Austin Promises Defense Will "Play Without Fear!"

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(01-23-2018, 06:06 PM)fredtoast Wrote: That claim is highly debatable, but that was not the point.

Marvin never said in any interview that he was only going to play "not to lose" instead of playing to win.  So you can not always believe everything a coach says in an interview.

That claim is not even IN THE LEAST BIT debatable, which I provided '09 as the evidence to support my point.

Your second point makes no sense because he never said he was only going to play not to lose, but he did come out and say that he was going to play to win this season.

Also, what coach would play "not to lose"?  In his mind, he was playing to win, but his idea of playing to win was getting a lead of a score or two and then running the ball over-and-over to run out the clock, which is playing to not let the other team have a chance to beat you, which is playing "not to lose."

And before you say "every coach wants to give the other team as few chances to beat them as possible," which is true, but you do that by moving the chains, not just running on first and second down no matter what.