Pitt Postgame

[Bane]

Do people not watch other teams or understand that ND's offense ... even with red zone woes and not being able to kick a field goal ... is solidly top 10 in advanced stats? This is one of the best offenses in the modern era of ND football and people are talking about it like this is Drew Pyne throwing to Lorenzo Styles.

Some people just like to complain and are truly wedded to their pessimism.

 

[IrelandIrish]

Do people not watch other teams or understand that ND's offense ... even with red zone woes and not being able to kick a field goal ... is solidly top 10 in advanced stats? This is one of the best offenses in the modern era of ND football and people are talking about it like this is Drew Pyne throwing to Lorenzo Styles.

exactly

 

[IrelandIrish]

Some people just like to complain and are truly wedded to their pessimism.

We all like to watch Misery over her on the island It lets us keep things in perspective

 

[irishu]

We all like to watch Misery over her on the island It lets us keep things in perspective

It also lets you keep your bed super soaked

 

[irishff1014]

But you don't know that he's not. I have confidence in one of the best OCs in the country and MF to be doing what they need to do to elevate. We've been averaging about ~39ppg so we're not exactly scrubs either.

I understand what you are saying but the 4th and goal on the half yard line says otherwise. We line up in shotgun and Freeman calls a time out. We come out of the time out in shotgun and call a pass play.

Yet, when we get the stop after the review, we go under center to try to get room. There is literally no difference. If Dembrock is calling that Freeman needs to say no.

And with our terrible short yardage situations if we haven’t practiced that then Dembrock and Freeman are be negligent.

 

[stlnd01]

I’m not at all a bedwetter but I do find our lack of confidence in our short-yardage run game a little troubling. That’s really the only concern I have about our offense. (I have none about our defense).

 

[IrelandIrish]

It also lets you keep your bed super soaked

we don't leak the bed and we surely don't pee it unless we wake up in the can and dont know ether way

 

[ulukinatme]

 

[ulukinatme]

Teams really gotta stop posting this, they end up losing every time lol

 

[Bane]

Teams really gotta stop posting this, they end up losing every time lol

They always think they're clever and original when they do it.

 

[ulukinatme]

 

[T-Boone]

We should punt on 4th and goal. Or fake punt.

 

[IrelandIrish]

We should punt on 4th and goal. Or fake punt.

Great insight here. Hope you are the next D coordinator for Pitt

 

[ulukinatme]

 

[Chicago Domer]

CJ showing some regression but I still have the utmost confidence in him going forward. Malachi Fields growing into that bonafide #1 role is huge. Happy for him. Every week new defenders are showing up. Last week Ausberry. This week Shuler. I also thought Talich played a good game. Chris Ash has really done a great job with this defense. We want coaches that build and grow their teams. He’s done that. Guys are getting better. Fun to watch

CJs biggest flaw, in my opinion, is going with the called play even when it’s well covered. I saw that on a number of occasions. I’ve seen that a lot in the short passing game. It seems like the ball is dynamite and he has to get rid of it.

 

[Kingbish01]

Just got home from Athens, what a great day of football. IMO...Texas would get smacked by ND and it would still be a good bet at ND -11.5. Arch wasn't great, Carr light years ahead. UGA, now that's a different animal they dominated top to bottom. As Freeman would say they're violent and Gunner is nice nice. Neutral site UGA is -2.5, ND could be them but they'd be in for a brawl... especially with payback in mind. Tonight's 4th quarter, starting with the onside kick was pretty epic. Love my Irish, but UGA is a good ass party!

 

[irishnd31]

I’ve had drinks, many of them.

My guy!☘️

 

[FDNYIrish1]

Thank you for understanding. Only played it for 8 years. Not the same. Center and LB so not a QB.

And Tennis. Don’t forget Tennis.

 

[Hautian Domer]

Great win. The defense was elite. Carr had an off game, but still made many impressive plays. Love was unreal

The things that need to be cleaned up:

- The 4th and goal on the one … I can’t tell you the things I wanted to do to Denbrock for that play call … you’ve got Love, Price, Williams, Young, Carr (can move) … stop. overthinking. it. and. getting. too. cute. It’s freaking absurd

- The kicking game is so bad I’m deathly afraid of alone will cost us in Playoffs.

 

[MacIrish75]

Do people not watch other teams or understand that ND's offense ... even with red zone woes and not being able to kick a field goal ... is solidly top 10 in advanced stats? This is one of the best offenses in the modern era of ND football and people are talking about it like this is Drew Pyne throwing to Lorenzo Styles.

