veritas wrote:many also seem to be missing Belichick's great decision to NOT call a time-out at the goal line at the very end of the game. I thought it was a mistake to not preserve time, assuming Seattle was certainly going to score. But the Evil One had figured out that letting time run-off was going to put Carroll in a bit of dilemma IF the Patriots could get the stop on 2nd down -- he would have to burn his last time-out and then you run the risk of whether to run it on 3rd down or not with little time on the clock.
BINGO!
I thought I mentioned it earlier but you nailed it.
While Collinsworth was blabbering why Bill wasn't calling the T/O, Belichick knew the game ends here and Carroll was gonna go into 3 down mode.
Machado wrote:Carroll said, "depending on how we had to save the clock to get in all of our plays. It wasn't just run the ball. That wasn't what the thought was."
And there you have it...Trying to get all his plays in.
Carroll thinking we have three plays to get in the endzone, one had to be a pass and it had to be that down. Why the fuck he went by the book trying to get his plays in baffles me.
Not calling a T/O was a nice chess move by Belichick. Carroll got fucking played but of course the INT still had to happen. Belichick leaving his goal line personnel in and just moving them into coverage was another smooth move.
On Carroll's side, again, I still don't get why he went with 3 plays instead pounding the Beast in with 2 plays and a T/O.
A pass play on the one with no time on the clock? You don't have to defend the roll out, you have your entire defense to defend 10 yards and the cross is going to be doubled automatically. The quick cross and the fade are about his only options.
During the press conference I wanted to hear Belickick say he didn't call a T/O planning on Carroll going into 3 play mode but of course he blew it off, dodged the question and said we just planed for everything with that fucking smirk of his. Right...........
