[Goose]

While I agree in theory that the defense has to get the last stop on the final drive, don't you have to be realistic, especially when the defense had only given up 13 point in the first 59 minutes?  Can you really expect a defense with a gassed DL to be that effective after playing 40 minutes, given the lack of depth on the DL?  Something is going to break playing with that small a margin for error.

You and I can be realistic. The coach and the players can't be. "We are really tired. We give up." isn't going to cut it. There are times that the offense is going to make mistakes. As a coach, you can't give the defense a pass in those cases.

And the reason the error was small was because the offense didn't to its job.  Given the head coach is responsible for the offense, it seems incumbent upon him to take the blame, not deflect and say no, the defense needs to play better.

Not quite what he said, but I take your point. That is why in my reply I added the "That said..." part. It would have been good for Shaw to acknowledge the fact the score shouldn't have been so close. However, if he was going to leave out one of the two, it had to be the second. You can never, ever, make failure an option, even though we all know that both offenses and defenses fail.

To me, it's just a bad look for the head coach to ever not take responsibility when given the opportunity.

Agreed.

[Goose]

While I agree in theory that the defense has to get the last stop on the final drive, don't you have to be realistic, especially when the defense had only given up 13 point in the first 59 minutes?  Can you really expect a defense with a gassed DL to be that effective after playing 40 minutes, given the lack of depth on the DL?  Something is going to break playing with that small a margin for error.

You and I can be realistic. The coach and the players can't be. "We are really tired. We give up." isn't going to cut it. There are times that the offense is going to make mistakes. As a coach, you can't give the defense a pass in those cases.

And the reason the error was small was because the offense didn't to its job.  Given the head coach is responsible for the offense, it seems incumbent upon him to take the blame, not deflect and say no, the defense needs to play better.

Not quite what he said, but I take your point. That is why in my reply I added the "That said..." part. It would have been good for Shaw to acknowledge the fact the score shouldn't have been so close. However, if he was going to leave out one of the two, it had to be the second. You can never, ever, make failure an option, even though we all know that both offenses and defenses fail.

To me, it's just a bad look for the head coach to ever not take responsibility when given the opportunity.

Agreed.