Caesar On Super Bowl End

Posted on by

Pete Carroll spoke the Today show about the final play call at the Super Bowl. And what he told the team.

“I wanted to make sure that they went through the whole process of what happened at the end, went through the whole thinking and everything and reminded them how we had prepared, and how we’ve done things,”he said. 

31 thoughts on “Caesar On Super Bowl End”

  1. Scott, USC just had one of its most EPIC recruiting classes. and you go back to talking about Pete? Seriously….

    • Ray,
      SC is now famous for turning 5 star talent into mush. No reason to get excited about 5 star talent when you have 2 star coaching.

        • Uhhh, let me guess….
          The Championship of Los Angeles?

          Three years in a row?
          Am I close?

          • Is there a championship for Los Angeles? Is that all it takes for you gutties to be content? If this mythical championship for Los Angeles is so important, why does ugly have so much trouble getting the top so Cal kids?

          • You all don’t know. Even with Hundley heading to the NFL, we’re gonna be a better team. Anything fewer than 11 wins will not suffice.

          • HAHAHAHAHAHA!! the Championship of Los Angeles is a myth that UCLA fans prop up because they can;t win anything else.

      • And no need for UGLY to get excited when the have proved throughout the years that they only care about beating USC, not winning NC’s or the Rose Bowl. Exhibit Z: laying that turd against Stanford.

    • Ray.. What would Perez Hilton Do? The Blog is not entertaining if he is complimenting USC or its staff.
      No he has to go back to something USC unrelated

  2. I have questions:

    1) is he gonna cry?
    2) why do Dumbbells suddenly don glasses like Rick Perry?
    3) isn’t that the same rambling fast-babble from the Reggie scandal days?
    4) so the RESULT was bad, but he won’t own up to the call being stupid?

    Dumbest Coach….EVER!

    • yeah he sure is. what a tool you are! National championships, Super Bowls and he is dumb. Thanks Buckethole for your 24/7/365 OBSESSION WITH USC! ROTFLMFAO!!

  4. I don’t see or hear PC ducking any interviews about the choice he made. BTW any idea when Mora or anyone past or present at ucla is creating a ‘betterla’?

  5. Pete has gotten older, and more subdued. And the glasses do not enhance his image

    That said, I am sure he is greatly wounded. If he had won that game he would have been in the conversation as the greatest football coach in American history. 2 in a row in college (and nearly 3 in a row except for Vince Young), and 2 in a row in the pros.

    And, again, I think he was spooked by Brady having traversed the field twice in the 4th quarter, and in less than 2 minutes for the go-ahead touchdown. That might explain how he allowed 30 or so seconds to elapse until the fateful pass call at the 26 second mark, to make sure Brady would have no time to counter.

    And of course with only 26 second left and one timeout there had to be at least one pass play to assure that 4 downs were available.
    And the logical spot for that pass play was on second down.

    The rest, as they say, is history.

    • Did he mishandle the clock? I’ll defer on that one.

      PC has a very short QB who is a good runner, good at read option. Beside him stands “the beast,” who just ripped off 6 yards.

      But PC that very short QB, not known for surgical timing and placement, throw over a bunch of tall guys to a 2nd-tier speedster who had caught 11 passes this year. The pass was high as a little in front of the WR’s body. The WR didn’t know enough to attack it at the earliest moment. That was the history.

      I don’t think it was the worst call ever. PC likes to identify strengths and put players in position to use those strengths. He did not do that in this critical moment.

      When Bill Belichick saw PC’s position group, he made one change to his goal-line D: he substituted in Butler for the LB. He didn’t call time out. He knew not to let PC think it through to the end.

      The history here is that the enthusiastic, empowering coach got out-coached at the end by the more calculating coach.

    • I’m no Pete Carroll apologist — he’s Emperor Palpatine, and the way he ran out on USC when the ship was sinking is exceeded in craven self-centeredness only by Lane Kiffin’s treachery in Tennessee — but the call he made on Seattle’s last play was, under the circumstances, not a bad one.

      Butler explained after the game that because of his preparation, he knew when he saw the receivers stacked that a pick was coming, so he was able to avoid it and jump in and outfight the Seattle receiver for the ball.

      From what I’ve seen, Carroll’s handled the fallout with dignity and grace.

  6. I’m waiting for “UCLA owns” spin on the recruiting. I can almost type it for him/her. It will be predictable.

Comments are closed.