I would refer you to Nathan Jahnake of Pro Football Focus, and Brian Burke of NFL Advanced Stats. They both have interesting observations about that sequence on their respective Twitter feeds. Not for nothing was that this was the first match up of the entire NFL season where a team in 3WR faced a Goal Line Defense.

If you run on second down, you're running on all three downs, because you have to burn that time out if the run in 3WR doesn't work to get the right personnel grouping on the field against the Patriots goal line defense.

To be fair (and I'll state again, I would have run it), the mismatch you're looking for in goal line is a slot receiver against either a linebacker dropping into coverage or the free safety playing back off the ball. If this is the play you're going to call, the intended receiver did have the mismatch you'd want. It…

Calling pass play isn't the issue, calling THAT pass play was. It was still an execution failure, but there are several less risky plays to choose from.

Multiple downs left, a timeout, and the fact they stole the momentum should have been enough reason to let him try to run.

Seahawks ran the ball five times with Lynch on the season:

The fact that every talking head that played the game is pretty much shitting on this call tells you all you need to know. For crying out loud Lynch was gaining yards at will and they decide to throw it. Top it off the OC has the nerve to blame the reciever? Then again this is the same moron that cost The Vikings the…

Definitely a combination, what ever team hires that guy is doomed.

Remember Bevell is also the guy who was the offensive coordinator in charge of this playcalling (or was it just Favre being Favre?):

That play call was the equivalent of Mr. Burns telling Strawberry to bunt.

Assuming you might have to call 3 plays in 40 seconds, and you have only one time out, you have to throw at least once on 2nd or on 3rd down. That way, you set up any play call on 4th.

"Yeah, it was a hell of a play first and foremost."— God

Thank you. It amazes me how few people are seeing this and are being influenced by Collinsworth.

Yeah, it was a hell of a play first and foremost.

"Me too, man. Me too".

Collinsworth is spot on; any way you slice it, it's a terrible decision to run that play. Carroll can try to justify it however he wants, it was just simply the worst playcall in Super Bowl history.

Yah it's almost like he baited him into that throw, by you know disguising the coverage. I hate how seattle fans can't comprehend that, I would get mad at them but then I realize this only the second year that they've been watching Pro football.

I complete agree, that not only the read, the timing, and the not dropping the ball were huge! You could make a strong arguement that Malcolm Butler won the game for the Pats!

The second to last vine is the most instructive. It's a hot read. If the receiver is inside the DB you throw it. If not, check down. The receiver wasn't even close to inside him, he was at least a step and a half short. Wilson made a terrible decision,.

*watches that backbreaking INT GIF*