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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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.
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)
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.
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.
When Wilson cocked his arm, Butler was hidden.
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).
“The goal line defenders were up at the 5,”
True. But from Wilson’s point of view, it was a crowd to throw between.
I think if Pete Carroll had sent in the field goal unit...
A very detail and nuanced statistical argument where none of the numbers really matter.
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.
It wasn't Kearse, it was Ricardo Lockette - ye of 11 total receptions during the regular season.
Yup. 97 out of a hundred. The other three are drops.
Well sure. But then go for the two-points after the field goal and you win the game!
ESPN bugs me, but...they get a lot of sports news, so...whattya gonna do?
I did enjoy Rachel Nichols and Michele Beadle when they worked there, but that's about it.
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.
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.
“Make it to 3rd, kick that thing and onside kick”......well uh, okay!
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.
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.
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