Bill Belichick elected not to call a timeout before 2nd down on their own goalline to give the New England Patriots time to respond to a potential touchdown by the Seattle Seahawks.

Lynch's first down run moved the clock from 1:06 to just 26 seconds left.

Belichick said he considered calling a timeout, but changed his mind at the last second.

"We put our goal-line defense in probably around the same time they were sending in their multiple receiver group, and that's kind of what we wanted to be in there, to make sure they didn't run the ball in," Belichick said, per ESPN.com's Mike Reiss.

"I'd like to think had they tried to run the ball against our goal-line defense, with three receivers on the field -- we couldn't ask for any more than that in terms of trying to stop the running game," Belichick said. "We saw that matchup and we certainly gave some consideration to taking a timeout there and leaving some time on the clock. I don't know if that would have been a bad thing to do. It might have been a good thing to do. But it just seemed like -- in the flow of the game -- that we were OK with where we were."

The one final adjustment made by the Patriots was sending Malcolm Butler onto the field for Akeem Ayers.