Did Mullen blame our offense?

[00dog]

When Dan's post-game remarks were rebroadcast he seemed to hardly mention the defense. He said something about the offense having a hiccup in the 2nd quarter, not scoring, and that we could never catch up to Ark after that.

I try not to weigh some post-game remarks too heavily, but it seemed like Dan was blaming the offense. If he wanted to be critical, as he should have been, he should have spent a little time on the defense unless he didn't want to criticize something we didn't have.

It was awhile before I got to the car last night so I didn't hear the post-game remarks live. I heard them later, so I'm not sure if I heard them all.

 

[josebrown]

Yea, that's about what he said. Mumbled something about missing tackles... But did say the difference in the game were two drives we didn't score on in the second quarter. I was thinking the difference in the game was our defense never did stop them, but that's just me. He's certainly entitled to his opinion.

 

[missouridawg]

Maybe he learned a lesson after 2014... ?

 

[hail1984]

When Dan's post-game remarks were rebroadcast he seemed to hardly mention the defense. He said something about the offense having a hiccup in the 2nd quarter, not scoring, and that we could never catch up to Ark after that.

I try not to weigh some post-game remarks too heavily, but it seemed like Dan was blaming the offense. If he wanted to be critical, as he should have been, he should have spent a little time on the defense unless he didn't want to criticize something we didn't have.

It was awhile before I got to the car last night so I didn't hear the post-game remarks live. I heard them later, so I'm not sure if I heard them all.

Sounded to me like he was putting blame/responsibility on himself. When discussing second quarter, he part I believe your talking about, he said twice "that's on ME". Also when discussing defense, said it's on me to put players in position to make plays or put different players on he field. Going out of his way not to throw ANY players under he bus. Sounded like a leader to me.

 

[hail1984]

When Dan's post-game remarks were rebroadcast he seemed to hardly mention the defense. He said something about the offense having a hiccup in the 2nd quarter, not scoring, and that we could never catch up to Ark after that.



I try not to weigh some post-game remarks too heavily, but it seemed like Dan was blaming the offense. If he wanted to be critical, as he should have been, he should have spent a little time on the defense unless he didn't want to criticize something we didn't have.



It was awhile before I got to the car last night so I didn't hear the post-game remarks live. I heard them later, so I'm not sure if I heard them all.

Sounded to me like he was putting blame/responsibility on himself. When discussing second quarter, the part I believe your talking about, he said twice "that's on ME". Also when discussing defense, said it's on me to put players in position to make plays or put different players on he field. Going out of his way not to throw ANY players under he bus. Sounded like a leader to me.

 

[Sack N City]

Difference is Sirmon or T. Buckley might whip his butt if Mullen threw them under the bus in a post game press conference.

 

[Old Fart Dawg]

Sounded to me like he was putting blame/responsibility on himself. When discussing second quarter, the part I believe your talking about, he said twice "that's on ME". Also when discussing defense, said it's on me to put players in position to make plays or put different players on he field. Going out of his way not to throw ANY players under he bus. Sounded like a leader to me.

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Careful. You run the risk of being called an apologist

 

[josebrown]

Actually that's his cute way of blaming the players you heard. He puts them there so it's his fault they screwed the pooch...that's what that is, not him taking the blame by calling the players out... because we all know who the players were and he knows that... You know, like, he always has a higher standard for his qb's. Which one you think he was talking about?

He directly said that the offense(not scoring on a couple drives) was the difference in the ballgame. He didn't say the defense was the difference in the game or that their punter was the difference in the ballgame...

Sounded like an idiot to me, honestly, but he kinda always sounds that way to me when answering questions about the team or their performance.

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

My interpretation of Dan's interview with Jim was that he mailed in all hope for our defense after either kentucky or Samford. It's pretty clear that we have no margin for error on offense if we want to win and Dan is obviously aware. Early in the season, things reeked of locker room issues between the team. End of the season, it's almost as if the offense is gelling together and have corrected their problems, but defensively still have issues top-to-bottom.