I hope everyone that can, shows up Thursday night.
These kids deserve 50,000 + crazy fans to be there making a difference.

Get off the couch, turn off the TV and get to Heinz Field, call in sick on Friday if you have to. SUPPORT YOUR TEAM!

Bring your kids, bring your neighbors, bring your neighbors kids. Tickets are cheap, best sporting value in town.

A meaningful game in late October for Pitt, been a long time.

Comment by gc 10.25.15 @ 5:11 pm

Pitt pays a few hundred thousand for early fall games. The B1G pays tens of millions for more conference wins. Two short trips and guaranteed wins for PSU, whoops they lost to Maryland last year.

On Thursday night the defense needs to get off to a better start than the last two games. Big plays are killers. We get down early to UNC, it won’t be easy to keep up.

I have no clue what Chaney is thinking with the toss to Ollison either. Especially to the short side of the field. I honestly can’t think of a reason to call that play. Someone with more knowledge and experience than me, please fill me in.

I can see the use of the play. On first down and, perhaps, to Chris James.

6-1 feels good!

Barry Alvarez could be part Mexican, who knows. Name fits.

Interesting factoid about Godfather Barry, he was heavily invested in the Nevin Shapiro Ponzi scheme at Miami.

Cheers EE
Yea I’d love to see Boyd initially lined up in the backfield, cause you could really screw around the opponent defense.

You could motion him to either side of the field, you could throw him screen passes, or run deep routes out of the backfield, hoping to get a LB or slower Safety on him. He can throw himself out of the backfield, as we’ve seen.

With a kid with that type of athletic talent, it’s almost limitless what you could do with him.

And if he’s used this way, he would much more attention as a Heisman candidate in helping Pitt win by larger scores.

Shame they haven’t used his full potential.

Comment by Emel 10.23.15 @ 6:57 pm

But why not fake the toss and throw to Orndorff over the middle?

Or instead of a short route pass to T.Boyd, what not let him run a curl route, but hard on the curl & then streak the side line for a long pass over the defenders?

Emel – two trick plays in one game? Double the fun and total for the year – lol. There was almost a third when T.Boyd faked the double reverse on the kick off.

I see a smash mouth FB game in Pittsburgh this Thursday night. Focus on winning each quarter and bring the W to 412. Play hard, play fast, play focused and play to win.

HTP!

But nonetheless good to see him getting more touches and used as something other than a static WR on every play.

Funny thing though, after the successful fake punt, Pitt just ran inside the Tackles, and Cuse could not stop us. We avg’d about 5 yards per carry. 9 successive running plays with NO passes.

link to sportspolls.usatoday.com

But Amway…really !

Is it possible James “the beast” Conner makes an appearance on the field? This is a good D for his talents and strengths.

Another scouting report shows that UNC is very young on their punt team with a FR punter and FR long snapper. If we got a block vs Iowa, why not two against UNC?

Beat the Tar out of the Heels! And then beat them some more…

And PSU is no longer getting votes in any of the polls this week.

Seeing Dungy play I now understand the tight end picking them. Syracuse will not be a push over any more.

The answer to the ‘side-to-side’ passing game can be found within…

Will have MMQB up on Monday Morning (that seems logical!)

Reed

GA Tech was/ a better team than Pitt and so was Syracuse was for 3 quarters. Still, we won them both.

Thursday is real big time with all USA watching.

I think we have the best head coach in the country. Can’t wait to see what happens Thursday night!

We will be less likely to win a high scoring game. Our D is a little better than last year but we still need to keep their O off the field.

Smash them in the mouth and put a boot to their throats.
T.Boyd in the backfield is a nice set that OC Chaney is using. Like Emel said earlier, we need to see more formations like that with an assortment of plays. Keep their D guessing while you keep smashing them in the mouth over and over.

At some point, we may even see J.Whitehead in an offensive set. What better game than on prime time, national TV in front of the 412 Crew.

HTP!

A little scary how they shut down VA in the second half.

We need more passes to the tight ends and ford when Boyd is double teamed.

NC favored by up to 4 points, which means they are actually favored by 7, giving thee for home field. Slow and methodical. Wouldn’t mind a little cold weather and wind either.

Will need to keep the rush disciplined and keep their qb in a place we can hit him hard, and often. QB’s that can make extra time for themselves do really well with our db’s as currently situated. We win this game. I don’t know how yet, but we win this game!

Slow track with a cold front for our southern visitors. Neat!

link to linemakers.sportingnews.com

I do not pretend to know it all, just that you know less than shit. You call out a lot of people, well everyone is just chuckling on you. You did notice that, right?? You only did that to bust chops, right?

NC is a whole different beast. They are as much an enigma as the cues. Always thought they had a ton of talent but only put it together at times. Let’s hope they have had their time already. Weather is supposed to be poor, hope this does not keep the crowd down. I am currently sick as a dog but will be there. Team has done their part, now fans need to do theirs!
H2P

Let’s try that again. Haha.

link to linemakers.sportingnews.com

I was talking 9.5 since Thursday of last week.