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Albany vs. Pittsburgh @ Heinz Field


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Had a great conversation with Coach Gatusso at the meet and great.  He told us all that they hope to stay in the game the first half and maybe into the 3rd and get Pitt a little nervous getting near the end of the game.  O Line has to be good and Def has to play like they have in the past.  Can't get beat by their receivers.

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20 hours ago, HOF2013 said:

Had a great conversation with Coach Gatusso at the meet and great.  He told us all that they hope to stay in the game the first half and maybe into the 3rd and get Pitt a little nervous getting near the end of the game.  O Line has to be good and Def has to play like they have in the past.  Can't get beat by their receivers.

Have to hope that the running game and chew up lots of clock and get key first downs. Will be interesting to see how that opens up play action down the field.

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ESPN Football Power Index gives Pitt 96.9% chance of winning, but only projects a 3-9 record for the year for them.

Narduzzi's teleconference transcript

 If you could expand on the challenges that Albany is going to present in the season opener for you guys.
NARDUZZI: Great question. I mean, you think of all the situations you're going to go through. First of all, we don't know who they are. You can watch tape from last year, but they've got obviously the same head coach in Gattuso, but their defensive coordinator is a guy named Keith Dudzinski, who has also inherited a co-defensive coordinator, who last year was the offensive coordinator, so he moved over. So I'm sure we'll see some different rings to that defense, and their defense is productive, as well. Maybe you don't see too many. And then offensively, they've got a new offensive coordinator, Coach Davis came from Fordham, so he was the offensive coordinator at Fordham. Before that he was at Northern Iowa.

So we've watched -- defensively we've watched Northern Iowa offense, we've watched Fordham offense and we've watched Albany offense from last year, so we've got a little bit of everything into the game plan, really game planned for three different football teams.

When you look at that type of game plan, we try to mix things in that fit both or all three squads, but those are things that you run into.

The other thing I think there's always a situation, you don't know who they are as far as people, players. They've got a real fast-track guy that's also the punt rusher, kick returner, wide out. Testaverde is their quarterback, who didn't play last year, so it's like you've got to go back to watch him play against Texas Tech, against Texas a couple years ago. So we've watched a ton of tape. That's the issues that an opener against someone that you really don't know -- if we opened up against Clemson or Virginia Tech, you know them because you played them in the past. Without ever having played them, that's the problems that it's posed there.

 

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