Former San Francisco 49ers’ coach Jim Harbaugh can relate to the Seattle Seahawks’ woes when it comes making a play call gone bad that cost the team the fate of the Super Bowl.
It wasn’t that long ago that Harbaugh took heat in the Super Bowl when the 49ers threw three passes within five yards of the goal line and never gave the ball to running back Frank Gore. A touchdown on that final drive would have defeated the Baltimore Ravens. Instead, San Francisco ended up losing 34-31.
Defending his former rival team, Harbaugh the current University of Michigan coach had this to say on the Tim Kawakami Show regarding Seattle’s play call.
I really thought they had a good play call. That was an insightful play against the goal-line defense. A really neat combination that they had, was an inside pick play.
It really was open and that young man from the New England Patriots made a play, that is a play the stars of the game don’t make, and he made a play that was — at best that ball gets knocked down and incomplete, but to make an interception on that play was, what a phenomenal play. That was a play of a lifetime and all credit to him for making it.
Obviously the Seahawks did get the opportunity to exercise their final two downs as Harbaugh explains here.
They still had two downs to give the ball to Marshawn Lynch,” he said. In that situation, I said that before, after it’s over, yeah you would love to go back and try a running play, giving it to Marshawn Lynch and see how that would have worked out after you know how the other worked out but that’s football, that’s the game. My opinion was it was a good play call and an incredible play by the New England Patriots.
Harbaugh joins the very few on the planet who believes the Seahawks made a “good call.” The only people who can legitimately agree with Harbaugh and the Seahawks’ coaches are the ones currently possessing the Lombardi Trophy.
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