[SaxxonWoods]

Dumb call by Carroll.

If he wanted to kill time he should have called a rollout option.

1. Runs more time off.
2. Wilson better when moving than in pocket.
3. Easy toss into the stands if no one open or too much pressure.
4. Allows safer throw into corner of end zone or throw away, or option of running it in.

Right idea, wrong play.

[mmichaels1970]

Right idea, wrong play.

I disagree with the idea entirely. His best weapons are his RB and his defense. You go for the lead instead of getting cute in that situation.

Sure you're giving Brady the ball if you score on the next play. But your other weapon is that you have the #1 Defense in the NFL playing for you.

You score, you kick it out of the end zone, you put your #1 defense on the field with 20 seconds left to play, and you take your chances.

If you fail, and Brady beats you, so be it. You went down utilizing the best attributes of your football team in an attempt to win.

[Burma Jones]

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.