Seattle Seahawks pull starters late in Super Bowl 48 win
By Josh Hill
To say that Super Bowl XLVIII was a blowout would be to completely understate things. The game wasn’t even close from the start and the longer it went on, the harder it got to watch. Things got so bad that late in the contest, Pete Carroll pulled his starters, benching Marshawn Lynch and Russell Wilson with plenty of time left on the clock.
Lynch was the first one to be taken out as his work had clearly been done. Best Mode scored a touchdown in the game and helped eat time off the clock but he wasn’t needed late in the game when the contest was well out of reach for the Denver Broncos.
The real insult to the Broncos was when Russell Wilson was pulled from the game in favor of Tavaris Jackson with around two minutes left in the game.
Even though the score was out of reach, you typically don’t see starters pulled in the Super Bowl but you can’t really blame Seattle. They had kept their starters in as long as they could but the ankle injury to star cornerback Richard Sherman changed the mind of Pete Carroll and the Seahawks coaches.