If Cam, Romo or Peyton threw that game ending INT....

[t96]

But realize something about Cam, Romo and Peyon. None of their 3 teams would call that pass play. If they called a pass play it's be some kind of play action or fade to KB, Olsen, Dez, Julius Thomas or Demaryious. The Seahawks don't have any really good redzone targets. I question why they didn't try a fade to the 6'5 Matthews, he was catching everything and winning on jump balls easily. And it's the Super Bowl so they need to change up their play calls. Butler picked it because he had seen it on film so much. If they run it so much that some scrub sees it on film and capitalizes then why not design a different/new play for that situation? Hawks handed them the game on that one play, and Wilson, Carroll and Bevell are all to blame.

[gettlemanjack]

if it had been Romo or Cam, it would be the same thing: why did you call that pass there?

DAL has the best OL in football and Murray is the OPOY. Run the damn ball. Or at least run a QB sneak behind that great OL. If you must get cute and pass, at least roll Romo out so he has a chance to score with his legs or throw it away if he doesn't like what he sees

With us, even if you don't think our interior OL and RBs aren good, we still have a 6-6/260 athletc freak at QB. If you're not going to hand it off, then run a QB sneak with Cam or at least roll him out so he can run it in or throw it away if he doesn't like what he sees

With Peyton Manning, he calls his own plays so of course he'd get blamed

As for Pete:

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

What is the point of these threads?

[Mol3m4n]

What is the point of these threads?

What is the point of your post in this pointless thread?

What is the point of life?

[Hawk]

there was so much wrong in the last minute or so it's unbelievable really.

 

too much time came off the clock between the Kearse catch and the first Lynch run.

 

too much time came off after the first Lynch run.

 

if you are deadset on throwing the ball on 2nd down, which I will never agree with by the way....why line up with an empty backfield?  Least you could do is play action or read option...at least make it look like you are going to run.  And if you are going to throw...a lob to the back of the endzone or along the sideline....a slant right in the middle?  Come on man.  And to Ricardo Lockette?  Seriously....the guy is a special teams beast but he's caught what....20 passes all year and he's getting that pass?  I put more blame on him than on Wilson.  Watch the replay and it's not a bad throw...although Wilson is staring him down all the way....but Lockette really doesn't put much of an effort into making the play...or stopping the defender from getting it.  So many wrongs in one play.

 

and yes...lots of Wilson haters here...oh well....luck is part of the game...you need to be good to be lucky and lucky to be good.

[Jangler]

What is the point of life?

To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

[SCP]

Yep. Russell Wilson is the luckiest athlete I can ever recall. Dude pulls off more insanely lucky plays than anyone I've ever seen. hell, the play right before the INT was sheer luck. Perfect pass breakup, WR falls, ball lands right in his lap. Seriously, dafuq is that? Seems like that type of lucky BS happens with RW all the time. Then, he throws a back breaking, Super Bowl losing INT and not one mention of the fact that the ball was poorly placed high and inside on a quick slant. If that ball is put into the WR's body like you want on that route, it's an incomplete pass at worse, likely defensive pass interference. But, once again, Wilson lucks out and all the ruckus is about the play call. Sure, the play call sucked, but if the ball was thrown properly, it WAS a relatively safe play. Still dumb as fug not to just give the ball to Lynch.

RW definitely is the luckiest SOB I have seen play professional sports in my lifetime. He fumbles the ball and the thing bounces directly back to him. Not once but on multiple occasions. He throws up prayers with his eyes closed like that 2 point conversion against the Pack that float in the air for 5 seconds and lands into a wide open receivers hands with no defender within 3 yards of him.

[TheRumGone]

RW must have banged yalls wives/gfs. The same usual suspects come out of the woodwork.

Bad pass/bad playcall. Who cares if the media doesnt put blame on him like they would cam.

[CardiacCat]

Yep.  Russell Wilson is the luckiest athlete I can ever recall.  Dude pulls off more insanely lucky plays than anyone I've ever seen.  hell, the play right before the INT was sheer luck.  Perfect pass breakup, WR falls, ball lands right in his lap.  Seriously, dafuq is that?  Seems like that type of lucky BS happens with RW all the time.  Then, he throws a back breaking, Super Bowl losing INT and not one mention of the fact that the ball was poorly placed high and inside on a quick slant.  If that ball is put into the WR's body like you want on that route, it's an incomplete pass at worse, likely defensive pass interference.  But, once again, Wilson lucks out and all the ruckus is about the play call.  Sure, the play call sucked, but if the ball was thrown properly, it WAS a relatively safe play.  Still dumb as fug not to just give the ball to Lynch.

