Posted on 02/05/2015 3:30:47 PM PST by Perdogg
Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll isn't sleeping well these days. Carroll and his offensive coaching staff made the infamous decision to pass the ball from New England's 1-yard line in the final seconds of Super Bowl XLIX, resulting in Russell Wilson throwing a game-ending interception.
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I disagree with the boo birds, in particular, one RINO-loving radio commentator who said Carroll made the stupidest play call in the history of the NFL. What if Carroll had kept the ball on the ground and Lynch had been held for no gain on successive plays until the clock ran out? Would that have been smarter?
In my decades of watching football--high school, Division 3, Division 1A and pro--I've seen many a successful goal line stand.
I would have credited you had I recalled the name!
Deal with it!
Get a grip.
Everybody screws up.
Put on your big boy pants, Pete, and learn from your mistakes. Winners have no time for pity parties. I think you are a winner.
Not necessarily a Hawks fan, but I think he and the GM have done an excellent job in building an excellent team. Somebody had to lose the game.
Pete, I hear you can’t sleep. Let me help you out. Play your DVR’d SOTU speech. Balack will put you to sleep in no time t’all.
Hey, adapt and overcome.
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Throw the ball to a place where there are really only three possible outcomes: (1) the receiver catches the ball for a TD, (2) the receiver catches the ball out of bounds, or (3) the ball is out of everyone's reach and falls incomplete.
None of these outcomes ends the game for the offense.
He needs to get past it, although I sympathize with him.
I think you’re looking at that play as it unfolds and reaching the wrong conclusion. I think New England defended the play perfectly because they knew it was coming exactly as it was played out.
Getting technical for a second...Buckner’s error came in the 6th game of the world series between the Red Sox and Mets...The Mets then won game 7 to capture the series...while Buckner’s error did not actually lose the series for the Red Sox, it did cut the heart out of that team...it was as demoralizing a defeat as one can have in baseball...the clubhouse workers had broken out the champagne in the locker room and one of the broadcast team was in the locker room ready to interview the victorious Red Sox...As the ball rolled through Buckner’s legs, the clubhouse team raced to remove any and all signs of a victory celebration...for a team sport, it doesn’t get any worse than that...
And yet Boston went into the bottom up the sixth inning in Game 7 up 3-0. They didn’t exactly come out flat after that demoralizing Game 6 loss.
An interesting explanation as to WHY the play was called to begin with.
Carrol was attempting to diminish Marshon Lynch for his disrespect of the NFL and the fans on media day.
The play was called so as to put Russell Wilson in the position of being the hero and the MVP for bringing the Hawks back to victory.
The NFL, as well as Carroll, were looking to "political correctness" instead of where they should have been focused.
The real failure is that Wilson couldn't EXECUTE the play.
Lesson: "You reap what you sow"
Either way, my point was that, in the big picture, it's nothing to get suicidal over.
And then there was Donnie Moore...
Seems there was one game the Hawks lost this year that Lynch was not able to convert on two 4th and inches and there was also a goal line stand with the same result.
That probably was taken into consideration.
It was the Chiefs or Rams game I’m not absolutely certain.
I think they should have run Robert Turban.
Could of would have should have, it’s a game, and there is always is a winner and a loser.
Maybe if he would take a “stupid pill” before he goes to bed that would help ..... wait, there is no pill for stupid!
Ah Sam but you are forgetting that on a successful, (4th quarter only), Field Goal in an odd numbered year in the Super Bowl it counts as 5 points! So the Hawks go ahead 29-28!
That's what I would have called. Nothing wrong with safe passing on that 2nd down play with 30 sec left and only one timeout. Worst case you stop the clock. Run again on 3rd down and still have your timeout if it does not work.
But I have to give all credit to NE's Butler for reading that slant and jumping the route. An all time classic play by an undrafted free agent. My hat is off to him.
Coaches design plays. Players make plays.
....But....
After losing like that who's got deflated ball now?
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