Everyone’s going to be making jokes about Super Bowl 2015 – though the Seahawks’ coach doesn’t want to hear it anymore.
Mike Macdonald did his best to play along with the media Monday, answering multiple questions about the Super Bowl rematch 11 years later while spurning inquiries about whether he would run or pass the ball at the goal line with 30 seconds left and down four points.
Everyone, of course, was referencing the decision made during Super Bowl 49 which resulted in a Malcolm Butler interception to end the game and secure the Patriots’ win.
“Best play available,” Macdonald answered, according to The Post’s Ryan Dunleavy.
“Is Beast Mode (Marshawn Lynch) in the backfield?” Macdonald responded again.
Finally, a third and final time, Macdonald had enough jokes about Pete Carroll’s group making what most consider to be a bizarre decision by the coaching staff to not run the ball for the win.
“I’m kind of done answering that question,” Macdonald responded again.
The play lives in infamy as the Seahawks were looking to repeat after winning the Super Bowl the year prior.
Facing first-and-goal at the five-yard line, Lynch ran for four yards, nearly scoring the touchdown with 1:06 remaining.
The Seahawks began running out of time as chaos ensued on the sideline.
Seattle didn’t take its second-down snap until 26 seconds remained and the call shocked everyone: A slant route to Ricardo Lockette, the fourth receiver on the depth chart with just four catches all season.
Butler intercepted Russell Wilson’s pass and the second-guessing of the Seahawks’ coaching staff began, a habit that hasn’t stopped for over a decade as rage set in from fans throughout the league.
Inquiries from the media aside, the Seahawks hope for some sort of revenge on Sunday, as Seattle’s championship run with Carroll and Wilson essentially ended right there.
Seattle enters Sunday as a 4.5-point favorite.