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Everyone is soo naive and homerish on this issue.
Dartmouth here.Damn, and I went to Yale!
I have to agree it was a massive mistake but certainly not his biggest. To me, it's his third biggest mistake. Clearly, selecting T Brady is his biggest, he got bailed out on that one with a bit of half decent QB play, but a huge mistake nonetheless. His second biggest mistake imo was going for two at the end of regulation in this past SB. DA only just got in, would have been better going onsides after the XP there.Not calling that time out was the biggest mistake BB ever made. It was a no brainer to call the timeout, and could have cost the Patriots a shot at the Super Bowl. He did get bailed out on that one in 49. Sorry, just a football fact.
>>Belichick deciding not to call a timeout rushed the Seahawks and led to Seattle's decision to pass the ball. Seattle decided to pass the ball because w/out the timeout from Belichick they may not of had time to get 3 runs in if need be. So Carroll explained that he called the pass to make sure they could use all 3 chances to score.
This entire part was pure and utter blind luck. The fact is that BB greatly reduced the likelihood and the percentages of the Pats chances to win the game when he did not call the timeout. It is just a football fact. The odds were very high that the Seahawks would score there, and hence Brady needed time to get into field goal range, so BB made a wrong decision if the interest was to have the highest chance of being able to win the game. He just got bailed out and I am glad he did.
Everyone is soo naive and homerish on this issue.
Everyone is soo naive and homerish on this issue.
if the "right" course of action is just to do whatever has the highest odds of success/winning, then teams might as well not have human coaches and just let computer programs decide all of the play calls, timeouts, challenges, etc.
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That Adams was football obsessed had been obvious from the time he had arrived at Andover and had sat in the back of some of his classes - more often than not science classes - and had pleased the teacher by seeming to be the most diligent and enthusiastic note taker in the class. Sadly, it would turn out, and much to the irritation of the teacher, these were not science notes but turned out to be sketches where eleven Xs took on eleven Os. In time the teacher notified Helen Adams, Ernie's mother. She was not surprised because Ernie's housemaster, Hale Sturges, had already written her of his own concerns about the narrowness of her son's interest: "I wish he would expand his horizons. His interest in football has assumed such proportions that it seems to be closing doors on other areas of endeavour."
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.
You're right. I was yelling at my TV for him to take the timeout. But that doesn't mean I was right... As has been posted in this thread several times, BB saw something and using his knowledge and experience made a decision based on the facts at hand. He made the correct decision. For you to state that it is a FACT that he made the wrong decision is presumptuous at best or downright arrogant at worst.Not bizarre at all. They needed to call that timeout so Brady would have had enough time to get in field goal range. It was the basic and obvious fact. BB admitted he was sort of gambling. And you are lying that you were not yelling at the TV to take a timeout as everyone was. Watch every youtube of the end of the game of Pats fans watching. Praising BB over it is silly. He got lucky. Majorly
They practiced against the play the Seahawks ran on the Butler pick and then Belichick forced Carroll into running it by going 8 big with 3 corners. Belichick is the best in game coach of all time because everything is a situation and he is ready for every one of them.