What does Bowling Green’s starting QB throwing to a reserve corner from OSU have to do with anything???

 

[stlnd01]

CJs biggest flaw, in my opinion, is going with the called play even when it’s well covered. I saw that on a number of occasions. I’ve seen that a lot in the short passing game. It seems like the ball is dynamite and he has to get rid of it.

Yep. He seems to freeze up in short-field situations. Needs to learn to improvise more. It's part of why I wish we'd just ram one of our RBs behind the interior OLs on third and short instead of all this cute shit. Carr's not great at the rollout game. He'll get there, I'm sure. Hopefully before it costs us a playoff game.

 

[Dale]

Heintschel has some negative underlying numbers, especially given the schedule played

- 21% Pressure to Sack Ratio is higher end

- 5 INTs and 4 fumbles in 5 starts. 4.5% Turnover Worthy Plays is higher end (Holstein was actually #1)

- Completion % on short throws is low end, especially for someone throwing them a lot.

Heintschel has only completed 9 deep balls all year. He’s thrown 4 INTs while doing so. The one close to average defense they have played in FSU he threw it short to RBs on half his attempts. He is near the top in short passes in the country, Maiavia near the bottom.

I posted the above during the week on Heintschel. Somehow he improved his Pressure to Sack Rate after this week thanks to about 8 missed sacks. He also somehow only turned it over one time - a few dropped INTs and fumble out of bounds. We pressured him on 54% (!!!) of dropbacks. The result was that 70ish% completion % on short passes - already bad - dropped to an astounding 51% on short passes. He was 1/6 on passes over 10 yards. And similar to the FSU game, 8 of 19 completions were to RBs.

Just a complete dismantling of a passing game.

 

[FWIrish4]

With full sincerity I think the solution is to go Buchner on short yardage / goal-to-go and just run the Riley Leonard playbook. The Carr QB draw was BY FAR the best executed red zone play of the day and you could just do that kind of crap all the time with Buchner.

I’m perplexed this still isn’t solved this late into the season. We’ve rolled Carr to his multiple times on goal to go, cutting an already short field in half again, with really only 1 option to throw to.

Why keep trying it? Where’s a throwback TE or RB leak if you’re hellbent on rolling Carr?

Look at what Mike Bobo’s dumbass is coming up with! Like come on guys, we can do so much better. There should be an offensive analyst assigned with fixing this shit as their full time job.

 

[peadeam]

Since everyone asked my opinion on the goal to go struggles here it is. If you insist on constipated formations like 12 personal you have got to use a short yardage back like Williams. He’s just way more aggressive attacking the line of scrimmage in short yardage. Or you can take your head out of your ass and spread the field to give love a fighting chance at finding a lane. But throwing 30 yards sideways to get 6” is dumb AF

 

[PutuporShutup]

Not sure if you could see on tv but freeman absolutely lit into denbrock after the fourth and goal from 6 inches out abomination. I know denbrock runs the offense but I expect some sort of change in short yardage to finally happen. Lax said Buchner, I think it’s minchey so there’s still a threat to throw. Ultimately I’d like to see a 6th or 7th olinemen in as well. Almost every team does that in short yardage.

I know they’re frosh, but being on the sideline for non pads warmup, Augustine and black already look the part of elite college tackles. I’m not saying they should be the 6th or 7th in, but it has to be better than having WRs and walk on WRs blocking in short yardage.

 

[GreenGemsOmally]

They always think they're clever and original when they do it.

It's exactly like "RUDY WAS OFFSIDES" or "MANTI TEO GIRLFRIEND JOKE." Nothing original.

 

[Rockin’Irish]

The ND staff is saving the good stuff until the CFP games……..

 

[Irish#1]

Sunday morning and this win feels just as good today as yesterday.

Imagine how much better this board would feel, if Carr goes under center and runs a sneak or just hands off to an RB?

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

With full sincerity I think the solution is to go Buchner on short yardage / goal-to-go and just run the Riley Leonard playbook. The Carr QB draw was BY FAR the best executed red zone play of the day and you could just do that kind of crap all the time with Buchner.

Just go wildcat with love and take the QB off the field. Put a huge ass OL man in front of him.

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

Pitt has been bad against TEs all year. It was clear that Denbrock knew that which is why he went to that well so often. Raridon could have had a monster game