Kind of agree with you, and thought it would’ve been better for them to have more space to operate. I said at the time, that catch and failure to score right then was going to hurt Seattle. I can’t fault Carroll too much for the attempt, cause I think he’d been called ‘gutsy’ had it worked out, but I’ve never been a…

This is entirely plausible. Legion of Boom (eyeroll) wanted the dynasty to be about them. Instead, they saw Wilson become a bigger story. Their egos found this difficult to handle. Also, I don’t see how Lynch would’ve won the MVP. Wilson brought them back in (I mean, the catches were out of the world flukey but the QB…

Yeah. Also, everyone makes a huge deal of the “you f’ing suck” Richard Sherman anecdote and Carroll “coddling” Sherman.

They didn’t hand it off to Lynch because Dont’a Hightower would have stuffed him. The Pats were able to come back against the Falcons because Dont’a Hightower had a strip sack and pushed them out of field goal range in the 4th quarter. The Patriots lost the Super Bowl to the Eagles because Dont’a Hightower was injured.

Seems to me like these players have the same issue with Russell that RG3, McNabb, and a few others had to deal with. First, they accused Russell of not being “black enough.” Now there’s this idea that Russell was given special treatment, as compared to every other white Quarterback? Seems to me players hold black QBs…

The ball sailed? The ball was maybe 2 inches from the ideal spot. I’ve never believed that INT was on Wilson; that INT was because Butler made a fantastic read and play and Browner had a huge part in holding up Kearse so he couldn’t set the pick to see up Lockette.

How exactly did he cater to him to the detriment of the team? All star QBs get special treatment. The Legion were all insane egomaniacs they won their first Super Bowl when Wilson was making peanuts and he had just signed a big contract and those guys resented it. They were so full of themselves they believed they…

Agree with you. These articles only get written because the old Seattle defensive players are willing to openly talk so much s***, and that lets them create such a dumb narrative. The subhead on the SI article reads: “Now the team they believed was set up for a long run of success has been torn up and rebuilt around…

Worst call ever? Hardly. The Patriots were in a big body defense expecting a run and whomever called the play knew that meant the slant was there for the taking. But sometimes players make plays and that’s what happened; Butler made a great play. Me, I would’ve given Lynch another shot but I was sitting on my couch wat…

Never have more guys talked more shit about one play in one game. It’s also funny how those defensive stalwarts never ever mention their culpability in NEEDING that drive to happen, since like most humans on Earth (up until last season, I guess), they couldn’t stop Tom Brady when they HAD TO.

And the defense’s reaction (“we didn’t lose, it was taken from us”) us very reminiscent of the Al Davis Raiders, where they thought the league was rigged against them, to the detriment of actually concentrating on winning games. No wonder neither team ever reached the mountaintop again.

The Seahawks would have been better off if Jermaine Kearse hadn’t made the miracle catch that set up the final play.

Of course Carroll protected Wilson’s ego, he was in his first 3 years in the league and playing QB for a good/great team. You don’t bury a young QB, especially when he is practicing against one of the best defenses in the league. What did they want Carroll to do with Wilson? Trash him and destroy any confidence he…

I agree, not to mention the only reason they were feet away from being back-to-back champs was the incredible catch by Kearse, which really is only forgotten because of Butler’s INT.

And maybe Sherman and friends are enormous babies as well. “They cost me a SB?” Gimme a fucking break, don’t blow a 10 point lead in the 4th and you’ll win another SB.

No. It speaks poorly of the cohesion on the team. Like the old Buddy Ryan Eagles, one half of the team believed they were carrying the other. When things went wrong, the defense blamed the offense entirely, even though it was the defense that blew a 10 point 4th quarter lead in the SB.

holy sheepshit, no wonder he thinks Flyers are a threat

Damn, he really has an axe to grind with Cory Lidle.

From the look of it, I’d suggest that tennis is a much higher intensity sport than either soccer or cycling, where the majority of the time is spent effectively at cruising pace (and the data on soccer backs that up).

There are long periods of time on a soccer pitch when at least half the players are moving at a light jog at best, not sure how that’s ‘higher intensity’ than the constant motion required to sustain a rally at this level of tennis, plus the exertion of executing groundstrokes, AND it’s all on concrete. Sure there are…