GT Pitt 2014 1st Quarter

[dressedcheeseside]

Planning on JT to mess up though? Lol nice try.

And he's only a soph.

 

[Animal02]

Yeah, I think this is what @zhavenor or someone else was talking about when they said that the QB reads both the LB and the DE at the snap. If both are pinching in, going after B-Back and QB at the snap, then it's a quick-pitch, or pull-pitch. However, if, as in this case, the DE stays out, then the DE, now the pitch key, is read as keep if he goes after the A-Back. I'm guessing, but I think that may be how it works.

I also suspect that maybe this explains some of what we saw this past Spring where Stargel was the DE playing the A-Back. This suspicion then leads me to suspect that this strategy may have worked against us in the past and so why we practiced against it in the Spring and ready for it now.

I know that I've gone a long way down the road of speculation here, so I'm just throwing it out as a "What do y'all think?" post.

What I think is that in the recent past, we had a QB trying to rely on his own skills instead of trusting the scheme. Now we have a QB with the skills, understands. AND trusts the scheme.

 

[awbuzz]

That's one of the funniest, saddest,most hilarious, most pathetic pieces I've read in a while!

+1


Another comment was -

"I’d just like to point out that they listed attendance at 44,734"

...sure was should have been EMPTY SEATS!.

 

[Longestday]

Isaiah Willis had 3 blocks and one was a complete take down. The other two were very effective.

 

[johncu]

If the QB is used to auto-quick pitching when he sees the cross-charging OLB, having the DE get between the QB and AB is a great strategy. You could theoretically even pick it off.

Planning on JT to mess up though? Lol nice try.

If they had done that to us last year I could totally see Vad either pitching it straight to the DE or hesitating in a moment of confusion. He was so indecisive in those situations, whereas Justin executes it so crisply.

 

[Fatmike91]

It was strange to watch. It's like they went through the possibilities and just picked it without understanding how it works. Like the 2-3 exchange, that option defense has a defender impede the play-side A-back (PSA) before settling into his responsibility. The PSA is assigned to block the run support player, #3 in the option count: the SS. For this to work, #3 needs to be aggressively playing quarterback all the way. He's playing run aggressively, he gets blocked by the PSA just 2 yards past the LOS, but he's totally in the wrong spot because he isn't on Justin in the Alley.

I don't even know what it's called since nobody ever does it. When you call a defense designed to keep the ball in the QB's hands all I can think of is Tommie Frazier and are you sure that's a good idea?

I remember watching Tommy Frazier and marveling at his talent. Maybe its the gold colored glasses...but JT compares very favorably to what I see in this video.


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[Ibeeballin]

Yeah, I think this is what @zhavenor or someone else was talking about when they said that the QB reads both the LB and the DE at the snap. If both are pinching in, going after B-Back and QB at the snap, then it's a quick-pitch, or pull-pitch. However, if, as in this case, the DE stays out, then the DE, now the pitch key, is read as keep if he goes after the A-Back. I'm guessing, but I think that may be how it works.

I also suspect that maybe this explains some of what we saw this past Spring where Stargel was the DE playing the A-Back. This suspicion then leads me to suspect that this strategy may have worked against us in the past and so why we practiced against it in the Spring and ready for it now.

I know that I've gone a long way down the road of speculation here, so I'm just throwing it out as a "What do y'all think?" post.

Off the top of my head, Clemson did this a lot last season with Vic Beasley and created all kind of confusion with the blocking and reads