The infamous decision by Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll to tell his then-offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell to throw the ball on the goal-line in Super Bowl XLIX was a career-changing play for not only New England Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler, but also running back Marshawn Lynch.
In a recent interview with the I AM ATHLETE podcast, Lynch revealed his thoughts on the historic game-winning interception. Sure enough, he's still haunted. And mad.
“So when it comes to the play call, and that was the type of situation. Yeah, I’m hot as [expletive]. I’m boiling,” Lynch said. “And the only thing I can do was think, ‘I need to get in his face, for I’m about to laugh at [him] so hard.’ Because I know for a fact, like, if we run that ball four times and we don’t score, everybody on our team, from the front office to the [expletive] janitors will say, ‘Well, (expletive). Yup, well, we deserve to lose that [expletive].’
Lynch running the football with the game on the line is one of the biggest "what ifs" in NFL history. If the play call was a run, the Patriots potentially never win the Super Bowl, the first of the last three won with legendary quarterback Tom Brady.
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