Super Bowl INT

[Albert Einswine]

Look, with the little time that remained the only way they were getting all 3 remaining plays off was to use 2nd or 3rd down on some variation of a quick strike pass. If they ran Lynch on 2nd down and he didn't score it was immediate timeout and pass on 3rd or there wouldn't have been a possibility of a 4th. So the call was a reasonable call with the package New England had on the field. New England had to run Butler on late when they saw Seattle had a 3rd wide receiver in as a response to New England's heavy goal line set. It was chess and Kearse failed to get off the jam and impede Butler's line to the ball, Russell Wilson missed his spot and Butler played it perfectly.

[hawgfan4life]

My goal when I graduate is to become a high school football coach.  What I saw in the final plays of the super was an amazing chess match by two of the smartest coaches in the NFL.  When I watch football I watch differently than a lot of ppl, I like to break down plays and use lots of statistics.  My 2 cents on the pass that got picked off wasn't as bad a play as some might say.  When NE didn't call a timeout after lynchs 4yd carry to the 1, NE decided to roll up there sleeves and play defense, Carroll IMO was expecting NE to take a timeout to preserve time for brady and company to have time to tie or win the game.  When NE didn't take the timeout it sent out the goal line defense, and it kept the Seahawks in there spread attack with there 3 receivers.  Lynch was giving the ball 5 times this year on the 1 yd marker and scored once.  NE had the advantage stopping the run in that situation with there GL defense against the spread of the Seahawks.  Carroll countered that, everyone in the world thought marshawn would touch the ball in that situation.  He got a dream matchup with straight man to man across the board against a rookie cb.  He ran a pick play and attacked the rookie.  Per espn there was only one INT on the 1 yd line all year and u guessed it, it was Russell Wilson INT to butler.  The play call in that situation wasn't as bad as you would think, it was just a play the Butler wasn't supposed to make, a play that he will probably never duplicate again.  It was a great chess match by both coaches, had NE called a timeout after the 1st and goal run Carroll would have more than likely came out in a goal line offense and gave it to Lynch and the seahawks probably would have won.  It was great coaching by both but even more so an AMAZING play by butler.  Butler deserves all the credit in this situation and I think that is getting overshadowed by poor play call.  Some of you may agree and most wont on my take. but just my 2 cents on the final play

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