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Colts coach Chuck Pagano said Sunday night that the fourth-down call that will stick to him for years to come failed because he “didn’t do a good enough job coaching it” and he repeated that message during a Monday press conference.

The decision to line up (illegally, as it turned out) in a swinging gate-type formation with wide receiver Griff Whalen snapping the ball to safety Colt Anderson has been the source of much humor from outside the organization since the moment Anderson was dropped for a loss by the Patriots, but Pagano said Monday, via Bob Kravitz of WTHR, that he doesn’t regret making the call.

Pagano repeated his feeling that he didn’t do a good enough job coaching the players on the play, which he confirmed was designed to either catch the Patriots with 12 men on the field or burn a timeout. Whalen said that it was “just miscommunication” when asked why he snapped the ball to Anderson when neither of those things happened. Pagano couldn’t prevent Whalen from getting the wrong message about what to do on the play, but possibility of that miscommunication is certainly something the guy calling the shots has to take into account.

A penalty would have given the Colts a first down, although it’s worth wondering if the potential downside that wound up playing out was worth it when facing a coach who prepares for enough eventualities that it might take seeing a black bear lined up to run the Wing-T before he’s well and truly rattled.