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Even though i seen yesterday they weren't stacking the box and you confirmed it by watching it again. I still have to go with the narrative they were stacking the box because it was said by many on CiS.
 
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sabrose said:
If Shireffs hits a few passes people would be saying great move. We haven't seen him get much of a chance and rightfully so. He isnt mobile and has a weaker arm than Rosier. But Richt knew Rosier was zoned out. He had to do something.
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This. I realize it’s probably not a popular opinion, but I think Richt had no choice but to sit Rosier who had been incapable of hitting the broad side of a barn. I suppose the bad part about it was that it should have been done a couple drives earlier instead of so late.

Also, as OP stated, the offensive line was absolutely dominated. It’s not like the OL has been elite this year, but that looked like they went back to October of 2016. Just had no chance whatsoever in the run game, which wouldn’t have mattered without Rosier’s total meltdown. Simply have to regroup and show up next week, because Clemson’s DL is going to be much tougher than Pitt’s.
 
tired of all these people calling the qb change idiotic

the sideline was bouncing up and down at the change, obviously the team supported it
 
AutoCANE said:
OK so I was at the game yesterday and I wasn't sure that I was able to process all of the bad. So I thought, what the **** I'll watch the game even though I'm sure it will be painful. A couple quick observations (I just got to the point where Evan was brought in):

1. Rosier was worse than I thought. There were some really, really, really poorly thrown balls yesterday. They were playing single high a lot and bringing a lot of heat, and our WR's were more open than I even realized. Richards should have had 200+ yards receiving in this game. He was torching #14 man to man every single snap he was on the field. At least four long TD passes were missed that shouldn't have really been that hard to complete. Two to Jeff Thomas and two to Ahmmon Richards. Awful, just awful misses. And missing on bubble screens is so egregious it shouldn't ever happen. If we're not going to have a run game, we have to at least be able to hit the bubble when they're giving it to us and use that as our run game.

2. Speaking of run game - please, for the love of God stop with the false narrative that Pitt was stacking the box trying to shut down our run game. They played nickel almost the entire game with 6 guys in the box. Sometimes they would send extra guys, but in most instances those were obvious passing downs and it was a true blitz rather than run blitz. Flat out, our OL got whipped, play after play after play. Our horizontal run game did not work against them. They set edge contain well and stretched our run game sideline to sideline. Homer had no holes to run through whatsoever. The jet motion counter that we ran to open the second half didn't work either, but we certainly should have gone to it more to try to get something going. There are multiple options you can run out of that and maybe something would have hit for a big play.

3. Berrios didn't have a great game. Rosier wasn't it making it easy on him but there were at least two, possibly three plays that he usually makes that he flat out didn't yesterday. If Rosier threw dimes I'm sure he would have caught them but it seems "meh" was contagious amongst our guys yesterday.

4. The decision to bring Sherrifs in was one of the worst coaching decisions I have ever seen. Right up there with the onside kick against Georgia Tech. ****, on the onside kick at least it would have been successful if we executed it properly. This had zero ****ing chance of being successful. Evan was put in a terrible spot, on the road, completely cold, and Malik didn't even look like he gave a ****. Maybe he will after it sinks in, but my lord at that point in the game we have to put some first downs together. The defense had just gotten two three and out stops and was doing everything they could to keep us in the game.

5. Defensively, those guys played their asses off and did enough to get us out of there with a W. There were some bad instances, giving up long 3rd downs that make you want to smash something, but for the most part they did what they had to do. It was definitely annoying how that QB kept falling forward though. Got positive yards on a few plays that should have gone for losses. Can't explain that one. All that said - our blitzes were poorly timed, and were of Manny's favorite overload chaos variety. We didn't get home...and it gave their QB lanes to scoot around. Stunting and overload blitzing shouldn't have been part of the game plan here, but it is the foundation of what we do, so you have to take the good with the bad I suppose.


Man. I hope we can shake the stink off of this one quickly and come out pumped and ready to play against Clemson. This has been an incredible season, and I would really hate to see it end with such a whimper. A win and we're in the playoff. Never thought I would be saying that earlier this year but here we are.
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#2 is correct. I told this board on Saturday that it's a myth that our opponents are stacking the box. They really aren't. Pitt also played some 2 high man under out of nickel on Saturday. We tried running and couldn't.

Impossible to call plays if you're Richt and can't run against 6 man boxes.
 
paksat said:
tired of all these people calling the qb change idiotic

the sideline was bouncing up and down at the change, obviously the team supported it
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Rosier's post game comments confirmed that Richt made the right call.
 
avicenna75 said:
Great post. I agree with everything you said

Richt needs to scrap that sweep play out of the shotgun. I don’t recall it ever working
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It worked against ND and sealed the game vs UVA

I guess those games don't count anymore to our ****** fans
 
Hardcore Cane said:
Both times I’ve seen sherieffs play, it wasn’t good.

Kinda reminds me of a kicker trying to play QB because the third string QB just got injured.
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really?? both times it was 3 and out.. how many 3 and out have you seen with rosier ??
 
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TheRichtShow said:
avicenna75 said:
Great post. I agree with everything you said

Richt needs to scrap that sweep play out of the shotgun. I don’t recall it ever working
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It worked against ND and sealed the game vs UVA

I guess those games don't count anymore to our ****** fans
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Sorry, I was referring to the play where we pull 2 linemen and stretch the run horizontally for 10 yards. I’m going off memory, but I don’t think we’ve ever gained more than 3 yards
 
If he pulled Rosier in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd, you guys would have still credit about Rosier getting benched. The excuses would have been "It takes a half or 3Qs for Rosier to start heating up like the GT, FSU etc games".
 
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