Earl thomas picks or bats that pass down = blowout

[dunceface]

Playoff football: take what you can get and WIN (which we did)

Give em the field goals and give us our turnovers and we still control the game and still win

 

[Anonymous]

The look on Earl's face told the whole story on that one. Just like the look on Golden's face after the on-side play. That's what makes this game of pro-football so bad-ass. A whole game's worth of domination can get erased by one or two key plays.

Luckily, we held on and made it happen.

 

[Seeker]

- Missed kam pick (maybe 2, can't remember was really drunk by the fourth)
- Missed earl pick (that I called until he let it bounce lol)
- Miffed onside by tate (I really think he was loopy after that dirty hit, seemed off after that all night. I hold nothing against him).

the odds of those things happening again like that are very slim.

 

[mikeak]

23 - 8 at that point wasn't it?

one fluke 52 yard pass has a lot of us thinking differently of this game than it really was.

The play before was a 2nd and I believe 20. Seahawks played it perfectly and Clemons gets called for an absolute BS holding. He had hands on the receiver in the backfield which is legal but he didn't pull or turn him making it a fully legal play which Drew Brees put in the ground.

Huge part of making the deep ball call on the next play instead of going for punting room

 

[Exittium]

I felt a lot of times where earl or another LOB would of had an interception.. ET was there and it didn't work so well. Like as if he was in the moment but too much and tried too hard at times.

 

[DrDix]

What happened was bound to happen at some point. Last couple games the secondary have run into each other trying to get a pick..there's been at least 3 times recently where if one guy went for it instead of two, the result would've been an INT. This can't happen anymore.

 

[DavidSeven]

23 - 8 at that point wasn't it?

one fluke 52 yard pass has a lot of us thinking differently of this game than it really was.

Agreed. I honestly think some are venting from the stress that came from that fluke play and the on-side kick recovery. They are letting that stress color their perception of how the game went. I wouldn't call it a blowout, but Seattle was in control from start to finish.

 

[mikeak]

What happened was bound to happen at some point. Last couple games the secondary have run into each other trying to get a pick..there's been at least 3 times recently where if one guy went for it instead of two, the result would've been an INT. This can't happen anymore.

Agreed - we need slower secondary players so they can't get there at the same time

Maybe we should get someone from the Mariners to teach them about communicating when catching fly balls....

oh wait - lets go with a baseball team that can teach them something

 

[CANHawk]

New rule: if Earl + anyone else are going up for a possible int; LET EARL CATCH IT!!!

 

[Largent80]

Earl did the same thing in the Ram game. He needs to allow the man facing the ball first chance, he cost us 2 INT's with his trying to do it all. I LOVE Earl, however, this is a team.

 

[dunceface]

Earl did the same thing in the Ram game. He needs to allow the man facing the ball first chance, he cost us 2 INT's with his trying to do it all. I LOVE Earl, however, this is a team.

Pete actually mentioned in a presser that they do not have a protocol for calling the ball or who to defer to, which kinda blew my mind but I trust that he has a good reason that he coaches it that way (ie better to have a missed pick turn into a batted ball rather than have two people errantly give up on a pass and allow a reception)

 

[kearly]

23 - 8 at that point wasn't it?

one fluke 52 yard pass has a lot of us thinking differently of this game than it really was.

Agreed. I honestly think some are venting from the stress that came from that fluke play and the on-side kick recovery. They are letting that stress color their perception of how the game went. I wouldn't call it a blowout, but Seattle was in control from start to finish.

Seattle has lost a pair of games recently where they dominated defensively but gave up a couple of clutch plays at the end to just barely lose the game, so I think frayed nerves are to be expected. And those two losses combined didn't have as many brutal tough breaks go against Seattle as this Saints game did. As improbable as the Saints comeback was on paper, the ridiculous string of good fortune gave an aura of destiny before a boneheaded forward pass ended it.

 

[gulliver]

To the OP, I was wondering when going for the pick instead of batting it down would come back to bite us, a la Georgia @ Auburn. Fortunately it wasn't that game, but when it's for all the marbles and one play changes the game, I'd rather our guys NOT try to get possession on our own 18 and just settle for a 3-and-out.

 

[Throwdown]

Playoff football: take what you can get and WIN (which we did)

Give em the field goals and give us our turnovers and we still control the game and still win

This, anyone expecting convincing beautiful wins is absolutely out of their minds.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Yep, 3 dropped picks in that game, or it's a blowout, plain and simple.

 

[Seahawk Sailor]

There were at least 2 missed INTs in this game. It should not have been close at all. The Saints were fortunate to be in position to even have a chance at the end.

At least to my eyes it was 3-4. It was obvious that Percy was a huge part of the game plan and with his concussion they had to rework everything.

By my count too. At least two were balls that absolutely should have been intercepted. A couple more were chances that were a little harder to make, but certainly within the realm of possibility.