zydecochris
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Exactly.
When all the smoke clears from this drama, this will be recognized as one of the greatest coaching moment in superbowl history. Just a ballsy, gutsy call that forced Seattle into a standoff and they blinked first.
I thought about starting a new thread title of: "HIS GREATEST MOMENT", but I'll just put it here in Ken's thread, which was so wonderful. By the way, thank you so much Ken for your amazing analyses, it is part of what makes Patsfan.com such a joy to visit.
In 25 years, if I am still lucky enough to be alive, when I think of the legacy of BB, I am going to think of that moment with the non-time out, specifically a moment with about 40 seconds left in the game.
Everyone on both sidelines was going completely bananas, and the camera went to the face of Pete Carroll and BB. It was such a contrast. Pete Carroll had this ultra intense look on his face as he watched the game. Then they went to a side view of BB and he had this calm look on his face like he was deep in abstract thought, and I thought to myself that it looked like he was figuring out some complicated problem. Near the end he started calmly talking into the headset, and it seemed like he was hardly even watching the game. Maybe he was doing some type of estimate of what gave him the greatest probability to win in an intuitive non-mathematical way, although that is just speculation.
Who else would have made that call? How many coaches wouldn't be worried about being criticized for that decision (not calling the timeouts).
In my mind, at least, that will forever be his defining moment. What a great coaching move from the greatest ever.
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