JeffGollin
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Like they say - It's easier to accept and fix mistakes after a win than when you're being defensive about explaining a loss. I noted a few things below the radar:
1. With about 5:33 left to play (with Seattle down to one time out), Kurt is rolling to his left on third down. As he's about to get nailed from behind, he somehow manages to throw the ball away. He would have been wiser to eat the ball. We'd have to punt anyway. The incompletion stopped the clock instead of draining another 30 seconds or forcing Seattle to use its final time out.
2. Beanie should know from our friends in the NHL that "second guy in is the one who gets flagged."
3. What was with the Carlson TD? Whose man was it anyway - A-Dub's or the CB?
4. There was a brief series (with about 3:26 left to play) where - due to penalties and funky play calling - we were able to use up something like 0:23 worth of clock. What's with that?
Small, insignificant things (because we won), but I'm still quaking over the realization that, if Adrian doesn't intercept the shovel pass, it's even or better that Seattle scores a TD, with 1:35 left with the possibility of kicking an on-sider and then getting lucky (the way the refs were calling the game, it's not inconceivable one of our DB's would have been flagged for interference).
My point- Little things count.
A word about the refs - It would not have surprised me to hear my doorbell ring and, when I answered the door, have Walt Coleman throw a yellow flag in my face for something like improperly wiping off the breakfast table. (Who in their right mind throws a flag on the defensive team when the QB on the other team is taking a knee)?
1. With about 5:33 left to play (with Seattle down to one time out), Kurt is rolling to his left on third down. As he's about to get nailed from behind, he somehow manages to throw the ball away. He would have been wiser to eat the ball. We'd have to punt anyway. The incompletion stopped the clock instead of draining another 30 seconds or forcing Seattle to use its final time out.
2. Beanie should know from our friends in the NHL that "second guy in is the one who gets flagged."
3. What was with the Carlson TD? Whose man was it anyway - A-Dub's or the CB?
4. There was a brief series (with about 3:26 left to play) where - due to penalties and funky play calling - we were able to use up something like 0:23 worth of clock. What's with that?
Small, insignificant things (because we won), but I'm still quaking over the realization that, if Adrian doesn't intercept the shovel pass, it's even or better that Seattle scores a TD, with 1:35 left with the possibility of kicking an on-sider and then getting lucky (the way the refs were calling the game, it's not inconceivable one of our DB's would have been flagged for interference).
My point- Little things count.
A word about the refs - It would not have surprised me to hear my doorbell ring and, when I answered the door, have Walt Coleman throw a yellow flag in my face for something like improperly wiping off the breakfast table. (Who in their right mind throws a flag on the defensive team when the QB on the other team is taking a knee)?
