Originally Posted By: Wolf359
It's a good point about the colts footballs, however I think the point you miss is that you don't know what they inflated their balls to. So if they used a higher pressure, they also would have dropped, but would still have been in spec, but if that pats just had them inflated to the minimum, then the drop would have taken them out of spec. The key information you're missing is what was the starting pressure of the pats and colt balls?
Also with regards to the run vs. the pass, there's been a lot of talk about it. There was no guarantee that the run was going to get them in. Remember in the previous play, they were tackled at the 1 yard line and there wasn't that much time left on the clock. If they got stuffed, they would have had to burn the last time out.
It's football, sometimes things work out, sometimes it doesn't. I wouldn't say that they got lucky on that last play. Getting lucky is a blown call by an official, but without knowing the outcome, it was a fair call at the time it was made. The risk to the coach is that it will be considered brilliant if it works and be in the doghouse if it doesn't. As it didn't, he has to take the blame, deserved or not. The whole basics of football is to be somewhat unpredictable, if the play will be a pass or run. If it's always a run, then they load up against the run.
Dude, the stupidly called pass play by SEA took place on 2nd down. NE was not going to stop Lynch from the 1 yard line on three straight downs...wasn't gonna happen...