I think it's one of the worst articles I've seen from Curran. Here's why:
1. Throwing at the 1 is not crazy, it's not even unusual happens almost every week, and even during that game Lynch got stuffed in the redzone twice for a 1 and a 0 yard gain. Russell bailed him out with a TD pass. I guess there are about 50 "worst calls ever" every season.
2. His complaining about the clock is nonsense. It's far more important to get the RIGHT play, then preserve clock. They will run out of downs before clock if they don't get a first down. Which guess what? After that first TO they got a first down.
3. His criticism about cheerleading vs letting Wilson know what's going on before the miracle catch is ridiculous. As if Wilson needs Pete to tell him what he's "supposed to do." Wilson has been a QB for 3 years, he's in the SB, and he had a TD drive in 31 seconds in this very game. Wilson knows what he's doing. Trying to calm him down is reasonable, and in fact that psychological aspect is not "dumb coaching" but part of coaching. One that I think Carroll has shown he understands better than most. And by the way, after Carroll's dumb TO and coaching, they got the first down.
4. Time left had Jack **** to do with them winning or losing so why is he blabbing about it? How much time to leave on the clock is a subjective decision with pros and cons. Acting like more time = better is just failing to really understand football.
5. It annoys the f*** out of me when people pretend to not understand things. Carroll's explanation was NOT gibberish. You may not agree, or like it, but it was perfectly coherent. You see people do this all the time in politics, and they did it with the BB conference about Deflategate. "Oh my god, it was so bizarre, what he's saying makes no sense!"
Since when has pretending to be too stupid to understand something become a viable argument?