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“I don’t know if that’s not something that’s done in the National Football League,'' Schiano said. "What I do with our football team is that we fight until they tell us game over. And there’s nothing dirty about it, there’s nothing illegal about it. We crowd the ball like a sneak defense and try to knock it loose. There’s nothing…if people watched Rutgers, they would know that’s what we do at the end of a game. We’re not going to quit, that’s just the way I coach and teach our players. If some people are upset about it, that’s just the way it goes. I don’t have any hesitation. That’s the way we play. We play clean, hard football until they tell us the game is over.''
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It's impossible to score on a kneel down - Maybe they were looking to break knees to get to the ball.
The game is over as soon as Eli takes a knee.
Schiano is new to being professional.
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Newsday
Tom Rock
Sean Locklear: "One of the guys said after the play (final play), “It’s a cheap shot, but coach told us to do it.”
"You could look on their faces, it was one of those things where they didn’t want to do it but you do what you’re told," Locklear said. about a minute ago
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Jenny Vrentas@JennyVrentas
N.J. Star Ledger
Players upset after they say Bucs line dove at Giants center, guards' knees. Locklear said one of Bucs said it was coach's orders. #nyg
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Mike Garafoloþ@MikeGarafolo
Re: scrum on last play, Snee called Bucs' actions "Busch league." Said they were throwing "helmets into knees."
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Mike Garafolo @MikeGarafolo
Bucs' McCoy on last play: "We do what we're coached. I'll leave it at that."
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Ralph Vacchianoþ@RVacchianoNYDN
Eli Manning agrees with Coughlin that he took "a little bit of a cheap shot" from the Bucs at the end of the game. #NYG
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ESPN: Greg Schiano is just way out of line
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Rutgers is, of course, where Schiano was coaching this time last year. And there are a few real problems with his rationale. First of all, you don't see teams doing that stuff at the college level, and it's for the same reason you don't see it at the NFL level. It's because it's a real good way to get people hurt for no good reason. If you're losing and out of timeouts and the other team has the ball with so little time left that they can kneel down and run out the clock, you've lost. It doesn't prove anything to your players or anyone else if you're the fake tough guy who refuses to accept that. All it does is put people at silly risk of injury at the end of 60 minutes' worth of brutal, health-threatening collisions. You owe it to your own players to know when you're beaten and back off. Asking them to make a useless leaping hit in that situation is putting them at risk the same way it's putting the other team at risk. It's irresponsible.
It also shows a lack of respect. It's sore-losership. You've been beaten, fair and square, in the part of the game in which both teams were competing honestly. To try and win it cheaply with a sneaky play after the opposing team (and any other opposing team you've ever faced or ever will face) justifiably believes it to have been decided is dishonest and dishonorable. Schiano's team played extremely hard on the road against the Super Bowl champs, but by the time Manning was taking a knee, they'd lost. The game was over. Schiano's postgame assertion that he didn't know that was naive and bush-league.
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