kearly
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-Tom Brady played even better than his stats. He had so many heady plays in this game. He had two interceptions and had 3-4 more than were near interceptions, but he had almost 400 yards against an elite defense at home that was playing basically as well as they have all season. To me, this wasn't an off game by our defense. This was Tom Brady and those fast white guys making play after play. Serious props to any New England fans reading this- you have a seriously great team.
-Russell Wilson finally, FINALLY looked like preseason Russell Wilson. If he plays on this level all season, the Seahawks could easily find themselves in the Superbowl. This was one of the guttiest and most impressive performances I've seen by a Seahawks QB- it reminded me of young Hasselbeck in 2002 against the Chargers or in 2003 against the Rams at home.
-Wilson's pocket presence has come a long way since week 1. He did an excellent job feeling pressure and I don't think there was a single decision for him to run all game that I disagreed with. His long winding run on 3rd and long that was wiped out by a Giacomini hold was a thing of beauty. I also loved that run on 3rd down in the red zone where he extended the play, took off, and made a guy miss to pick up the 1st.
-Finally, this team allowed Wilson to throw deep, and the results were spectacular. Remember when Wilson had a 5.7 YPA? Today he posted a 10.9, and the week before he was at 8.8. It's starting to look like defenses were effecting Wilson's stats even more than we thought. Wilson threw the ball 27 times. Only one time this season did he throw the ball more often. And yet, he still finished with fewer than half as many attempts as Brady took. Tom Brady is kind of a good QB.
-This game probably makes Richard Sherman a pro-bowl frontrunner, if he wasn't one already. He had a huge game against a premiere franchise and elite offense.
-Breno Giacomini had just one penalty today, and while it did wipe out a big run by Wilson, it's probably a big sack instead of a big run if Giacomini doesn't hold, and as the announcer said, you can't really blame Giacomini for it, because Wilson wasn't supposed to be there. It was a very close call, often times that kind of play isn't called holding but since Giacomini was a foot from Wilson he was in the spotlight.
-I thought the refs were our guardian angels today, and it's not often that's true for the Seahawks. There was a deep pass to Tate that he dropped which was called DPI in our favor, and on replay it looked like a terrible call. Later on, Brandon Browner appeared to arrive early defending a pass on 3rd down with less than 3 minutes to go. 9 times out of 10, Browner is getting a DPI there and New England has a new set of downs. That would have taken the clock down to about a minute left and left Seattle without timeouts down by six, and if New England gets another 1st down, it's game over. It was a huge, huge break getting away with that one. I can hardly feel bad about it though, we were owed after some awful calls that went against us in the secondary earlier this season.
-Wes Welker is one tough dude. He got clocked by Brandon Browner. Later he got nailed by Kam Chancellor. Both were among the nastiest hits of the whole season. After the game finished, I switched to ESPN and immediately saw the following TV spot:
[youtube]bCqzk3w8g60[/youtube]
Adam Schefter is truly the fastest man in sports news.
-I don't think anyone loved this win more than Jon Ryan did. Those flash memory eraser things from Men in Black unfortunately do not exist, but overcoming a 13 point deficit in the final minutes against a great team at home has pretty much the same effect.
-Oh yeah, remember that intentional grounding call with 0:01 left in the 2nd quarter? That was the difference in the game. Who knew?
-HOLY SHIT WE WON! adfjoqwnweonOINWEROINRVNSAVOLWENVIVNA SNBLSAGNLABRGONWNGIONBW-9JG9JEVBNPOIGNV LNAG03 FLKNDSP. There, my face feels better now.
-Russell Wilson finally, FINALLY looked like preseason Russell Wilson. If he plays on this level all season, the Seahawks could easily find themselves in the Superbowl. This was one of the guttiest and most impressive performances I've seen by a Seahawks QB- it reminded me of young Hasselbeck in 2002 against the Chargers or in 2003 against the Rams at home.
-Wilson's pocket presence has come a long way since week 1. He did an excellent job feeling pressure and I don't think there was a single decision for him to run all game that I disagreed with. His long winding run on 3rd and long that was wiped out by a Giacomini hold was a thing of beauty. I also loved that run on 3rd down in the red zone where he extended the play, took off, and made a guy miss to pick up the 1st.
-Finally, this team allowed Wilson to throw deep, and the results were spectacular. Remember when Wilson had a 5.7 YPA? Today he posted a 10.9, and the week before he was at 8.8. It's starting to look like defenses were effecting Wilson's stats even more than we thought. Wilson threw the ball 27 times. Only one time this season did he throw the ball more often. And yet, he still finished with fewer than half as many attempts as Brady took. Tom Brady is kind of a good QB.
-This game probably makes Richard Sherman a pro-bowl frontrunner, if he wasn't one already. He had a huge game against a premiere franchise and elite offense.
-Breno Giacomini had just one penalty today, and while it did wipe out a big run by Wilson, it's probably a big sack instead of a big run if Giacomini doesn't hold, and as the announcer said, you can't really blame Giacomini for it, because Wilson wasn't supposed to be there. It was a very close call, often times that kind of play isn't called holding but since Giacomini was a foot from Wilson he was in the spotlight.
-I thought the refs were our guardian angels today, and it's not often that's true for the Seahawks. There was a deep pass to Tate that he dropped which was called DPI in our favor, and on replay it looked like a terrible call. Later on, Brandon Browner appeared to arrive early defending a pass on 3rd down with less than 3 minutes to go. 9 times out of 10, Browner is getting a DPI there and New England has a new set of downs. That would have taken the clock down to about a minute left and left Seattle without timeouts down by six, and if New England gets another 1st down, it's game over. It was a huge, huge break getting away with that one. I can hardly feel bad about it though, we were owed after some awful calls that went against us in the secondary earlier this season.
-Wes Welker is one tough dude. He got clocked by Brandon Browner. Later he got nailed by Kam Chancellor. Both were among the nastiest hits of the whole season. After the game finished, I switched to ESPN and immediately saw the following TV spot:
[youtube]bCqzk3w8g60[/youtube]
Adam Schefter is truly the fastest man in sports news.
-I don't think anyone loved this win more than Jon Ryan did. Those flash memory eraser things from Men in Black unfortunately do not exist, but overcoming a 13 point deficit in the final minutes against a great team at home has pretty much the same effect.
-Oh yeah, remember that intentional grounding call with 0:01 left in the 2nd quarter? That was the difference in the game. Who knew?
-HOLY SHIT WE WON! adfjoqwnweonOINWEROINRVNSAVOLWENVIVNA SNBLSAGNLABRGONWNGIONBW-9JG9JEVBNPOIGNV LNAG03 FLKNDSP. There, my face feels better now.
