Super Bowl XLIX: Seattle Seahawks vs. New England Patriots

Yeah, it truly was amazing. Sorry if I came across as a d*ck, lol, just pretty amped after that. Maybe not the best Super Bowl I've seen (Pats/Giants and Cardinals/Steelers were great) but definitely the craziest. What a roller coaster of a game!

 

Yup... or called a timeout or thrown to the corner. Carroll is either lying or didn't know the decoy was coming.

To ask a 25 year old QB to throw from the one, between the tackles with 3 corners in the last 20 seconds of the SB against the Pats is asking a whole lot.

 

And as you can see, he lead the WR there, instead of throwing it to him. Now look, I know you will tell me that I am looking at an image, and it is easy to armshair this stuff.

I never said Wilson is a scrub, all I said is that, even tho the play call is a risky one (bad one if you want), there is no way Wilson was not told, don´t force it if no one is butt booty naked because we still have 2 downs if we fail.

 

I don't get it. Why forced the throw?

Even if it was a bad call, why can't Wilson just throw the ball away? It was supposed to be a picked play. From your picture, it was clear Butler avoided the pick. Wilson shall have seen that.

If you have to force the throw, throw it earlier. Why do you have to throw to a place where both the receiver and the defender reached at the same time?

 

That's not how you judge throws. It takes even less than half a second for Butler or any decent CB to get to that position, and Butler was already breaking into the same route Lockette was. Butler was eyeing the throw the entire way.

That would have had to be an absolutely perfect throw for it to even have a chance.

It was too tight of a window for Wilson to even attempt considering the circumstances.

 

It's easy for everyone to say all this behind a keyboard instead of behind Center having to make a quick decision in the biggest game of the year.

 

We'll never know what truly happened. But I still can't fathom that playcall. You have 3 downs to work with a time out and plenty of time. You can use one of the downs to spike the ball if you wanted to save a time out.

 

That's why they get paid the money that they do. They have to perform under high pressure situations.

That's a throw that you simply can't justify unless it works. And it didn't.

 

Could have been a Cinderella story

 

Same goes for the coaches, which was my point to begin with. The playcall was worse than the so called "forced throw"

 

Carroll, Bevell, and Wilson all deserved the blame equally.

 

Yup... Why you take it out of his hands. Wilson had a good game, he came out great after halftime against a very good secondary. He isn't why they lost.

 

Yup, and I still think they need to go after a number 1 WR. Was a mistake letting Golden Tate go but I guess they didn't think the Harvin thing would end up like it did.

 

Uhh Carroll and Bevell being trolled is a huge part of it, the Pats had their secondary stacked and the coaches called for a throw between the tackles... With a timeout left and 3 downs on the 1 yard line.

They were out coached on that final play.

 

Like it is easy for you to say that someone should be calling a run play in the biggest game of the year.

Clutch should shut down this forum immediately, or at least restrict the access, only professional athletes can post.

These guys get payed Ms because they can do things others can only dream, and because of that, I am entitled to say, even tho I can do nothing Wilson can´t from a physical standpoint, if my coach told me to run that play, I would of thrown it away if I didn´t have a sure td. Doesnt mean I am better nor that Wilson is a scrub.

I would´ve also ran a run play if I was the coach, doesnt mean I am better nor that Carroll is a bad coach.

 

Carroll said after the game that that was a throw-away play (meaning they expected nothing to come out of it - doesn't make any sense but that's what he said), and then they would try running on 3rd and 4th down.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=12266125&ex_cid=sportscenterTW

Basically, Wilson wasn't expected to do anything with that playcall. He didn't have to throw.

 

Except for the fact that damn near everyone would have called a run play in that situation and everyone thought they were going to run it in that situation.

Just like plenty of QBs would have made that throw that Wilson threw on that play if it was called in by the coach.

 

If he wasn't "expected to do anything", then don't call a pass between the tackles on the 1 yard line. The Seahawks were outfoxed on the formation.

 

Malcom Butler got kicked off his college team and then worked at a Popeye's before coming back to the game; that's insane. Between him and Chris Mathews, there were some great rags to riches stories here tonight.