Pat Narduzzi Puts Pitt's Loss on Those Around Kedon Slovis

Pitt Panthers head coach Pat Narduzzi said Kedon Slovis wasn't solely to blame for the offense's struggles.

PITTSBURGH -- The first 56 minutes of Kedon Slovis' performance against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets was dissapointing. His final line - 26 for 45, 305 yards and three touchdowns to just one interception - are somewhat misleading. Slovis and the Pitt Panthers manufactured a very late push at 1-3 Georgia Tech, who held a two-score lead until the game clock rolled inside of two minutes.  

Slovis and the Pitt offense recorded 166 of their 411 total yards on its final two drives, both of which resulted in touchdowns. 

Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi did not put all of the blame for the offense's lackluster outing on his quarterback. Narduzzi said he liked how Slovis finished the game and led the unit to the endzone twice in the final two minutes of the game, but wished they had shown that same life earlier. 

"Decision-making at the end was really good," Narduzzi said. "Early, he needs some help. We'll look at the tape. But it's how we finished. ... He threw some nice balls. Did we protect him a little bit better maybe in the last couple of drives than we did earlier in the game, I don't know. ... But again, he shows he can do it. We just, again, we didn't get it done in the first half as an offense, period."

Drops and penalties plagued the Panthers for three quarters before they were finally able to get back on track and Narduzzi pointed to those as drive and momentum-killers. 

"We had a drop or a penalty," Narduzzi said. "We had way too many penalties. Special teams and on offense. I mean, even on the last 99-yard drive we had two illegal procedures."

Narduzzi said correcting those mistakes ultimately falls on him as the head coach.

"It wasn't detailed enough," Narduzzi said. "It starts with me."

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