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As much as I love them, the Seahawks deserved the loss today. I mean seriously, WTF with their execution and the playcalling?? It would have been an absolute JOKE if they'd managed to win. As it is, the final score doesn't reflect at all what happened in the game. They were outplayed on both sides of the ball. They were terrible. It was only special teams that kept them in it; without that, it would have been a blowout. At the Clink! Jesus.
They've been winning by the skin of their teeth since the start of the season -- less with good play than with the other teams either playing worse or just not being quite as talented -- and it was only a matter of time before they were exposed. Do I wish it had been to a more worthy team than the Cowboys? Yes, I do. Not that the Cowboys are bad, obviously. They've been playing well. But they're playing well out of nowhere. It would have hurt less to lose to, say, the Broncos. I mean, the Cowboys were horrific in their first game, against the 49ers. If they were going to be good, couldn't they have at least beaten them first? Jerks. ;)
I can only hope that this will be an eye opener for them. I don't know if they've just gotten complacent, or if they're trying to play through injuries, or if the play calling has been as terrible as others are saying (people over at Field Gulls have gotten out the pitchforks for Darrell Bevell, and I can't really blame them. A few of the calls I was just spluttering at the screen, "...how? What? Why? What... &#@$!!!!!!!!!!!" I don't hate Bryan Walters as many at FG do, he's been a decent punt returner, but I have to echo the "Why the @#&% is he out there on 3rd down all the time?!?!" incensed reaction, and also Percy Harvin is being WASTED out there), but something has to change. Russell Wilson looked totally clueless out there today. The WRs, as usual, didn't get open and/or didn't make plays on the ball. The D has played as it has of late -- badly. For god's sake, the pass defense from last year was number 1 in the league, and now they can't stop it? DeMarco Murray made a joke of our number 1 run defense. The O-line is the dumpster fire it usually is. How is it that other teams can play through injuries, and yet when the Seahawks get an injury to one of their key players, it suddenly opens up holes all over the field? Gah!!
If they take this game and use it to learn, that's the best-case scenario. Worst case? They keep playing like this, but there will come a game when they don't luck out with a couple of ST turnovers and they'll get blown out and flat-out embarrassed. There are talented players on this team, obviously. There is NO REASON for the atrocity they've been putting on the field the last few games. None.
They've been winning by the skin of their teeth since the start of the season -- less with good play than with the other teams either playing worse or just not being quite as talented -- and it was only a matter of time before they were exposed. Do I wish it had been to a more worthy team than the Cowboys? Yes, I do. Not that the Cowboys are bad, obviously. They've been playing well. But they're playing well out of nowhere. It would have hurt less to lose to, say, the Broncos. I mean, the Cowboys were horrific in their first game, against the 49ers. If they were going to be good, couldn't they have at least beaten them first? Jerks. ;)
I can only hope that this will be an eye opener for them. I don't know if they've just gotten complacent, or if they're trying to play through injuries, or if the play calling has been as terrible as others are saying (people over at Field Gulls have gotten out the pitchforks for Darrell Bevell, and I can't really blame them. A few of the calls I was just spluttering at the screen, "...how? What? Why? What... &#@$!!!!!!!!!!!" I don't hate Bryan Walters as many at FG do, he's been a decent punt returner, but I have to echo the "Why the @#&% is he out there on 3rd down all the time?!?!" incensed reaction, and also Percy Harvin is being WASTED out there), but something has to change. Russell Wilson looked totally clueless out there today. The WRs, as usual, didn't get open and/or didn't make plays on the ball. The D has played as it has of late -- badly. For god's sake, the pass defense from last year was number 1 in the league, and now they can't stop it? DeMarco Murray made a joke of our number 1 run defense. The O-line is the dumpster fire it usually is. How is it that other teams can play through injuries, and yet when the Seahawks get an injury to one of their key players, it suddenly opens up holes all over the field? Gah!!
If they take this game and use it to learn, that's the best-case scenario. Worst case? They keep playing like this, but there will come a game when they don't luck out with a couple of ST turnovers and they'll get blown out and flat-out embarrassed. There are talented players on this team, obviously. There is NO REASON for the atrocity they've been putting on the field the last few games. None.
