[notdownwidems]

Especially when Pete Carroll made a stupid call at the goal-line in an effort make HIS quarterback MVP. Had they called a running play, RB Marshawn Lynch would have been MVP, running away. Carroll couldn’t have that happen to HIM. Is Goodell showing bias in punishing a past opponent team (Jets v Pats), protecting Pete Carroll or...both?

That makes absolutely no sense...how on earth would Carroll get any less kudos if his running back, rather than his quarterback, won the MVP? The truth is, you never want to do what everyone expects...look, if the receiver would have caught that pass Carroll would have been the second coming of Vince Lombardi...everyone would be like 'look, everyone expected him to run and the threw to win the game, what a genius!'...as it was, they didn't make it, and now he's stupid.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: The truth is, you never want to do what everyone expects. ::

Yet you conflate Pete Carroll with Vince Lombardi. The same Vince Lombardi who coined the phrase “4-yards and a cloud of dust.”

Vince was never one to “never want to do what everyone expects”. Vince would tell you and everyone in the stands that he was coming up the middle and dare you stop it.

Nope, Pete was boosting himself by boosting his QB.