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Hi all.

Should be an interesting game.

Will the Pats go for it here?

Three running plays.  Don't like that play calling

The Seattle offense is so ugly right now

Crazy first half

Great tight game so far, looking like it will be close right to the end. May even be the first ever overtime Super Bowl?

I am a little surprised the crowd is relatively neutral during the game - there were a lot of boos for Belichick when he first appeared during the introductions, but nothing out of the ordinary when the Patriots offense is on the field. I was expecting them to be nothing short of feral - compare that to last year when the noise was so loud it forced Denver into a silent count and basically stuffed up their whole game.

Seattle just set a record for the quickest scoring drive in Super Bowl history

Great half time show by Katy Perry

I was really hoping for a wardrobe malfunction from Katy Perry during the show. 

No one would talk about the game then  :P

Great INT by Wagner (as an aside the play before should have been intentional grounding) and touchdown drive by the Hawks, Lynch is starting to look ominous now.

Stupid celebration penalty though.

Burns me up to see Tony McDaniel making plays

Losing Avril is hurting the Seattle defense right now

Edelman is having a huge game

Horrible call there

Missed pass interference, why am I not surprised?  ::)

Seahawks are coming unglued

Injuries on defense and bad play calling on offense are taking their toll, not to mention New England are back to playing some damn good football on both sides of the ball.

Edelman is looking a good bet for MVP right now

2 minutes to go, looks like it won't be going to overtime. All or bust for Seattle now

Unbelievable fluke play by Wilson and Kearse ;D

STUPID play call by Seattle, cost them a championship!

Fucking idiots

What a dumb play call

I'm not even upset the Pats won now.  They deserved to win after that horrible, horrible decision.  I'm still amazed at that horrendously stupid play call.

The Pats know they should have lost this one, but they got bailed out by utter stupidity.

Who ever made that is in for a lot of heat, the coach, Wilson probably both.

Has to go down as the dumbest call in Super Bowl history, not going to look good on someone's resume.

If I was Lynch, I'd walk just because of them not calling his number. Hah. I'm not even that upset. As much as I hate the Pats, I really didn't want Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll to win another one. It was a pretty good game.

Hey Pete Carroll how about putting your hands to your throat to symbolize your Choke!!  Great call not giving the ball to Lynch on the 1 yard line.

Maybe the Dolphins coaching staff was secretly pulling the strings

Yeah Lynch should get as far away from Seattle as possible, head to the other corner of the country, Miami!

As much as I hate them, the Pats were the better team on the day, Edelman should be MVP.

Seattle wouldn't have even had the chance to win without that fluke play between Wilson & Kearse, but I still can't believe the major brain fade at the end to just hand the Lombardi over.

UNFUCKINGBELIEVEABLE

I was wondering why the Patriots weren't calling their timeouts, but the Seahawks decided to do something stupider

Now we just have to see if Goodell personally kisses Kraft's ass when he hands the Lombardi Trophy over...

Brady may have soft balls, but I am betting Goodell doesn't have any

Pete Carroll should be fired for being so stupid

Not even true at all.  They would have had 2 timeouts and a lot of time left to move 30+ yards.  Not undoable in the slightest...especially after what they did to close out the first half.  The Seahawks were the better team today, and the OC caused this loss with that one play call.  That call was one of the dumbest things I have ever seen occur in 40 years of watching football.  

+1 to you, sir.  You are 100% correct.

Offensive Coordinator position open in Seattle.

No way they can bring him back

Have to agree to disagree. Seattle's defense was buckling due to injuries (especially after Avril went off with concussion) and the play calling on offense was terrible after they got that 10 point lead. How many times in the game did they go pass, run, pass, three and out? A few good drives yes, but the first quarter the offense was basically impotent too.

Patriots also could have scored in the first quarter too. Overall I thought they moved the ball much better on offense, and their defense was tough all game.

Funny if it turned out to be an audible from Wilson. What would they do then? ;)

'Tis true, but with all of that being said, the Seahawks win the game if they give it to Lynch.  It's really that simple.  Brady would not had have time to win the game with less than 30 seconds.  That one decision cost the team that should have won the victory.