 

While I agree with most of the above, it is not true that no one has mentioned the fact that the ball was poorly thrown.  I have heard many on TV and radio making exactly that point (including RW himself and Mike Golic).  Doesn't take away the fact that it was a dumb play ......

[Semaj]

You run the ball on second down and call the timeout if he does not get in. Then you look at the clock and take the time to assess what the best play call is and if you can run it twice. I think you can run two plays from the one in eighteen seconds or so.

You could also, like you said, call Wilson on a bootleg with a run/pass option where he can throw it away if neither option is there.

I don't think that they could have run two run plays in 18 seconds. If I am NE I am slow to get up off of Lynch and the linemen after the first play ends. I make sure there is no second play. The pass option was fine but it should have been done with a RW scramble option built into it. He probably could have found the end zone with his legs or an open receiver in the end zone. Game over. Seahawks win. I probably would have tried to run it in on that second down. Then called a T. O. if I failed to score. Then go with a Wilson scramble and throw option play and make sure RW knows that he has to score or throw incomplete and he can't get tackled behind the goal line. Then on 4th down you have your choice of another RW scramble or throw or a short run for Lynch to win it.

[LinvilleGorge]

there was so much wrong in the last minute or so it's unbelievable really.

 

too much time came off the clock between the Kearse catch and the first Lynch run.

 

too much time came off after the first Lynch run.

 

if you are deadset on throwing the ball on 2nd down, which I will never agree with by the way....why line up with an empty backfield?  Least you could do is play action or read option...at least make it look like you are going to run.  And if you are going to throw...a lob to the back of the endzone or along the sideline....a slant right in the middle?  Come on man.  And to Ricardo Lockette?  Seriously....the guy is a special teams beast but he's caught what....20 passes all year and he's getting that pass?  I put more blame on him than on Wilson.  Watch the replay and it's not a bad throw...although Wilson is staring him down all the way....but Lockette really doesn't put much of an effort into making the play...or stopping the defender from getting it.  So many wrongs in one play.

 

and yes...lots of Wilson haters here...oh well....luck is part of the game...you need to be good to be lucky and lucky to be good.

 

It was straight out of Mike Shula's playbook.  Nobody will see this one coming... except it's so painfully obvious to a defense that has done it's homework.

 

I hate Russell Wilson the football player, but I can't say anything bad about the actual guy.  I've never met him, but we have some mutual friends and I've never heard anything the slightest bit negative about the guy dating all the way back to when he was 15.

 

Sorry bro, but the pass was bad.  It's a pass you get away with 95% of the time because that CB jumped it perfectly, but when you stare a guy down like that and then lead him high and inside you're asking for trouble. When you're throwing that slant on the goal line, you gotta put it into the receiver's body so that he can use his body to shield off defenders.  THE WR should've gone after it harder and jumped in order to make up for the high throw, but there's definitely a good bit of blame to put on RW for the outcome of that play.

[LinvilleGorge]

I don't think that they could have run two run plays in 18 seconds. If I am NE I am slow to get up off of Lynch and the linemen after the first play ends. I make sure there is no second play. The pass option was fine but it should have been done with a RW scramble option built into it. He probably could have found the end zone with his legs or an open receiver in the end zone. Game over. Seahawks win. I probably would have tried to run it in on that second down. Then called a T. O. if I failed to score. Then go with a Wilson scramble and throw option play and make sure RW knows that he has to score or throw incomplete and he can't get tackled behind the goal line. Then on 4th down you have your choice of another RW scramble or throw or a short run for Lynch to win it.

 

Hindsight is always 20/20, but I agree with this.

 

[PantherBrew]

there was so much wrong in the last minute or so it's unbelievable really.

 

too much time came off the clock between the Kearse catch and the first Lynch run.

 

too much time came off after the first Lynch run.

 

if you are deadset on throwing the ball on 2nd down, which I will never agree with by the way....why line up with an empty backfield?  Least you could do is play action or read option...at least make it look like you are going to run.  And if you are going to throw...a lob to the back of the endzone or along the sideline....a slant right in the middle?  Come on man.  And to Ricardo Lockette?  Seriously....the guy is a special teams beast but he's caught what....20 passes all year and he's getting that pass?  I put more blame on him than on Wilson.  Watch the replay and it's not a bad throw...although Wilson is staring him down all the way....but Lockette really doesn't put much of an effort into making the play...or stopping the defender from getting it.  So many wrongs in one play.

 

and yes...lots of Wilson haters here...oh well....luck is part of the game...you need to be good to be lucky and lucky to be good.

Lot's of UNC fans.  Always going to hate Russell cause he owned them.  

[ThinkAboutIt]

Did Wilson audible to the pass away from a run play, and if he DID NOT, then why didn't he audible to the run?