It’s cold and wet all over the East and into the midwest. A noon start to go with it. So, so grateful that this is a road game. At least that keeps us from being treated to pictures of a mostly empty Heinz Field. It will be curious to see just how full Lane Stadium is, given the weather, the start time and the malaise hitting the fans following a loss to ECU.
Pitt should come out ready to go for this one. The bye week after a tough loss. It feels weird typing that. Normally, I would be expecting Pitt to be somewhat flat. Especially under the numerous other former head coaches. But with Pat Narduzzi and this staff, I just think the energy is going to be higher. As if the whole team has been chomping at the bit to get back out on the field.
Of course, I could just be projecting.
If you are in the Pittsburgh area, the game is on Root. It can be found on a lot of sports channels today, and ESPN3.
And did I mention the hoopies? LOL….
Can’t wait to play the pedos next year already…Hackenturd or no Hackenturd.
By then, Conner WILL be Playing.
I should of chose better wording.
I’m thinking about maybe Georgia Tech or a home game.
Goodnight
I will enjoy wearing my Pitt hat down here in Georgia tomorrow asking all the Bulldog fans how they did yesterday.
Hail to Pitt & good night!
Army gained 316 yds on the ground.
Can’t wait to play these clowns…
It takes time, but this team is starting to gel and looks more and more confident. By the way, I ain’t no geezer, or yinzer for that matter.
Fraud went into UCLA and won a big one.
Just curious. According to you, how old does a guy have to be in your opinion to be a “geezer”? I only ask because I got a hunch that at least several geezers on here can kick your “you know what”!!!!
If this gives you any idea how much work Steve P. and his chum Nordy would have had to do to remodel Pitt stadium – Barbour ended up spending $340 on the remodel. Of course, there were seismic issues to contend with, but Barbour overspent to the point her job was in jeopardy.
She claims PSU doesn’t need any rivals cause it’s got its sucker fans who shell out $$ for seat licenses and season tickets.
But today there were lots of empty seats at the Beaver. And if Army and Temple are the Mighty Nits new rivals, we don’t need them.
CV also played decently in limited action. That is a good sign.
I am delighted we won. I think that I was one of the few that chose them to win. I would rather be happy than right when it comes to predictions. Gald upitt and all the others kissed and made up!
I saw a little too much tongue exchanged, but glad you all made up. We won for goodness sake! LEt us rejoice and be glad!
–Thanks to Coach Duzz and the defensive staff for bringing SACKS and INTERCEPTIONS back to Pitt’s defense!!
Go Pitt
(Too many posts on here to read them all…)
The coaches have probably been all over him to get him to “high-point the ball.” On this play, he didn’t need to…
Go Pitt.
Voytik could have completed every pass Peterman made yesterday. Peterman has more throwong talent but didn’t show it. Threw long ball to Weah short and behind receivers often. Also, he was not seeing open guys the first half. I hope he improves.
No one can say the D is not improved. Good to see Price have a good game.
Pitt needs to stick to the power run game, not trying to run Peterman. That was idiotic.
The only thing Chaney did right was making the adjustment at half time.
Just before one of the time outs called in the 2nd half while we were on offense, HCPN was looking at a flip chart on his wrist.
Just saying…
Maybe he is Batman –
The “be smart” comment is another Nard Dog classic. As if OC Chaney wasn’t being smart in prior quarters of play calling.
Great win for the D – it appeared that the game was not stopped once for a Pitt injury. Chris James was used lightly – he’ll need to practice well this week to play. Maybe practice is where our guys are getting hurt – the D is hitting hard at practice and our injuries are mounting in #’s there. Could be true.
Have a great week and see you at Heinz Field for Homecoming against UVA. Memo to the Marketing staff – put the word out for the fans to wear yellow. The house will appear packed – I hope it is anyways. This D deserves a big audience.
Hammer the Hoos! sooo fitting.
HTP!
“They came in, and it was really disrespectful, and I really didn’t approve of it,” Westbrook (WR from OK) said. “You don’t come into someone’s house and disrespect us the way that they did. And we pretty much showed them with our game.”
