SloMotion |
02-04-2015 04:44 AM |
Re: Marshawn Lynch.
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Originally Posted by Beastmode
(Post 639712)
It was the right effin call. The execution was off target. The Pats made a great play, he jumped the route in a last gasp effort and it worked. One pump fake and he's wide open. Wilson got schooled. It's the same move Tracy Porter made and Manning's response: GREAT PLAY. Instead of questioning it how about accept that it was a tremendous play and someone had the nerve and ability to put it on the line and jump it FTW.
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Hindsight's 20/20, :D ... I did see some stats on the entire league in regards to success in running the ball from the one yard line and they (surprisingly) were not good. There was a stat on Marshawn Lynch only scoring on something like 1-in-6 attempts from the one yard line this season ... also not good. The only stat supporting a Marshawn Lynch carry in that situation was that the Pats defense had allowed the majority of runs from the 1 against them to score, so yeah, once the shock & awe of the whole thing wears off, it was just a rookie being in the right place, at the right time, making the right decision, in probably the biggest game of his life, :lol: ... Butler did say in an interview that they had practiced defending that play & Belichek had admonished him to get it right ... it's going down in history, that's for sure, :).
Despite all that, I still can't believe they didn't just pound the ball 4x, either with Lynch, Wilson ... whomever ... but hey, not my call, :).
There's also the theory that Belichek not calling a time-out near the end and thus not giving Carroll more time to mull things over contributed to the call ... I can see that ... jedi-mind tricks by Bill ... "that's not the play you want to run Pete, you want to throw the ball ... "
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