by Zorn76 » Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:25 pm
At least we have a season to talk about still, folks.
Because while nobody (including the refs) knew the rule (and subsequently the correct call to make), we are BEYOND LUCKY to be sitting here and chatting about this win.
You know damn well that if the circumstances were reversed, we'd be sitting here Beyond Pizzed. I'll take the win, because, what else are you going to do? But make no mistake, we caught a Huge break. Kam did make a Fantastic play to begin with, though, and the rest...will be beaten to death on sports talk radio, starting tomorrow.
As it is, we should've won this game by 20+.
Aside from that...
Turnovers were a killer, obviously, with the fumble return for a TD being absolutely shocking.
We scored our first, 1st half TD of the season...then did virtually nothing else the rest of the game ( in no small part to turnovers that killed a couple drives). Special thanks to Hauschka for making two 50+ yd FG's.
The OL had some flashes here and there (just like last week), but otherwise it was RW scrambling magic that kept plays alive. His fumbling, as we all saw, finally caught up to him (had 11 last yr, but all were recovered by Seattle, another amazing stat when you think about it).
The defense...at the end of the day, they saved our collective Bacon. 2 turnovers resulted in no points. They did give up that final long drive, which could've costed us the game. Still, they hung in there, and overall gave a great effort.
We miss a healthy Beast, and will need him badly next week. Rawls runs hard and had a few decent rushes, but Marshawn is the legit home run hitter. Can't underestimate his value, especially on the road in Cincy next week.
And, yes, we'll need to have our chit wired a whole lot tighter if we want to pull off a victory next Sunday.
Till then, count your (football) blessings that we are 2-2. It could've easily been much worse tonight.