“JASON: I asked him what went wrong last season, and his answer by a lot people — because he said ‘you gotta call the right play in the right defense’ — that’s being made to look like that’s a dig solely at Kevin Patullo.
I really think if you look at the whole quote — if you look at the whole quote, and this is the way Stout is, the whole quote is really referencing the players and the coaches. He talks about executing the plays, execution, and then not calling bad plays into bad defenses.
Although Patullo was the playcaller, I know Stout and everybody’s involved in that game plan. Everybody’s involved in building that thing, so the plays that end up getting called, all he’s saying there is that to be successful in football, it comes down to the players executing and the coaches putting the players in the best position possible. And last year, that didn’t happen. So, that’s what he was trying to say with that quote.“