Quote:Right, someone said if the Patriots lost everybody would be all over Belichick for not calling timeouts when they had two left.

 

The Matthews touchdown was not a bad call because he was in single coverage and there were 30 minutes left. Wilson knew he could get rid of the ball too quickly for anyone to pressure him. Of course if it failed, everybody would be mat at Carroll for keeping the offense on the field with six seconds left.

 

What everyone forgets is if Beast Mode ran it in on second down, the Patriots would get the ball with two timeouts. A long return, a couple throws to the sidelines, and using both timeouts would help them tie it with a last-second field goal attempt. That probably is why Belichick saved both timeouts and Carroll wanted to kill the clock with a "wasted" play.

 

A pass play does the opposite of "kill the clock".  No matter what happened, the clock was going to stop at the end of that play, whether they scored or threw an incompletion.  My problem with the play is the talk about "throwing the down away".  Seriously?  Sometimes we think that coaches are smarter than us because that's their job, but this was a really stupid decision.  They hosed the game up with 2 burned timeouts on the drive, even before 1st and goal.  You've got first and goal with 1:06 and you tell me you don't run it 4 times.  You don't have a play call in there to hurry up and run a play to prevent them from getting their goal line package in?  Wasting the clock and killing downs is presumptuous and stupid and it doesn't mean $#*$ if you don't freaking score.  Dumb play call no matter how anyone wants to sugarcoat it.

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