Cool Link MOST DRAMATIC MOMENT IN NFL HISTORY: Zolak's immediate reaction to Butler interception against Seahawks, in praise of Belichick, in defense of Carroll

[bormio]

Yes, in retrospect I think Belichick's decision is more desperate than I supposed. Carroll's thinking is more defensible.

But again, Carroll had that game winning play in his pocket. He didn't know that Belichick had already neutralized the unstoppable play.

This is why football is a funny game. You go in with supreme confidence, and you're humbled because ANYTHING can be countered.

The only unstoppable force in football history was the 85 Bears defense.

Fins put 35 on it

 

[Brandon_Cox]

This is my favorite call of the play

 

[NovaScotiaPatsFan]

I understand that but that's before the fact of Belichick not calling a timeout.

Once Belichick made the decision not to call timeout, they snapped the ball with 26 seconds on the clock.

That's the hole point of this discussion. Seattle was caught off guard, and once they understood there wouldn't be enough time to run it on every down, they had to throw.

*sigh*

 

[upstater1]

Fins put 35 on it

The Bears were snorting coke and drinking on South Beach into the wee hours of the morning

 

[stinkypete]

I never considered that Seattle didn't have the time to run 3 times and therefore had to pass. I don't recall that anyone did in the aftermath of that game. That entire turn of events makes much more sense now. Greatest game, and moment, in NFL history.