Carrol should line up to get kicked in the pills by everyone in Seattle.
Dang you Seahens!
And I just know I was the first person to say "that will go down as the WORST call in NFL history". ;-)
I have been playing and watching sports of every type since I was about 8 years old AND, being a long suffering Chicago Team fan, have never seen such a boneheaded lapse in judgement.
It does border on throwing the game by being so cavalier, oh...we’ll waste a play..sure.
Seattle fans would be right to shun Pete thereby causing him to disappear to where bad coaches go to mold.
I understand the wasted play but the pass could have been sent out of the endzone and that would have stopped the clock if that was the intent. The intent to set up a play for the running back. If that is what they were thinking why not just have the Quarterback spike the ball? That is a wasted down without the risk. I would think if you are not going to do that then throw to the back side of the endzone and if the WR’s are not open send it over their heads.
I am just second guessing like the rest to the football fans.
That was a great football game.
The Seahawks should’ve deflated the ball so that rookie cornerback Butler couldn’t intercept it.
The last time I tried this it fooled my sisters completely. Unfortunately, half of them were on my side, half on loan to a less fecund family on the other, which family has been bitching about it for the past 35 years.
*National Family Flag & Touch League ... it's big, just not as big as Rush.
It's instantly visible because the defensive back, and the rest of the defense, read the quarterback's eyes as he telegraphed the route. Nothing to do with Lynch.
The player was lined up as the second DB against a receiver stack. It was obvious from the alignment that the Hawks were going to run a pick play and try to rub the receiver off the defensive back.
Lynch is on the other side of the field and not his responsibility. And I'll bet a copy of Rush Revere that Pete Carroll did not call that play. Darrell Bevell did, and he wishes he hadn't.
The Seattle Seahawks, with five injuries (three LOB players + Lane and Avril), lost to an inferior team at full health yesterday. That’s all it was. It just wasn’t in the cards for them this year.
Anyone who "feels cheated" by a play called by a coach of a football game is simply not rational. Rush obviously was rooting for the Seahawks, and lost. Get over it, Rush.
“He could have only made that play if he knew it was coming. “
He didn’t need to know. It was his man to cover.
Everyone was expecting Belichick to use his timeouts to give Brady and Company a chance to go down the field and kick a tying FG should the Seahawks have scored.
When he didn’t, it threw Carroll off-balance and took away Seattle’s options.
But if Seattle scored, then everyone would have been going after Belichick for the poor clock management.
Shopot, Seattle got lucky on 3-4 plays in the NFC CHampionship game to even make it there in the first place. Good game, great plays.
If the Pats hadn’t intercepted and the receiver scored everybody would now be talking about how brilliant the call was since everyone was thinking run.
A write for “the Nation” says that the theory is the management/coach wanted the “Christian” Wilson to make the throw and not the Marshawn (the talker) to be MVP if he made the touchdown. Will the LEFT be vilified by the media for this Conspiracy Theory?
http://www.thenation.com/blog/196697/conspiracy-theory-surrounding-seahawks-last-play#
Belichick is a genius because his opponent made a bad call? This does not compute.
Maybe because he managed to win a game without cheating, that we know of.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/blogs/290571511.html
Belichick had five defensive backs on the field for that play. Belichick anticipated a passing play, while everyone else in America anticipated a run.
Belichick may actually underrated.
