Tech's Groh agrees with "no defense" defense at end of Super Bowl. He did it against UGA 

By Zach Klein

It's hard to call it a party when just two people are in front of the TV, but there were two interested parties at the "Groh Super Bowl party"

Al, Georgia Tech's defensive coordinator, and his wife Anne, sat together and watched how, in the biggest game of the year, the winning touchdown came on a play fit for the Pro Bowl, not the Super Bowl.

The defense allowed the offense to score. Groh thought it was the right move based on the odds, and this coach practices what he preaches.

Two years ago, against Georgia, the Yellow Jackets allowed Washaun Ealey to run 20 yards for a touchdown. The Bulldogs went from up 1 to up 8 with 1:38 to play.

"If Georgia would have run the ball on 1st, 2nd and 3rd downs and forced us to take time outs or run the clock out, the game would have been over," Groh said. "We would have never gotten the ball back. It doesn't make a difference what the scoreboard says if you are behind by one or behind by four, if you never get the ball back , you have no chance."

Groh, who was an assistant with Belichick and Tom Coughlin on the 1990 New York Giants Super Bowl winning team, said Belichick's decision to allow Ahmad Bradshaw to score with 57 seconds to play was all about playing the percentages.

"They got the ball back, with a timeout left and one of the very best quarterbacks in the history of the game. Now, those weren't great odds at that point, but obviously it was a heck of a lot better odds then if they had never gotten the ball back."

If the Giants had milked the clock and set up a chip shot field goal, they had over a 99-percent chance of making it.

Lawrence Tynes would have been asked to make roughly the equivalent an extra point to win the Super Bowl. During the regular season, he was 43-43 kicking extra points, 100 percent. All kickers this year were 1191-1198, 99-4 percent.

"If ego was involved, and you were just interested in how close you could keep the score, we could have let them run the clock out and lost by less," said Groh referring to the 2010 Georgia game. "But if you are just interested in purely winning, the only chance you have is when you have the ball and enough time to do something with it."

Brady fell a Hail Mary pass short of winning a fourth Super Bowl title, but at least he had the chance.