Maybe because they didn't want to call the Defensive holding on the guy who tackled Bolden trying to get out of the backfield.
If the Pats weren't in the Superbowl he would still be slobbering on Brady....That's what Patriot fans do....they can't help it
Belichick let the time run down because the Patriots were already ahead and he wanted the time to run out. The time squeeze was actually put on Seattle because the Seahawks were trying to let the time run down, but Belichick put his goal line stand team on the field, which stopped the run to the 1 yard line. So Carroll put in a pass play but it was a tight, into the goal line play that played right into the hands of the goal line defense team that Belichick already had in place. Of all the pass plays you could put in against that defense, a goal line pass play was the worst. It was a pick, Russell was suppose to throw low and inside, the pick didn't work and Russell threw it high and outside. Nothing worked on that play, it was a disaster that was scripted to happen. Belichick is a whole lot smarter than Carroll and you geniuses, too.
once again, hardchoker displays his chops as among the worst posters this forum has ever seen. Anyone remember patfanken? Jtuds? Koz? Just sad, sorry attempts to convey anything worth reading. Go away, and never come back.
So let me get this straight.. you went back and forth for a while untl you decided I am an idiot. Ok, that's fine. I, on the other hand immediately grasped how stupid you are.
Hey guy, I'm impressed that you didn't drown in your own puke last night, that's a serious accomplishment for you. Then again, you probably had the vagina vacuum suction of a sister to suck that puke out of your slumbering throat to help you, so maybe you don't deserve the kudos.
Al and Collins brought it up when it happened and during the replay. Sent from my LG-LS720 using Tapatalk
As far as BB not using his 2 TO's with a minute to go, he could sense Seattle was in disarray and that they expected him to take one. They had already burned 2 TO's needlessly. The Hawks wasted from 1:06 to :26 after Lynch's run to the 1, removing their ability to run it 3 more times if necessary. I think at about :50 they were thinking "let's talk about our plan when NE calls time". Then they realized he wasn't going to and had to rush a decision in order to get the play off without burning their last TO. It was Belichick playing chess, the grand master.
That sounds like BS to me, in disarray? they had the game in their hands inside the Pats 5 just needing to bleed some clock. they didn't waste time, the wisely ran the clock down to not allow Brady any time to tie it.
I think it was less Belichick being a master and more Seattle forgetting they were actually the ones losing. It's a common story, teams try to run the clock out and such rather than just focusing on scoring the TD. If Seattle's first thought was lets score, rather than lets run the clock out than score they would have got back to the line after the 1:06 play ran the next play which would have been a run at around :50 and probably punched it in.
See that's the mistake, "wisely" ran down the clock makes no sense....when you are not in the lead. Period. You score first, worry about the clock second. Especially when the longest pass your defense has given up all night was 22 yards.
you need to score obviously but you don't want to give a red hot Tom Brady the ball back w/ time. Brady w/ 2 TOs and over a minute would be an eternity, almost a lock they get at least a FG. a game earlier when they had shut down Rodgers all game then allowed him to lead GB to a tying FG when he got the ball back w/ just over a minute left. they got lucky they won the coin flip or they could have lost that game. it's stupid to not use clock in that situation.
No it's stupid to run the clock out on yourself. That just adds unneeded pressure to your team. You didn't see the Giants unnecessarily running the clock out when they beat Tom Brady in the SB did you? Nope, because they knew that getting the TD was more important than running the clock out so they gave Brady a little over a minute and still won the game. Especially when you have the #1 ranked defense like the Seahawks did. It was dumb and put them in a terrible position to have to call a pass in order to make sure they would have at least 4 shots at it, when if they just got up after the 1st down run and ran it again they would have had plenty of time even if they got stopped.
Belichick saw the personnel the 'Hawks were putting on the field and guessed pass. If he calls the time out the Hawks may come to their senses, so he took a chance. On Inside the NFL last night they showed Carroll saying the Pats had their goalline D on the field. He was wrong. The Pats had 3 corners out there.
This is what Belichick had to say about it. I was wrong about the goalline D. They apparently were in it. FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick on Wednesday explained his thinking regarding the sequence at the end of Super Bowl XLIX when he didn’t call timeout prior to cornerback Malcolm Butler's interception. BelichickAfter the ball was snapped with 1:06 remaining and Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch advanced the ball to the Patriots' 1-yard line, the clock ticked down to 26 seconds before the next play, Butler’s interception. This would have cost the Patriots precious time on offense had Seattle scored. So why no timeout? During his weekly appearance on sports radio WEEI, Belichick said he considered a timeout but decided against it after seeing what personnel Seattle brought onto the field (three receivers). “We put our goal-line defense in probably around the same time they were sending in their multiple receiver group, and that's kind of what we wanted to be in there, to make sure they didn't run the ball in,” Belichick said. “I'd like to think had they tried to run the ball against our goal-line defense, with three receivers on the field -- we couldn't ask for any more than that in terms of trying to stop the running game. We saw that matchup and we certainly gave some consideration to taking a timeout there and leaving some time on the clock. I don’t know if that would have been a bad thing to do. It might have been a good thing to do. “But it just seemed like in the flow of the game that we were OK with where we were.” Then Belichick brought up an interesting wrinkle that few who aren’t involved in game-day communication might have considered: With more media on the field for the end of the game to capture the postgame scene, sometimes communication systems that teams use can be affected. Belichick mentioned Super Bowl XLII against the Giants, saying that happened to the Patriots at the end of that game. “All the TVs and everything go down on the field right at the end of the game, then your communication systems that were working OK during the game then break down at the end. That was the same thing that happened in '07. I thought that the signaling and the communication by [defensive coordinator] Matt Patricia and the defensive players, in order to get those subs on and off, was really good. We handled that part of it well. “Then Malcolm made a great play on the two under three route. That’s pretty much what happened from our end.”
Butler made the play of his life, good for him. It was a great play. To play this as another example of Belichick's genius is ridiculous.
