Official SB XLIX thread.

Officially referring to this as: The Call.

 

Last nights play sort of reminded me of the '98 Steelers-Broncos playoff game when Gailey had Kordell drop back on 2nd and goal instead of handing the ball to Bettis or letting Kordell run it.

 

i guess im ok with the call
obviously hindsight is 20/20
but wouldn't you like your chances
with one on one coverage with a rookie from not Alabama but West alabama that started out playing football at a community college?

 

It's OK, they had a timeout left.

 

Lockette has 18 career receptions and attended Fort Valley State so ... that was a wash. Running that play placed a ton of responsibility on a scrub WR. Obviously it was more than he was prepared to handle.

If that had been Golden Tate, we're talking about the Seahawks winning back to back Super Bowls.

 

LOL

 

I think its funny that NO ONE is calling out Russell Wilson for the INT. Had that been Pittsburgh and Ben Roethlisberger, some on this board would be in full on bash Ben mode.

There would be no less than two dozen, "Ben is not elite", "Trade Ben", and "Ben sucks" posts.

 

I did. I thought that was an incredibly stupid throw.

 

I think it was an incredibly stupid play call.

I'd be a heck of a lot more upset with the HC and OC than the QB.

 

I agree.

I just don't think that many around here would have afforded Ben the same exemption.

 

Did most of Brady's throws look wobbley last night. he didnt throw many tight spirals imo

 

thats cause the balls were inflated properly

 

Actually I got the opposite impression. I think he was so worried about not dropping the pass he knew was coming to him, that he lost focus of his main responsibility ... which was to get between the ball and the DB.

 

With Seattle letting 40 seconds go off the clock they had no choice to throw it. Belicheck is truly a zen master or something. Carroll probably figured NE was going to call a TO. When they didn't he didn't know what to do. If he runs there an doesn't score, he burns their last TO and they become more predictable (pass on 3rd, anything goes on 4th). NE was surprising very well prepared and in control in those frantic final moments, which makes that cheater so good...as hard as that is to say.

 

The way i heard Carol defend that play was. if they didnt score there he was gona run it on on 3 and 4th dwn he said that was more of a down to waste ...

 

This.
I heard that they came out and spread the field and wanted to pass so that they would be able to use all 4 downs if necessary...there wasn't enough time and TOs for 4 runs. But New England stayed in their goal line package. In other words, even the Patriots didn't believe that they would be so stupid as to throw it. Rather than use their last TO, Seattle figured to stay with the play. I get the logic, but why stay with a play that throws the ball into the meat grinder that is the middle of the goal line defense? Wilson probably should have just thrown it out of the back of the EZ. Or audibiled. But he's young. I think a seasoned guy makes those adjustments. Regardless, they got too cute and over thought the whole thing. Run Lynch every play even if you only use 3 downs.

 

The throw was nearly perfect, all the WR had to do was extend his arms to:

1) Catch it for a TD
2) Draw a PI flag
3) Drop it for an incompletion

He didn't, and the rest is history.

Wilson and the Hawks have the capability to make the Patriots run of success the past 15 years look like chicken fiddle in comparison, if they don't get greedy in their contract negotiations. It will be interesting to see how that story plays out in the next few years.