O/T: Pete Carroll talks about SB XLIX Butler interception with Richard Sherman

[Patsfan1958]

Richard Sherman interview with Pete Carroll. I love the fact that it still stings for them! Fun read!!!

Pete Carroll talks 'catastrophic' Super Bowl interception with Richard Sherman: 'It turned all of that so dark'

 

[PP2]

Although it turned out well for us, I take no pleasure in what happened to them as a result.

 

[mike_usagisan]

Although it turned out well for us, I take no pleasure in what happened to them as a result.

What happened to them?

 

[signbabybrady]

I defend you Pete it was a great choice

 

[Pape]

What happened to them?

Implosion...

From potential dynasty to nopenasty

 

[Pape]

Although it turned out well for us, I take no pleasure in what happened to them as a result.

I do... Screw Sherman and the gulls after his dogging Brady with trash talk after a meaningless regular season win... who's laughing now Stanford?

 

[mike_usagisan]

Implosion...

From potential dynasty to nopenasty

They were that kind of team. I think that could have happened if they won, too.

 

[Pape]

They were that kind of team. I think that could have happened if they won, too.

I've never seen so many bitter recriminations about the loss and the vitriol tossed at poodle Pete was staggering... They went toxic overnight and it continued for years... If they won I don't think you'd have seen that

 

[Sicilian]

This is what I assumed was the thought process anyway. They would rather have 4 shots at the TD with one of the first three being a pass, than only get 3 shots but all of them are Lynch. After running on first, you knew one of the next two plays had to be a pass for that to happen. They thought the formation was favorable on 2nd down, and I think I remember reading that no pass from the 1 yard line in the entire NFL that year (for all 32 teams) had been intercepted. I think they figured the worst case scenario was an incomplete and then you know you're running on 3rd and 4th. Butler just made an incredible play that I still can't believe he hung on to.

 

[Patsfan1958]

I loved the look on Sherman's face when Butler intercepted the ball

 

[Pape]

This is what I assumed was the thought process anyway. They would rather have 4 shots at the TD with one of the first three being a pass, than only get 3 shots but all of them are Lynch. After running on first, you knew one of the next two plays had to be a pass for that to happen. They thought the formation was favorable on 2nd down, and I think I remember reading that no pass from the 1 yard line in the entire NFL that year (for all 32 teams) had been intercepted. I think they figured the worst case scenario was an incomplete and then you know you're running on 3rd and 4th. Butler just made an incredible play that I still can't believe he hung on to.

Credit to Brandon Browner for recognizing the play/receiver formation and setting Butler up in the right spot to make the play as well...

 

[sb1]

I wonder what Browner said to Sherman after the game. Didn’t look that friendly lol. U mad bro?

 

[PaulThePat]

Although it turned out well for us, I take no pleasure in what happened to them as a result.

I couldn't care less what happened to them as a result.

 

[mike_usagisan]

I've never seen so many bitter recriminations about the loss and the vitriol tossed at poodle Pete was staggering... They went toxic overnight and it continued for years... If they won I don't think you'd have seen that

Thanks. Somehow I missed all that. It always seemed to me like one of those teams so filled with egos and attitude that sooner or later the whole thing would have blown up. But maybe they could have held it together longer if they won.

 

[StockingAnarchyNumber12]

I've never seen so many bitter recriminations about the loss and the vitriol tossed at poodle Pete was staggering... They went toxic overnight and it continued for years... If they won I don't think you'd have seen that

I believe him. I don’t think he was trying to prop up Wilson and let him make the game winning pass. I just think the play happened.

 

[Guts]

I do... Screw Sherman and the gulls after his dogging Brady with trash talk after a meaningless regular season win... who's laughing now Stanford?

Ehhh to be fair Sherman was the first one to go to Brady to congratulate him when the game was pretty much over. I think he's always been a good sport about it but yes the trash talk was annoying lol

 

[BTTA]

Credit to Brandon Browner for recognizing the play/receiver formation and setting Butler up in the right spot to make the play as well...

And the coaching staff for practicing that defensive call, out of that formation, multiple times prior to the game. I think someone said they didn't stop it once in practice, so the actual game was their first success with it.

 

[Pape]

Ehhh to be fair Sherman was the first one to go to Brady to congratulate him when the game was pretty much over. I think he's always been a good sport about it but yes the trash talk was annoying lol

Ehhh... I'm a homer... Screw him, lol

 

[Pape]

And the coaching staff for practicing that defensive call, out of that formation, multiple times prior to the game. I think someone said they didn't stop it once in practice, so the actual game was their first success with it.

There's video from one of the walk thrus prior to the game showing that very thing

 

[Chevy]

We've all watched that play N+1 times, and ir never gets old.

That said, looking at it now, I keep going back to the thought that it was actually a great call. Had Wilson targeted the receiver differently (more left-hip being the target) it could have been six for the 'Hawks. Or just an incomplete that stops the clock.

Still, like others have said, it took Browner recognizing it and alerting Scrap who applied all the lessons learned working one on that specific route.