I don’t know how I feel about this game at all. Watch out for Chris Long and Jeffrey Fitzgerald on the Virginia defense. Mel Kiper (Insider) says Long is the best defensive end in the nation and Fitzgerald is one of the best sophomore DE’s in the country.
Watch those two go up against Pittsburgh’s senior left tackle Jeff Otah. He’s still a bit raw but that’s because he played only one year of high school football. Otah (6-5, 339) played both football and basketball in junior college and has shown the skills to be a pro-style pass-blocker. Coach Dave Wannstedt has praised Otah for way he’s been performing, and this will be another big test for Otah, who should see either Long or Fitzgerald on almost every snap.
Otah could be the key to getting Pat Bostick some time to throw the ball. I assume Bostick is going to be a little shaky in his first start, but Otah (and the rest of the line) can relieve some of that — just don’t count on it.
Edit: Penn State and Notre Dame lost. Everything is good (for now).
Which leads me to ask a couple of questions
1) Would Walt have kept his job without the mass exodus? (Morelli, Andrew Johnson, etc.)
2) Would these guys have been better off if they stayed with Pitt? (Yeah I know it’s all speculation at this point, but Johnson is a non-factor now and Morelli appears to have not grown as a QB)
I guess that is what I am asking…do you think in a different system with a different coach (Walt)…remember Walt did some pretty impressive things with QB’s that had lesser skills (Gonzalez, Lytle, etc., etc.)
WVU loses
Pitt wins?
Can the trinity be completed? I don’t think so either.
Maybe Pitt can turn this thing around…
OK I am now putting the pipe down 🙂
DaveD
And Wanny makes it sound like we found Marino in practice this week…lets hope he’s right.
Hail to Pitt.
And watching this MSU/Wisconsin game, maybe our D isn’t too bad after all. Maybe (hopefully) that first half agaginst UConn was an aberration.