Pete Carrol's strange explanation of throwing the ball into a crowd from the goal line instead of handing the ball to Marshawn Lynch who runs over people or letting Russel Wilson who outruns people take it in, is fishy beyond belief. If ever there was a game where the fix was in this was it. Who knows what deals were made by whom for whom? This fishy game is the kind of stuff that ruins faith that the game is played on the up and up.
No fix, was inches away from a touchdown. Just a stupid call. If it was fixed, no need for that catch on the 3 yard line.
If there is a possibility of a fixed game.... This honestly would be a good example. That call was just truly outrageous, any sports can knows not to do something that *******n stupid considering the situation. 2nd down, half hard line, 25 seconds left and a time out. 3 sure shots to gain a half yard on the ground with mershawn lynch as your rb. Duh no (*)(*)(*)(*) you go for the ground and pound, it's common sense. To throw in that situation makes no *******ned sense what so ever.
Being someone who hates football, but watches the Super Bowl every year, even I thought that was crazy. All they had to do was push (which I assumed they were going to do), and it would have been over. That was more than a bad call, that was a call that ends a career.
Maybe they thought they'd fake out the Pats? If so, it was a classic case of getting too cute for your own good. I know I would have given Lynch the ball in that situation, especially with a down and time-out in my pocket...
Nope, they got beaten by a better Team that exposed the Seahawks major weakness, their Offense. Congrats Pats.
I'll go with dumb over "conspiracy". Run it atleast ONCE or twice...THEN go for the pass and have 22 hands to catch it and hope for the best. But that was just a stupid call.....I guess trying to re-play the play at the end of the 1st half that tied it up.
I felt the Seahawks didn't belong there. The Packers handed them the NFC Championshp with a series of blunders and ineptness that far exceeds that of what transpired on the 1 yard line at the Super Bowl. A short slant pass was not that bad of a call. The Patriots read it, and it was a great play by their defense. He basically knocked the Seahawks receiver on his ass. It was less of a bad call and more of a great defensive play, in my estimation. If anyone threw a game, basically gave up and died, it was the Packers in the NFC championship game.
Brady also exposed their weakness on Defense. I was rooting for the 'Hawks but the Patriots were clearly the better team last night. Congrats to the Pats and their fans.
True, all they had to do is review the Dallas - Seattle game and all they needed to know was there, not to mention having Brady at QB is always a good thing. The Seahawks were lucky to having even made it to the NFC Title game not mention the SB, they will not be returning next year.
I'm not ready to write off the Seahawks, but on the other hand, how many teams have made it to three consecutive Super Bowls?
I am not writing them off, they will probably make the playoffs next year but I do not see them returning to the SB until they makes some major improvements on offence.
It's clear Tom Brady asked an equipment manager to slip into a rest room, away from any CC cameras and let out 1.0 - 1.5 psi of air in 11 of 12 footballs so he could grip the ball better in damp/cold weather. He cheated. They would have won the game anyway, but he cheated. Meanwhile as the Seahawks are in the NFC West, same as my anemic Rams, I find it difficult to cheer for them. I literally had no dog in the hunt yesterday. I regarded both teams as equally unlikeable outside of their respective cities; I wanted to see a good game and did not care who won. It was a great game and Russel Wilson played the better game outside of that, now infamous, pick with 20 seconds on the clock and at the 1 yard line. Not all his fault of course, but a pick nonetheless. Ultimately the better team won, the Patritos read the slant pass, and Butler put himself in a position to take advantage of a throw slightly away from the receiver. Not luck...skill. After series of lucky breaks, plays and blunders, skill won the game. It was not a bad call that beat the Seahawks, it was a skilled read of a slant pass and slightly off-target pass giving enough room for Butler to gain possession. All in all a great Super Bowl.
What planet are you from? http://www.businessinsider.com/patriots-ball-boy-bathroom-2015-1 The ball boy was captured on video taking footballs in the bathroom and returning 90 seconds later. that's either a really quick leak, or something weird is going on. No way on God's green Eearth would a ball boy intentionally deflate footballs without being told to do so....no way would Tom Brady allow someone to do this without his direct consent. Belichick may not have known, but Tom Brady did. He knows this will taint his legacy so he double downed with the lies Seriously, anyone who defends cheating is as bad as the cheaters. Why would a ball boy go into a bathroom for 90 seconds with footballs? If not to get out of the glare of the closed circuit cameras strewn around most stadiums, but no cameras in bathrooms. Coincidence? I think not. They cheated.
a bad call... certainly... an example of how coaches get wrapped up in the perfect wisdom of their own game plans. They looked at the defense that the Patriots had put on the field and it didn't fit their game plan, so they decided to try a pass and then, if that didn't work, change their offense personnel alignment after that play. Ooops. bad call? sure. sign of a FIX? Hell no. If the fix were in, as someone said here earlier, that crazy catch on the three yard line would have convincingly been dropped.
Great assessment. I haven't reviewed all the stats, but I'd wager the Pat's led in time of possession, first downs, completed passes, etc.. They were the better team, and as fortune has it, they won, which in football is not always the case. If it was, the Hawk's wouldn't have been in that game, the Packers would have playing NE.
Carroll has made one unorthodox call after another. Most of 'em have worked out pretty darn good for Seattle. His calls beat Green Bay, failed v. New England.
Deflategate made sure the Patriots were in the Superbowl to begin with, I'm guessing someone likes it when a team named the Patriots wins.
Pretty much this. Seahawks fans are complaining about one bad call at the end of the game. We had to sit through multiple bad calls in the last half by McMoron who kept running the ball down the middle against the league's best defense and not using passing plays which had served them up till then extremely well. Now the Packers set the new playoff record for losing the biggest lead of all time. The sad thing is that more than likely we will still have our coach next year but who knows if Seattle will keep Carroll even though he is a better coach in my opinion. The upside is that the Packers were my back up team...........the downside is that my main team is the Buccaneers.
