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Super Bowl 49 cemented one legacy, and one only.
Pete Carroll as the architect of the most monstrously foolish play call in Super Bowl history.
I don’t like second-guessing play calls because coaches know more than I do about what they see and why they see it, but in this case I will make an exception. He had the best running back in football, a player who cannot be tackled until there are six players atop him. He had two time outs. He had about a minute left. He had one yard to get. He had three chances to get it.
And he had Russell Wilson throw it. If I’d have bet the game. I’d want the death penalty for him. And no, that isn’t an overreaction, especially when you realize how painful the next few weeks of Patriotic preening will be. Even if you didn’t hate New England before this, you’d be ready to sell all six states back to Canada after the nonsense you hear emanating from the squalid acreage of dumpsterage we call Northeast Of Yonkers.
We kid, of course. It’s northeast of White Plains. But the point remains the same. Pete Carroll had a moment of duncery that the nation should never allow him to live down, because he decided to outthink the universe. Hell, even Bill Belichick thinks he’s a meathead, and Belichick has outcoached himself more than a few times in his day.
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But here’s the funniest part of all. Suddenly Tom Brady’s legacy is cemented as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time because he won a fourth ring he shouldn’t have won because of Pete Carroll.
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