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October 24, 2011

Injuries Keep Trickling

Filed under: Football,Injury — Chas @ 12:37 pm

The irrational part of me thinks at times, that if it’s a lost/transition/bad season then the best thing is to get as much negative things out of the way in one year. That way things might balance out with some good breaks and luck in the next year. Despite my best efforts to think otherwise, I find my mindset has gotten to this point.

Injuries have been a big one this season. The O-line loses the two best, most experienced players, went down. Lucas Nix, is at best, a game time decision on Wednesday. By some remarkable coincidence, the O-line is now incapable of picking up a blitz.

Trey Anderson is now dealing with Tendinitis in his wrist (throwing hand), making Mark Myers the back-up and fueling more controversy (and more than a few assholes actually hoping Sunseri gets hurt/concussed).

Now Jason Hendricks injury from the Utah game has him done for the season. Taglianetti is going to be the starter at safety in his place.

As an aside for the gotta laugh at coach speak, UConn Coach Paul Pasqualoni on the Big East coaches teleconference call today:

“We anticipate seeing Tino Sunseri, who runs their offense extremely well, throws the ball well.”

Um…





I just heard a pin drop

Comment by Yup 10.24.11 @ 12:48 pm

Too bad about Hendricks. Good luck to Tags. Maybe some pt for Phil Peckich.

Comment by alcofan 10.24.11 @ 1:16 pm

Many people posted on here before the season that Pitt could least afford injuries to Jacobson and Nix…and boom goes the dynamte. The positive as a result, if you can call it that, is that some young guys received valuable experience.

Tough loss w Hendricks. He was inconsistent early but playing much better lately.

Comment by JAM 05 Pitt 10.24.11 @ 2:09 pm

Just for fun, I went back and was going over what Coach Graham said at his introductory presser. Turns out it was no fun at all…

“We’ll adapt our system to fit the personnel we have,” Graham said. “And that is especially true for the quarterback position.”

REALLY? I’d hate to see what the non adapted system would look like when run by our guys.

“Across the 50-yard line, second down is first down, third down is second down and fourth down is third down,” Graham said. “We’re going to be aggressive.”

Why so many pooch punts then?

“You don’t want to change personnel because it slows you down,” he said.

How many timeouts have been called already because they couldn’t substitute in time?

Why did I torture myself with this?

Comment by bigslacker 10.24.11 @ 3:25 pm

i would never wish a concussion on anyone, but really, if tino pulls a hammie or tweaks his ankle a bit vs uconn and we finally get to see what myers can do, is that the end of the world?!

Comment by scott 10.24.11 @ 3:47 pm

I would not want any player hurt and have not seen any post on here saying that any one would like that.
But i would like the coach to pull him and sit him down.
I would like to see myers play for a whole game but that wont happen.

Comment by FRANKCAN 10.24.11 @ 4:10 pm

bigslacker
You may have missed it, but somewhere around Week 3 or 4, Graham also said that he had watered down (some would say adapted) his system so much that he couldn’t even stand to watch them run it and the offense looks nothing like it’s supposed to. I agree in that I’d hate to see what the non-watered down version would look like. I guess it couldn’t be much worse than 9-30 for 50 yards, though.

Comment by cnorwoodaz 10.24.11 @ 5:32 pm

cnorwood – the ‘watered down version’ was not insisting on the 15-18 second requirement between placement to our snapping it again. That was what he meant when he said ‘it is hard to watch’ and he explained that at the time.

In weeks four & five (ND & USF) he was still running the QB read option heavily… he didn’t ‘adapt’ that at all and indeed those were the only two weeks that it was successful.

The future may be a different story I supposed, but he’s stuck right to ‘his’ offense from the opening game on.

Comment by Reed 10.24.11 @ 5:55 pm

bigslacker, that tortured me, even.

Comment by Digdug(Formerly Dugdog) 10.24.11 @ 6:09 pm

Thanks Reed.

The quote that I read was:

“I don’t think there is much more we can do simplify things offensively. It is about as simple as it can get,” Graham said. “It’s almost so simple that it’s hard to watch.”

I obviously wasn’t there for the entire interview or subsequent discussions, so I’ll certainly take your word for it on the context. On the face of it, however, to me that quote doesn’t speak to the speed at which plays were being run, but more to inability to run the plays as they were drawn up.

Comment by cnorwoodaz 10.24.11 @ 7:30 pm

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