Why not hand it off to Lynch? Second and goal from the 1 yard line...with two timeouts remaining for Seattle. You run it up the gut.
Could it be that it was rigged. If you watch the replay, the defensive player knew it was coming. He was ready to pick it off.
After the game in an on the field interview, that player said that (paraphrasing) he had a vision that that was the play that was going to occur, and that he needed to be exactly where he was in order to get that pick.
I mean, no joke, he made it seem like he had a psychic vision or some other from of vision that allowed that to happen.
The defensive player made a good play. The NE coaches knew that was a play Seattle might run and had the team ready. The defensive player read the play well.