Holgy is keeping with the tradition of WVCC class(lessness)
Reed, I’m curious as to why we don’t even try to work in short throws to the slot WR (Q Henerson or Tipton) in games? Is it because we need our OL to develop further in order to make those plays effective? Is it something else? This would be my question to the coaches, if I could ask one at this point.
– offensive identity
– O-Line play
– Penalties
– Punting
We didn’t comment on penalties too much but we have to have more discipline (coaches and players) going forward.
Pitt’s punter absolutely SUCKED!
EVERY short punt went into the end zone on the fly, not even bouncing near the ten or five yard line and when he needed a decent punt he hit a short one. How many times did VT get the ball at the twenty.
And someone, anyone tell me what the F happened to kicking for the sideline to pin the other teams offense? I can guarantee you at least one of Winslow’s punts would have been inside the freaking twenty.
We need to work on our punting as it has been bad all year. But, give VT credit, they were close to blocking our kick on just about all six punts.
This is my favorite so far from the Black Shoe Diaries:
If it weren’t for Army’s inability, early, to get out of its own way, they would’ve walked away from Beaver Stadium with a blowout win, despite playing this game without their starting quarterback–easily their best offensive threat. Army lost to an FCS team. They lost to UConn and Wake Forest. They finished last season as the worst defensive team in the country, and the second worst road team. They made Penn State fight and claw for a win.
One game at a time Pitt fans.
Hammer the Hoos!
HTP!
I think the offense has had the most success passing off the play action and except against Iowa they had success running early. Even at Kinnick the play action had success especially on Pitt’s last drive. So I hope that’s what we see more of going forward, even without Conner teams are respecting the run game by default and making themselves vulnerable to play action big time.
Kicking game had one blocked. It was a long attempt in bad field position. Notice how they got some momentum (in body language) after that block? Play away from that against VT.
I don’t like “pound the rock” “play it safe” mentality. You do pound the rock if it is working. Those quotes remind me of Wanny. Hopefully we don’t do that in good weather. We were one Lafayette Pitts pass interferences from a bad result. I think Beamer fell asleep at the wheel and didn’t exploit our defensive weakness.
Was it me or did we not hear Whiteheads name called that much? That is good because the trenches won that game for us. Well done. It’s Sunday so it is time to start looking ahead at VA.
Amazing defense. I expect Peterman, Boyd and Co. to establish a better rhythm passing in better condition v. a lesser passing defense. Even without Fuller, VT’s secondary and DE are still pretty adept at defending the pass.
Honestly expecting Pitt and UNC to both be 6-1 setting up a nice Thursday night showdown. UNC looks to be the best team in Coastal at the moment and they host Wake and Virginia before coming to Pittsburgh. They should be ranked and 6-1.
And, as of now, Pitt the most surprising with a win at Lane Stadium and what appears a very respectable loss at Iowa in a highly competitive game. Pitt will beat Virginia and Syracuse. I think they win an ugly one v. a limping GT as well.
“gc – I’ve a feeling Peterman is going to throw at least one INT per game…he’s a gunslinger and as he gets more confidence (think after the 2nd half at Iowa) he’ll be trying to thread the needle more. This might piss off Pitt fans but I see a lot of Dan Marino’s play, TD’s along with a lot of INTs, in Peterman except that Peterman can run the football.”
“TDs along with INTs” isn’t putting Peterman on the talent level as Dan Marino as you suggested above – I was pointing out Peterman and Marino’s more negative aspects of play, not the positive ones.
Not that I have a problem with those calls per se, but I think it shows Narduzzi is still thinking heavily as a DC instead of an HC with a real interest in the offense which will take some time. His results have been good so far though.
Excited for bext week and liked the decision Narduzzi made. Penalties were bad and still need to see more. Inknow our D is better but VA. Tech is on back up QB and their Offense is suspect at best. Can’t wait to see our D against the UNC’s ND’s and GT’s.
Starting to beleive we are a 8 win team and that feels good.
There has rarely been a football game, or on a personal level a golf game that you couldn’t identify something to criticize.
But with all the agony of defeat that we as Pitt Fans have experienced, why not focus on the positives when we actually win rather than minimize the achievement by pointing out that VT is 2-3 or that we still hate Chaney.
