Posted on 02/02/2015 1:47:52 PM PST by OddLane
Everyone knew it was coming. Second-and-1 on the 1-yard line. Marshawn Lynch was waiting in the backfield, poised to do what he was put on this Earth to do: Get a touchdown — this touchdown. The football gods had telegraphed how they wanted the game to end, directing a floating ball straight into Jermaine Kearse’s hands. Beast Mode was going to drag the New England team kicking and screaming into the end zone if he had to. But the play call came in, Russell Wilson attempted a doomed pass that Malcolm Butler intercepted, and it was Seattle that punched and screamed its way off the field.
The Web erupted in outrage that Beast Mode never got his moment. For Seahawks fans, calling a pass was essentially Pete Carroll denying his team’s fate. For many others, it seemed like an inexplicable miscue.
(Excerpt) Read more at fivethirtyeight.com ...
No?
Reread my post.
Yes. And I concur. I Rae the article after my first post.
Same setup but Brady to Edelman ... six points.
It's George W. Bush's fault.
???? ... and a field goal would have put Seattle down down 28-27 with 20 seconds left. You need a source for better quality drugs.
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>> “I don’t take pro sports seriously. At all.” <<
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Back in the early ‘60s, an old nuclear engineer that I used to stop and talk with in his office, on my way home from school, told me one day “if you take anything on TV or in the public arena at face value, you’re a damn fool.”
I’ve yet to encounter anything that would cause me to doubt his words
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Seattle’s own management called Lynch a cancer in the locker room....during the season!!!???
A field goal!? Good God...
You don’t need to run Lynch three times. If you can’t gain three feet on two pops with Marshawn Lynch you don’t deserve to be champs.
Have Wilson run one or two zone reads and let the Pats decide which poison they want. Chances are far better than even that they’d have a second straight trophy today.
Move your running QB. If he keeps, get him to the corner. Out of bounds is the same clock saver as an incomplete pass.
If you must throw (and they didn’t have to), use your head and don’t throw to the middle of the field.
“A field goal!? Good God...”
Well sure. But then go for the two-points after the field goal and you win the game!
I agree on the rollout 100%. Also, the risk of the quick slant was not just that a DB might make a great read and intercept it. Several other very bad things were possible — a lineman could have tipped it, leading to an INT; the pass could have been too hot or just a bit behind the receiver, leading to a deflection and an INT; or the “blocking” receiver could have been a little too unsubtle and gotten called for offensive PI (as at the end of the Florida State-Notre Dame game last fall), to name three other possible catastrophes.
“What really messed this whole thing up was not that they didn’t run it, but that a pass was intercepted. That is a critical nuance.”
Yes, you are right.
Now, I utterly despise Pete Carroll, and have ever since he was at USC. But his explanation makes a great deal of sense. The one intangible was an interception (as you point out), and as one of the analysts stated, no NFL team had thrown an interception from the 1-yard line...until last night.
I’m happy New England won. I think its run is over, though, as I think Brady will either retire after this year or have may one more season. The Seahawks, however, are a very young team, and have a good chance of being the dominant team for many years to come (kind of like Pittsburgh in the ‘70s).
A run play would not necessarily have to go to Lynch. I think they should have used a two-back set, faked to Lynch, and given it to Turbin, or had Wilson keep it to run or possibly find the tight end.
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“am sorry but worry about scoring first... i know time on the clock is important, but sheesh... so is scoring...’
Exactly what I in my absolute football ignorance was thinking as I watched this play. Yeah, fine, I see the wisdom of looking at the whole game and not just playing to the moment. People who can do that well ought to get the big bucks BUT: On the one with mere seconds left? It looks bizarre to people who only watch superbowl games.
That is funny.
I'm not a conspiracist by any stretch, and I don't even necessarily agree with everything he says, but he does make some valid points.
Especially about the blinders most sports fans in this country wear.
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