It’s taken a bit of time, a bit too long, but the Pitt offense is showing signs of life over the last few games. And that bodes well for the future of Pitt football.
Christian Veilleux led Pitt on a perfect drive to open Saturday’s contest on the road against Wake Forest, completing 7-of-8 pass attempts for 66 yards with a touchdown, and it was his distribution of targets that stands out.
Veilleux hit Daejon Reynolds, Konata Mumpfield and Gavin Bartholomew for four completions, and he completed three passes to Kenny Johnson for 22 yards — including a 7-yard touchdown.
Johnson worked a crossing route across the end zone, hauling in a nice ball from Veilleux, and it wasn’t even his most impressive conversion of the drive.
He ran a beautiful post on a 3rd-and-13, hauling in the pass to move the chains and ensure a false start didn’t doom a promising start to the touchdown drive.
Johnson has caught five passes for 71 yards and a touchdown, adding five rushes for 33 yards and he’s served as one of the best kickoff return men in the ACC.
After a kickoff return touchdown against North Carolina earlier this season, his first collegiate touchdown, his first quarter receiving touchdown is the first offensive touchdown of his career. What appears to be the first of many in his collegiate career.
Too many penalties every week. 4 false start/illegal motions in the first quarter. Beyond mid season and drive killing false starts are still a regular thing. Hard to explain.
Great potential. If we had an average OC.
Cignetti is an embarrassment.
what happened after that ? not even looking for anything more than 5 yards. quick outs and bad overthrows ,, not sure what goes on series to series
their players are on Scholarship P5 athletes too. their Defense was pretty sound. Their O-line held up our down four all Day. Our DC used nickel blitz with extra DB to generate two QB sacks. Their OC was more conservative than ours the majority of the game. LB DeShields got banged up on a kickoff, not sure what happened to him. One of our back up DT got all hot on the sidelines late after their QB sneaked one and got pushed into him. #97 was all hot an bothered. Several staffers and players were holding him back. Our Punt… Read more »
This is the worst Defensive Line and defense in years. The O-line is trash and Cignetti is worse.
Go watch a game live Bro’, our defense is good. The play calling was fine. This ain’t Retro or Tecmo Bowl! It was a give and take Scenario from both Offenses. Like a lumber jack on the logs contest. We came up short. Check the national Scoreboards, it was an Odd weekend of Games all over.