NFL Postseason Megathread: Playoffs in the Post-Orton Era

[crazy canuck]

If Seattle had scored there would have been a lot of talk about The Catch.   Not much can be said after commenting on the decision not to try to run it in.

[Ed Anger]

YEW KAY

Want a hug? Want to go to Yankee Candle?

[Caliga]

Kay.

[CountDeMoney]

I lol'd a lil.

[Ed Anger]

Heh

[Razgovory]

You know, the St. Louis Rams made that same mistake this season, trying to throw a pass on the one yard line.  Of course they are one of the worst teams in the NFL.

[CountDeMoney]

lol

[MadBurgerMaker]

So Terrence Cody was doing...something...illegal....with a dog and an alligator?   

[Ed Anger]

I assume he was deep frying both.

[CountDeMoney]

So Terrence Cody was doing...something...illegal....with a dog and an alligator?   

Yeah, that one squeaked out quietly last week, but the full story didn't come out until today.

Fired is fired, but I wish it was more along the lines of Warren Sapp's post-SB practices.

[alfred russel]

You know, the St. Louis Rams made that same mistake this season, trying to throw a pass on the one yard line.  Of course they are one of the worst teams in the NFL.

I don't think you can generalize it is a mistake. When you look at turnover rates & scoring rates down at the goal line for running and passing, in neither category is running decisively superior. The seahawks criticism results from:

-the Seahawks have Marshawn Lynch.
-the pass was intercepted.

[alfred russel]

As I mentioned before the game, I was supporting the Patriots out of dislike for Carroll most of all. The game seemed to be the ideal outcome: Carroll not only loses, but loses in a way that will create a cloud over the rest of his coaching career. So all seemed well.

But I just read that Doug Baldwin celebrated a touchdown by simulating dropping trow and shitting out the football. That may very well have been the greatest celebration in the history of football, and NBC declined to show it. Now I have regrets the Seahawks and Doug Baldwin didn't win. 

[grumbler]

You know, the St. Louis Rams made that same mistake this season, trying to throw a pass on the one yard line.  Of course they are one of the worst teams in the NFL.

I don't think you can generalize it is a mistake. When you look at turnover rates & scoring rates down at the goal line for running and passing, in neither category is running decisively superior. The seahawks criticism results from:

-the Seahawks have Marshawn Lynch.
-the pass was intercepted.

Of the five times Lynch tried to punch it in from the one this season, he failed four times.  Getting the defense to back off wasn't a dumb call.  The throw wasn't there, and the ball should have just been thrown away (the play would still have served its purpose).  With all due respect to CdM's mom (I mean, somebody in that family has to understand football, amiright?), Carroll called the right play.

[CountDeMoney]

With all due respect to CdM's mom (I mean, somebody in that family has to understand football, amiright?), Carroll called the right play.

  Football is easy, it's the coaches that make it difficult.  Leave it to Coach Grumbler to go all Murdock up in this motherfucker. 
http://youtu.be/y0X0ZYbnHxA

[The Minsky Moment]

Seattle only had one time out, no?
So I can see the logic in the 2nd down play call.  Chance of an INT ex ante is very low.