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A month after Super Bowl 49 and everyone still cannot understand why Seattle head coach Pete Carroll decided on a pass play at the one-yard line. Had it worked out? Maybe he would have been praised for his risk taking, but it failed miserably and cost his team a Super Bowl victory.
The man who we all assumed would get the ball on the play, Marshawn Lynch, finally spoke out on his coach’s decision not to give him the ball. “To be honest with you, I would be lying if I didn’t tell you that I was expecting the ball. Yes, I was expecting the ball. But in life, these things happen. Like I told a reporter after the game, it’s a team sport,” he said in an interview with NTV Spor, Turkey’s leading sports network.
To clarify his message, it’s not that he did not believe that his team would get the job done, it was just surprising. “I don’t know what went into that call. I mean, maybe it was a good thing that I didn’t get the ball. I mean, you know, it cost us the Super Bowl. I mean, I have full … I have full confidence in my teammates to execute that plan because we’ve done it so many more times. But would I love to had the ball in? Yes, I would have,” he continued. I think Seattle fans would agree that they would have loved to see him have the ball on that play!
This is pretty rare to see Lynch open up this much to the media. This is the same guy who said “I’m just here so I don’t get fined” at media day.
