I saw a clip of it, and I could’ve made it right just by bouncing it (outside toward the pylon). “In that time of situation, it’s humbling to be able to have the respect of the team, to have the ball in my hands. “I just didn’t make everybody right, and that’s what I regret,” he said. That’s Newton, who has been extremely effective through the first two weeks. So it made sense that the Patriots went to the best player in those situations at this point in the season. New England could have thrown the ball, but then they’d run the risk of getting too cute, not unlike what the Seahawks did in Super Bowl XLIX when Russell Wilson threw a game-ending interception at the goal line. The Patriots’ other obvious options included a handoff to a running back, but they were averaging less than two yards per carry. “We tried to go with our best play,” he said. #Seahawks #NEvsSEA /0DgwjGoNxwīelichick was asked what went into deciding on that play-call to have Newton run a quarterback dive, not unlike what they’d already run so many times in the first two weeks. We put ourselves in a position to win and when you do that, you just have to finish and we didn’t do that today.” “ I just have to do better here at the end. We just have to execute,” Newton told reporters on Sunday night after the game. We figured that we went to the well one too many times, but at the end of the day, I still feel confident about it. “That’s a play that we had favored in the game and we ran it a couple of times. He had thrown for one more goal-line touchdown, using a play that faked the quarterback dive, only to toss the ball to an uncovered fullback. Heading into that final goal line play which ended the Patriots’ 35-30 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in Week 2, Newton had scored four touchdowns from within the 5-yard line. The New England Patriots had been enjoying the benefits of Cam Newton, the goal line running back.
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