I wondered that as well

it wasn't. They came out of the huddle in that formation

No argument from me there, Seahawks should have won but completely blew it on that one play. Brady wouldn't have had time, hell they could have given Lynch a couple of attempts to score and run the clock down because they still had a time out.

When they did, I was thinking they were going to do a draw to Lynch.  My mouth was open in amazement before Russell threw the ball.

The look on Pete Carroll's face after that pick...totally deflated.

;)

I was thinking the exact same thing when it happened

Carroll took responsibility for the play call in a post game interview, it will be interesting to see how much padding last year's Superbowl win protects his ass from the upcoming heat over this monumental bungle.

Fact is that Seattle shouldn't have even been in the game. Their luck had to run out some time.

Emmitt Smith said the Seahawks' final offensive play was the worst play call in the history of football.

I can't say he's wrong.

I can

MATM

(miracle at the meadowlands)

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The only good thing that came out of this is that PEte Carroll has to live with the fact millions of people know HE is the only reason Seattle did not win the Super Bowl. He has way surpassed Bill Buckner in the blown opportunity department!! 

Slow down.

Bill Buckner didn't win a title the year before the blown catch.

Carroll's logic was if they called a pass and it was incomplete, it would stop the clock and they could still run it on third down and use a timeout to stop the clock if needed.

It's actually sound logic.

And also, let's not let Wilson off the hook. He is the one that forced that throw in.

I understand passing, but what a dumb play call for a pass.  Go with play action, or roll Wilson out.  That's what he does best.

I can't fault Wilson on that play, because for the play that was called, he put the ball exactly where he was supposed to put it. I put the blame on the play call itself, and the credit to Butler, who made an incredibly instinctive play to jump the route and beat the WR to the pass.

Carroll brought the Seahawks their first Championship in franchise history. Immediately after the interception, he could have raped a nun and kicked a puppy (or vice versa), both on camera, and still be nearly bulletproof.

Wilson could have thrown it out of the back of the endzone. When you're in goal line, you cannot force passes into a tight space. It is way too easy for a ball to get tipped, even by your own player.

^^^ Understood, but again, I blame the play call, because that particular play call guarantees that a pass would have to be put into a tight space. There is no scenario where that play is wide open, because it is going into the middle of the field on the goalline.

The play call was horrible and Wilson did the best he could with a poop sandwich.  It should have been a play-action fade or, at most, a rollout.

Butler said after the game that he expected that exact play; he was personally burned by it in the Patriots' practice.  That's why he jumped the route.

Too bad he wasn't I'm Revis' mindset which is what everything thought, that Lynch would run the ball.

After further review, the receiver was open, the throw was late.

Also, they ran crossing patterns, eventually someone would have rubbed open. With Wilson's mobility, he could have made the play with his legs, or again... thrown it away. New England had trouble getting to him all game because of his escapability.

The throw wasn't late; that would be impossible, as it was in front of the receiver.  It was a timing throw to a spot and the DB jumped the route.  You can see Lockette run directly into Butler (without looking) and crumble.

The throw was a half second late. Not impossible. Wlson hesitated a hair before making the throw.

How can a throw be late if it is AHEAD OF the receiver?

It was a timing throw to a spot.  Had Butler not been standing in that spot (in Lockette's way), it would have been precisely on time.  Had he thrown it earlier to that same spot, it would still have been an interception.

The throw was late as in the decision to release the ball was a half second later than it should have been. This is not a difficult concept to understand.


I'm assuming you know this because you were part of the playcalling process for the Seahawks and therefore privy to the exact play and what the quarterback is supposed to do on it.

Butler specifically said that he jumped the route because the Patriots had that play on tape and he was personally burned by it in their practice leading up to the SB.

When a receiver blindly runs into a DB who is standing exactly where the ball is going on a 1-yard pass play, how else would you describe it?  Do you know what a timing throw is?

I also find it interesting that you say Wilson's throw was a half-second late when he held on to the ball for a total of about 1 second.  But it's not a timing throw!

Does carrol have a son named rich?