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August 22, 2009

Bullet Pointing Before Scrimmage No. 2

Filed under: Football,Practice — Chas @ 8:31 am

Another jam-packed weekend of crap to do. Just getting the links.

Scrimmage, scrimmage, scrimmage. Effective list of the key remaining positional battles on the two-deep.

Cat Basket roughly predicts the final two-deep.

Good Q&A question about the secondary.

Those headaches of Nate Byham still haven’t gone away. Now referred to as concussion-like symptoms.

Practices have been brutal, but they are football players and always swear by them afterwards. Lots of bumps and bruises. More concerned with the fact that Shayne Hale apparently had a concussion and a couple others get listed with “headache.”





Wanny may end up with a QB yet
link to pod08.prospero.com

Comment by w Bill 08.22.09 @ 7:32 pm

Good find, w bill. I would be great if Pitt landed Gonzalez. He would join another Lehigh Valley phenom, Holley, and will continue to break the stranglehold psu has over the area.

Plus he’s a QB to boot.

Comment by steve 08.22.09 @ 10:33 pm

Steve, I like the fact that he told the FSU (Warchant) reporter about the many positives he saw at Pitt. There is no guarantee he will come here, but it appears to be a much larger chance than what it appeared to be a few aweeks ago.

Comment by w Bill 08.23.09 @ 8:46 am

Gonzalez is a very interesting QB for Pitt to chase. He doesn’t fit the Pitt mold at all (I guess Gray doesn’t either, for that matter.) Don’t know how many of you saw him beat Bethel in the AAAA championship last year, but he’s not a dropback quarterback in any sense of the term. He ran much more than he threw and he was quite simply the best athlete on the field that day.

Doesn’t mean that he can’t develop the throwing skills, I guess.

I would wonder why any QB with that type of game would consider Pitt, where there isn’t any history of knowing how to use a mobile QB. Even with Rutherford, the staff’s first goal was to put 50 lbs on him (he needed some, no doubt) and make him a pocket passer and that made sense if the goal was to turn him into an NFL prospect.

The thing is that there are a lot of ways to win college football games without dropback quarterbacks. I guess the fact that Pitt is looking at QBs like Gray and Gonzalez means that they might run them some in the future? Very hard for me to believe……..

Comment by hugh green 08.23.09 @ 10:47 am

Although Tino has mobility, Pitt has recruited pro-style QBs only. Wanny admitted after seeing Tony Pike last year, that an athletic QB who can pass may be more feasible for the college game and sent out approx 100 letters to mobile QBs, and that is how he got Gray.

I did see Gonzales win the state last year and was pretty impressed …. please note that Pitt freshmen receiver, Devin Street, also played in that game as one Gonzales’ prime targets.

Comment by w Bill 08.23.09 @ 1:01 pm

Peter, will Lasix make me run faster?

Comment by steve 08.23.09 @ 4:51 pm

FYI – for the 2nd straight week, Scott McKillop led the 49ers in tackles … although it was only 4 this time, he also had an interception and a forced fumble

Comment by w Bill 08.23.09 @ 5:13 pm

McKillop’s bound to make an impact on Sundays

Comment by Cool Hand Nuke 08.24.09 @ 6:00 am

w bill: wanny sent out letters to the “top 100” qb’s in the country. not 100 mobile qb’s

Comment by jtads14 08.25.09 @ 12:42 am

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