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I wonder how much of Carroll wanting to eat up time (his excuse for throwing instead of simply running it in on 2nd down, which still doesn't make sense to me) had to do with how much time they left GB and Rodgers after Lynch easily walked into the end zone at the end of that game. I recall thinking, "they left too much time for Rodgers." The conundrum with a back like Lynch (if you wanna eat clock) is that he doesn't need two downs to punch it in. If they wanted to run clock, why not throw a less risky out pattern at the corner of the end zone? Here is Carroll's excuse:
"Carroll wanted to do two things: take time off the clock and score a touchdown by running. On that second-down play, he saw that the Patriots had sent out their big guys, bent on stopping the rush. So Carroll called for a play that he thought would take a few seconds off the clock and if his quarterback, Russell Wilson, ended up throwing a touchdown, that’d be fine too. But his idea was to just run a passing play in which Wilson threw an incompletion and the Seahawks would try to score by rushing with Marshawn Lynch on third down or fourth down.
That’s why Lynch, regarded as perhaps the game’s best running back, didn’t get the ball then.
“We were going to run in the ball to win the game, just not on that down,” Carroll said.
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