Pete Carroll on Patriots fans: ‘They weren’t nuts’

After the Patriots were first and goal from the Seattle 2, New England couldn’t crack the plane on a LeGarrette Blount blast (he already scored three TDs) and two Tom Brady keepers.

Marshawn Lynch had been unstoppable, but why take the easy way to a championship? The Seahawks were coming off a Monday night game with a long road trip.

The Patriots’ streak of eight straight games without a pick came to an end with 9:20 left the second quarter.

The Sunday in Week 10 may have served as the apex of the 2016 NFL campaign, but the league hopes it’s just the start of a return to normalcy for TV ratings. “So that’s just getting better, doing things right more”.

The Patriots went on to win Super Bowl XLIX that season. He entered the game with 146 yards on the season. That power was evident in Sunday night’s 31-24 loss to the Seattle Seahawks.

“It’s a desperation play because all you have to do is touch one guy (and the block is nullified)”, Denver coach Gary Kubiak said. Remember the postgame handshake that day between Belichick and Mike McCarthy?

The stand came at the end of what would have been a 75-yard scoring drive in the final 4:24 in front of a crowd of 66,800 at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Wilson, with time, threw across the field to a wide-open Doug Baldwin for the touchdown.

Watch all three of Baldwins touchdowns against the Patriots below. It was similar to what we saw Sunday night between Belichick and Carroll. “Make it a two-score deal”.

It was in that moment that Wilson and Baldwin’s strengths overlapped. The lead remained at seven. And he made it through the game, graded out beautifully in terms of his assignments.

Carroll also added of the Patriots that “they’re pretty good at two-point conversions by the way”. There was a time when they kicked their last field goal to go ahead, and it was like a round of applause for the nice effort. Brady lost a yard on a third-down sneak, recovering his own fumble. It’s because of that fourth-quarter dominance that we’ve got nothing but glowing grades for the Seahawks following their virtuoso performance against New England. They’ve been in a lot of close games. It will never get boring. “We just didn’t make enough plays”. He admitted after the game he didn’t try to score.

Yes, the decisions made some sense.

Wilson torched New England’s secondary for 262 yards on 12 catches of 11 plus yards or more. And the stats say Brady, because of the balance, is having a career-season.3.

He was trying to take time off the clock. Today, Seattle’s defense simply would not be denied.

Brady gained one yard on first down. But that rush set up his second 1-yard touchdown. A good fast player who’s like a missile.

“We’ve had some tough games this year and we’ve battled every one of them”, Sherman said. But the ball was knocked away and Gronk was KOd from the game for five plays.

Can’t wait to see what Belichick and Carroll have planned if they meet in the Super Bowl.