As many of you know, Savage was awarded the Walter Camp Offensive Player of the Week for his performance against Duke. It’s a pretty impressive achievement and his stat line certainly warrants it. 23/33 (69.6%) for 424 yards and 6 touchdowns is video game-like and the best QB stat line we’ve seen in a long time. There’s another opportunity to make sure he earns more praise.
That’s the ESPN Capital One Cup which is awarded to the best impact performance of the week. He’s currently second behind a PR from Iowa who had 2 returns for touchdowns in a blowout. If he trips and falls on his face on both returns, his team still wins easily, so I fail to see his impact. So vote early and vote often (I don’t know if you can vote multiple times, but I’m sure Iowa’s fans are) and get our players some more praise!
Something to keep in mind is these things aren’t isolated awards. When players get national recognition, it’s a win on many fronts, most importantly recruiting. The two things you can justifiably criticize Pitt for are mediocre results and poor fan attendance. Don’t you think the casual fan will see “Tom Savage wins X” or “Tyler Boyd, freshman All-American” and think, “wow, yinz gotta see dis Pitt football n’at. Da Stillers are sucking, might as well see what they’re all about.” Yes, that was horrific yinzer, but you get the point.
Win awards and you’ll get your name in the national media for recruits and casual fans to see. If you want to stop complaining about attendance, put your mouse clicks where your mouth is and vote!
Must have missed it when I was ordering another Miller Lite.
Pitt is a team that clearly misses defensive coordinator Dave Huxtable. That was made more apparent after watching his game plan to slow down Boyd and Clemson in his new job as NC State defensive coordinator. Pitt has given up 123 points in three games. If it can get a defense to pair with what looks like a solid offense, watch out
I love the way Conner runs and impressed by his quick feet for a big back, but Pitt still needs a speed back. Our offense looks promising in every other area, but we won’t be able to consistently muscle the better teams all game, so need a speed guy to give a new look from Conner. I like Bennett but it appears his knee injury has robbed him of his burst — maybe Ibrahim can help, but we need a complimentary back for Conner…who can outrun tackles a little more.
Still confused as why thy didn’t try to get Bennet t or Ibrahim to the edge in the 4th quarter when Duke was stacking the box.
Justin…I’m not sure if I buy your explanation as to why the O-Line would be tired. Wouldn’t the D-Line be just as tired, if not more? If they were tired (I know that Conner certainly looked gassed)…it seems to point to lack of conditioning.
Savage 51 78 861 65.4 11.04
TD INT Rating
9 4 185.9
65% completion percentage looks familiar.
The 11.04 ypa does not ! haha
Had this TS been eligible last year, PITT would have been 9-3, maybe 10-2 .
46% to 21%
Somebody send a link to the Pitt News. Can only have a chance of reversing that if the student body gets involved.
It didn’t help the Saskatoon Tool 🙂
Comment by spiritofsection 22 09.23.13 @ 11:06 am
That was indeed interesting ss22, since Blewit blew an extra point and had a chip shot FG blocked. He it’s some really low FG & XP kicks.
Needs to work on popping that ball up when it’s a chip shot. You hit it low when you’re trying for an extremely long FG, still not good though. Too easy to block.
Hopefully someone is working with him, since ‘mum’ is the word on who is coaching ‘special teams’.
6th line…..blocked. He hit’s some really low FG & XP kicks.
he is the only sports writer in pgh who tell it like it is.
he has guts he does not care if he gets a free lunch at pitt
read what he says
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Sometimes you get in a game that both teams get in a scoring groove and the momentum shifts in favor of the offense. Bowl games are often like that. Regardless, our defense needs to improve dramaticly!
Don’t look for Coach Chryst to demote or get rid of House in mid season. He is not a knee-jerk kind of guy. Mack Brown is fighting to keep his job at Texas so he had more urgency to fire his DC.
Palermo coaches defensive ends and linebackers…not exactly positions that are excelling.
Gonzalez, with the exception of the interception, has done nothing this year. Every tackle he makes is 5 to 10 yards down field and he is slow to chase to the sideline.
Someone mentioned playing the back up D tackles at DE. I like that idea. There is absolutely no push on the ends. Also, why not move Donald around, especially on obvious passing downs. I would think that would make it much harder to double team him.
He is a self proclaimed expert…the Mel Kiper of Pitt sports especially when it comes to recruiting.
Do I have a second?
and that is the point all so we all thought the D would be are strong point not the weak point.
just saying if the outher sports writers had his guts and told the truth pitt would have to fix things.
and did you see he puts as much blame on are AD
as he does the coach.
i like the post maybe it will do some good way to go chris dockish.
Given that House was on Huxtable’s staff last year, I wonder how much he changed things from a top 20 defense — but remember, Pitt’s D looked very bad after 2-3 games last year as well and then turned it around big time…but I would like to see some of the younger ‘backers like Caprara get more time. Gordon seems strong on run support but not great in space.
I say this to say no ill of Dokish, but I think you overestimate the power of the media. Any coach or program that is listening to the media for advice is doomed to fail. Most teams would need 7 QBs just to make it through the season because everyone wants to bench the starter. The media has virtually no impact on how a team is run and who is running it. Only in very unique situations will the media impact things.
If Chryst fired a coordinator because everyone in the media wants him to, I’d want him fired because he’s letting outside influence dictate his program. You can’t let outsiders dictate your program. Outsiders are typically quick to make changes and slow to accept a necessary process.
Link to vote at end of video.
We knew he had a ridiculous arm… above average for an NFL quarterback let alone college. But surprised by his accuracy and just how good he can be when he has time.
His record setting performance even against a bad Duke team shows he is paying attention and putting into action what Chryst and Rudolph are teaching… similar to Tino a year ago.
A clean game with no interceptions and sacks was achievable and he achieved it.
Still need more evidence against a good team. Duke was a huge positive step. Virginia presents a similar opportunity and a slightly bigger challenge.
One thing for certain. Savage benefiting from a talented freshman running back and a and talented Offensive Line that’s getting better by the week.