Eagles send Pitt to fifth straight loss with explosive performance
BOSTON COLLEGE ATHLETICS
Nate Yarnell is sacked by Neto Okpala at Alumni Stadium.
When one looks at Pitt's fifth straight loss, a demoralizing 34-23 defeat Saturday evening against Boston College at Alumni Stadium, they could look at the lack of a running game or the absence of any type of protection for its beat up quarterback that was sacked six times. But on this day, Boston College capitalizing on big plays were the demise of the Panthers and their once bright season.
Offensively, Boston College had seven plays of 25 yards or more with two of them being scoring plays and five were either a scoring play or led to a scoring play. Six of them came through the air and three of those also came on third-and-long situations.
The Eagles were ultimately able to capitalize on Pitt's secondary with long passes down the field from quarterback Grayson James, who completed 20 of his 28 passes for 253 yards and two touchdowns. There was this 53-yard catch by Reid Harris that set up a 3-yard Kye Robichaux touchdown:
When asked about the struggles defensively, Donovan McMillon said it wasn't necessarily anything schematically that the Eagles were doing, but how James was throwing the ball.
"It was tough, I would say what I noticed, we'll have to go look through and watch the film and everything but I know the QB liked to hang up the ball," McMillon said. "That's always the toughest way to cover someone whenever you're waiting there, you don't know where the ball is, but the ball is sitting there. But we had some PI's so that was tough. But in the passing game, we felt like we had them to a point. I know they had a few plays but, like I said, we'll have to watch film to make sure we correct all that."
However, let's also not forget Boston College's first touchdown as Jordan McDonald scampered 36 yards almost untouched.
There were mistakes all over the field on multiple occasions, but it wasn't all on the defense as there was also this momentum-stealing pick-6 right before halftime:
Pitt was simply outmanned and outgunned on this day in Chestnut Hill, Mass. because while it built up shreds of momentum at times with big defensive stops or methodical scoring drives, it allowed the Eagles to work their way right back into the lead.
"We got it turned back around," Pat Narduzzi said of cutting Boston College's lead to three points at one point. "But, we just didn't make enough plays. It was just unfortunate."
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Eagles send Pitt to fifth straight loss with explosive performance
BOSTON COLLEGE ATHLETICS
Nate Yarnell is sacked by Neto Okpala at Alumni Stadium.
When one looks at Pitt's fifth straight loss, a demoralizing 34-23 defeat Saturday evening against Boston College at Alumni Stadium, they could look at the lack of a running game or the absence of any type of protection for its beat up quarterback that was sacked six times. But on this day, Boston College capitalizing on big plays were the demise of the Panthers and their once bright season.
Offensively, Boston College had seven plays of 25 yards or more with two of them being scoring plays and five were either a scoring play or led to a scoring play. Six of them came through the air and three of those also came on third-and-long situations.
The Eagles were ultimately able to capitalize on Pitt's secondary with long passes down the field from quarterback Grayson James, who completed 20 of his 28 passes for 253 yards and two touchdowns. There was this 53-yard catch by Reid Harris that set up a 3-yard Kye Robichaux touchdown:
And then there was this 27-yard pass to Jeremiah Franklin that set up a 28-yard touchdown pass to Harris:
When asked about the struggles defensively, Donovan McMillon said it wasn't necessarily anything schematically that the Eagles were doing, but how James was throwing the ball.
"It was tough, I would say what I noticed, we'll have to go look through and watch the film and everything but I know the QB liked to hang up the ball," McMillon said. "That's always the toughest way to cover someone whenever you're waiting there, you don't know where the ball is, but the ball is sitting there. But we had some PI's so that was tough. But in the passing game, we felt like we had them to a point. I know they had a few plays but, like I said, we'll have to watch film to make sure we correct all that."
However, let's also not forget Boston College's first touchdown as Jordan McDonald scampered 36 yards almost untouched.
There were mistakes all over the field on multiple occasions, but it wasn't all on the defense as there was also this momentum-stealing pick-6 right before halftime:
Pitt was simply outmanned and outgunned on this day in Chestnut Hill, Mass. because while it built up shreds of momentum at times with big defensive stops or methodical scoring drives, it allowed the Eagles to work their way right back into the lead.
"We got it turned back around," Pat Narduzzi said of cutting Boston College's lead to three points at one point. "But, we just didn't make enough plays. It was just unfortunate."
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