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The worst play call in NFL history (1 Viewer)

That's the kind of play call that ends careers. How can you ever trust a guy after that. Epic EPIC choke. I don't think the play caller recovers.

 
fruity pebbles said:
Even the pass play was stupid. You've got the Pats crowding the middle of the field thinking run and you call a shallow pass to the middle of the field where everyone's bunched.
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Agree. Wilson has to see that safety charging hard and that the play was going to be close. Even if the Patriots guy doesn't pick it clean, it can easily set up a tipped ball with a ton of defenders around. Wilson should have thrown that ball away.

 
Here come the 'toe the company line' responses to 'How come you guys called the dumbest play in the history of the NFL'. Someone has to step over the line.

 
That play call has to have a name. "The dumbest call in NFL history" just doesn't seem to do it justice. :bag:

I just can't for the life of me figure how that call gets made without irate protest by all 11 offensive players.

 
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Seahawks coach Pete Carroll did what he had to do, even if it wasn’t necessarily the truth.Carroll took the blame for the disastrous game-losing decision to pass at the goal line, which cost his team a chance to win the Super Bowl. Instead, quarterback Russell Wilson threw an interception to Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler, giving away a chance to win the game with 20 seconds left.

Carroll said after the game that since they had three receivers on the field, he didn’t want to take the chance to run it against the Patriots’ goal-line defense.

And that’s fine, and reasonable, except for a few things, namely, the timeout in their pocket and the Marshawn Lynch in the backfield.

Carroll was likely just jumping on the grenade for offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell.

But the questioning of the play-calling from within was immediate.

Cornerback Tharold Simon summed it up succinctly, saying: “How do you throw the ball when you got Marshawn Lynch?,” via Josh Katzenstein of the Detroit News.

That’s a question that will haunt Carroll, Wilson, Bevell and Seahawks fans for years.
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Freelove said:
With one play left and the title on the line, you don't ask a game manager QB to win it for you.
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It was second down and they had a timeout left. They had THREE running plays if they wanted.

 
fightingillini said:
shadyridr said:
Also an awful pass by RW
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I would argue that it was an awful decision by Wilson to throw the pass. The pass is where it should be. The defender beat the receiver to the spot. Again, Wilson should have recognized that the play was going to be close and not throw it.
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The problem is even if he hates the call he can't call the last timeout there. So basically he runs a busted play or goes with the call.

 
cowboyz1 said:
That play call has to have a name. "The dumbest call in NFL history" just doesn't seem to do it justice. :bag:
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I think in time it will be shortened to simply "The Call." Like the catch, the drive, the fumble, or wide right...

 
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gradin123 said:
fightingillini said:
shadyridr said:
Also an awful pass by RW
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I would argue that it was an awful decision by Wilson to throw the pass. The pass is where it should be. The defender beat the receiver to the spot. Again, Wilson should have recognized that the play was going to be close and not throw it.
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The problem is even if he hates the call he can't call the last timeout there. So basically he runs a busted play or goes with the call.
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Or how about not throwing a pick............He had to change the play and hand the ball off or sneak it and save his coaching staff from the carpet bombing that is going to happen for the rest of his coaching career.

 
pretty funny how everyone just assumes lynch scores. the pats ddint think he could so they didnt call timeout, the seahawks didnt think so either because they didnt give him the ball. but the arm chair coordinators are losing their ####, they had the coverage they wanted on the man they wanted but he jumped the route and made a play, good on him, but the TD was there in the air it just didnt happen. no guarantee lynch scores there.

 
Rimez said:
pretty funny how everyone just assumes lynch scores. the pats ddint think he could so they didnt call timeout, the seahawks didnt think so either because they didnt give him the ball. but the arm chair coordinators are losing their ####, they had the coverage they wanted on the man they wanted but he jumped the route and made a play, good on him, but the TD was there in the air it just didnt happen. no guarantee lynch scores there.
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I'm pretty sure he would have in 3 tries ;)

 
JohnnyU said:
Rimez said:
pretty funny how everyone just assumes lynch scores. the pats ddint think he could so they didnt call timeout, the seahawks didnt think so either because they didnt give him the ball. but the arm chair coordinators are losing their ####, they had the coverage they wanted on the man they wanted but he jumped the route and made a play, good on him, but the TD was there in the air it just didnt happen. no guarantee lynch scores there.
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I'm pretty sure he would have in 3 tries ;)
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or gets steamrolled for a loss of 4 by collins on a run blitz like lynch has before. face it, the only coaches and coordinators good enough to make it to the super bowl were not expecting lynch to score.

