Byron Maxwell: Seahawks Should Have Ran Ball In Super Bowl
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --- Falling one-yard short of your second straight Super Bowl victory must be tough to swallow.
Former Seahawks cornerback Byron Maxwell, now a Philadelphia Eagle, explained that on Friday morning. Maxwell admitted the Seahawks should have ran the ball with Marshawn Lynch at the end of Super Bowl XLIX.
"I'm pretty sure, yeah I think so," Maxwell told Angelo Cataldi and the 94WIP Morning Show Friday, when asked if the Seahawks should have ran the ball. "Looking back at it, I think Pete Carroll thinks that too. You know, he's like man, 'Should I probably hand the ball off? He's like 'Yeah, probably.' I don't think he was doing nothing malicious or nothing like that, but you know he definitely was like, 'Yeah, I probably should have handed the ball off.'"
Listen: Byron Maxwell on the 94WIP Morning Show
Maxwell explained it was even tougher to lose because Seattle came that close to cementing their legacy in NFL history, as one of the NFL greatest teams.
"It just breaks your heart," Maxwell said. "That's the only way I can explain it. It's like heartbreaking. It's like wow, especially what we was about to do. We were about to like, back-to-back, that means a lot more. You know, as far as like legacy and all that and being mentioned with like the great teams---Dallas Cowboys, even New England. So what it meant that's what kind of hurts and had a chance to put the defense up there with the greats too. It hurts, but in the end you have to move on."
