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Pitt fans say the darndest things
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Is this circle jerk finally going to end?
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Well then, why don't you take your ugly colors, your stupid opinions, and your two-faced bullcrap, and hit the bricks? The whole time you were here I knew you were playing games with us. If you wanted to talk football, maybe you shouldn't do it in the threads dedicated to ridiculing your garbage coach and fanbase. It's pretty clear that you were not posting in good faith.
You said, clear as day, that you don't respect Penn State fans, and let me tell you jerk-off, I feel the same way about you and all your good time buddies.
How delusional and separated from reality are these morons. The last place pitt will have an advantage will be Pitt’s Dline versus Penn States oline. Totally clueless. That thread will be a treat. Look out bama, pitt can beat anyone.
Frightened? More like loving laughs and can’t wait for the season to start so I can watch Your fanbase unraveling
Don't equate some members of a message board (people who live near Pittsburgh) to the entire fan base. Most PSU fans care about Pitt one week a year for one more year after this one. If anyone at PSU thought it was a true rivalry, the series would continue. For me it will be one more year due to a relationship with a current Pitt sophomore player.
If you are going to make ignorant statements like this, you need to be able to back them up. Even if you believe the long debunked fairytale that admins at PSU "covered up" for the ex-employee (for an incident where the victim is on the record saying nothing happened) that nobody liked (yet still for someone reason sent the vague report to his supervisor at the second mile), they would have been individual actors, not "the school". So if you can ignore common sense (the cover up narrative never made sense) and the results of trials (where no one was found guilty of a cover up) and then somehow consider 3 admins to be equal to all of Penn State... how do you tie the football program into your false narrative? Paterno followed state law, university policy, and current NCAA guidelines and was praised by the AG for his actions.
If you ever wondered why people legitimately don't have sympathy toward or respect Pitt... just take a look at your bold comment above.
How delusional and separated from reality are these morons. The last place pitt will have an advantage will be Pitt’s Dline versus Penn States oline. Totally clueless. That thread will be a treat. Look out bama, pitt can beat anyone.
I love how they talk like they dominated clemson two years ago and as though miami deserved the #2 ranking. Anyone watching clemson-pitt two years ago realizes that clemson made mistake after mistake and handed the game to pitt. Anyone watching last season also knows that miami was a fraud, even before the pitt game.
How delusional and separated from reality are these morons. The last place pitt will have an advantage will be Pitt’s Dline versus Penn States oline. Totally clueless. That thread will be a treat. Look out bama, pitt can beat anyone.
The separation in talent between these two teams is immense. I'm not sure there is a single player on the entire Pitt team who would start at PSU. 2016 was their year. They squeaked out a win and made a key chain because they knew then it was going to be their only win of the series so they had to remember it.
It’s crazy. I’m not sure they realize that Penn State’s oline probably goes against a better Dline in practice when playing the 2’s
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This is my thought as well. We are going to out-athlete Pitt in a major way. It's just that many of our athletes are young and inexperienced and so you're not sure what you're going to get. But the potential is there for a tsunami of athletes in all 3 phases that Pitt simply cannot deal with.
Clemson spent most of the game up by 2 scores, and just as they were about to put it away... they'd shoot themselves in the foot. Pitt was also aided by some pretty questionable officiating.
Miami... god they were bad last year. They ended the season on a 3 game losing streak. They had already clinched a chance to lose to Clemson before playing Pitt, they had nothing to play for against Pitt.
The entire starting lineup at Pitt would honestly have difficulty making the 2-deep at PSU. Their starting QB would be competing with Will Levis (TRFR) for the 4th string QB spot on the PSU roster. He certainly would not beat out Clifford for the #3 spot.
The only Pitt player that would certainly compete for the 2-deep at PSU is Bookser. And he'd likely not be on the PSU squad given his behavior. Charles is off our team, and Bowen had to work very hard (kudos to him for that) to get back on, for far less. Can't think of a better example of depth chart justice than Bookser.
Ford maybe could crack the 2-deep, but he'd probably be 3rd string with relatively few situational snaps.
PSU's 2nd team would be -3.5 at Pitt in 2018.
As a 13.5 point favorite, the favorite wins (not covers) at an 83% clip. Now 17% is long odds for Pitt, but they still have a punchers chance. I think Pitt is most likely a .500 team this year, but to say our 2 deep is better than all their starters is quite a stretch IMO. Appy State is first up which is why JF always talks the way he does. Still can't believe that Pitt fans don't understand the Akron comment that he treats every game the same. You have to so you don't have big let-downs.
