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Where is the blame for Russell?
HeretoBeatmyChest
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He can check out of that play and he made a poor throw. On slants you gotta get the ball out immediately.
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He didn't make a great throw but throwing it earlier wasn't the solution, the whole purpose of throwing was to to either score or stop the clock on an incompletion to keep the timeout to run on third and fourth down.
Wilson deserves some blame but he's below Bevel, Caroll, Kearse and Lockette on the list of offenders IMO.
1) Not giving it to Lynch
2) Not giving it to Lynch
3) Not giving it to Lynch
4) Not giving it to Lynch
5) Not giving it to Lynch
6) No play fake to Lynch? Are you kidding me? New England and about 150 million viewers were guessing Beast Mode up the middle or at worst off tackle. So you don't even give New England that look? Horrible
7) No roll out for Russell? You expand the problem of eliminating Lynch from the play entirely by not giving Wilson a run pass option? Really? I know it takes away half the field, but at least if there isn't anything there he can either run or throw it away.
8) New England stacks the middle preparing for Lynch up the gut, so dumbass sends in a play with the primary target running a slant route into said stack. Genius.
Lets also add that New England was still shell shocked over giving up the miraculous reception part deux.
Seattle had established the running attack
They had 30 seconds left, with a timeout
AND 2ND DOWN!!
Russell made a horrible decision to let the ball go, but it's only his 3rd year. At this point coaches still have to put you in a position to win, and that play call completed voided that. Considering the offense had been below average all season, add this to the mix, and the coordinator needs to fly Delta economy class back home, and his office needs to be cleaned out before he gets back.
A. Give it to Lynch. Fake to Lynch and run with Russell.
B. Fake it to Lynch, and roll Russell out for a run pass option. Run it, dump it for an easy TD, or throw it away.
C. If you insist on being retarded, throw a fade to whoever isn't guarded by Browning or Revis.
D. You are a fucking idiot with an IQ of 30 and throw a slant or an out.
Seattle chose option D.
Let's say he catches it and Popeye the Chicken boy arrives a second late and drives him back ... same as a run, which has been pointed out keeps the clock running.
Having to call two timeouts really, really hurt.
Fuck, I could go crazy psycho analyzing all this bullshit.
Fuck.
Lockette could have run a better route (may have given away the fact that he was running a slant, and Kearse could have perhaps done a better job of setting the pick (but you CAN'T take a penalty there), but Lockette didn't alligator arm that play. He just simply got beat to the spot in the end.
If you look at the view that Wilson had BEFORE he made the throw, everything looked right on the throw. If you want to be a hair critical, you could have argued that maybe it was just a hair to the outside and could have been lower. But let's be honest, if the Pats player doesn't make an incredible break and beat Lockette to the spot, Lockette's got a perfectly placed ball for the TD.
The play call wasn't great for a number of reasons ... and I don't feel like going into why it was so fucktarded.
But I don't think Wilson's throw was all that bad ... sometimes that shit happens in the NFL.