The Seahawks similarly went out of their way to make it harder on their kicker, running only two plays for 6 yards in the final minute before lining up for Sebastian Janikowski's 52-yarder. Seabass bailed head coach Pete Carroll out by making the kick, but that doesn't mean the strategy makes any more sense. Setting up for long field goals when there is plenty of time to get closer or (gasp) try to score a touchdown has been a curious strategy since Carroll's coordinator Brian Schottenheimer's father Marty was coaching in the league. It makes less sense now than ever, when the array of "safe" passing plays available to a coach are vast. The teams that continue to run three times up the middle instead of trusting their quarterbacks are playing a style of football stuck in the past, one that could eventually drive its practitioners to extinction.