We interrupt puff pieces, minor injury reports, good news in recruiting, overall optimism for the season, free floating offensive line angst, and all other things that have been in the blog for breaking news.
The offense sucked in the second and final scrimmage of training camp.
It wasn’t quite so enjoyable Wednesday afternoon when the Pitt offense struggled mightily against the Panther defense in the final training camp scrimmage. While offensive stars Dion Lewis and Jon Baldwin took part in only about 10 plays, there were turnovers, dropped balls, penalties and an overall lack of execution.
“I think there is disappointment,” Cignetti said. “I saw things out there today that could lose football games.”
During the two-hour scrimmage, Pitt rushed for 64 yards on 54 carries as a team. The quarterbacks completed 12 of 37 pass attempts for 90 yards and one interception. The only touchdown was a 34-yard pass from backup quarterback Pat Bostick to senior wide receiver Greg Cross on an underthrown ball that Cross adjusted to catch.
“We’ve got a lot of work to do,” coach Dave Wannstedt said. “It’s obvious that we’ve got some strengths, but we also have some areas of much-needed improvement.”
Sunseri was 6-17 for 36 yards and just didn’t look good (not that Bostick looked very good either). The sad thing, the defense was a bit sloppy in the area of turnovers, so it could have been worse.
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