Seahawk Sailor
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Okay, so this New Year's Eve, I re-watched the Arizona Cardinals game from last Sunday, and a few things stood out to me in stark, glaring detail. I watched the game mainly to see Arizona's play, and in particular their offensive play, and more in particular, Josh Rosen's quarterback play.
Wow. He sucked like Mega Maid from Spaceballs! Terrible play. Horrible accuracy.
Of his 34 pass attempts, 18 of them were either very high, too high, or way too high. Eighteen! Only one was too low. 15 were on target. And I was pretty generous to him because several of his on-target throws were high, but I counted them as on target because they were clearly catchable because the receiver didn't have to go full extension and catch them with fingertips. Several of the too high passes were caught, but they were snagged with fingertips. To give it perspective, I counted Larry Fitzgerald's one-handed TD snag as an accurate ball.
Not only were over half of his passes overthrown, four of them were clear interception possibilities, two of them outright dropped interceptions. Four of those passes were basically thrown to the defense more than they were thrown to the offense. We could have had four interceptions in that game. Two easily. That would have changed the game immensely.
He also had two sack-fumbles in the game. Two. Both lost, which really helped overcome the ten points we flat out gave them on special teams. Coupled with a pair of drives that started inside our 30 yard line, he basically threw points away. The announcers said that hey, Arizona doesn't need a quarterback because Josh Rosen is their guy. Well, I certainly hope so because he was completely terrible. If not for special teams, dropped interceptions, awesome field position the whole game, and Larry Fitzgerald being Larry Fitzgerald and bailing him out repeatedly, it would have been a whole lot uglier for them. I also am convinced that Fitzgerald's 30-yard sideline catch that was ruled out of bounds even on the replay was a catch in bounds. Dude was in, and it was clear enough to me to overturn the ruling on the field.
We were absolutely dominating the game right up until about halfway through the second quarter. Around the 7:12 minute mark exactly, when the sequence of events went: sack -- blocked punt -- AZ score -- sack -- huge AZ punt return. We basically gave up all the momentum and points we'd gotten within a matter of minutes.
Wilson was also sacked six times out of the 14 third downs. And he would have had another sack-fumble for an AZ touchdown on a third down if not for a defensive holding call. Seriously, every single third down the offensive line looked like they were completely clueless and inept. Whiffing on blocks while Wilson was crushed by the defense. Blocking the wrong guy while Wilson was being pounded into the turf by the defense. Standing around watching as Wilson was smashed by the defense. Eating an ice cream cone while Wilson was flattened by the defense. Spreading a blanket out for a picnic while Wilson was being annihilated by the defense. Chasing butterflies while Wilson was smeared across the field by the defense. I mean, they looked absolutely horrific on almost every third down in the game.
I think everyone's favorite, Cable Thanos put it quite succinctly.
[tweet]https://twitter.com/CableThanos_/status/1079493906973294592[/tweet]
In short, this was a game where everything went pear-shaped for the Seahawks and we still won. Their quarterback was horrible and we didn't capitalize on it at all. Wilson was clutch in the game winning drive as he always is. And we shoulda/woulda/coulda won easily. Hell, just having Posic stand in somebody's way instead of wandering around the field looking for butterflies would have taken a lot of drama out of the ending.
Wow. He sucked like Mega Maid from Spaceballs! Terrible play. Horrible accuracy.
Of his 34 pass attempts, 18 of them were either very high, too high, or way too high. Eighteen! Only one was too low. 15 were on target. And I was pretty generous to him because several of his on-target throws were high, but I counted them as on target because they were clearly catchable because the receiver didn't have to go full extension and catch them with fingertips. Several of the too high passes were caught, but they were snagged with fingertips. To give it perspective, I counted Larry Fitzgerald's one-handed TD snag as an accurate ball.
Not only were over half of his passes overthrown, four of them were clear interception possibilities, two of them outright dropped interceptions. Four of those passes were basically thrown to the defense more than they were thrown to the offense. We could have had four interceptions in that game. Two easily. That would have changed the game immensely.
He also had two sack-fumbles in the game. Two. Both lost, which really helped overcome the ten points we flat out gave them on special teams. Coupled with a pair of drives that started inside our 30 yard line, he basically threw points away. The announcers said that hey, Arizona doesn't need a quarterback because Josh Rosen is their guy. Well, I certainly hope so because he was completely terrible. If not for special teams, dropped interceptions, awesome field position the whole game, and Larry Fitzgerald being Larry Fitzgerald and bailing him out repeatedly, it would have been a whole lot uglier for them. I also am convinced that Fitzgerald's 30-yard sideline catch that was ruled out of bounds even on the replay was a catch in bounds. Dude was in, and it was clear enough to me to overturn the ruling on the field.
We were absolutely dominating the game right up until about halfway through the second quarter. Around the 7:12 minute mark exactly, when the sequence of events went: sack -- blocked punt -- AZ score -- sack -- huge AZ punt return. We basically gave up all the momentum and points we'd gotten within a matter of minutes.
Wilson was also sacked six times out of the 14 third downs. And he would have had another sack-fumble for an AZ touchdown on a third down if not for a defensive holding call. Seriously, every single third down the offensive line looked like they were completely clueless and inept. Whiffing on blocks while Wilson was crushed by the defense. Blocking the wrong guy while Wilson was being pounded into the turf by the defense. Standing around watching as Wilson was smashed by the defense. Eating an ice cream cone while Wilson was flattened by the defense. Spreading a blanket out for a picnic while Wilson was being annihilated by the defense. Chasing butterflies while Wilson was smeared across the field by the defense. I mean, they looked absolutely horrific on almost every third down in the game.
I think everyone's favorite, Cable Thanos put it quite succinctly.
[tweet]https://twitter.com/CableThanos_/status/1079493906973294592[/tweet]
In short, this was a game where everything went pear-shaped for the Seahawks and we still won. Their quarterback was horrible and we didn't capitalize on it at all. Wilson was clutch in the game winning drive as he always is. And we shoulda/woulda/coulda won easily. Hell, just having Posic stand in somebody's way instead of wandering around the field looking for butterflies would have taken a lot of drama out of the ending.
