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Message: [QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 365437, member: 297"] [url]http://espn.go.com/espn/playbook/story/_/id/8421050/the-replacement-referees-losing-control-coaches-players-worse-blown-calls[/url] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=#333333][SIZE=12px][I]Last week, TMQ hammered Greg Schiano for having his defense charge the offense on a final-snap kneel-down at the end of the Giants-Bucs game. Schiano has since defended himself by claiming this tactic actually works. [URL='http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=8402238'][COLOR=#225fb2]Here[/COLOR][/URL], Schiano told "Mike & Mike in the Morning" that charging the victory formation "caused fumbles several times" at Rutgers. Schiano told Pro Football Talk the tactic "actually created a fumbled C-Q exchange four times in the past four or five years. It does work."[/I][/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=#333333][SIZE=12px] [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=#333333][SIZE=12px] [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=#333333][SIZE=12px][I]Schiano did not add: Rutgers never got a turnover. I asked Jason Baum, associate athletic director of Rutgers, what happened when the Scarlet Knights attacked kneel-downs under Schiano. Baum said that four times the quarterback fumbled -- against North Carolina in 2011, against Pitt and West Virginia in 2009 and against Cincinnati in 2007. Rutgers recovered once, but the play was nullified by a Rutgers offside. Any defense can cause the quarterback to fumble by jumping offside and slapping the ball before the snap! The other three times, quarterbacks covered their own fumbles.[/I][/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=#333333][SIZE=12px] [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=#333333][SIZE=12px] [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=#333333][SIZE=12px][I]Thus Rutgers never got possession by attacking a victory formation. The tactic did not "work," as Schiano claims -- unless the point was to show that Schiano is a bully. For Schiano to say his tactic "caused fumbles several times," not adding that Rutgers never got the ball, is a classic Nixonian statement -- literally true, but intended to deceive.[/I][/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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