If you are one of the 110 million people who watched the Superbowl until the end yesterday then you witnessed what will go down as the dumbest play call in the history of any sport. With the time running out, the game on the line, and the ball a half a yard away from the endzone, Seattle’s Offensive Coordinator decided that they show throw the ball over attempting to run it. Let’s breakdown why that’s the absolute dumbest playcall ever.
* The Seahawks have Marshawn Lynch, a man nicknamed “Beastmode” because of his ability to pick up extra yardage while defenders are trying to tackle him. It was actually Marshawn who got them to the one yard line to attempt the dumbest play call in history after dragging a bunch of Patriots defenders. Not giving him the ball in that situation is a direct slap in the face to him and his skill-set.
* The Patriots had their goal line defense on the field which means they had bigger and slower guys clogging up the goal line. Whenever you throw the ball in football, it’s up for grabs by anyone and everyone. Why would you want to force a ball into a confined space where defenders outnumber your players? You’re asking your quarterback to force a ball to a wide receiver who due to space constraints has little to no breathing room. That’s a very low percentage play with that kind of distance. Not a play you would call on second down when you haven’t even attempted high percentage plays like giving the ball to your running back who specializes in running off tackle and bouncing outside the lines of bigger slower defenders. They didn’t even attempt the quarterback sneak, another high percentage play.
* If they really felt they had to throw the ball, why not run a real pass play? If you want to complete a pass on a goal line defense, you have a better chance by spreading them out. The Patriots had not been able to stop Russell Wilson scrambling on broken plays all game so if everyone was covered then he still would have had a great chance to make something happen with his feet. All he had to do was get a half of a yard on his own if he couldn’t find an open receiver.
I could break this play down multiple ways but it will always boil back down to keep the ball in sure hands on the ground and push forward. These are things you learn in pop warner. It’s easy to blame the offensive coordinator for this big of a goof but this play had to go through three channels to come to fruition. It had to go through the coordinator to the head coach to the quarterback. One of those people should have questioned the necessity of that playcall but they let it go and it cost them everything. I’m too disappointed to finish this blog so I’m just going to say shout out to all my Africans and try to pretend yesterday didn’t happen.
Flychologist out.
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