Note: I didn’t write something right away because when you are getting 370+ comments on an open game thread pretty much everything has already been talked about. Anyway, here are some of my observations…
Again, and with firm success, PITT snatched defeat from the jaws of victory last week. Travelling to the Carrier Dome in Syracuse our Panthers dropped a close, low scoring game to the Orange, 14-13, in a match that may portend the way the rest of the schedule plays out in that we certainly played well enough to win but obviously didn’t.
The sad thing is I couldn’t even get too angry about that final ‘nail in the coffin’ intentional grounding penalty by Sunseri that deprived us of a game winning field goal opportunity because we have seen it, or something just like it, happen to PITT so many times over the years. We just can’t find ways to win close football games coming from behind because we aren’t built for it, starting with our QB. It isn’t only Sunseri that has been this way for PITT, Bill Stull before him had the same problem.
If I’m assigning blame – which is totally Tuesday morning QB’ing – then I’m pointing at the OL for most of the ills of the evening. They didn’t open many holes for Graham or Bennett and they were just flat out terrible in pass protection.
