BB might be friendly with Pete Carroll but the way the article framed it was BB heard about Zolack ranting on-air about the playcall at the end and asked ZO to review some film with him to point out that the Pats went goal-lime defense and stuffed a Lynch run earlier in the game. Now BB might be covering for PC and there was a BB interview where he mentioned that PC was being judged by people very much less qualified than him but in this case I believe BB was telling an honest opinion and no offense to anybody I’m inclined to believe a HOF hc over monday morning qbs/armchair HCs/spreadsheet fantasy stats warriors.

Numbers should be judged abut the context surrounding them. In that particular situation PC judged the risk of interception was low since it was a fast developing slant and a rub route was gonna help execute it while the Pats still have to guard runs while guarding against passes. The Pats ran 3 corners against 3 receivers man to man and they just executed very well stuffing the rub/pick play and of course Butler driving very hard and making the pick. If the receiver faked the slant and Wilson threw a fade and TD if would have been a different story. PC and the Hawks made a reasonable decision and lost. Roughly same thing happened to BB when he was skewered for the 4th and 2 call against Indy and lost. Tbf the stat warriors defended BB then because it was an aggressive 4th down call but it was a regular season game and lesser stakes where in play.

BB is friendly with Pete Carroll, so I wouldn’t expect him to pile on about the bad play call. The Seahawks, like many other teams in today’s pass happy NFL, overthought the situation. As Eric Drews pointed out in his numbers, only 51% of passes thrown from the one yard line resulted in TDs since 2010. Your chances of running the ball with Lynch or Wilson would have been greater in getting the game winning TD. Even if we assume NE denies the TD on second down, Seattle would have called TO with about 18 seconds left, and a pass/run option with Russell makes more sense on third down. The Seahawk’s defense also let them down in the fourth quarter of that game.