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Pump The Brakes on Pete Carroll

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Sunday’s Super Bowl result highlights everything that we do wrong as fans and media. We lack perspective (I’m guilty of it!) and need to find a person to blame.

If the Seattle Seahawks score a touchdown at the 1-yard line the headlines read completely different.

“Tom Brady forgot how to win the big game”

One of the best quarterbacks in the history of the NFL (it hurts to say that) would have had his legacy decided while he was sitting on the sideline after executing a brilliant drive giving his team the lead.

Bill Belichick would have been ridiculed all offseason for not calling a timeout to potentially give his team an opportunity to get the ball back with time on the clock. “The best coach of our generation” (John Harbaugh’s words) would have been referred to in expletive-laced rants all over America by every Patriots fan or every Tom, Dick, and Harry that had a “hundy” riding on this game.

Coaches become idiots due to a split-second decision that, if it results in failure, puts their team in an unfavorable position. But that same split-second decision, if executed properly, well, that’s where GOAT’s are created.

It’s much easier to play the result with hindsight at 20/20.

Instead, an instantaneous decision by Pete Carroll makes him the dumbest man in the room and world-renowned moron. Even if Carroll’s decision had logic behind it we don’t want to hear about that, we want his proverbial head on a stake.

It’s not as if the coaches decision came out of left-field with no rhyme or reason behind it. We are calling Pete Carroll a bozo because he put the game in the hands of a quarterback that is about to get paid over 100-million dollars.

Carroll had stats backing up his decision, Marshawn Lynch is not a successful rusher from the 1-yard line (small sample size) and the chances of Russell Wilson throwing an interception in that situation should be minimal. If Wilson throws the ball lower and doesn’t extend Lockette’s arms it’s a simple incompletion and the Seahawks run the ball on 3rd and 4th down.

What no one wants to do, myself included, is give credit to the undrafted free agent who was working at Popeyes. Malcolm Butler made the “Louisiana Fast” decision to try to jump the route because he recognized the play from practice.

What should be happening this offseason is Malcolm Butler gets heralded as a hero because his preparation came to fruition.

That’s the better story in my opinion.

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