I'm going to suggest the call at the end of the game was not a bad call and here's why. The Pats had their jumbo package in and could have stuffed the run. Maybe, maybe not but there was, what, 30 seconds on the clock? If they run the ball and don't make it, a time out would have to be called, which would have been their last one. That would have forced a pass plays on the remaining calls. Coach Carroll rolled the dice with the normally safe pass. The CB made an outstanding play and that was the game. There will always be hindsight and there will always be what if's and there will always be "but if they'd have called the beast bastard to run it, they'd have surely scored". Maybe, maybe not. We'll never know.
They didn't have to burn half-a-minute waiting to see if the Pats would blink and call a time-out prior.
They also didn't have to throw it INTO all those bodies that were there to allegedly stop the run.....
It's called a fade where the throw is only catch-able by YOUR receiver.
