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The Play After the Infamous Super-Bowl Ending Play

Much has been said about the Seahawks pick right at the edge of the goal line near the end of this years Super Bowl. On that regard, I do not think that people should be up in arms about it like they are and think about "alternative paths". If the seahawks score there, people call Carroll, Bevell and Wilson "great" for going after the UDFA when the pats stacked the box. If Lynch is stuffed (which happened on a crucial 3rd-and-1 earlier in the game), people question that the seahawks tried to run it right at the stacked box (6 blockers and 8 defenders).

Look at the decision making, not at the outcomes. People get lucky or unlucky all the time, but its downright stupid to judge everything solely on its outcome.

With that being said, I wanted to talk a little bit about the play after that interception, because I think that it ended up somehow under the radar. It was a really interesting situation. The Patriots had the ball right around the 1-yard line with 20 seconds left, up four points and the Seahawks having only one timeout. Brady was practically standing in his own end zone. So obviously, they cannot kneel it. And I would assume that you would have a hard time to sneak it there against pretty much three guys in each A gap. What makes it worse, you have to do it TWICE, because they still have one timeout. I am relatively sure that they never thought about snapping that ball and only tried to draw the Seahawks off-side, which worked quite nicely and sadly put an all-too-early end on a fascinating situation.

I would like to hear other thoughts on this, but I would, in this case, put one receiver out there close to a sideline, put seven oline-men in there in goal-line splits, put TEs or FBs next to the QB, who is in shotgun and have all these guys pass protect with the receiver running a fade route. The QB takes the snap and floats a high pass out-of-bounds in the direction of the WR at around the 20- or 30-yard line or so. You do this three times obviously, which should take at least 10-15 seconds off the clock. Then, on 4th down, you put the WR out, get another OL/TE in the backfield and go max-protect with the QB waiting as long as possible and stepping out of the endzone, well before he is touched, for the safety. Now even if there is still a few seconds on the clock, you can punt from your own 20, which basically means that you win unless the other team fair catches it and completes a hail-mary, reenacts the music-city miracle or is able to return the ball into makeable field-goal range without running out of time. Neither of these scenarios seem likely to win the game.

So, what is your thought about it? What would have you done (assuming drawing them off-sides did not work obviously?

(I do not include screenshots from Gamepass because I have no clue whether thats allowed)

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