LFCPatriotRhino wrote:
'This team is going to kill me' were my words with about 10 minutes left to my brother and friend, little did I know how it was going to end I was nearly right!
Went from thinking we'd never win it again to thinking we had finally won it to 'oh ffs not again' with Kearse's Tyree impression all within space of a few minutes. Took my a while to realise Butler had picked Wilson off. Still hasn't even sunk in yet.
Think the people saying it was a bad playcall need to realise how good a play it was by Malcolm Butler, Lockette was wide open and IMO it wasn't a bad throw Butler just made a great play on the ball.
Butler's anticipation & physicality was great but not THAT amazing, in a crowded/compressed area & with the Seahawks bang average receivers that was a mickey poor call on any regular season play, never mind the superbowl with less than a minute on the clock, it's a bullshat call to throw into obvious traffic and/or to waste a few precious seconds which shows he (Carroll) had either no trust in his defence to hold out for what 20 seconds or Lynch to run it in.
You have bodies all over the place so unless you have a Gronk/Bryant/Johnson whom you could call upon to stand tall & firm, in a clutch call situation 1 yard from the line you go with the league's most devestating running back.
It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and Wilson should have had the balls to say coach you're making a mistake but that's not how gridiron works is it.
Exciting game throughout but such a dissapointing ending to lose on such a terrible call.
