All plays may not be successful.
My thought is that when you are down by 9 points with 4 minutes to go - you have to take some larger risks. Our offense was horrible Sunday. Horrible. So you take the risk and hope for a big play. Schiano said the play had an out (which should have been taken and is obvious as the play resulted in a fumble/TD), and said Page made a mistake. Schiano is supposed to fall on that sword? It's completely obvious that the handoff should not have been attempted. The risk was needed and should have been aborted as it had an out and it wasn't there. I like the play call. It was piss poor execution. Still would like to see a coaching upgrade this offseason.
honest question FireSchiano, (please don't read any sarcasm in this) do you think he was throwing Page under the bus, or simply being honest that the player had the option to either go with the reverse or pull out of it and run the return normally, and he thought Page made a mistake attempting it? (is that last part what is considered throwing him under the bus?)Maybe I'm not reading the quote right, but I guess I didn't get the "deflect criticism away" mode, but more so answering the question about the play honestly.
I think he was throwing Page under the bus. A coach should take the blame for it. It was not the time for that call to be made. Page may have made a mistake at attempting it, but why are you putting that much on a young guy with little experience like Page? Even if Page did screw it up, I think Schiano needs to take the blame for putting him in that type of situation, especially given that it was called when it was.
Gotcha, I agree Schiano should take the responsibility for calling the play, I guess I wasn't seeing the blame part, because I was happy to see a coach say more then "its on me".
What I dislike even more than the call was him throwing Page under the bus like that. Should have just said "we ran It and it didn't work out".
If that is what happened, it's a gigantic b!tch move on Schiano's part
Hard to fault the call, we were down 2 scores. We were not going to have 2 long drives. We needed something to get a cheap score or shorten the field. Yes it was risky but looking at the situation he played the game to win.
Exactly right - not to mention we had only two timeouts left. An aggressive play to shrink the gap that didn't pay off.
"The question here should be why, with being down just nine points, even discuss a play that may not be successful?"
This is an impossible standard.
I guess the Bucs should just fold up operations if they can't run a play that has a chance of failing... take up t-ball maybe?
+1
