We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
—Archilochus
There’s 26 seconds left on the clock and Russell Wilson is setting up what is likely his last play of the game.1 The Seattle Seahawks are down by four points and they have a chance to win Super Bowl XLIX. To any observer, it seemed obvious that they would run the ball to Marshawl Lynch, one of the greatest running backs in the game at the time. Instead, Wilson threw a pass that was intercepted, thus ending the Seahawks’ chance of winning.
The “last play” would become infamous in the NFL world. Most people thought it was a terrible play. It seems to go against everything that the team had done in the season and ...
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