New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick defended the Seattle Seahawks final offensive play call of Super Bowl XLIX earlier in the week.
Now, in an interview with the Today’s Show’s Matt Lauer, Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll addressed the team’s last offensive play of the game.
It was the worst result of a call ever. The call would have been a great one if we catch it. It would have been just fine, and nobody would have thought twice about it.
According to Carroll, the Seahawks planned to throw the ball at least one time in the goal-line series of plays because they wanted to run down the clock on the Patriots. Had the second down pass fallen short or incomplete, Carroll was planning on running on the third and fourth if necessary. In the Seahawks’ defense, no quarterback has been intercepted from the one-yard line all year. Though, how many passes were actually attempted from the one-yard line? That’s the issue at hand here.
That being said, it’s not exactly a record that quarterback Russell Wilson wants to go home bragging about.
Carroll also has this to say.
I made the call that comes out of the process of the preparation and the practice, along with the mentality that I’ve been coaching with as long as I remember about preparing us to do right in the situations.
The play call will go down in NFL history as one of the worst in the history of the Super Bowl—a call that enabled New England to earn its fourth Lombardi Trophy.
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