Super Bowl 2015: un jeu inexplicable provoque la défaite des Seahawks

Comme presque tout le monde j'ai été étonné par le choix de jeu de l'entraîneur Pete Carroll alors que son équipe n'était qu'à une verge de la zone des buts des Patriots. Tous s'attendaient à ce qu'il confie le ballon à son porteur Marshawn Lynch. S'il est facile de remettre en question cette décision audacieuse après l'échec, je comprends la tentation de Carroll d'y aller pour une passe alors que tout le stade s'attend à une course. De plus, lorsqu'on observe le déroulement de la séquence on voit à quel point le jeu défensif qui mène à l'interception est exceptionnel. Beau joueur, l'entraîneur des Seahawks a assumé tout le poids du choix, soulageant ainsi les épaules de son jeune quart. Je vous laisse des liens pour des articles du Sports Illustrated et du Washington Post.

 "Losing the Super Bowl is brutal. Losing like this … well, maybe somebody, somewhere, has a good explanation for what happened at the end of this game. But that somebody is not Pete Carroll.

Carroll blew this game. He dropped the silver platter. He got three feet from the finish line and decided to grab a cheeseburger. The Patriots led, 28-24, but Seattle was on the Patriots’ one-yard line in the final minute.

Carroll’s Seahawks had three plays to gain one yard to win the championship. He had the best power runner in the league on his team, a mediocre set of receivers and only one logical option: Give it to Marshawn Lynch.

To that point in the game, Lynch had run the ball 24 times. He had gained at least one yard 22 of those times. And even on those two runs, he was merely stopped for no gain -- it’s not like he lost yardage. He rarely loses yardage, because he is the hardest man in the league to tackle.

 Even Katy Perry, fresh off her dance with sharks and more than a normal day’s worth of sky-walking, must have been thinking “Hey, fellas, just keep it simple here.”"

http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/02/02/super-bowl-xlix-seattle-seahawks-pete-carroll-new-england-patriots-malcolm-butler

 Dans le Washington Post: "“It’s a miraculous play that that kid gets in front of that ball,” Coach Pete Carroll said of Butler in an NBC interview. “It’s a play that we really tried to keep him from making. I told those guys, that’s my fault totally,” Carroll told NBC. “Everybody says, ‘why don’t you just run it?’ That’s a real good thought, but we had plenty of time to win the game. In our mine, we thought we’d have done it on third and fourth down. In our mind, we were playing for third and fourth down. … It didn’t work out that way.”"

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2015/02/01/pete-carroll-takes-blame-for-playcall-that-cost-seahawks-the-super-bowl/?hpid=z2