Former Vikings offensive coordinator and now heartaching Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell will go on to become an NFL head coach within a couple of years.
His body of work from Brett Favre to Russell Wilson is too strong to suggest that one play — even one that resulted in a game-losing interception on the goal line in the closing seconds of the Super Bowl — will overshadow years of progress, success and last year's Super Bowl victory.
Anyway, I can't recall a worse play call in a moment as critical as what happened last night in the Super Bowl.
Carroll said he made the decision to throw the ball.
"I said 'Throw the ball,' " he said. "So we went to the play we thought would give us a chance to get in the end zone."
Bevell said he made the actual play call and noted, when asked, that Carroll obviously has the power to change it.
I never like going down the road of criticizing a play call that doesn't work. But in this case, even if this one had worked out, I still would have been amazed by how unnecessary the risk was considering the running back who was on the field.
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