Pitt Ol Ryan Baer who assumes responsibility after “embarrassing” at the end of 2024

Pitt’s offensive quiet, Ryan Baer, ​​did not play words when asked about the result of season 2024.

“Unacceptable”, “embarrassing” and “horrible” were just a few of the ways in which he described the end of Pitt’s season, after starting with 7-0 and the way the offensive line played.

“It was embarrassing, indeed”, Baer said last week. “Obviously, wounds – don’t apologize. You have wounds, things happen. Everyone in the country has wounds. You have to be able to intensify, the next man. I didn’t do it. Especially like a line, I played horrible. It is what it is. I didn’t play great, I didn’t play great as a unit, so we just have to return it. Is in the past now. We just have to use it as a fuel. “

Another older year in the Pitt program as Junior Redshirt, Baer now assumes a leading role and assumes responsibility for all the failures of a season.

“I just want to be more vocal,” he said. “I have never really been the most vocal type here, but as you get old, it is a kind of job to drive for example and drive, so trying to be a little more vocal.”

The native of Eastlake, Ohio, could not always be the most comfortable as a vocal type, but understands what is necessary after experiencing former teammates and offensive tranamists, Branson Taylor and Matt Goncalves, go through the same development. Baer also saw these leadership features in his time around Quarterback Kenny Pickett.

“I wasn’t here with Kenny, but I was around when he was preparing for Pro’s day. Just meeting him, seeing what it means to be a leader and the respect you win. You have to win to be a leader, you can’t force yourself to be one. You have to win this respect, so I will not force anything and if people see me as a leader, then I will lead. You have to win it, “said Baer.

Pitt’s head coach, Pat Narduzzi, also recognized Baer as a leader, especially in group of approaches This received it in the transfers of the Persii in Michigan and Kendall Stanley from Charlotte.

“Ryan Baer is a man. He is the leader of that group … he just does his job and leads for example when he is there “,” Narduzzi said on Thursday.

The 2024 campaign was a challenge for Baer. He became a starter at the right approach to open the season before switching to the left attack, after Taylor suffered an accident ending in the season. Baer’s play had a hit once he moved to the right approach.

In the last five games, Baer has played 412 instantaneous at the left attack, according to Pro Football Focus. He allowed 21 pressures and six of the seven bags he allowed during the season came in that stretch. The whole season, Baer allowed 44 pressures and took five penalties as PFF i offered a general class of 58.9 – 404th among approaches.

Baer works again on the right approach, the place where it is more comfortable.

“I feel much better at the right approach,” he said. “I want to be able to play both only where something happens like last year but now I’m right.”

The 6-meter-7 baer says it is thinner than it has ever been to college and feels best as it is in progress.

“I am the easiest I have been since my high school year, so I really tried to bring my body,” Baer said. “I reached 319 at this moment, so trying to thin myself in the different style of offense.

“I feel great. I feel a lot more in shape, something more agile, so I certainly feel a difference. “

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With year 2 under the Kade Bell offensive coordinator and the offensive coach of the Jeremy Darveau line, Baer believes that the line will be better prepared for the next season.

“I think it will help a lot more for development. Spring is a time when you want to develop. Do not prepare for the defense of other teams. Only you and the defense of your team go every day. Now that we know the crime, it is no more a learning phase. We go out and develop and improve. Now we can take this spring and develop in the crime we have done for a year, which I think will help us a lot. “

In the first days of the spring camp, Baer observed a different tone for the practices and exercises of only three months eliminated from the sixth and last loss of a miserable and loss and loss at the end of 2024 and hopes that it will continue in this way.

“We are not in the pads yet, but even to be in the spiders, line O, line D, we fought. It’s good. That’s why we need it. Starting 7-0 last year and ending the way we did it was unacceptable, so we have to change something and I think we are on the right foot right now, ”said Baer.