Pete Carroll: Worst Choking Coach In Sports History

Belichick spoke about his decision last night during the post game media session. He didn't call time out because he had what he thought was the right personel on the field to make a defensive stop. Carroll was prepared to run on 3rd down, but got too cute and tried to win it on second down by throwing into the middle -- where anything can happen. And it did. Thus Seattle's good fortune which saved them vs Green Bay vanished last night when they needed it most.

Check out this blast from the past. Jets Defensive Coordinator Pete Carroll giving the Dolphins the choke sign after they miss the extra point!

Give the Choke Sign, Pete wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qN3MlBSj0I

Check out this blast from the past. Jets Defensive Coordinator Pete Carroll giving the Dolphins the choke sign after they miss the extra point!

That was more funny at the time because the kicker actually came back and made the game winning field goal. Still, Carroll deserved to have things break against him here.

Where were the Hawks before Pete Carroll? Yea that's right, nobody even knew there was a town in the NW that played an NFL football.

You myopic, pre loving, pot smoking, $5 coffee drinking f sticks don't deserve PC!

Actually on the year there had been two fumbles and zero picks in such situations. When you look at the numbers it was the safer call. When you look at the goal line D it also made sense. Poor execution by the players. The call was fine.

chess match -- bellicheck wins wrote:

Yep, I agree. They pretended to be in goal line formation to tempt Seatle to do exactly what they did! Bellicheck must be probably the greatest chess player of all NFL coaches. It was brilliant defense. Anticipation of the anticipation of the anticipation. They really fooled Seattle.

This is why the run was the correct call even though it is boring and "to be expected". It is higher percentage and less risk. You can't outsmart a chessmaster, right?

wascallywobert wrote:

Actually on the year there had been two fumbles and zero picks in such situations. When you look at the numbers it was the safer call. When you look at the goal line D it also made sense. Poor execution by the players. The call was fine.

That claim will forever be disbelieved by football fans everywhere -- especially in the Pacific Northwest.

Lynch stuffed on 4th and 1 to lose the game in the 2015 season opener against the Rams. Run or Pass, the Pats would've won the Super Bowl.

10/10 for this bump

I love Pete ,

Make you feel kinda of personality

Loot wrote:

3 chances on the 1 yard line with plenty time and the best power back in the game who had a 4.5 ypc in the game, and had not suffered a loss of yardage carry the entire game.

So what's he do? Call a high risk slant pass into the middle of the defense.

If you can think of a bigger coaching choke than this, let's have it. I can't think of one.

The irony is he made one of the strongest coaching calls at the end of the half. But totally negated. Good example of the fickle nature of sports. One call can crown you king, another can ruin you eternally.

It wasn't a bad call, if they had scored we would not even be discussing this. However, I think this is going to be a tough year for Carroll now that teams have 2 years of film on his offense that appears to have not changed.

Do you mean the offense that just scored 31 points against one of the best defenses in the NFL? Seattle's bigger issue is its defense -- the defense that just gave up 34 points to one of the offenses in the bottom half of the NFL. That never would have happened the past 2 years.

Run Wilson wrote:the defense that just gave up 34 points to one of the offenses in the bottom half of the NFL. That never would have happened the past 2 years.

Points can be scored on the Seahawks defense. Rams scored 28 points on the Seahawks last year & didn't need overtime. Better offenses, but the Colts scored 34 points when they beat the Seahawks & Cowboys & Chargers both scored 30 points on Seahawks within the past 2 years.

Give the Choke Sign, Pete wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qN3MlBSj0I

Check out this blast from the past. Jets Defensive Coordinator Pete Carroll giving the Dolphins the choke sign after they miss the extra point!

And the Seahawks keep choking.

4th time this season they've given up a lead in the 4th quarter. Seahawks are also -28 points in the 4th quarter this season.

Seattle is a deeply flawed team.

Fans all saying to fire Bevell and putting all the blame on him. How about the defense though? Panthers walked down the field for 14 consecutive points in the 4th quarter. That's on the defense

Run Wilson wrote:

Do you mean the offense that just scored 31 points against one of the best defenses in the NFL? Seattle's bigger issue is its defense -- the defense that just gave up 34 points to one of the offenses in the bottom half of the NFL. That never would have happened the past 2 years.

"One of the best defenses in the NFL" gave up not 34 points, but 39 points last night . . . at home, in front of the 12's.

Pete, your players were still sleeping in the hotel for the first half. Wake them up. The game started at 1:00 Eastern Time.

Be grateful for Carroll. If the Niners had Carroll as coach they might have won 6 games this past season instead of 5.