Idiots Write About Sports

You know what I think. And what the readers think. So whose fault is it for losing to Oregon, Coach Tedford?

“It’s not on Joe,” coach Jeff Tedford said. “It comes down to everybody.”

Uh-huh. If I were the coach, that’s what I’d say, too. But…

It came down to 4th down, with the full-house crowd of 58,309 growing deafening. Gray got open over the middle, and the ball was a good 10 feet too high.
“I wish I could go back and do that one again,” Ayoob said. “I just threw it over his head. I don’t know what to say about it…. I take responsibility for the loss.”

Hey, Joe Ayoob got it right!

Lynch bristled when told of Ayoob’s comments, saying it was a team loss. “If Joe is going to put in on him, I’ll put it on me,” he said.

Excellent teammate behavior, Marshawn. How can you sell out your only quarterback when you’ve got two or three games left in the season?
But deep down inside, you know they’re all just trying to make the best of a bad situation with an out-of-his-depth quarterback.
When I was in elementary school, I played on a Pee-Wee baseball team that managed to win two games in four years. And no games for the first two years. They told me that losing builds character, and boy, do I believe it. That was a formative experience for me.
After a year like this, Joe Ayoob’s gonna have a whole lot of character. Which will serve him well in the future, whatever he does in life.