I beg to differ, and agree with most knowledgable football people who he made the wrong call and got lucky, but calling the timeout was the only correct decision in that moment. Brady would have had plenty of time to get to field goal range if the time had been called. If you are going to look at odds and percentages, it is unquestionable that BB did NOT play the percentages. The decision he made clearly reduced the Patriots chances of winning the game by leaps and bounds.Did you watch the documentary where he goes through his thinking at the time? How he went through the pro's and con's in real time, and saw the other sideline in disarray and decided to press the issue? How they had Seattle's goal line offense extremely well diagrammed?
The idea that any of us neophytes could even begin to make a judgment about that, from this distance, is just absurd.
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