It's excuse making.
I had a coach in a youth game chirping, during a TO he started going and pointed at the score board. Now I could have whacked him but I went with a stern and loud enough for more than just the 2 of us to hear, "Coach we have NOTHING to do with that score, now stop looking for excuses and coach your team."
It worked too, they closed the gap and all we heard from him the rest of the game was him instructing his team.
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