Pitt fans don't understand a lot of things
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In all seriousness, App St probably has a better defense this year than Pitt, especially in the secondary. They lost some players on their line but substituted freely to get the underclassman some reps. Pitt was atrocious on defense last year and they return most (maybe all) of the front seven that the best thing anyone could say about them is that they were young. I honestly believe that App St will be in the game longer than Pitt. But Pitt will at least be able to say that they held us to less points than Kent St.
I agree that this is a stretch, but it is not a stretch to say that no one on their second string would be on our second string. Our depth is far superior, which, in an early season game when it might be warm/humid (even though it is a night game), might matter quite a bit in the second half.
For example, if they don't rotate their DL, they will have fatigue issues. If they do rotate their DL, they will get manhandled.
Agreed and Pitt faithful should be happy the series ends because the difference in depth widens in years to come.
PSU has won 8 of the last 10 meetings. Pitt's two wins... 2000 was against possibly the worst PSU team in 100 years, and 2016 was a fluke where a sanction weakened PSU team handed them the game.
The best part is, since the series ends and hopefully will never be renewed, Pitt will never lead the series.
This sounds like the type of exaggeration for which we make fun of Pitt fans. Our roster top to bottom is definitely more talented, but only the top 1/3 or so plays in a given game. Experience is important and their defense is very experienced. Don't forget, many of our older players are 3 star guys and they play pretty well. Hopefully, we have a real edge offensively at QB, WR and OL and that carries the day.
But they love their Kenny!
`He’s a leader out there on the field – I’ve said it 100 times – and our team trusts in Kenny Pickett,” said Panthers head coach Pat Narduzzi last week.
See what I mean. Pitt is all-in on the 6-2, 220-pounder.
Granted, his one start was historic, as Pickett stepped in for the final game last season and knocked off the unbeaten, No. 2-ranked Miami Hurricanes, the first time the Panthers had ever beaten a top-2 team at home. Ever. And Pickett was the offense, accounting for all three of their TDs, including an electrifying 22-yard run, in a 24-14 victory.
But there has to be more to it, right?
``He’s like a rock star out there. He’s the man,’’ said New Jersey quarterback guru Tony Racioppi, who has worked extensively with Pickett. ``He has that charisma and players just gravitate to him. You listen to some of the older players there. Players rally around him. He’s the guy. You have fifth-year seniors talking about him being the leader, so that says it all right there.
``He does a great job of being confident without being overboard cocky.’’
He did happen to throw for 242 yards, including a 74-yard hookup, after stepping on the field in the next-to-last-game, a loss at Virginia Tech.
What say you, Kenny Pickett, about all this.
``It happened to me at Ocean Township, and it’s happening here,’’ said Pickett, who became a starter as a sophomore for the Spartans. `` I would definitely say it is more of a natural progression. It’s something that when I’m on the field, it just naturally comes out of me and some of the offensive linemen have talked to me about it. I really don’t have any other explanation for it. It’s just naturally happening. I’m not thinking, just letting loose and having fun playing the game I love to play.’’
Here’s the word I’m looking for: leadership.
``He is definitely mature beyond his years,’’ Racioppi said. ``If you asked me to sum up Kenny Pickett in a couple of words I would say, ultra-talented, hard worker, incredibly confident. He’s confident, and going from high school to Pitt, nothing really changed. He was ready for that opportunity the entire season last year.’’
They are the traits Pickett has exhibited throughout his career, while his brand of enthusiasm on the field in infectious. That was apparent during the Miami game when, in front of a national television audience, he completed 18 of 29 passes for 193 yards and a touchdown, with two rushing scores.
``That bar’s up there, as far as where he set it against No. 2 Miami,’’ Narduzzi said. ``That’s what everybody is expecting on Sept. 1 (against Albany), so he’s got to go out and deliver that. Anything less than that, everybody is probably going to be like, ‘Oh, man!’ Kenny’s a great kid, a great player.‘’
Not everyone has bought into the hype. The Panthers were picked to finish fifth in the Atlantic Coast Conference’s seven-team Coastal Division. And the reality is that you have to go all the way back to Dan Marino’s senior season in 1982 to find the last time the Panthers were ranked in the top-10 at season’s end.
