Greg Schiano bit the questions off before they could come.
Schiano headed off the recriminations over once again following a headline-grabbing win with a profile-sinking loss. He blocked the tut-tuts over his league-high salary and thwarted the naysayers ready to loudly doubt his coaching ability. By doing it himself.
A day after Rutgers’ 31-13 blowout loss at Syracuse, Schiano didn’t at all soften the blame he’d placed on himself and his staff Saturday evening.
“As I said (after the game), I just don’t feel like we did a good job coaching, and I don’t mean during the week,” he said. “I thought our football players worked extremely hard … We were a step behind all day coaching.”
Aditi Kinkhabwala has written a regular column for SI.com and been published in Sports Illustrated.
One head coach. $2 million.
Four coordinators. $750,000.
Clueless to defend a blitz. Priceless.
Dumb and dumber.
Dumb — an experienced front 7 on defense who apparently couldn’t remember how to play against an option. Uh, the Army game was how many weeks ago?
Dumber — the Super K’s, Kyle and Kirk. What, linebackers are allowed to blitz? When did that rule come in? What, we have a fullback? And tight ends? Draws? Screens? No thanks, we’ll just stick with our wildcat and 7-step drops and we’ll leave poor Joe Martinek trying to block two guys at the same time, over and over and over again.
Just because Schiano takes the blame, doesn’t mean that the press can’t ask tough questions and demand at least a little bit of competence. Like … why did he screw up his OL so badly by kicking Flood upstairs? The OL should be working for Colonel Klink on Hogan’s Heroes — any opponent can escape at will.
p.s. — tell Anthony Davis to stop tweeting to Mel Kiper during the games so that maybe he can block someone. Doug Hogue made AD look like a free agent pick-up for a UFL franchise.