Here's my little glimmer of optimism. I vaguely recall, from the 2015 season when there was all this talk of Grigson interfering too much with Pagano's job, that one of the ways he was doing this was by not letting Pagano discipline guys - in other words, Pagano wanted to be harder on guys than he was, but Grigson wouldn't let him.
Now this year, there was talking again from some players that "they wanted to be coached harder". So once again, is this something where Pagano was being held back?
This clearly doesn't excuse his terrible in-game decisions, apparent lack of preparation for an opponent, and horrible offensive scheme, but hey like I said, it's a little glimmer of optimism.
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