Hall to Pitta, a fantasy question to Max
OK, just a fantasy question for Max Hall about the Northern Iowa game and the Panther defense.
What would have been the result if you had thrown 40 passes to Dennis Pitta in that game last Saturday?
“How many times would he have caught it out of 40 passes? About 40 times, the way that guy was playing,” said Hall this morning at the weekly media press conference.
“Until they put everybody on defense on him, and then, he still might have caught the ball. He just goes up and makes plays. To have him start the season the way he did is a huge boost to our football team and a confidence builder for me as well.”
Let’s see, 40 receptions, when he averaged about 19.3 yards per catch on his 11 he recorded officially… well, just for fantasy, if he got 40 thrown his way and caught most of them, that would be 774.5 yards.
Ridiculous? Of course. But it would have been fun to see Hall to Pitta about 10 more times in that game and see how the numbers read at the end of the day. It would have been interesting to see how many of those five fumbles would have occurred had a greater chunck of the plays been directed to Pitta, who seemingly was invincible and uncoverable.
Hall completed 11 passes for 213 yards to Pitta in the 41-17 win over the Panthers. On the day, he completed 34 of 41 for 486 yards and 2 TDs for a pass efficiency rating of 198. He currently ranks No. 2 nationally in passing yards per game and Pitta ranks No. 1 in the nation.
Hall said he watched the UCLA-Tennessee game and credited Kevin Craft for his comeback win. He was impressed how he had three picks in the first half and then came back and “took it one play at a time,” to get back in the game. “That was impressive to me as a quarterback that he had the poise to do that. It was a pretty sweet deal.”
Other quotes from this morning with Hall.
On Washington’s quarterback Jake Locker:
“He’s just an athletic dude and he just makes plays, that’s what I admire about him. He’s a scrapper and he runs around and does a lot of great things. He’s a leader of that team and that’s what a leader should do. It’s fun to watch a player like that but it’s even more fn to play against a guy like that and battle it out.”
Bronco Mendenhall said Locker is not only the fastest player on Washington’s team but he’s faster than anybody on the Cougar team as well.
Jan Jorgensen said BYU’s defense reviewed film of the Panther game and learned a lot about themelves. The break down on Pat Grace’s option run took place because Jorgensen and a couple of other players did not recognize the uneven line front, so they were out of position. “That is something that shouldn’t happen and rarely happens but it it did. The trick play was a break down in communication between a safety and a corner who should have had it covered.”