 
I think they were playing the clock there. They snapped it with 26 seconds left, so if they ran it & got stuffed then they probably would've had to use their last timeout and then throw on 3rd down (if they wanted to have time left to run a 4th down play as well). If the 2nd down pass drops incomplete, then the whole playbook is still available to them on 3rd & 4th because they still have 20 seconds and a timeout.

They could have snapped it sooner for the 2nd down play, but that would've meant giving it back to NE with more time on the clock if they scored on 2nd down. So they chose to let the play clock run down and then throw it.

 
Rimez said:
JohnnyU said:
Rimez said:
pretty funny how everyone just assumes lynch scores. the pats ddint think he could so they didnt call timeout, the seahawks didnt think so either because they didnt give him the ball. but the arm chair coordinators are losing their ####, they had the coverage they wanted on the man they wanted but he jumped the route and made a play, good on him, but the TD was there in the air it just didnt happen. no guarantee lynch scores there.
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I'm pretty sure he would have in 3 tries ;)
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or gets steamrolled for a loss of 4 by collins on a run blitz like lynch has before. face it, the only coaches and coordinators good enough to make it to the super bowl were not expecting lynch to score.
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The Pats staff was praying for a miracle... that miracle being that Lynch wouldn't score given 3 chances. They got a different miracle thanks to the call.

 
fightingillini said:
shadyridr said:
Also an awful pass by RW
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I would argue that it was an awful decision by Wilson to throw the pass. The pass is where it should be. The defender beat the receiver to the spot. Again, Wilson should have recognized that the play was going to be close and not throw it.
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Listening to Carroll, it almost sounds like that was what the coaches expected, because I've heard Pete twice now and both times he said the idea was to leave plays on the table at 3rd and 4th down if the pass wasn't there.

 
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If you are dead set on throwing it, at least try a fade to the corner where there is much less chance to get intercepted!

 
Rimez said:
JohnnyU said:
Rimez said:
pretty funny how everyone just assumes lynch scores. the pats ddint think he could so they didnt call timeout, the seahawks didnt think so either because they didnt give him the ball. but the arm chair coordinators are losing their ####, they had the coverage they wanted on the man they wanted but he jumped the route and made a play, good on him, but the TD was there in the air it just didnt happen. no guarantee lynch scores there.
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I'm pretty sure he would have in 3 tries ;)
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or gets steamrolled for a loss of 4 by collins on a run blitz like lynch has before. face it, the only coaches and coordinators good enough to make it to the super bowl were not expecting lynch to score.
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Lynch was playing pretty well at the time. I would have rode his back to the title, or at least tried a couple of times, or fake to him and rollout, or anything but the stupid call they made.

 
Mr. Mojo said:
If you are dead set on throwing it, at least try a fade to the corner where there is much less chance to get intercepted!
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Exactly. It's not just the decision to throw. But to throw a slant over the middle where defenders were all around the receiver? Horrible.

 
JohnnyU said:
Rimez said:
JohnnyU said:
Rimez said:
pretty funny how everyone just assumes lynch scores. the pats ddint think he could so they didnt call timeout, the seahawks didnt think so either because they didnt give him the ball. but the arm chair coordinators are losing their ####, they had the coverage they wanted on the man they wanted but he jumped the route and made a play, good on him, but the TD was there in the air it just didnt happen. no guarantee lynch scores there.
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I'm pretty sure he would have in 3 tries ;)
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or gets steamrolled for a loss of 4 by collins on a run blitz like lynch has before. face it, the only coaches and coordinators good enough to make it to the super bowl were not expecting lynch to score.
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Lynch was playing pretty well at the time. I would have rode his back to the title, or at least tried a couple of times, or fake to him and rollout, or anything but the stupid call they made.
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The thing that makes it really inexcusable, and this is obvious but I just can't get over it, is that even if he gets stuffed on 2nd and goal on the 1...so what?? You have two more plays, a timeout, and you give the Patriots less time.

If you had one play left, if there was one second left or 4th down, I honestly don'y question the call at all. But with three chances left and a time out, it's just unbelieveable.

 
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