Seahawks players openly criticize Pete Carroll's terrible, game-losing play call

In the wake of their unbelievable Super Bowl loss, some Seahawks players are publicly trashing coach Pete Carroll's final play call that resulted in Seattle literally throwing away the game.

"We had it," linebacker Bruce Irvin said. "I don't understand how you don't give it to the best back in the league, on not even the one-yard line."

One anonymous player even claimed Carroll had Russell Wilson throw the ball in that situation because he wanted the QB, not running back Marshawn Lynch, to be the game's hero. A little Monday morning quarterbacking is understandable after a loss like that; concocting conspiracy theories about your own coach is something else entirely.

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