Daily Madden: Super Bowl XLIX 'Best Game Ever' As A Fan
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SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- Coach says that Super Bowl XLIX was the 'best game ever' as a fan and that the second guessers are right--that was a bad call by Seattle at end of game.
"From the start of the one, all the way to the last seconds ticked off that was a great game. I think of games that I wasn't involved with one or another, just as fan just watching a football game obviously that was the best game of I've ever seen in my life." he said.
Madden said there was never doubt that Seattle and New England were the the two best teams and were also the best coached.
"They performed when they had to. They both got ahead and came from behind, both did what they had to. I thought the fundamentals were good, the tackling was good. I just thought it was a great game."
Madden said, however, he would not have not have made the same call as Pete Carroll.
"I felt he had to run Marshawn Lynch there and if he needed it twice--do it twice. He had a time-out," he said.
"That's something that is highly criticized now but it's something that they've been doing for quite awhile; they do it college and they've done in the pros. They use that slam pass as a goal-line play and I hate it...they don't use goal-line formations anymore."
Madden said he saw the pass coming.
"When you get into the one-yard line and you get in shotgun and you have an offset back--that's a passing formation. You can't power run from that formation so that kind of showed that they were going to pass. I knew they were going to throw the ball and then he threw the slam. Before they did it, I said, 'Why? I'm still not sure," he said.
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