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Q: Do you look for the Pitt defense to slow their pass rush to keep quarterback Russell Wilson in the pocket?

Mark Schilajew, Huntingdon

ZEISE: No, not really. For one thing, the Panthers don't blitz nearly as much as most teams and so there isn't much of a danger of getting caught in one and having Wilson break out for a long run. The Panthers play a very sound scheme in that, they don't get out of position often. The Panthers pass rush is almost exclusively generated by the front four guys beating their man with the back seven staying home. Every so often they'll bring another player up and send him, but Dave Wannstedt is not a big fan of blitzing and never has been. So the front four will simply do their thing and the hope is they are good enough to get off their blocks and chase down Wilson, even if he does get out of the pocket. The one thing that Pitt has done against a few mobile quarterbacks, however, has brought a linebacker up to the line in a stand up defensive end position and played almost like a five-man line. This enables them to stretch the play out a little bit horizontally and keep him in front of them.

Q: I believe too much is being made about Sunseri going into the Navy game when it was still undecided. Note that Tino has never played in a pressure situation, and look at the fate that faces USF this Saturday at FSU. Thus my question ... if Bill Stull would happen to be injured this Saturday, who replaces him?

Bill Aloe, Pittsburgh

ZEISE: Dave says it will be Tino and there is no reason at this point to doubt that. Tino and Bill Stull take all the reps at practice all week while Pat Bostick either runs the scout team (if the other team has a dropback passer, which none of them really has and this week he won't be running the scout team because Wilson is a mobile quarterback) or watches practice. So it would be tough to throw Bostick in there cold but the larger question to me is this -- if Tino struggled and Stull's injury was long-term -- who would start the next week at Louisville? My guess is this is not an issue the coaches really would want to have to think about.

Q: As you have commented, night home games for Pitt draw in the fans - even during the not-so-good years. Why doesn't Pitt play more night games at Heniz?

Dave DeBlasio, Pittsburgh

ZEISE: There are so many factors which go into the kick-off time of games that it is hard to say any one of them is the reason the Panthers don't play home night games more. Pitt has stadium partners it has to work with, the Panthers also have to work with the Pirates due to the parking lot situation, then there are conference factors and of course, television. So it isn't that easy just to say "Pitt should play at night every game" because it isn't always Pitt's decision. I know Steve Pederson likes the 3:30 kick-off times the best and he's not a fan of midweek or Friday night home games, so that is another factor. I agree that night games are much better in terms of the atmosphere, but when you are in a conference whose television slots seem to be either during the week or earlier in the day on Saturday, there isn't much you can do about it.