I’ll catch lots of blowback for saying this, but there was one camera angle, looking across the field from behind the end zone, that showed the ball clearly hit the ground and bounce back up into the receivers chest and cradled arms as he came down on it. From every other angle it looked every bit like a legit catch, I’m guessing the deciders didn’t see that one replay I saw.
I keep looking for someone to post it and validate that I’m not just some wishful thinking head case. I’m a good sport and will give it up when I see its legit, I truly expected the ref to rule it a trap ball catch, which in my assessment it was. Had they called it that way, we might have gone on to win this one, but no matter how it ended this was the ugliest game I’ve watched the Seahawks play in a really long time.
I hope we got it out of our system, learn what we can from it and go on to win another shot at the Super Bowl this season, and don’t let it poison our team with all kinds of blame and frustration, which it could easily do if everyone doesn’t just man up and own what went wrong and look for ways to correct those things that hurt us in this one.
Go Seahawks!