Earl Thomas tried to swipe the snap

Tunescribe said:

Yeah, if Stork and Brady were moving in slow motion. Nobody is that quick. The only way it would work is if the center freaks and double clutches or something, or the exchange is fumbled.

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Right. It only works if Brady bobbles the ball, and if Thomas' arrival is then the difference between a clean recovery and otherwise.

That has a ridiculously low chance of working ... but do you have any better ideas?

There was another thread where a poster was stubbornly arguing with me that Seattle lost due to the impact of injuries to their secondary. Does Mr. Thomas appear as though an injury is impacting him at that point in time???

A man named Brady said:

These guys have 3 future Hall of famers in the secondary

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I am not sure who the third person is but lets give Thomas and Sherman a few more years to show constantly great play before sending them up there already. You could easily fill the Hall of Fame for three year career spans..

A man named Brady said:

These guys have 3 future Hall of famers in the secondary

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I am not sure who the third person is but lets give Thomas and Sherman a few more years to show constantly great play before sending them up there already. You could easily fill the Hall of Fame for three year career spans..

I would have expected that from a well coached team who has practiced for every situation.. most teams do not get this far and there are reasons for it... the Sea Hawks and Patriots(if they were in the same situation) would be innovative.. instead of just rolling over with heads down.

SammyBlueCat said:

There was another thread where a poster was stubbornly arguing with me that Seattle lost due to the impact of injuries to their secondary.

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That wasn't a factor at all. The Pats receivers -- Edelman, Amendola and Vereen especially -- were just a lot quicker.

Fencer said:

Right. It only works if Brady bobbles the ball, and if Thomas' arrival is then the difference between a clean recovery and otherwise.

That has a ridiculously low chance of working ... but do you have any better ideas?

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No. I've never heard of a defense getting a turnover vs. the victory formation.

luuked said:

I am not sure who the third person is but lets give Thomas and Sherman a few more years to show constantly great play before sending them up there already. You could easily fill the Hall of Fame for three year career spans..

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Kam Chancellor, probably the scariest SS in the league. I agree all 3 need to prove it over a longer stretch, but the potential is there. Kam is a bit behind both, but he's definitely in the conversation.

convertedpatsfan said:

Kam Chancellor, probably the scariest SS in the league. I agree all 3 need to prove it over a longer stretch, but the potential is there. Kam is a bit behind both, but he's definitely in the conversation.

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I don't see anything that Chancellor has done that makes him standout greatly from similarly build safeties. He fits perfectly into the Seattle D but nothing he has done so far that makes him HoF material. He is great for highlight shots, though.. I guess that is where the media hype is coming from..

luuked said:

I don't see anything that Chancellor has done that makes him standout greatly from similarly build safeties. He fits perfectly into the Seattle D but nothing he has done so far that makes him HoF material. He is great for highlight shots, though.. I guess that is where the media hype is coming from..

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It's hard to quantify secondary players by stats alone, and I've seen this board absolutely shred our very own All Pro safety, so we'll have to agree to disagree. But I'm curious which SSs in the league you'd put ahead of him right now.

I will say that his own teammates call him the soul of that defense, and when he was recovering from injury earlier this year, the Seahawks D was a ghost of it's former self. Including the two weeks off that Pete gave him to get right, the Seahawks allowed an average of 21 PPG. Once he came back, they gave up an average of 9 PPG to close out the regular season.

He was a huge part of their Super Bowl run, with 14 tackles in an 8-point win over the Saints, 11 tackles and an INT in a 6-point win against the 49ers, and his teammates pointed to his huge hit on Thomas setting the tone against the Broncos early on in the Super Bowl, one of his 10 hits to go along with an INT in the win. He also had another INT and returned it for a TD to seal the deal against the Panthers late in the 4th quarter in their past playoff game.

He makes big plays in big games. He's the hardest hitter in the league. He's the soul of the best defense in the NFL right now. He's not too bad.

Courtesy of Chad Finn:

Bennett jumping offsides with 18 seconds left is another example of Carroll not having his players ready for the moment.

https://twitter.com/GlobeChadFinn/status/567515077071626240

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... and Bruce at http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2015/02/patriots-draft-preview-the-that-guy-edition
Before we begin our draft preview, a quick note on a tweet by Chad Finn about how Seattle giving New England five free yards at the end of the Super Bowl demonstrated their coach’s inability to prep them for the big moment.

Something about that comment stuck with me, and not just the fact that I agreed with it. Then it hit me: I’d heard Bill Belichick discuss this before.

Starting at the 3:08 mark of this “Mic’d Up” video, we see him talking with young defensive lineman Marquise Hill (RIP). The coach stresses the importance of avoiding an offsides penalty when they have the offense backed up on their own one-yard line.

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Forward to 3:08

RIP Marquise Hill