There was a lot to like about yesterday’s victory. Why not at least directly after the game focus on the positives.
What a difference a year makes and what a job has been done in changing the defense. If we would have this defense last year we may have gone undefeated.
I knew it would be better, and there are still weaknesses, but no one can say they expected this production in sacks tfl’s and turnovers by the fourth game. All the things that were dramatically missing last year.
So the offense is not as good as last year’s, there is one reason, CONNER. If Chryst and Rudolph are so great, how come they couldn’t score on Iowa?
Give Chaney a chance, we did score enough, and control the ball enough to win yesterday. He is working with a lot less than Chryst had last year. He also came out after half time with a game plan that worked amazingly well and set the tone for the rest of the contest.
Somehow our banged up O-line and Ollison blew through them and scored easily. For once we got the big plays as opposed to our opposition.
When you break 80, you should be happy and not bitch and moan about the two short putts you missed. There is no perfect game.
We were very fortunate to win, as we had 4 fumbles and recovered 3 of them.
Had one more of those fumbles not been recovered, we could have very easily lost this game.
And Chaney would have been the one to blame with his poor choices.
Lots of injuries for VT on defense and they just are not the VT of old and haven’t been for several years.
At time it seemed like Chaney was calling play for them as well. (maybe a protege)
Pitt’s D played well, but VT’s offense was just horrendous. As was their play calling.
No mention of the losses on our offensive side.
BIG game next week to keep the season rolling.
Pitt had the ball almost 10 minutes longer than VT.
Had almost 3 times the yardage.
Though, it cannot be denied that just a week prior ECU’s offense found MUCH more success v. a healthier VT defense in worse conditions.
The offense is an issue. It just can’t be denied. I mean, it’s bad. But, I firmly believe it will improve dramatically as the OL clicks, Ollison finds a rhythm and Peterman settles in at QB.
And I’m not the ONLY one who fits things to their narratives. Am I ?
Don’t think either of them should be in the Top 5, yet they are 1 & 2.
Purdue still stinks regardless.
19 rushes for 122 yards. 1 TD. A 6.4 ypc.
Yea he fumbled, but Conner use to fumble once and while too.
But this is the important thing, had Darrin Hall been available, Chaney would have had him getting the majority of carries.
To me that would have been another very poor choice.
No doubt the offense needs to get better. Hopefully good enough to keep winning the close ones.
Would love to see 35+ points against UVA.
Even tiny William & Mary score 29 points on them.
Chaney better come up with a good game plan.
Thru Game 4, still waiting for Pitt’s first trick play of the year.
Pitt-gamecocks-fan….hope you’re alright bro, I know Columbia and Charleston have been getting record amounts of rain fall. God bless.
Stay safe everyone !
5. Pittsburgh Panthers (3-1, 1-0). Panthers coach Pat Narduzzi won his conference opener and did it with his trademark defense. Pitt held Virginia Tech to 100 yards of offense and continually harassed the Hokies’ Brenden Motley. Qadree Ollison has filled in admirably for James Conner, but the Panthers need more production out of their quarterback, whether it’s Nathan Peterman or Chad Voytik.
Daughter, Son in law, Grandkids & foreign exchange child are ok but their neighborhood is blocked by flooded roads.
They reported a woman is in labor but EMS can’t reach them. They live in a gated community & maybe one of the many doctors/nurses will respond.
Funny last year after FSU had several lackluster wins over scrubs, they got dropped from #1.
Ohio Fake has had 2 now, back to back. Yet….
Good to hear everything is ok with you.
Oh ok, I had the impression you were around Columbia, sounds more like you’re around Gafney-Spartanburg area. Look for the Giant Peach in the sky !
Thx for checking in !
By the way, I saw Voytik footage where he completed an 80 yard strike td while stiff-arming a D-lineman…punched a hole in his chest cavity — right through the man. After the game he admitted he had drunk a case of Jack Daniels before the game (while still throwing for 600 yards and 5 tds), which had made him slightly irritable and caused the ugly incident. He stopped the bleeding and performed surgery at halftime on the poor guy, and had him in the game for the 4th quarter. Damn!!
You yinzer geezers watch too much Stillers.