How about a Super Bowl 49 thread?

That's about as obvious a "defender is making a play on the ball" as it gets.

 

Just watched Katy Perry's halftime show. Got caught up in stuff that night, didn't get to it till now.

It's pretty good. Tight production. Interesting that they had Lenny lead in "I Kissed A Girl".

 

I thought he played through Lockette's back, shouldered him out of the way to get to the ball. If Butler doesn't contact Lockette first, Lockette makes the catch.

It's neither here nor there, really. A better throw would avoided the situation altogether. Wilson has to put that ball low - waist level or lower - so that Lockette can catch it going to the ground. At worst, it's an incompletion. But, when a head coach asks one of the shorter QBs in the league to make that throw instead of handing the ball off, he gets what he deserves.

 

I keep going back to Belichick not calling timeout. He forced the panic.

I just don't understand how they wouldn't have had a run play call in the can for this precise moment, with all things considered, like what if this happens and Belichick *doesn't* call timeout? We still run the pitch left, or we still go over left tackle and if we don't make it we call that final timeout and start passing the ball.

So 2 things happened: Belichick forced panic, and Carroll and Co. panicked, which is something they don't usually do. There will be some cool stories written about "2nd and goal at the 1" ...

 

I agree with everything except the word "panic", which I think is too strong.

Without Belichick calling a time out, Seattle had to call a pass play on one of the downs.


With that being said, if the game clock goes down to 0:14, and Seattle then scores, Belichick would have been excoriated here.

 

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I wonder if Belichick had that decision in the can and was going to stick to it no matter what. Such a ballsy thing to do. For 10 or 15 seconds I kept waiting for the Patriots to call timeout and thinking "Jesus Fucking Christ, you're not going to have any fucking time to go kick that field goal" etc etc. I really do believe the Seahawks thought New England would call a timeout and hadn't planned for the alternative.

 

If you call a pass, at least make it a pass where your QB, possibly the smartest QB playing today, has the option to throw it out of the back of the end zone.

The play call asked their fourth or fifth best option on offense to win the Super Bowl, and if the player does not win the route on the slant, the ball if sailing into a group of defenders.

Plus, it was second down, not fourth.

 

With all the game prep that happens, I wonder if they ran through the scenario of Seattle has the ball inside the five under a minute and we are leading?

Butler said on M&M the next morning that they prepped for that play on the goalline. Butler said he got beat in practice and the coaches told him to jump the route in the game.

 

Waiting to watch the all 22's which will be released today. Thought the sharks played a bit high and needed to show better hip
bend.

 

I'll always believe it turned out to be a case of better being lucky than good for the Hood.

Personally, I think it was more a freeze in the moment case than any short of coaching brilliance.

When Lynch runs to the 1, there's maybe 40 or 50 seconds left.

Not calling timeout, you're pinning your entire hope for winning the Super Bowl on stopping Seattle 3 times from the 1 (and they would have gotten 3 plays off). Not exactly the best odds--you're kind of hoping for a pseudo-miracle, which fortunately turned out to happen.

Call time out, and at least you open another option for winning the game. Have about 30 seconds left to give the offense a chance to get in position to tie and go to OT.

Lucky coaching as opposed to brilliant, in my view.

 

I think he did pin it all on the defense. Brady did his job. If they were going to win it now, the defense had to do its job.

I don't think Belichick does "luck" things. If he wanted that tying FG, he would've burned timeouts at 2nd and 1.

It was calculated.