Pickett did not mince words with the local media prior to the start of training camp when he said the Panthers’ 5-7 campaign in 2017 was ``embarrassing,’’ as the program’s run of nine straight seasons with a postseason appearance ended.
``The expectations are like they were back in the old days in my mind and in our eyes, and I think you can see that now in how we’ve prepared and how we’re looking at this season,’’ Pickett said. ``I know we have a lot of high goals and we can’t wait to get started.
``This was a perfect fit for me coming out of high school. I knew that and when I came to Pittsburgh it just kind of hit home about how this is really my second home in terms of the area and the people and the mindset, how I play, the kind of team I want to be around, and so on.’’
And if this summer is any indication, the feeling is mutual, given how Pittsburgh has embraced Kenny Pickett.
`He’s a leader out there on the field – I’ve said it 100 times – and our team trusts in Kenny Pickett,” said Panthers head coach Pat Narduzzi last week.
See what I mean. Pitt is all-in on the 6-2, 220-pounder.
Granted, his one start was historic, as Pickett stepped in for the final game last season and knocked off the unbeaten, No. 2-ranked Miami Hurricanes, the first time the Panthers had ever beaten a top-2 team at home. Ever. And Pickett was the offense, accounting for all three of their TDs, including an electrifying 22-yard run, in a 24-14 victory.
But there has to be more to it, right?
``He’s like a rock star out there. He’s the man,’’ said New Jersey quarterback guru Tony Racioppi, who has worked extensively with Pickett. ``He has that charisma and players just gravitate to him. You listen to some of the older players there. Players rally around him. He’s the guy. You have fifth-year seniors talking about him being the leader, so that says it all right there.
``He does a great job of being confident without being overboard cocky.’’
He did happen to throw for 242 yards, including a 74-yard hookup, after stepping on the field in the next-to-last-game, a loss at Virginia Tech.
What say you, Kenny Pickett, about all this.
``It happened to me at Ocean Township, and it’s happening here,’’ said Pickett, who became a starter as a sophomore for the Spartans. `` I would definitely say it is more of a natural progression. It’s something that when I’m on the field, it just naturally comes out of me and some of the offensive linemen have talked to me about it. I really don’t have any other explanation for it. It’s just naturally happening. I’m not thinking, just letting loose and having fun playing the game I love to play.’’
Here’s the word I’m looking for: leadership.
``He is definitely mature beyond his years,’’ Racioppi said. ``If you asked me to sum up Kenny Pickett in a couple of words I would say, ultra-talented, hard worker, incredibly confident. He’s confident, and going from high school to Pitt, nothing really changed. He was ready for that opportunity the entire season last year.’’
They are the traits Pickett has exhibited throughout his career, while his brand of enthusiasm on the field in infectious. That was apparent during the Miami game when, in front of a national television audience, he completed 18 of 29 passes for 193 yards and a touchdown, with two rushing scores.
``That bar’s up there, as far as where he set it against No. 2 Miami,’’ Narduzzi said. ``That’s what everybody is expecting on Sept. 1 (against Albany), so he’s got to go out and deliver that. Anything less than that, everybody is probably going to be like, ‘Oh, man!’ Kenny’s a great kid, a great player.‘’
Not everyone has bought into the hype. The Panthers were picked to finish fifth in the Atlantic Coast Conference’s seven-team Coastal Division. And the reality is that you have to go all the way back to Dan Marino’s senior season in 1982 to find the last time the Panthers were ranked in the top-10 at season’s end.
Pickett did not mince words with the local media prior to the start of training camp when he said the Panthers’ 5-7 campaign in 2017 was ``embarrassing,’’ as the program’s run of nine straight seasons with a postseason appearance ended.
``The expectations are like they were back in the old days in my mind and in our eyes, and I think you can see that now in how we’ve prepared and how we’re looking at this season,’’ Pickett said. ``I know we have a lot of high goals and we can’t wait to get started.
``This was a perfect fit for me coming out of high school. I knew that and when I came to Pittsburgh it just kind of hit home about how this is really my second home in terms of the area and the people and the mindset, how I play, the kind of team I want to be around, and so on.’’
And if this summer is any indication, the feeling is mutual, given how Pittsburgh has embraced Kenny Pickett.
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Hope there is a decent game to watch that night since we'll down 42-0 after the first quarter. In fact it's probably best we just forfeit to avoid the embarrassment.
