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 ...
Green Bay rushed two men when Seattle had 2nd and 28 and again at 3rd and 12. It was pitiful. At the time I was unable to believe the defensive coordinator could be that stupid. I’m having to rethink that after the decision to pass on 2nd and goal from the one.
I think if Pete Carroll had sent in the field goal unit Cris Collingsworth would have gone ballistic.
they should have run it in, but really when you look at that play, it was a sure td except for an exceptional play by the Pats player....
Field goal would have made it 27 to 28 Patriots..... yeah Coollingworth would have had a heart attack.
Looked like K got a good push. No blame there.
Who would believe Seattle would kick a field goal when they were 4 points behind?
fact is the defensive play calling at the end of the 1st half by the Patriots, which led to a Seattle TD with 2 seconds left, was just as bad as this call but has received much less scrutiny...
...if Pete Carroll made a bonehead call.
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After the Superbowl it was up on the local news that over the past few weeks they have been negoiating a new number for Lynch to keep him on. Carroll for the last several months has been talking up how great Lynch is as a player, team mate and player.
The radio guys now wonder if this one play might put a doubt into Lynch’s head of playing for the Seahawks. Or might fracture the team’s unity. I hope not. On the way out of the locker room Lynch was asked if he was surprised they passed, and why he didn’t get the ball. He replied “No. This is a team sport.”
Better than some of the other players openly questioning the play in public.
“The guys on the local Seattle radio show this morning were blaming Kearse for not getting off the line faster and getting the good block on Browner which would have pushed him inside and made Butler make another step to the side to get around, which would have prevented him from getting to the ball in time.”
= offensive pass interference (also known as an illegal pick)
No, the line was not set wide. It was set close to the tackles! That makes throwing a pass to a stacked three on the right side of the offensive line a cluster frack! What all the ifiot whining fials to cite is that Butler did his homework and recognized what the play was going to do, so he just bolted right into the rub-off and ended up having Wilson pass to him instead of the wide receiver! The citations for excellence should be to Butler and ignore the arrogant asshat, Pete Carroll.
Had the receiver caught the pass Carroll would’ve been hailed as the next Lombardi; ‘look everyone just knew the play was going to be a run to Lynch and he caught everyone by surprise and threw for a TD, what a genius!’...I can just hear it now. Since he didn’t catch the pass and Wilson threw an interception instead, he is a big choker and blew the game for them. Let’s face it folks, it’s just a GAME.
I thought briefly as they were on the 2 yrd line that you know, they could be stopped....I imagined a goal line stand but never did I imagine an interception.
Eggzactly.
They called the one play with the absolute maximum possibility of catastrophe.
I've never seen something that supports the idea of a payoff so blatantly in sports.
Great analysis. I think that men used to score better in math because we did sports statistics as young kids.
In the end Pete made the “right” call. But he is going to live with that forever.
Wilson threw it to the receiver. Butler tookbit away.
I am curious, and honest to God I am not trying to pick a fight. But did you read the article. Carrol made the statistically correct call, but it doesn’t matter.
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