Marshawn Lynch explains how he rubbed Super Bowl INT in Pete Carroll's face

"As I'm going back to the sideline, I go by [quarterback Russell Wilson] and I just hear him go, 'Oh man, I'll get them next time,’” Lynch stated. “And as I hear the s---, I usually don't take my helmet off, but I take my helmet off and I go right to Pete Carroll's face and I hit his ass with the biggest (laugh). And at that point, I go to the locker room. I'm out. I don't see the last few plays. I'm in the motherf---ing locker room.”

Lynch’s reaction is understandable.

The two-time All-Pro built a reputation for thriving in short-yardage situations, and he scored on a three-yard touchdown earlier in the game. That season, Lynch scored 13 touchdowns, seven of which were scored from inside the 5-yard line. Ten of his 12 rushing touchdowns the previous season come in similar situations.

"To be honest, I looked at nine of the other guys (in the huddle), and they looked at me, like, what the f--- just happened?" Lynch recalled after Wilson told them which play they were going to run. "Man, the look on all my teammates' faces in the huddle, it spoke volumes. ... By the time it (set) in, (I'm asking), 'What the f--- did he just call?'”

Carroll maintained during an August appearance on “The Richard Sherman Podcast” that the play call was solid, but the Seahawks were just victims of bad timing and Butler making a great play.