Do you want to take a stab at who on the Pitt roster would start for us? This isn't hyperbole. This is reality.
Hope there is a decent game to watch that night since we'll down 42-0 after the first quarter. In fact it's probably best we just forfeit to avoid the embarrassment.
We’re screwed.
So before he plays PSU, he will have built up a false sense of confidence against Pitt's putrid defense, and then Albany. I'm guessing he throws at least 3 picks against the Lions.
A pitt player said the reason Pickett has not thrown picks is because he is holding the ball too long and taking sacks. Sounds like a young qb not confident in his receivers and having a crappy oline
So far he has looked good.
Pittsburgh started three different quarterbacks last year.
Only one of them remains on the team. And the QB job belongs to him.
After leading the Panthers to an upset win over Miami in their 2017 season finale, Kenny Pickett has a firm grasp on the starting role this season.
“Kenny’s a talented player,” Pitt football coach Pat Narduzzi said last month during ACC media days at a Charlotte, North Carolina, hotel. “He is a natural, natural leader … and the kids want to follow him.
“When he’s been in there, he’s been pretty exceptional.”
Pitt went just 5-7 last year but ended its season by handing Miami its first loss. That game was Pickett’s lone start. Pickett, who was only a true freshman last year, completed 18 of 29 passes for 193 yards and one touchdown and also ran for 60 yards and two TDs in the victory.
Narduzzi was also impressed when Pickett came off the bench in three other games.
- He played late in an Oct. 7 loss at Syracuse, completing his lone pass attempt for 13 yards.
- The following week, Pickett entered a loss to North Carolina State late in the third quarter. He played in three series, completing five of 13 passes and avoiding any sacks.
- Pickett replaced DiNucci in the second quarter against Virginia Tech in Pitt’s penultimate game of the season. He completed 15 of 23 passes for 242 yards with one interception. Pitt had a shot to win in the waning minutes, but the Hokies stopped the Panthers on four straight plays from the Virginia Tech 1-yard line to seal a 20-14 win.
Max Browne, a graduate transfer from Southern Cal, started the first three games last season before losing the job to DiNucci for a Game 4 loss to Georgia Tech. Browne started the next two games before a shoulder injury against Syracuse ended his college career. DiNucci started the following five games before losing the job to Pickett for the finale.
DiNucci was not interested in being Pickett’s backup this season. The rising junior transferred to James Madison in January.
QB Thomas MacVittie, who did n’t see action as a redshirt freshman last year, also did not want to be Pickett’s understudy. He transferred to a junior college in January.
Pitt is coming off its first losing season since 2014. Three of the team’s seven losses were by six points or fewer.
“We were a young football team,” Narduzzi said. “Our team has grown up. They understand how to come back from adversity a little bit more.”
With 17 seniors, Pitt boasts a larger senior class than it did last fall.
“We maybe didn’t have a clue a year ago with our leadership,” Narduzzi said. “You’ve got to have great se- nior leadership if you’re go- ing to be a great football team.” Narduzzi is also encouraged by the season-ending win over Miami.
“We could have very easily just shut it down and quit, but our guys didn’t,” he said. “That’s kind of what you’ll see this year as well. Our guys are going to keep fighting.”
Pitt tied for fourth in the Coastal Division last year with a 3-5 league mark. The Panthers have been picked to finish fifth in the division this year in the ACC’s preseason media poll.
Only four offensive starters are back for the Panthers, who ranked next-to-last in the conference in scoring offense (23.9 ppg) last year.
“We need to be starting faster, scoring more [points] earlier in the game — not waiting to have to respond to another team,” linebacker Oluwaseun Idowu said.
Nine starters return on defense.
The new defensive coordinator is Randy Bates, formerly the linebackers coach at Northwestern. He succeeds Josh Conklin, who left to become the head coach at Wofford.
“There’s definitely a change in the things he’s trying to implement on defense,” Idowu said of Bates. “He’s a really smart guy. A lot of guys have a lot of confidence in him.”
Pitt will open the season against FCS member Albany. But the team’s other nonleague games are more challenging. Penn State is ranked No. 9 in the preseason coaches Top 25 poll, with Notre Dame ranked No. 11 and Central Florida No. 23.
Narduzzi does not mind the stern tests.
“It’s a heck of a lot easier getting our guys ready for Penn State, Notre Dame and Central Florida than it is getting ready for Albany, Youngstown State or Richmond,” he said.
