True. Just looked for comments by Belichick and found this:
Ultimately, both coaches opted to let the clock run down, and the Seahawks snapped the ball with 26 seconds left. Belichick later said that had the Seahawks run the ball on second down, “We would have used our timeouts if that had been a running play.”
Which, in a way, is even more damning of The Call than if the Pats were willing to intentionally allow a running TD. By running and failing to score, they would have forced NE to burn one of its 2 timeouts. Fail again and they get a 3rd crack. Odds of the Seahawks NOT scoring on 2nd, 3rd or 4th down from the one is infinitesimally remote, and had it taken an extra play or two would have worked in their favor.