What an ass-whoopin'!
I admit I expected a different game. Well guess what? So did the Cardinals. This game was fun on so many levels, not the least of which being that we legitimately beat one of the NFL's best teams in their house, with something very important to play for. So any talk of the Cards mailing it in would be foolish. While I still believe there was a portion of that in last week's loss to the Rams, you can't tell me the Cards had any of that.
It was playoff atmosphere coming out of the gates. You could tell two power house teams were trading blows, and the Cardinals wanted nothing more than to knock out the defending NFC Champions, especially since we've owned them in their own house for the past two years.
Then it became quite apparent that the Seahawks had one mission and that was to punch the Cardinals in the mouth and not let up until the game was well out of hand. Here's some quick hits...
-- Russell Wilson is an elite quarterback in the NFL. Deal with it.
-- The backups for the OL played a very admirable game over all. Wilson took a couple big hits but for the most part the line did their jobs and kept him clean.
-- I would love to hear the back story on why Sherman though it would be acceptable to take a 15 yard penalty by pulling an ADB from SBXLIX (pretending to pull his pants down to drop a deuce). I hate HATE that crap (bad pun). Whatever they were saying to you Sherman, that doesn't give you an excuse to act like a chump and cost your team 15 yards in the process. Your revenge is the scoreboard, period. No need for juvenile antics that hurt your team.
-- Lockett is probably my favorite player outside of the Usual Suspects right now. How can you not love this kid?
-- Our backup TE looked great. Had that nice TD and some good grabs. Good for him...I love that this team is showing key depth right now. The drop off hasn't been too noticeable in recent weeks.
-- Speaking of, I am very happy for C Mike's resurgence. He's doing precisely what we hoped he would do in this situation. He's taking the reigns and running with it. Literally. Over a 100 yards against a very good run defense and is holding on to the ball. Keep it up C Mike!
-- Shead is becoming another player who is stepping in and stepping up. He's helping to restore some strength to our secondary (and Lane is helping as well).
-- I was not happy to see Wilson still playing well into the 3rd quarter when the game was already out of reach. I couldn't think of any reason Pete would be so stubborn enough to keep him in the game far beyond when he should have been pulled until I realized that they were probably letting him get over 4,000 yards passing for the year. Then I calmed down and continued enjoying my beverage.
I love being wrong when I predict a Seahawks loss. They played brilliantly, and played Championship Football as we know they are capable of.
If they take this type of performance into the playoffs, we will be seeing the Seahawks hoisting another Lombardi in Santa Clara.
I admit I expected a different game. Well guess what? So did the Cardinals. This game was fun on so many levels, not the least of which being that we legitimately beat one of the NFL's best teams in their house, with something very important to play for. So any talk of the Cards mailing it in would be foolish. While I still believe there was a portion of that in last week's loss to the Rams, you can't tell me the Cards had any of that.
It was playoff atmosphere coming out of the gates. You could tell two power house teams were trading blows, and the Cardinals wanted nothing more than to knock out the defending NFC Champions, especially since we've owned them in their own house for the past two years.
Then it became quite apparent that the Seahawks had one mission and that was to punch the Cardinals in the mouth and not let up until the game was well out of hand. Here's some quick hits...
-- Russell Wilson is an elite quarterback in the NFL. Deal with it.
-- The backups for the OL played a very admirable game over all. Wilson took a couple big hits but for the most part the line did their jobs and kept him clean.
-- I would love to hear the back story on why Sherman though it would be acceptable to take a 15 yard penalty by pulling an ADB from SBXLIX (pretending to pull his pants down to drop a deuce). I hate HATE that crap (bad pun). Whatever they were saying to you Sherman, that doesn't give you an excuse to act like a chump and cost your team 15 yards in the process. Your revenge is the scoreboard, period. No need for juvenile antics that hurt your team.
-- Lockett is probably my favorite player outside of the Usual Suspects right now. How can you not love this kid?
-- Our backup TE looked great. Had that nice TD and some good grabs. Good for him...I love that this team is showing key depth right now. The drop off hasn't been too noticeable in recent weeks.
-- Speaking of, I am very happy for C Mike's resurgence. He's doing precisely what we hoped he would do in this situation. He's taking the reigns and running with it. Literally. Over a 100 yards against a very good run defense and is holding on to the ball. Keep it up C Mike!
-- Shead is becoming another player who is stepping in and stepping up. He's helping to restore some strength to our secondary (and Lane is helping as well).
-- I was not happy to see Wilson still playing well into the 3rd quarter when the game was already out of reach. I couldn't think of any reason Pete would be so stubborn enough to keep him in the game far beyond when he should have been pulled until I realized that they were probably letting him get over 4,000 yards passing for the year. Then I calmed down and continued enjoying my beverage.
I love being wrong when I predict a Seahawks loss. They played brilliantly, and played Championship Football as we know they are capable of.
If they take this type of performance into the playoffs, we will be seeing the Seahawks hoisting another Lombardi in Santa Clara.
