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The Official League Shill talked to the Seahawks offensive coordinator about The Play:
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2015/08/19/darrell-bevell-seattle-seahawks-super-bowl-play-call
The part I found most interesting was this:
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2015/08/19/darrell-bevell-seattle-seahawks-super-bowl-play-call
The part I found most interesting was this:
On my tour of NFL camps, I’ve asked five men—two coaches, three quarterbacks, anonymously—what they thought of the play call and the execution of the play. The reaction has been mixed. Interestingly, not a single one supported running a power rush by Lynch against the New England front with three 300-pound-plus defensive tackles filling the gaps. One quarterback said, “Then it would have been third-and-goal from the 2 or 3, and you’d burn your last timeout. So you’d be there with what, how many seconds left? [About 20.] And you’d probably be farther away than you were on second down.”
One coach and the other quarterback had the same problem with the call: trying to beat a physical, huge cornerback in what was sure to be a bang-bang physical play at the goal line.
“If you pass there,” the coach said, “you’ve got to call a fade. Too much can go wrong otherwise.”
The quarterback, a big fan of the strategic element of the game, said this: You’re not going to throw in Darrelle Revis’ direction. (Revis took the motion receiver, Doug Baldwin, to the offensive left side of the formation, leaving a 6-4, 221-pound corner, Browner, and the green Butler to defend the stack flanked right—Kearse in front and Lockette behind him.) “And you have to know in that case the big corner is going to do everything he can to not let the first guy [receiver] pick Butler,” the quarterback said. That’s what happened.