Posted on 01/18/2015 4:51:52 PM PST by djf
Never doubt the resilience of the Seattle Seahawks.
Plagued by turnovers and outplayed much of Sunday by Green Bay, the Seahawks staged an improbable comeback and beat the Packers 28-22 in overtime. Russell Wilson, who struggled until the final minutes, hit Jermaine Kearse for a 35-yard touchdown 3:19 into the extra period on the only possession.
The Seahawks became the first defending champion to make the Super Bowl in 10 years, and will play the winner of the AFC title game between Indianapolis and New England. How they got there was stunning.
No excuses. They played not to lose instead of being aggressive and therefore, gave the game away. The Packers’ MO is to go very conservative when they get a lead. You could tell that the play calling was going that way when they called three run plays right into the line after the 4th interception with ~5 minutes left. The only thing worse than the play calling was the execution. They acted like there was 30 sec to go instead of 5 minutes. For the life of me I can’t understand “prevent defenses” either.
Same here. Started to watch, Russell really looked bad.
The announcers had it correct after the halftime intermission. “This is a two possession game.”
I don’t remember your name in the group I was addressing. But thanks for the response.
I bet Seattle is going insane tonight.
Those people are passionate fans, that’s for sure.
Sea HAWKS!
Indeed we are. I’m about 60 miles from the city and the fireworks and gunshots just stopped.
From Seattle, WA, I’m saying the same thing.
That’s astonishing. I had no idea the stats ended up that way.
Everyone at our viewing party was grumbling at 16-0 and I said “hey, it should be 28-0. We’re okay.” They thought I was nuts until the last two minutes...
And meanwhile, the New England / Indianapolis game has turned into a laugher.
This has turned into a coronation.
A New England-Seattle superbowl will be amazing!
Will it be the re-emergence of an old dynasty?
Or will it be the unbeatable efforts of a new, younger team?
Time will tell!
But I’m thinking Brady is getting a bit long in the tooth...
;-)
Now, if you win the toss you have to get a touchdown or safety. Anything less, and the other team at least gets a chance to handle the football.
The Seahawks put an exclamation point on why that's a good rule.
It's no longer who wins the toss.
You've got to earn the win.
The Seahawks did.
No, it will be eminently ignorable. Two teams I cannot stand the coaches, or the towns they come from.
Meh.....Not even a team to root against.............
Seahawks had better learn how to manage the clock, they wasted a LOT of valuable time in the 4th quarter
189-73 New England has outscored Indy their last four meetings.
I would support playing an entire quarter in OT. Let everyone share their 15 minutes.
Seattle benefited from one of the greatest chokes in the history of choking, starting with entirely too conservative play calling in the last nine minutes of the game, both on offense and defense. Hint to Green Bay: you've got Aaron Rodgers. One more hint: Eddie Lacy had one of the worst performances ever. One more hint: do NOT run the football on two consecutive sets of three downs. Morons.
Put the hands team out for the onsides kick. Seriously. If only because Bostick is now going to have to relive that horrible instant for the rest of his life, but, he had lots and lots of help, and should never have in in the position where an onsides kick could take the lead to begin with.
Follow this up with an absolute lollipop on a conversion that should only have had about NINE DEFENDERS on the ball but somehow found its way into the hands of a receiver, and two successive plays on Green Bay's comeback drive where receivers clearly did not know their assignments -- forcing what should have been a winning touchdown drive into a game tying field goal and ...
... there you have it. Nothing brilliant by the invincible Seahawks; who today looked very very beatable indeed. Just the worst choke in the history of chokes. Next year Green Bay needs to come with a warning for kids under three.
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