If you honestly think 1 potential 3 & out will make the team crumble then good God bro, these kids are just a bit more resilient than that.
You set the tone in first series, you practice 20 plays or so constantly over and over and break them done in film study over multiple defenses.
To open the first series with motion penalties, out of position penalties , holding calls and so on speaks loads.
YES you would think being resilient would be the case but we have seen differently from October on a real mystery.
Teams now fake blitz is to jump plus throw sucker punches so referees will see our retaliation.
Bottom line FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS.
run it cram it shove it down there throats!!!
Aldo remember PITT home field advantage refs CFP wants us to lose or win by one point.
So I say don’t put the game in the hands of the refs WE EILL LOSE FOR SURE.
In the days of rings we had games of 200 plus yards in penalties but said F them we just kept scoring 250 yards rushing and 350 passing we never wanted or cared for punting it was OFFENSIVE to us .
John Madden:
Was asked why isn Ray Guy on your All Pro team ?
Look around you at these guys WE DONT PUNT !
First series to low focus kids is everything yo there mindset unless the Malik type guys lift them up and lead them.
All I spoken here is proven and shown before us before!
Winn by 3-4 TD and we have a chance in CFP anything less POP TARTS