{"id":338556,"date":"2025-12-09T07:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338556\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:39:08","slug":"pete-carroll-explains-his-thinking-on-last-play-fg-when-trailing-by-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338556\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Carroll explains his thinking on last-play FG when trailing by 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raiders coach Pete Carroll made an odd decision to kick a field goal when trailing by 10 points with five seconds remaining in Sunday\u2019s game against the Broncos. Daniel Carlson made a 46-yard kick as time expired, making the final score 24-17.<\/p>\n<p>Making the decision even more curious, the Broncos were 7.5-point favorites, and the over\/under was 40.5.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll was hoping for enough time to kick the field goal and attempt an onside kick, but even then, barring a penalty, time would have expired before the Raiders went back on offense. So, frankly, his explanation made as much sense as his decision to kick the field goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew it was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47251124\/raiders-pete-carroll-explains-call-late-fg-10-points\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">going to look stupid<\/a>, like you couldn\u2019t figure out why we were doing it,\u201d Carroll said Monday, via Ryan McFadden of ESPN. \u201cBut there was a clear thought of what we were trying to get down there, just to take it down to the very last click. That might not be good enough for you, I understand that, but I think you can see what we were trying to do, but it just didn\u2019t work out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carroll said he does not \u2014 and cannot \u2014 concern himself with public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t bend and twist and go with whatever the public sentiment is, or one person\u2019s sentiment for that matter, regardless of who it is,\u201d Carroll said. \u201cI just can\u2019t do that and do my job the right way to the best of my ability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raiders coach Pete Carroll made an odd decision to kick a field goal when trailing by 10 points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-338556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}