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A Head Coach Botched The End Of The Super Bowl, And It Wasn’t Pete Carroll
FiveThirtyEight ^ | February 2, 2015 | Benjamin Morris

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.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Sports
KEYWORDS: blunders; coach; footballfollies; nfl; superbowl
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To: rlmorel
I know what you mean.

It seemed like those nitwits on ESPN used every opportunity to replay the Desean Jackson TD that stopped the Giants from going to playoffs.

If they hadn't won another Super Bowl, they'd probably still be doing it.

121 posted on 02/02/2015 4:29:51 PM PST by OddLane
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To: OddLane

Every year I follow the expert pundit analyses of the NFL draft. Every year, the Seahawks get terrible grades. How did they even win 6 games, much less take it to the SB two years in a row?

They take chances! Some times it doesn’t work out. Then you are an idiot. When it does work out you are a genius.

That’s life. The courageous learn how to deal with it.

- Bears and Packers fan (but disgusted with Bears management)


122 posted on 02/02/2015 4:33:45 PM PST by neocon1984
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To: neocon1984
I would be interested to see what the Bears do with Cutler.

On paper, he's the best quarterback they've had since Sid Luckman, but you can't classify his tenure at QB as anything other than a disappointment, IMO.

123 posted on 02/02/2015 4:36:37 PM PST by OddLane
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To: Dr. Sivana

Except that there wasn’t a crowd, and there was a clear throwing lane as well. There were only two defenders on that side of the field, with no one even between the hashes, and one was involved in a block.

Just a good play by the defenders between Browner jamming the pick, and Butler diagnosing and breaking on the ball in what was essentially a one-on-one.


124 posted on 02/02/2015 4:37:04 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: TexasGator

When Wilson cocked his arm, Butler was hidden.


There’s that too.


125 posted on 02/02/2015 4:48:06 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

just don’t think that the pass play should have been a pick/slant right in the middle (where NE’s goal line defenders were).


Except that it wasn’t. The goal line defenders were up at the 5, and the pass was about 45 degrees to Wilson’s right, with only Browner and Butler not on the other side of the left hash mark.


126 posted on 02/02/2015 4:54:21 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

“The goal line defenders were up at the 5,”

True. But from Wilson’s point of view, it was a crowd to throw between.


127 posted on 02/02/2015 4:56:12 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: Chad_the_Impaler

I think if Pete Carroll had sent in the field goal unit...


Belichick would have happily let him, and defended the fake.


128 posted on 02/02/2015 4:57:21 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: cherry

A very detail and nuanced statistical argument where none of the numbers really matter.


129 posted on 02/02/2015 4:59:07 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: petercooper

The call was not brilliant. Too smart by half. Throwing a fad to the cornet. Ok. Throwing a slant in the middle of the field with no room to work. Retarded.


130 posted on 02/02/2015 5:00:17 PM PST by jwalsh07 (E)
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To: Texas Eagle
The problem is even if Kearse had caught the ball it looked like he was going to be stopped short of the goal line anyway.

It wasn't Kearse, it was Ricardo Lockette - ye of 11 total receptions during the regular season.

131 posted on 02/02/2015 5:02:54 PM PST by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: TexasGator

Yup. 97 out of a hundred. The other three are drops.


132 posted on 02/02/2015 5:02:57 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: 21twelve

Well sure. But then go for the two-points after the field goal and you win the game!


:)


133 posted on 02/02/2015 5:04:56 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: OddLane

ESPN bugs me, but...they get a lot of sports news, so...whattya gonna do?


134 posted on 02/02/2015 5:34:56 PM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: rlmorel
Aside from 30 for 30/ESPN films, I don't have much use for it.

I did enjoy Rachel Nichols and Michele Beadle when they worked there, but that's about it.

135 posted on 02/02/2015 5:39:13 PM PST by OddLane
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To: OddLane

Da Bears don’t have a lot of short term options. They over-invested in Cutler and have to pay the price. Fox will bring them to an above average team, about the time that he retires and Cutler’s contract is over.

That could signal a renaissance - only if the McCaskeys sell.

I’m not too hopeful. They are the only family owned team that doesn’t make money in another business. None of them could organize a two car funeral.


136 posted on 02/02/2015 5:54:38 PM PST by neocon1984
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To: tx_eggman; SpinnerWebb; bobby.223

No drugs.

Make it to 3rd, kick that thing and onside kick.

Throwing the ball down the middle?

Crazy.

Yeah, touchdown would have been great but, the risk of that play was too much.

Fine by me. Pats won and that’s who I was rooting for anyway.


137 posted on 02/02/2015 5:56:44 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome

“Make it to 3rd, kick that thing and onside kick”......well uh, okay!


138 posted on 02/02/2015 6:17:30 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Vendome

Based on the entire game and Lynch running all over the Pats, the odds of him not scoring from the one on two straight runs is nearly zero. The Seahags had two plays to run Lynch in. The Super Brawl should have been the Sea Hawks trophy, but Carroll’s ego got in the way. He did that to SC many times.


139 posted on 02/02/2015 6:48:40 PM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: TexasGator

I was responding to your #10 post where you asserted, “ He went wide hoping to spread out the defense but Belichick didn’t bite.” My “no” refers to that assertion, the offensive line was not spread and the three receiver set on the right side was just barely off the right tackle’s shoulder, just far enough to be legit.


140 posted on 02/02/2015 6:52:44 PM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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