Ford, Chevy, Fiat, VW, Toyota, Honda
Pepsi, Coke, Budweiser, Coors, Miller
Nationwide, Allstate, Geico, State Farm
McDonalds, Subway
(just off the top of my head)
It just means that the Seahawks ran that play with some frequency during the regular season. I don’t know how many times they ran it and in which games, but none of them were to win the Super Bowl. Unless Carroll believed that Lynch would be stopped short 2, maybe 3, times, there is no benefit to running that play in that situation.
Yes, Nationwide, the company that keeps your kid from dying.
All good points. Eh! I am going to have to come up with a new strategy to NOT support the NFL…league has become such BS. Another topic for a different thread. I would have given Marshawn at least one try. Funny…only one guy followed him as went out to the left at the snap of the ball. I thought the best option was for Wilson to QB sneak up the middle after that snap.
I missed that one. I’m gonna have to go back and find it on the DVR.
Someone needs to get fired over that one. It made the domestic abuse PSA (which I thought was a PIzza Hut commercial for the first 25 seconds) seem uplifting.
I’m ashamed to have laughed out loud.
Great article describing why the call was not a good risk-adjusted bet:
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/super-bowl-new-england-patriots-seattle-seahawks/
TL;DR version - terrible call
Has anyone seen a link for a video of Baldwin doing his touchdown celebration dance where he does the motion of taking off his pants and pooping out the football?
I personally would have called a bootleg with Wilson running it in on 2nd down. Lynch would have been the perfect decoy as everyone was expecting him to pound it in.
Regardless of the call, I think a more experienced Wilson would have not forced that pass and would have been more aware that it was only 2nd down. It was a high risk play in that area of the field so unless you feel your WR can get enough separation (in the 0.5 seconds you have to make that decision), you make sure to live to play another down. That comes with time and experience.
Either Lynch or Wilson would be acceptable and had a good chance at success. Lockette over the middle is not an acceptable choice. Greatest muffed opportunity in the SB I’m likely to see in my lifetime. Game was in the bag and even “Tom Terrific” wasn’t coming back from that. Too bad but at least most of the same team will be back for next year and I’m looking forward to another season of complete melt down out of the 49ers and accompanying whining (lowest class fans in the NFL) once Seattle runs the tables in the West again, likely ultimately making it back to at least the NFC Championship. I hope we get a GB-Seattle rematch with more or less the same teams, that would be awesome.
Vegas odds for next year:
SEAHAWKS: 6/1 PATRIOTS: 7/1 PACKERS: 8/1 BRONCOS: 12/1 COLTS: 12/1 COWBOYS: 18/1 EAGLES: 25/1 SAINTS: 30/1 49ERS: 30/1 STEELERS: 30/1 LIONS: 30/1 RAVENS: 30/1 BENGALS: 35/1 RAMS: 40/1 CHIEFS: 40/1 CARDINALS: 40/1 CHARGERS: 40/1 GIANTS: 40/1 PANTHERS: 45/1 DOLPHINS: 45/1 FALCONS: 50/1 TEXANS: 50/1 BEARS: 60/1 VIKINGS: 60/1 BILLS: 70/1 BROWNS: 70/1 JETS: 125/1 REDSKINS: 140/1 BUCS: 200/1 TITANS: 300/1 JAGS: 300/1 RAIDERS: 300/1
can you buy and sell those odds over the year? or once you lock in you are in?
An interesting study would be how reliable those figures are year-to-year. My guess is they are historically wildly inaccurate with tons of hindsight bias. Long Cardinals, short Lions on those odds (among others). It’s also not really clear how you can have the Super Bowl loser with better odds than the Super Bowl winner, that seems off but I don’t follow NE’s personnel outlook closely.
I’m not a sports bettor, but I believe you keep whatever the odds are when you make your bet. I seem to recall Phil Mickelson picking the Ravens before the 2000 season and he won several hundred thousand at 20-1 or something like that.
^^^Sure but Phil can offset as the lines change - if Phil bought the ravens at 20-1 and halfway through the year it comes in at 10-1 he can sell an offsetting (or partially offsetting bet minus spread/comms) at 10-1, though he may have to wait through the end of the postseason to get paid even though he’s taken risk off.
And for comparison’s sake, here were the preseason odds for this year.
Broncos 6-1
49ers 6-1
Seahawks 17-2
Patriots 10-1
Falcons 12-1
Packers 12-1
Texans 16-1
Saints 18-1
Bears 25-1
Bengals 25-1
Cowboys 25-1
Giants 25-1
Ravens 28-1
Steelers 28-1
Redskins 33-1
Lions 40-1
Colts 40-1
Dolphins 40-1
Vikings 40-1
Rams 50-1
Chiefs 50-1
Eagles 50-1
Chargers 50-1
Buccaneers 50-1
Panthers 66-1
Cardinals 125-1
Jets 125-1
Bills 150-1
Browns 150-1
Titans 150-1
Raiders 250-1
Jaguars 300-1
Yeah, wildly inefficient