The defense is starting to overtake the offense in the Spring Camp which isn’t unusual in these early year sessions. Both Sunseri and Gonzalez were pressured heavily by the DL and perimeter blitzing. Sunseri was pretty much ineffective and a turnover machine. Gonzales completed more than he missed, his 2nd string offense scored some points and he was the ‘offensive MVP’ yesterday. Take that for what it’s worth at this point in time. Myers sat out the practice with a jammed thumb from Thursday but will be back soon.
The offensive line gave up 12 sacks and nine tackles for loss. Yikes. At this point we roll out the old question “Is the defense that good or the offense that bad” and the answer is “It’s still April and this doesn’t mean anything”. Graham states in his post-game video that the scrimmage was scripted so that Sunseri had a lot of adversity and pressure. This was done under the guise of having ‘teaching points’ for Tino to look at on the film. I think it was done just to give us fans another thing to worry about. All of these questions about the team are trivial compared to the fact that I landed a job on Friday afternoon. I suppose PITT fans may care how the team is doing… but really, isn’t this all about Reed anyway?
DiPaola of the Trib writes that Graham decided to let the defense show some things the offense hadn’t seen yet. The result was as stated above and didn’t make Graham too happy.
I love this quote from the Trib article: “Sunseri, a rising redshirt junior, has a clear advantage over rising redshirt freshmen Anthony Gonzalez and Mark Myers after starting 13 games last season, but that takes him only so far.” What is this ‘rising’ he speaks of?
Then there is this…”The biggest change for Sunseri involves not having the luxury of strolling out of the huddle, surveying the defense and gauging who might be rushing.” DiPaola forgot this one important point; another big change is that Sunseri’s benefactor and protector who would never pull him off the field no matter how poorly he played isn’t on the sideline any longer. Let’s hope Graham realizes just how important that QB spot is and doesn’t feel like he has to live with only one possible choice there.
