Green Bay did not play well.

[Year of The Hawk]

So what aobut Green Bay was so great? Yes they played well at the lines. Did there #1 offense play great? 16 points on 5 turnovers is not great or even that good. How about there defense. They played OK and took advantage of a horrifcly bad game from us. There defense were gifted 2 INT from Kearse and 2 very uncharacteristically bad decisions to throw into coverage by Russ. They earned the Baldwin fumble. Our offense also had several drops not due to them but our fault.
It seems to me that our offense played a horrible 56 minutes. Thats it. They were not the better team we just played lousy and they were on the better side of it. Also they way our offense played in the last 4 minutes was not surprise. I was just surprised it took that long to click. That is our style of offense.
IMHO they did not lose the game we just finally woke up and played the way we have in the past.

 

[Rat]

Neither team played well, but they outsucked us down the stretch.

 

[joeseahawks]

I think the last 2 minutes showed. If our offense didn't dig the big whole it did ( mostly because of unfortunate turnovers), this game would have been a rout.

Take a guess: Who played better against us? Cam Newton or Aaron Rogers?
When you think that Rogers is the League MVP, the #1 QB of the whole Media, the Primadona and darling of all ... I would have expected 5 TDs, and 40 points on 5 Seahawks turnovers...

Guys like Rogers get a pass from the Media. There are always excuses, when they don't win. Rogers is 6-5 in playoff games in his career. Guys like Rogers might be great individual talent, but they don't make people around them better.

 

[BlueTalon]

Neither team played well, but they outsucked us down the stretch.

Well put!

 

[WilsonMVP]

So what aobut Green Bay was so great? Yes they played well at the lines. Did there #1 offense play great? 16 points on 5 turnovers is not great or even that good. How about there defense. They played OK and took advantage of a horrifcly bad game from us. There defense were gifted 2 INT from Kearse and 2 very uncharacteristically bad decisions to throw into coverage by Russ. They earned the Baldwin fumble. Our offense also had several drops not due to them but our fault.
It seems to me that our offense played a horrible 56 minutes. Thats it. They were not the better team we just played lousy and they were on the better side of it. Also they way our offense played in the last 4 minutes was not surprise. I was just surprised it took that long to click. That is our style of offense.
IMHO they did not lose the game we just finally woke up and played the way we have in the past.

I thought our defense dominated and abused the Packers offense...If it wasnt for having the ball in FG range a bunch of times or on our side of the field a ton of times they prob struggle to put up more than 14 points. Going into halftime I think our D had been on the field for almost 20 minutes too...that first half was just brutal

 

[vin.couve12]

I posted this in another thread. 3.5 quarters or not, they beat us in one meaningful category; Turnovers.

Total First Downs 19 Total First Downs 20
Third Down Efficiency 3/14 - 21% Third Down Efficiency 8/16 - 50%
Fourth Down Efficiency 0/0 - 0% Fourth Down Efficiency 1/1 - 100%
Total Net Yards 306 Total Net Yards 397
Net Yards Rushing 135 Net Yards Rushing 194
Net Yards Passing 171 Net Yards Passing 203
Time of Possession 32:15 Time of Possession 31:0

GB won the TOP battle by a minute, but outside of the turnover battle GB didn't really win much of anything yesterday. A lot has been said about how GB played, but the truth is that Seattle really beat themselves for nearly the entire game. GB played well, but certainly aren't the better team. If Erica Rodgers has a problem with that then he should have had a better game.

 

[WendellWent]

Neither team played well, but they outsucked us down the stretch.

Seattle put up 350+ yards outside of the first quarter, and 3 TDs. GB put up around 169 yards, and 3 FGs. Outside of turnovers, Seattle kicked the crap out of GB for 3+ quarters. This narrative that GB was the better team was only due to the fact that they jumped out to a lead on Seattle, somehow clung to a lead. Seattle was easily the better team, and really shot themselves in the foot time after time.

 

[swagcity21]

I agree that Green Bay WAS NOT the better team yesterday. The better team would have taken advantage of 5 turnovers and put the game completely out of question. What I saw from Green Bay was the 02-03 Seahawks. good enough to get there but not good enough to finish.

Trent Dilfer had some great things to say this morning on SportsCenter about how the game should have gone and how we dominated the Pack when we weren't gift wrapping turnovers to them. Green Bay is still not in our class. Respectfully speaking they can't stop the run. Their Defense was better against the pass than I thought but they are still not ready to compete with us.

Was an absolutely great game to watch, but it goes to show, at this point only Seattle can beat Seattle. IMHO

 

[kearly]

I think Seattle is being massively undersold for how they played after halftime. Really there was only one mistake I'd pin on Green Bay and that was of course Bostick having a brainfart on the onside kick. The rest of it was Seattle making plays and showing the heart of a champion. The second half of that game was like the NFL version of the 2013 Iron Bowl.

 

[ivotuk]

So what aobut Green Bay was so great? Yes they played well at the lines. Did there #1 offense play great? 16 points on 5 turnovers is not great or even that good. How about there defense. They played OK and took advantage of a horrifcly bad game from us. There defense were gifted 2 INT from Kearse and 2 very uncharacteristically bad decisions to throw into coverage by Russ. They earned the Baldwin fumble. Our offense also had several drops not due to them but our fault.
It seems to me that our offense played a horrible 56 minutes. Thats it. They were not the better team we just played lousy and they were on the better side of it. Also they way our offense played in the last 4 minutes was not surprise. I was just surprised it took that long to click. That is our style of offense.
IMHO they did not lose the game we just finally woke up and played the way we have in the past.

I thought our defense dominated and abused the Packers offense...If it wasnt for having the ball in FG range a bunch of times or on our side of the field a ton of times they prob struggle to put up more than 14 points. Going into halftime I think our D had been on the field for almost 20 minutes too...that first half was just brutal

The bolded part, and especially the italicized parts.

 

[lsheldon]

Keeping Rodgers to one TD in 4 quarters was huge for our offense to be able to make a comeback.

 

[LTH]

I thought GB played well... Any time you can take a 16-0 lead on the best D in football your doing well the fact that Seattle won the game was more of a reflection of Seattle coming through with some clutch plays when they had to more than poor play by Greenbay... not sure why Seattle doesnt get that credit...they earned it...






LTH

 

[ceej22]

They did not play well, but when have they vs. this team. I'd say Green Bay's offense played right on par with their past performances. Their defense played great the first half, but eased off a bit in the 2nd half. Seattle's defense played great as the usually do. The only abnormality is Seattle's offense being completely inept during the first half.

 

[Reaneypark]

The best team is the one with the most points. Everything else is just baloney.

 

[irocdave]

Man, people have short memories. The Hawks O line and D line got manhandled in the first half and the most of the third quarter. Hawks D was stellar for the entire game considering that they got zero pressure on AR, Hawks D line was over matched by the Packs O line in pass protection. The Hawks were lucky to win, revisionist history wont change that in my mind. Yes the Hawks made the plays count at the end but Kearse, Willson and Wilson crapped the bed for 3+ quarters and damn near lost this game on there own. If the Pack had made one of numerous plays late in the game the Hawks would not have been in a position to make the plays. I didn't turn the game off, didn't get to down even on the 4th pick and kept hope alive, but did not come away with the sense the Hawks dominated that game. I felt they were lucky and made once in a lifetime plays to move on. That said, I think they got it out of their system and will take it to the Pats.

 

[bigskydoc]

We gifted them the game, and they couldn't even muster enough energy to unwrap it.

-bsd