Pitt will visit Virginia on Nov. 2 and will host Virginia Tech on Nov. 10.
Please stop with the game against Miami, possibly the most overrated team of all time. He's unproven, and while he may end up being decent he is going to make mistakes. Football is a team game, Pitt could have a young Dan Marino back there, and they could still lose 48-14.
Looks like HailToPitt725 switched back to one of his other accounts
My lasting memory of the Pitt D is watching 1-8 North Carolina’s 3rd string qb throw passes that made Zach Mills are look like favres up and down the field
Pitt fans will be calling for Patti midway thru the season
Pitt fans will be calling for Patti midway thru the season
I'm sure most coaches feel the same way but I don't think I've ever seen a coach say this. Maybe it explains why Pitt beats top 10 teams and then loses to 3 of the worst teams in their conference. Pitt is not nearly talented enough to just "show up" and beat most teams on their schedule. Coach needs to up his ability to prepare his team.
Exactly. Louisville had Lamar Jackson the last 2 seasons and they still lost 5 games in 2017 and 4 games in 2016 when Jackson won the Heisman so even if Pickett is as great as Jackson(which I highly doubt), that is no guarantee he will make Pitt any better than a 8-5/9-4 type of team.
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I admire the spin with this. Three of the seven losses were by six points or fewer? OK, that means four of the seven losses were by seven points or more. My guess is if you look at the results of any 5-7 team there will be a number of losses which were by six points or fewer. The Pitt folk act like keeping three losses within six points was a miraculous achievement.
So far the coaches like what they see.
Pro potential is definitely there.
Pitt offensive coordinator Shawn Watson has been coaching college kids since 1982. You can be sure he knows the difference between a sophomore quarterback with one start on his resume and an NFL first-round draft choice.
But Kenny Pickett, the aforementioned sophomore, is messing with everyone’s head these days.
Through 11 days of training camp, Pickett has not thrown an interception in practice.
“He’s the quarterback,” redshirt freshman cornerback Paris Ford said. “He’s supposed to have his foot on everyone’s neck.”
Watson was asked if he’s seen anything similar to what Pickett is doing. He answered quickly and definitively.
”I have,” he said. “Teddy Bridgewater, same type of production, same type of ball security.”
Watson coached Bridgewater at Louisville before he became a first-round draft choice of the Minnesota Vikings in 2014. After practice Wednesday, Watson got his signals crossed.
“It’s in his blood now. It’s in his DNA,” he said of Pickett’s interception-free summer.
“He’s gotten a lot of reps at it. He works really hard off the field at it. My experience has been when a guy works that hard, his level of play goes up because it really does become instinctual, as opposed to ‘I gotta process. If this happens, I have to do this.’
“Teddy’s doing … ” he caught himself and everyone laughed. “Excuse me, my man Kenny is doing everything like that. He’s just reacting to football.”
Coach Pat Narduzzi said he never has seen such impeccable quarterback play in his three previous summers at Pitt.
“Pretty amazing, so far,” Narduzzi said. “Kenny is sharp, doesn’t make bad decisions. He scrambles with the ball when he needs to, has a great pocket presence, as good as I’ve seen it. He knows when to get out of there and not throw it.”
Pickett’s streak means he hasn’t thrown an interception since the last play of the spring game when junior cornerback Dane Jackson broke on the ball expertly and returned the pick 60 yards for the decisive score.
“That probably wasn’t (Pickett’s) fault, either,” Narduzzi said.
Narduzzi, a defensive coach most of his career, stopped short of criticizing his defense for not picking off Pickett.
“We work hard at trying to get turnovers, but I think it’s a great job by our offense with (Pickett) being smart at the helm,” he said.
The defense’s shortcomings when Pickett puts the ball in the air doesn’t seem to be a major concern among players and coaches. The defense won the scrimmage last Saturday, and defensive coordinator Randy Bates pointed out Ford has picked off “five or six passes” in the past three days.
Just none that were thrown by Pickett. At this point, Bates doesn’t care who throws them.
“We had several picks (Wednesday),” he said. “They’re all in red (protective jerseys) to me.”
Jackson, who is expected to return to the starting lineup after starting all 12 games last season and three as a redshirt freshman in 2016, bows to Pickett’s solid play in camp.
But he points out it’s still a competition every day players walk onto the field.
“Kenny’s a great quarterback,” he said. “But we’re trying to get that ball. Hopefully, it will come soon.”
