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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to yesterday, me, on this program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Here\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen. The legend is Belichick\u2019s a genius, and that\u2019s how this is all gonna end up. I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s gonna happen. Belichick didn\u2019t call time-out. Forty seconds left. Second and goal. Forty seconds. The story is that the Patriots had capitulated, given up, meaning, let them score with as much time left and get down for a field goal that would tie it. That\u2019s the thinking, capitulation not conceding, capitulate, just don\u2019t contest, let them score the touchdown. Belichick is gonna be said to be a genius. What\u2019s gonna be said is — it may have been said already in other places; I don\u2019t know, \u2019cause I haven\u2019t listened, \u2019cause I never do, but the key to Belichick not calling a time-out, they\u2019re gonna say that Belichick not calling a time-out lured Pete Carroll into making the mistake. That Belichick\u2019s a genius by having the defensive personnel in the game that he had at that point was a lure.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: What personnel did Belichick have in the game? He had three cornerbacks. He did not have a goal line, standard goal line defense. He had eight guys lined up in the box, I mean, played for the run, but he didn\u2019t have two cornerbacks, two safeties. He had three cornerbacks and a safety in there. Wasn\u2019t running a standard nickel defense, which you don\u2019t do on the goal line anyway. But this, not calling the time-out, that was genius because, well, the Seahawks expected Belichick to call a time-out and they were gonna use the New England time-out to take the time, it would be a 30-second time-out in that circumstance, to discuss on the sideline what to do, throw a pass, run the ball with Lynch or whatever.<\/p>\n

But Belichick outfoxed \u2019em, yes. Belichick lured them into losing the game by not calling the time-out. The Seahawks waiting and waiting for the time-out, which was never called, time ran off the clock, Seahawks panic and decide, all right, let\u2019s throw the ball because — and that\u2019s the genius of Belichick. That\u2019s what I said is gonna happen. Here it is in the Washington Post: “Bill Belichick Made a Sneaky-Smart Decision That Might Have Contributed to Fateful Play Call by Pete Carroll — Pete Carroll\u00c2\u2019s confounding last-minute play call Sunday night will be dissected, debated and mocked for as long they play Super Bowls.<\/p>\n

They go on say that Belichick not calling a time-out just totally discombobulated — exactly what I said. Just exactly what I said. Audio sound bites, a little montage here, various sports personages making the same thing from yesterday and last night.<\/p>\n

MIKE FLORIO: You just get the feeling Bill Belichick knew what was coming.<\/p>\n

ROSS TUCKER: I thought he really out-coached the Seahawks.<\/p>\n

CHRIS MCGEE: I don\u2019t know what he was thinking not calling that time-out, but it\u00c2\u2019s probably the greatest play of his career that he didn\u2019t call. It\u2019s pretty remarkable.<\/p>\n

PABLO TORRE: Belichick didn\u2019t use that time-out. Pete Carroll maybe found himself with a bounty of options suddenly that really weren\u2019t that bountiful after all.<\/p>\n

JIM ROME: This guy\u00c2\u2019s made out to be a genius. If, in fact, Belichick looked at that set up and he saw three wide receivers, and he thought to himself, let them run that play, we have it, and then he didn\u2019t call a time-out for that reason, he\u2019s the smartest guy ever.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See? See? So it\u2019s gone from the Seahawks just making an absolute bonehead call to they were lured, trapped, and suckered into making a bonehead call by the brilliance of Belichick. Now, I suppose, folks, it could be. The one thing, if it\u2019s true, Belichick is never gonna own up to this. Belichick has always downplayed his own genius in everything else. So they\u2019re never gonna get any confirmation. But with emotions running, and when you\u2019ve got that kind of time left, not much, the world is going by in much faster speed than normal speed. I mean, the idea that anybody would have the presence of mind to think those kinds of — I guess it could be possible. That\u2019s why I made the prediction, because people are saying it. So there it is. You can count on me, ladies and gentlemen, coming up with this. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Randy, Mississippi. Randy, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, it\u2019s my honor to speak with the great one. How you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m fine, sir. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I just had a comment on that Seahawk-Patriot game. I think Carroll made the right call, to tell you the truth. Lynch was 1-for-5 in that situation in the past, and I tell you, that pass is rarely intercepted in that area, and I think Russell just overthrew the pass just a little bit right into the Patriot\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s actually not what happened, but I understand. Look, I don\u2019t mean to sound mean saying that\u2019s not what happened. I\u2019m not being disrespectful Randy, \u2019cause some people think it was a good call. You\u2019re one of them, and that had they executed, everybody talking about what a brilliant call it was, and that happens to be true, if they\u2019d executed it. But they had the wrong receiver chosen. They should have chosen some guy six four, six five. If you\u2019re gonna throw it do a fade route in the corner of the end zone where if it\u2019s incomplete, it\u2019s no way intercepted. This route, they gave it to this guy Lockette who had not done much all day — did you see the way he got bounced off his route by this cornerback? <\/p>\n

The reason he got bounced off of his route is because the pass was ill thrown. He led the receiver. He should have thrown that ball over the receiver\u2019s back shoulder where only the receiver could have caught that ball. The only thing the cornerback could have done was maybe deflect it. But he led the receiver, and had he not done that — and he\u2019s close enough not to have led. He could have just fired a dart right in the receiver\u2019s gut or on that back outside shoulder, where the cornerback couldn\u2019t have gotten to it. But your point is it was Wilson\u2019s fault, and I don\u2019t disagree with that if you\u2019re gonna analyze the play for what it was. <\/p>\n

But I still think it was the wrong call. If you\u2019re hell-bent on throwing a pass, you\u2019ve got this guy Matthews. Now, I know the Patriot defense had put a different cornerback. Kyle Arrington had been burned by Chris Matthews, so they took Arrington and put a taller cornerback on Matthews, and that cornerback shut him down from the moment they made that change. But you still go with your six five guy on a corner fade route, and if it\u2019s incomplete, it\u2019s incomplete; you still stop the clock and you\u2019ve done your precious pass play, as Carroll said. Matthews, the receiver, he\u2019s got a good future. He\u2019s fine, gonna be fine. <\/p>\n

Anyway, let\u2019s see. Fred in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, hi. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Graduate to have you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am in Wilkes-Barre, I\u2019m actually a truck driver from Akron, Ohio. But just to follow up on that previous caller, I also have the take that it was a good call. Something that\u2019s not getting attention, though, the touchdown was there except for one thing, the New England rookie that made the interception. I wonder why he doesn\u2019t get any attention.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he\u2019s starting to. In the shock of the disbelief of the call, the focus obviously on the coaching staff of the Patriots. Now as time is passing they are focusing on Malcolm Butler. Brady is gonna give him the truck that he won for MVP. He\u2019s gonna give it to Malcolm Butler. Malcolm Butler makes the league minimum. He\u2019s an undrafted rookie free agent, which I think rookie minimum is 500 grand, you know, Brady and Gisele spend that in a day. So he\u2019s gonna give him the truck. But, yeah, “good call,” I mean, it wasn\u2019t good. It didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, if that rookie didn\u2019t have it figured out, then Seattle\u2019s brilliant.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah. I\u2019m out of time here, I\u2019ve gotta go, I wish I weren\u2019t, but I am, so…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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