Quote Originally Posted by Gabbo:
Pete Carroll is a forward thinking coach. Unfortunately, people are proving exactly why coaches tend to be risk averse. Many coaches actually are lowering their chances to win rather than to be criticized. Then they actually lose and the public goes batshit. Hello Andy Reid, Mike McCarthy, and Mike Smith.
wtf are you talking about? Spin it all you want but that is nearly the WORST call you could do.
1. Again, you aren't passing.... I don't care if you TELL the Patriots you are running, who said you have to run up the middle? who said you have to give it to lynch? there are a plethora of run plays that could be called.
2. If you are passing, you aren't calling such a risky pass. Even if it wasn't cut off by the DB, it could be tipped up in the air in between the hashes. Also, Lockette isn't exactly a big body possession WR. if you pass it, you take a shot with a fade route, even a back shoulder fade. Who cares if a Fade route has a much smaller chance to succeed, it also has a much smaller chance of going south on you, basically two outcomes, 50/50 chance. A quick slant? these are the outcomes: INT, Pass incomplete. Pass complete/tackled outside endzone, pass for TD. 3 out of four are bad. And as was seen with lockette getting decleated, even if he did catch it, he might not have made it in anyways. that'd be a glorified run play.
3. If it's a dead down like Carroll said, why not play action bootleg? that gives Wilson the option to run or throw it away. Solves the problem right?
4. Kill time? you already killed 40 seconds in between downs. 2nd down was snapped at 23 second? run play and you score there you leave 18-20 seconds? What's more risky, throwing that inside pass or allowing brady 17 seconds to drive 50 yards just to get into FG range against that defense? And that'd just be to TIE.
5. We aren't talking about not going for it on 4th and 2 and instead punting it late in the game because the coach is worried about losing if they don't make it. It was 2nd and 1. plenty of time. 1 time out. Lynch just ran for 5. a Turnover is the ONLY thing you are worried about, even moreso than a sack. Even SPIKING the ball would have been better than allowing a TO. Lynch has fumbled only 3 or 4 times all year? Yeah, let's pass.
This is my best analogy on this. That pass call is like scoring a TD that puts you up by 1 with 1 minute left in the game and then on side kicking because you want to "retain possession" to "win the game". WTF?
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