I'm the first to call coaches out for impersonating Mike McCarthy when they choose to do so but neither call by BB or Carroll was that bad.
In BBs case if you factor in that he had knowledge there was a likelihood Seattle would mess up the clock management because of the curveball that came from not calling a TO, then it isn't an awful decision. They burned the full 40 seconds, were unsure of playcalling and generally looked disorganized during the most pressure packed moment of the year. It was a risky move and I'm not saying it was a great call since you are burning any equity to tie the game but if he calls TO there then your pretty much setting Seattle up to call a better play and have time to call whatever plays they want on all 3 downs.
In Carrolls case, once BB doesn't call TO you gotta call a pass play on 1 of the 3 plays to get all 3 off. So it likely has to come on 2nd down then you can call TO on 3rd and then 4th is the last play of the game for you regardless. The actual pass they called seemed way too high risk for that spot but just throwing the ball on 2nd down I think is fine. Or playaction Wilson rollout and see what Dangerous can do. The pick worked and the guy just jumped the route so it wasn't as bad as it looked but putting the ball in the middle of the field there seems incredibly stupid given it was only 2nd down. Going high risk there deprived them of 2 Lynch carries which was the bad part. The play called, not necessarily throwing the ball.
You can second guess either 1 and given the magnitude people will but neither was legendarily bad to me or anything.
If anything the worst part of the entire sequence was how unprepared Seattle was after the Lynch run. To not be prepared for NE throwing them the curveball of not calling timeout and then what looked like a huried/panicked play.
I agree with you 100% on Carroll.
As far as BB is concerned lets just say it worked out.
I understand what you are saying and the thought process you brought up is probably exactly what he was thinking but I don't agree with that thought process.
BB made the worst call of the 2 calls in the last 1:02 of the game and it's not close.
Although this does not lesson my opinion of him as a coach.
I still think he is the best coach ever, and I still think he is one of the top 3 clock managers in the NFL.
Every coach deserves a mulligan every once in a while.
But for PC I'm not even going to call that a bad call.
What you said was exactly correct.
The pass play was not the worst call in NFL history.
If Wilson would have thrown a td right there nobody would have ever said a word about not running it.
Everyone would have said it was a brilliant move and people would have started talking about Carroll being one of the all time greats along with Wilson.
When you base a decision based on the results and not the thought process it changes people .
Even though BB lived to tell about his move and PCs blew up in his face when you remove the result and judge it strictly on the situation and the thought process BB made the much worst call of the 2.
