Can we just admit we got beat fairly out there?

[loafoftatupu]

The Hawks have prevailed over crap calls all year long. They nearly did Sunday. The Niners were good enough to make the run play on the last drive though. I was upset by the lack of holding calls on a few plays, but mostly because they were calling Seattle for it constantly and allowing SF to do it. Pretty annoying when pressure has a really tough guy in CK cornered, but Bennett gets tackled from behind, with arms surrounding his body (anyone have a shot of that) and Kaeperstank is allowed to make a first down.

I am good with it, the Hawks could have stopped that run and won the game. It only took the Niners 3 games to finally break a big play in the run game and it was the one that won the game. If the Niners would have shut down the Hawks totally and scored a bunch of points I would feel bad about it, but as it was said, RW had time, he actually played a very good game and the defense basically did a good job in all aspects outside the last run.

I counted no less than 80 yards of offense called back by penalty. So ultimately the game doesn't change the season in any way, 11-2? HELL YES! GO HAWKS!

 

[scutterhawk]

We got beat by the 49ers.. They outplayed us when it counted right at the end and deserved that win. That might be hard for some of us to swallow but it's the truth.

The refs didn't job us out the win. The game was called fairly. Some calls were missed (see the fumble) but we also got away with a LOT of passing interference. Whitners 'taunting' penalty was about as weak a taunt as you could get. There was nothing in that game to say the refs were out to get us. If we live by the sword we'll die by it. We push the boundaries and we are given the benefit of the doubt in a lot of cases for play in the secondary.

On that note.. the penalties that were called were all valid if sometimes a bit '50/50' but you play the game to win, you don't rely on the refs making every call your way. Either way our play didn't match up and it was fairly poorly played by the offense all game.

We didn't make plays when it counted. We pretty much struggled against a very good defense all game, run blocking was poor and bad decisions by Wilson when throwing and Lynch when running (he took some bad cuts). The 1st and 25 drive was abysmally played. Wilson going for his check down on 3rd and 23? Urgh...

Bevell called a decent game, no issues with it.

We were simply outplayed, by a team that played cleaner and performed better overall.

Lets not throw the toys out the pram and try and pretend that it's anyone elses fault other than our own for losing this match. It's one game, it probably means very little in the final standings and next week it's time to focus on cleaning up for the playoffs as we won't be able to hold teams as much when giving them easy yardage throughout.

Nope.

 

[Heyseed]

We just ran out of time, F the 9'rs

 

[scutterhawk]

In my opinion, times like these I rather be passionate over political.

We lost, many of us know this, but it was a 2 point loss that really could have gone either way. People are acting like the 49ers smacked us around and blew us out.

I have no problem looking at this game objectively and saying the officials were horrible. Why can't I say? Yeah, they called a bad game on both sides and were wildly inconsistent with their calls.

The only problem I have with it all is flags were thrown literally after every time the Seahawks started rolling momentum in their favor or gave a the 49ers offense a 2nd wind.

Flags were called in a way that took the Seahawks out of their winning element and that being more physical than other team.

If you're going to call a hold on Okung after Lynch's 15 yard scamper how are you not going to call more egregious holds that were made against Bennett and Lane who were in position to prevent the 9ers from gaining crucial first downs. Is that fair, sometimes football and making plays and winning games comes down an individual effort in a key moment whether you want to say "Oh, well... we squandered many other opportunities on our own"

F that.

But I think what pisses everyone off the most, at least the ones complaining about the officiating is the Crabtree fumble. This is where you can see the obvious refereeing bias. This call is 200x worse than the Immaculate/Golden Reception/Fail Mary call (because the officials actually got that right)... but as a fan, how do you sit there and process the Crabtree fumble. Replays showed he wasn't down, he was still fighting forward as he didn't concede is progress if he did, he would have just sat down, and replays also showed that coughed it up.

Everyone one knew Carroll was going to challenge and win, however for some reason the Refs thought they could change the ruling on the field from "down by contact" to "forward progress was stopped" and make the ruling unchallengeable.

I'm not taking anything away from the 49ers they made enough plays to win but it doesn't mean I or anybody for than matter can look at the horrible officiating and see it had an influential outcome on the games especially in key moments for the Seahawks that took away momentum changing plays.

I don't think any Seahawks this year as complained about the Refs... not even in the Indy game when Hilton was flopping all over the place. Richard Sherman didn't say anything then, and the only thing I can remember is Tate's lockerroom interview where he alluded to it by saying he can't say what he wants to say or he'll get fined.

So Sherman even remarking about it, tells me everything I know, and he's one of the smartest guys on the field. I don't think he said that to detract anything the 49ers did but he was just making a fair assessment on really bad, inconsistent, seemingly lop-sided officiating.

This post covers my exact same feelings about the biased Officiating.
Not even close to being even-up on their calls.
Had the Crabs fumble been called RIGHT, the Seahawks have a shot at pushing our score up, and putting the 49rs farther in the hole.
Bad call.