wide open receivers.

We need to contain their run game (as we did last year) and make them one dimensiona. Our D needs to get pressure on Slovis so he doesn’t get comfortable. He’s good but to paraphrase Mike Tyson, they’ll all good until you knock em down a few times. We had a good scrimmage against Ball State and their QB got rid of the ball quickly so I’m hoping it was a good learning opportunity for our guys.

I like our chanes but we are playing a quality opponent and need to play mistake free ball. We play our best game we win.
 
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GAVol said:
Go watch Freak's condensed game video and count how many times Ball State either screens, takes quick drops or the ball comes out as soon as his back foot hits the ground on a dropback. I'm not saying there shouldn't have been more pressure, but it's obvious the plan was to get the ball out in the air as quickly as possible. Their QB really did a good job without much around him.
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Real question here… how do you think our linebackers and DB’s will handle the same game plan when it’s executed by more athletic players with better coaching?

Every opponent that we play this year saw how effective BS was at getting the ball out quick and is kicking their chops thinking about bubble screens and quick slants. It did look like tackling has improved and that’s something that they have been working on all off season. But when teams like FL, KY, and LSU get the ball out quick they may suck 8 into the box and then let an athlete make a play on a one on one matchup for a shot downfield. Not that we don’t have packages for that when the coaching staff thinks that the opposing offense has the horses to play well in that scheme, but I see points coming off that in the future. Thoughts?
 
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Devo182 said:
Hey, this guy gets it.

It's shocking how others don't get this. There's more to a game than old school box stats. Look at the context, in this case the TTP (Time to Pass).

IF we had been getting shredded for medium and long passes, then by all means critique our pressure. But it wasn't that whatsoever. We had our scheme, they played into it and we crushed them.
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Do you have a stat source that shows things like that?
 
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All I know is Pitt and West Virginia WRs kept dropping the ball and yeah Pitt may do it less this upcoming Saturday but it still won't fix their issues imo
 
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Depends. If, as so many on this board insist, we were hold out during the Ball state game to not show what we actually had, then absolutely yes. I'm not convinced that our D was holding out. They looked like they were struggling on a lot of plays. If our D really is where I think I saw it Saturday, we are going to struggle to stop a lot of teams. Pitt being one of them. That's not to say we lose. I think we end up winning a shootout. Bothe teams north of 35 points. Something like a 45-35 win that's a pitched battle into the 4th quarter.
 
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NeverWe'llSever said:
They were a far better team than us last year and barely won.
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They weren't a "far better team" than UT last year. UT missed some opportunities to put them away and Pickett played like a Heisman candidate. Food for thought. That vaunted Pitt OL and run game only produced 96 yds with a 2.13 ypc vs UT last fall. The "love" for that phase of their game is based on a superficial look at stats last year. Even just the next layer deep shows that they picked on weaklings. Pickett has 301 yds passing after he got things going.

UT for their part started the wrong QB, played poorly, and could have... maybe should have... won the game.

Swap that game's timing for the Mizzou game... and the result would have been similar.
 
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BelieveTheHeup93 said:
They also played a team that finished in the top 25 last year that went 11-3 and shut them out and held them to 57 yards passing. We played a Ball State team that went 6-7 and had they not fumbled at the endzone would’ve put up 17 on us and they put up over 250 yards passing
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Ah yes. The classic "had they not played poorly the outcome would have been different."
 
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