One Yard from Everything: Flow, Pressure, and the Play that Changed Football

Michael Gervais (0:02)

The Super Bowl becomes everything. There is so much noise.

Matt Patricia (0:07)

You have three hours to tell everybody what you know about this game.

Michael Gervais (0:12)

The game is everywhere. Welcome back to the Game Inside the Games, brought to you by Microsoft Copilot. And what an honor, what an honor to sit with two legends. Coach, welcome to the podcast. So speaking of winning, I've got one nice little ring that I'm wearing, but how many, you're not wearing any of your rings.

Matt Patricia (0:42)

No, they're a locker.

Michael Gervais (0:43)

How many Super Bowls have you participated in? And how many of you won?

Matt Patricia (0:47)

I've been to six. I've won three. Oh my goodness. We have good ones and we have ones that we don't talk about. You know, there's got to be some time that goes by. No, I mean, what an unbelievable week, you know, Super Bowl week. It's obviously the pinnacle of our sport and, you know, celebrated. It's just so much fun. You know, great to be a part of. Interesting to see this side of it. You know, we're usually behind the house, you know, trying to prepare, get ready to go and kind of in your own little tunnel. So great to see, you know, the patentry and the involvement with the fans and the media and all that stuff's really, really cool.

Brandon Marshall (1:16)

I wanted to wait till the end of the episode to bring this up, but this is a great transition right here. Really quickly, can you guys walk me through Super Bowl 49 and for everybody out there watching? It's one of the most controversial moments in the NFL, right? Like Pete Carroll, Coach Mike, right? Like Russell Wilson, Bobby Wagner, right? We're talking about this team could be a dynasty and it comes down to one of the last play, one of the last plays.

Michael Gervais (1:44)

The last play.

Matt Patricia (1:45)

The last play, yeah.

Michael Gervais (1:46)

Right, so I'm going to T you for bringing this up.

Matt Patricia (1:49)

I love that you're enjoying this.

Michael Gervais (1:51)

Yeah.

Matt Patricia (1:51)

No, I like that. That's a good one.

Michael Gervais (1:52)

Thank you.

Brandon Marshall (1:52)

There you go. So I'm going to T you guys up in the cap and explain to the people, right? Because should we give it to Marshall and Lynch to run? But we call it a pass. But you were the guy on the other side that called the play for Malcolm Butler, who is sitting right here, actually. We're going to get him on the show as well.

Matt Patricia (2:08)

Yeah, we're going to grab him.

Brandon Marshall (2:08)

Later to talk about this. But you guys go.

Matt Patricia (2:11)

Yeah. Well, it was a defensive call. It was called Goal Line Three Corner. And it was a play that we knew, you know, Seattle like to run. They like to run it in those situations.

Michael Gervais (2:20)

Coach, coach, how did you know that we like to run it? Because we didn't show that play.

Matt Patricia (2:26)

Yeah. Well, there's a lot of film study that goes involved with with that play. And that you run that play a bunch. And there was some checks in that play that they would go to based on what the defense was doing. You know, so that kind of one under two route to the one side. And then what we used to call Snag 7 Flat, you know, kind of that West Coast philosophy was on the other side of that formation.

Michael Gervais (2:46)

So you had Brendan Browner and Malcolm Butler lined up against two of our receivers.

Matt Patricia (2:50)

We did. We did. Yeah.

Michael Gervais (2:52)

And walk us through it. Yeah. Actually, let's go back a step.

Matt Patricia (2:55)

Yeah.

Michael Gervais (2:55)

Okay.

Matt Patricia (2:56)

So there's a lot to this game. There's a lot here. There's definitely a lot to this game.

Michael Gervais (3:00)

Yeah. I was going to pick it up that we had like two or three wild offensive plays. Yeah. Jermaine Curse caught a 40-yard bomb on his back. Yeah. Right. Like, bobble, bobble, bobble. He's on his back and he catches a ball. And then you could feel the momentum.

Matt Patricia (3:15)

It shifted. Yeah.

Michael Gervais (3:16)

You could feel all of it.

Matt Patricia (3:17)

So it was definitely a situation where...

Michael Gervais (3:20)

Was that a broken play?

Matt Patricia (3:22)

As far as him catching it?

Michael Gervais (3:23)

Yeah. From you guys?

Matt Patricia (3:24)