Quote:
Originally Posted by ResAlien
Heh. Right. Barring that first Seattle drive (that they blew with penalties and a pick) Denver owned this game. Their insane 3rd down conversions and Hasselbeck being an INT machine was game over. Coulda shoulda woulda. 10 points closer and it's still a convincing win.
Denver looked great today, Moreno was there to play. Thomas was awesome in his first game as a pro. Glad to see Orton get his tunnel vision off of Gaffney for a bit. But the Broncos have a very tough stretch coming up though. 4 insane games, I'm just hoping they're above .500 when it's over.
|
Hey, whatever.
Seattle doesn't get that penalty on the Forsett touchdown (seen those holding calls go both ways) and then the muffed punt and its 14 point swing just like that. Seattle's defense makes one or two plays on those critical 3rd downs to stop drives, and who knows. Add to that the attempt at 4th and 2 instead of going for the makeable FG in the 3rd (trying to take back momentum and give the team a spark, down by 17), and the game is fairly tight just on the scoreboard, not taking into consideration the momentum changes and decision changes in a tighter score game.
Denver looked fine, made some plays and got some gifts. Although fairly surprised to see Forsett run through the D-line on a regular basis (although my Broncos buddy says the Dline in Denver is poor).
Just saying Seattle didn't look as bad as the score indicated or get dominated all over the field all day; the usual Hasslebeck frustrating decisions and the muffed punt changed that entire game before the first half of the first quarter. However past Seahawk teams just needed one thing to go wrong and they folded like a tent, in this game, they kept making plays on offense and defense (3rd downs excluded, frustrating given the shutdown they did on SF last week), even down by 17. Would've just been nice to have those obvious one or two key plays reversed and would've been a totally different game.