It's call adjusting. Something this Kelly team can't do till half time. You see that they are bring more on the run bring In another oline man with lutua blocking. But Kelly won't do that. It cost us the the first half against celmson and it shows they learned nothing.
So Pitt is going to load the box and make Kiser beat them in the air. I don't care who you are if you can't help your passing game in the red zone with a decent run game you will settle for a lot of FGs. All the hype about CJ and the online blocking at the beginning of the season clearly shows how bad those teams were.
This post just shows a lack of knowledge of football and life. It also, says something about you personally.
I am not trying to be mean, load up on you, pick a fight, or anything like that.
Simply, your first premise about adjustment, and what was going on is not at all on target. It is just several disconnected statements that aren't even facts.
Temple put it all on their corners, and alternated between boxing their safeties and dropping them into cover two. They were masters of illusion. As opposed to delusion.
As far as adjustments, Kelly moved from the original plan, which looked like draw/play action passing, which I thought would be a key to the Irish victory, to spreading out and trying to slow down the Temple front seven. That didn't work well for a couple of reasons, Temple saw it right away and all players were prepared. Ki
zer was a little off on his short and out passing game, especially to the left, as he has had a tendency; coaching flaw, not playing to your players strengths, or at least covering for their weakness? Maybe.
But I would love to see Pitt try to load the box. They really don't have the guys. It is true Narduzzi was born at night, just not last night. Whatever he does, he will have to disguise really well.
I still feel confident that Pitt's front seven isn't anywhere nearly as active as Temple's. So with those two pieces missing, Pitt can't do anywhere near what Temple was able to do. The number of times Temple had the box loaded and ended up in 'cloud cover' or cover 2 was incredible. The players were position on, all night long on almost every play.
That is why the running game opened so widely for DK. He was able to exploit the small seam where the cover guys would have been if they kept the box stacked!
I wouldn't worry about pass versus run with Pitt. Without coopting Temples DB's (which I think were about as good as we have faced, even if a little small, Pitt will not be able to bring the disguise off the way Temple did.
Kizer has made four mistakes throwing into cover in the red zone particularly. They keep getting incrementally smaller, and are never repeats of the same thing.
I bet the conversation last night wasn't that he made the wrong throw in and of itself, it is that he couldn't or shouldn't even attempt that kind of throw with the db's playing so aggressively.
I have no issue with kiser. Other then his mistake last night throwing the pick. ND did have those rushing yards Kiser did. Because of an aggressive defense bit on a run option that if kiser would have pulled the ball out any later it would have been a fumble. Nick martin was moving backwards more then the did forwards and not on his own will. Say what you want they had planned before this game to run kiser more. He made the best of it with some bad ass blocking from the Wr's.
Oh, so you do agree that the coaches had a game plan, complete with contingencies, and made a rather seamless adjustment to it! And the position coaches all had their players coached up to it!
Wow I hope we do that with every top-25 ranked team we play!
