It wasn’t just that the pass play was a bad call, it was a pass play over the middle that’s clogged with all kinds of players from both sides.
With a timeout left. This is definitely a time when the old adage “When you throw the ball one of three things can happen, and two of them are bad” immediately comes to mind.
only three things can happen and two of them are bad. whoever made that call should be fired, imo.
“It wasn’t just that the pass play was a bad call, it was a pass play over the middle that’s clogged with all kinds of players from both sides.”
Pete Carroll on the radio said it was supposed to be a run play but the Pats didn’t fall for the wide receivers so they jammed up the middle. Lynch would have been down for a loss with two guys coming in on-touched.
So it was a “throw-away” pass play. But to throw it in the middle like that? Crazy. But I guess the receivers were all close in so they didn’t have other options? But a high throw-away pass to Clay Matthews in the corner of the end-zone would have perhaps made sense if they didn’t think they could run it.
Really sad to see.
And even sadder was the punches thrown.