You’re completely right. Cal played horrible the other night. I’m almost sad to see my old team look that soft on defense, and that afraid to hit the Pitt guys. Also, the D-Line played the worst in my opinion. I realize that they took a big hit losing Meeks and Ona-Enagbare, but they shouldn’t be getting pushed around and hooked that bad by the Pitt line.

But I was correct in my posts in other threads about how Pitt (like a lot of other teams) rely a lot on pure athleticism and have little discipline.

At the same time though, Cal’s biggest flaw the other night was the fact that they were not able to capitalize on Pitt’s many many mistakes.

SRV’s defense is pretty soft- and it is partly the SRV offensive philosophy that is to blame. When your offense has a pass first mentality- it carries over to the defense as well. MV is guilty of this team design as well. DLS , Cal, Pitt are all run first offense’s and their defenses are tougher because of it.

Pitt can win this game IF… they limit the penalties and turnovers. Southwick is a star, no doubt, but it is tough to win when you are one dimensional.

SRV doesn’t need to run when it scores quickly with passing. They do what they need to do to win, run or pass. With a QB like Southwick and one of the areas top receivers in Peterson they play to their strength. Clearly Pitt is a running team and a good one. The passing game is very weak though. The QB isn’t quite up to par yet.

The Pitt pass defense isn’t that great though…it took double teaming Zwarg to shut him down. If you double team Peterson, he’ll still beat you. Conversely, the SRV run defense isn’t great either.

We’ll see what happens, it will be good.