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So I'm sitting here watching for the first time the video "Rain City Redemption" which is an outstanding 2 hour recap of the 2013 Super Bowl winning season:
https://vimeo.com/114408964
For those of you who haven't watched it...seriously, its a great 2 hours of time wasted!!!
And the video gets to the Week 12 Monday night matchup - the 10-1 Seahawks and the 9-2 Saints in what many were anticipating could be the preview to the NFC Championship with the winner having the inside track of getting the #1 seed going into the playoffs!!
Then...at the 38:15 mark of the video the Seahawks ran a play at 3rd and goal from the 2 yard line...and as the team lined up, the ball snapped, and the play unfolded I inexplicably experienced a horrific, absolutely gut-wrenching, utterly sickening feeling from what occurred before my eyes...
It was like a lightning bolt, and the pain I experienced was upon me so unexpectedly and with no warning at all - but as the play developed it felt like I had already seen it run a thousand times in my dreams, and every single time I saw it there was never anything but a tragic ending. And that sense of imminent doom was swarming over me before my brain could even tell me what it was that my experience was attempting to process for me and prepare me for the devastation my psyche was surely going to have inflicted upon it.
Wilson was lined up in the shotgun with Lynch in the backfield, and Ricardo Lockette was lined up wide right stacked behind and outside Kearse...and then the ball was snapped, Kearse bolted forward, and Lockette cut inside in a slant towards the middle of the field...
I swear to god I thought my bowels were going to let go when Raible screamed... "3rd and goal ON A SLANT!!!"
But then the next thing Raible said was completely unexpected...
"...ITS GOOOOD FOR THE TOUCHDOWN!!!!!"
And then I realized it wasn't Lockette lined up on the outside, but rather it was Zack Miller.
And when that play was run Miller was sooooooooo wide open it wasn't even funny. There was no Butler screaming in on Miller. And there was no one who jammed Kearse at the line of scrimmage. The play that was drawn up was perfect and Wilson would have been crucified if he didn't attempt that throw to Miller.
I had seen this play in my nightmares a million times over the past month or so and I recognized it immediately even before Wilson released the ball.
And it was a perfect, outstandingly executed play. Against the class of the NFC in a high stakes, high pressure MNF game nearing crunch time of the season.
There have been countless naysayers who have been crucifying Bevell, and Carroll, and Wilson and even Lockette for that last play of Super Bowl XLIX - and many saying that they can't ever even remember this version of the Hawks running this play and thus shouldn't have called it in that situation...but how can you possibly fault the call when there is past evidence and experience verifying that this call had a high potential of winning the Seahawks the Super Bowl.
Without 20/20 hindsight, if someone showed me this play on film against NO from 2013 and told me at 26 seconds of the 4th quarter of Super Bowl 49 that this is the play that we were going to run against a rookie cornerback...I would have said ********. This play will have a 100% success rate.
Hindsight is 20/20...we now realize that Browner was the perfect SS in the perfect position with the benefit of past experience as a member of the Seahawks team to know to jam that play up, and we now realize that coach Belicheck had incredible foresight as well as impeccible preparation to have his rookie aware of this situation, and we now realize that this rookie - who still had to execute - had the wherewithal to process what he was seeing, the incredible split second reaction time necessary to make the impossible work, and the balls to run through a wall to make a once in a lifetime play.
I see that play against New Orleans and there is no possible way that I can fault Bevell and Carroll for making that call. None.
https://vimeo.com/114408964
For those of you who haven't watched it...seriously, its a great 2 hours of time wasted!!!
And the video gets to the Week 12 Monday night matchup - the 10-1 Seahawks and the 9-2 Saints in what many were anticipating could be the preview to the NFC Championship with the winner having the inside track of getting the #1 seed going into the playoffs!!
Then...at the 38:15 mark of the video the Seahawks ran a play at 3rd and goal from the 2 yard line...and as the team lined up, the ball snapped, and the play unfolded I inexplicably experienced a horrific, absolutely gut-wrenching, utterly sickening feeling from what occurred before my eyes...
It was like a lightning bolt, and the pain I experienced was upon me so unexpectedly and with no warning at all - but as the play developed it felt like I had already seen it run a thousand times in my dreams, and every single time I saw it there was never anything but a tragic ending. And that sense of imminent doom was swarming over me before my brain could even tell me what it was that my experience was attempting to process for me and prepare me for the devastation my psyche was surely going to have inflicted upon it.
Wilson was lined up in the shotgun with Lynch in the backfield, and Ricardo Lockette was lined up wide right stacked behind and outside Kearse...and then the ball was snapped, Kearse bolted forward, and Lockette cut inside in a slant towards the middle of the field...
I swear to god I thought my bowels were going to let go when Raible screamed... "3rd and goal ON A SLANT!!!"
But then the next thing Raible said was completely unexpected...
"...ITS GOOOOD FOR THE TOUCHDOWN!!!!!"
And then I realized it wasn't Lockette lined up on the outside, but rather it was Zack Miller.
And when that play was run Miller was sooooooooo wide open it wasn't even funny. There was no Butler screaming in on Miller. And there was no one who jammed Kearse at the line of scrimmage. The play that was drawn up was perfect and Wilson would have been crucified if he didn't attempt that throw to Miller.
I had seen this play in my nightmares a million times over the past month or so and I recognized it immediately even before Wilson released the ball.
And it was a perfect, outstandingly executed play. Against the class of the NFC in a high stakes, high pressure MNF game nearing crunch time of the season.
There have been countless naysayers who have been crucifying Bevell, and Carroll, and Wilson and even Lockette for that last play of Super Bowl XLIX - and many saying that they can't ever even remember this version of the Hawks running this play and thus shouldn't have called it in that situation...but how can you possibly fault the call when there is past evidence and experience verifying that this call had a high potential of winning the Seahawks the Super Bowl.
Without 20/20 hindsight, if someone showed me this play on film against NO from 2013 and told me at 26 seconds of the 4th quarter of Super Bowl 49 that this is the play that we were going to run against a rookie cornerback...I would have said ********. This play will have a 100% success rate.
Hindsight is 20/20...we now realize that Browner was the perfect SS in the perfect position with the benefit of past experience as a member of the Seahawks team to know to jam that play up, and we now realize that coach Belicheck had incredible foresight as well as impeccible preparation to have his rookie aware of this situation, and we now realize that this rookie - who still had to execute - had the wherewithal to process what he was seeing, the incredible split second reaction time necessary to make the impossible work, and the balls to run through a wall to make a once in a lifetime play.
I see that play against New Orleans and there is no possible way that I can fault Bevell and Carroll for making that call. None.