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by **The POPE** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 4:49 pm

Don't stop believing, even when it looks bad.
Thanks for praying your asses off.

The Pope

by **c_hawkbob** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 4:54 pm

Just wow!

Can't say much more right now ...

by **Zorn76** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 4:57 pm

GROUP CRY, EVERYBODY!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

AH, MAN, CAN YOU F****** BELIEVE THIS!!!

THE CLINK MIRACLE!!!

GO SEAHAWKS!!!

by **politicalfootball** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 5:01 pm

Russell Wilson in his post game interview gave GOD the credit. Wow what a classy QB.

by **Hawk Sista** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 5:01 pm

Awesome n so many levels

by **Distant Relative** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 5:11 pm

Craziest finish I can ever remember! Sorry for doubting our team!

Just booked my flight to Phoenix! I'm so in shock, still can't believe it.

Go Hawks!

by **Hawktown** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 5:28 pm

i really don't like to abbreviate this cause .... well.. you know... OMFG!!!!!! GO HAWKS!!!

by **monkey** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 5:28 pm

The POPE wrote:Bevell needs to pull his head out. Roll out Wilson , option to throw or run. Commit to beast mode and beat on the Packers for a while. This game should be over at 30-0 if the packers had taken advantage of all the opportunities. Cmon Hawks, pull your head out.

Wow Pope...This is EXACTLY what they did to get the win. What a call!

by **politicalfootball** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 5:35 pm

SHOCK AND AWE :shock:

LOVE ME SOME SEAHAWKS :lol:

WHAT A FANTASTIC NAIL BITING FINISH I'M A BELIVER NOW. I BELIEVE WE WILL WIN ANOTHER SUPERBOWL. GO HAWKS ! +1

by **RiverDog** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 5:45 pm

I'm still in shock.

by **savvyman** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:11 pm

savvyman wrote:We got this Game - The Numerology fate gods are smiling again on the 12's. -

Take 12 + 12 = 24.

24 - (12 X 1/2) = 6.

24 - 6 = 18 - which happens to be todays Date!!!

Another numeroligical miracle like all the 12's during the Super bowl

Go Hawks - I forecast a 12 point victory.

Lol - I missed the forecast of a 12 point victory by one final "12 Calc" -------> 12 X 1/2 = 6 point margin of victory (which is also the number derived above for today's date of game) . lol

by **savvyman** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:41 pm

savvyman wrote:Can the Seahawks pull a Rocky?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSK-Iv3gh9I

Yep - can't think of a better video that describes this team\game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSK-Iv3gh9I

by **savvyman** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:47 pm

savvyman wrote:Wow - now all it is going to take to win this game is one of the greatest all time epic playooffn comeback in history.

While this team can still do it the probabilities according to science is pretty doubtful.

And maybe an assist from the Hand of God

by **savvyman** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:35 pm

Whidbey Island Girl wrote:Last year, we were behind and came back in the second half. I don't speculate on anything until the fourth quarter because these guys are magic. They'll pull it off. I BELIEVE!!!!

Great call especially for your first post.

by **BelizeHawk** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 8:07 pm

Wilson pulled a Luck today. Put his team in a major hole with his play and then came back to win it like a boss!

by **monkey** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 10:45 pm

Last year we gave the Niners the tip, then gave the Broncos the whole D.
What did we give the Packers? The enema their name suggests they need?

by **HumanCockroach** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 12:04 am

All I can say is wow. Never in all my years of watching or playing football do I remember a game, that has gone quite like that one, the resiliency of that team, QB, Defense, Receivers, coaching staff, RB is just..... Wow..

by **obiken** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 12:58 am

We were lucky, sorry IF I was a Packer fan I would be upset. But, we'll take it. The best hope we have for the SB is we just survived a better team than they are!

by **monkey** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 1:59 am

Best. Pic. Ever.

by **jshawaii22** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 3:00 am

My wife also believes that Russell has some type of Divine Intervention going on. Any lighting in the area at about 4pm? It's spooky. The Pope was right.

by **RiverDog** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 7:38 am

jshawaii22 wrote:My wife also believes that Russell has some type of Divine Intervention going on. Any lighting in the area at about 4pm? It's spooky. The Pope was right.

Was Tony Romo near the 50 yard line when that onside kick bounced off that guy's helmet? That play sure looked like a Romo-ooskie to me.

by **HumanCockroach** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:09 am

obiken wrote:We were lucky, sorry IF I was a Packer fan I would be upset. But, we'll take it. The best hope we have for the SB is we just survived a better team than they are!

Of course you would be, who wouldn't?

"we just survived a better team THAT DAY than they are." Fixed it for you.

Luck certainly plays a part, but if your claim is that it was all luck, you don't know the first thing about sports. Seattle played right until the final play, GB didn't ( or at least well enough) Seattle created those chances by never quitting. Period.

GB has every right to feel like they just got kicked in the nuts, because they did, doesn't mean Seattle didn't earn or deserve the victory.

by **kalibane** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:29 am

Just getting to the point I can wrap my head around what happened. Seriously though Obi... It's one thing to be a realist, or even a cynic. But sheesh... can you not give credit at all where credit is due? There is a point where the tack you're always taking ceases to be a grounding presence and/or different POV and it just becomes a wet blanket.

There isn't a great team that ever existed in sports that didn't have some "luck" factor in their greatness. What makes them great is they put themselves in position to take advantage of when luck bounces their way. That's what this team did. They just played BY FAR their worst game of the year... BY FAR. And they beat a 12-4 team with the likely MVP of the league at QB. That in and of itself says something about this team. Yes it took a few bounces of the ball that went in our favor down the stretch. The difference is most teams would have been down 35 - 0 and those bounces would have meant absolutely nothing.

One play illustrates the difference between the mindset of GB vs. the mindset of Sea. Morgan Burnett catches that tipped interception and gives himself up in celebration just "knowing" that they sealed the game. Everyone on GB felt the game was over. The Seattle players disagreed. And then when things started going in the wrong direction GB lost composure. Seattle never gave up. They stayed in the moment and kept grinding. If Kam Chancellor or Earl Thomas makes that play in that spot, they are trying to score because regardless of what happened up to that point because there is a QB on the other side of the field with the ability to shut out what happened before and make the plays necessary to get back in the game. That difference in mindset is the primary reason why Seattle is going to the Super Bowl and GB is headed back to Wisconsin to do a discount double (gut) check.

by **Hawktawk** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:38 am

I can understand GB being upset but they are coming across like the low class whiners they are. From Rogers dismissive comments about being the better team and giving it away to McCarthy blaming a player on an onside kick for basically losing the game. Never mind McCarthy coached probably the worst strategic game of his career and GB collapsed in every phase of the game in crunch time.

Too bad so sad. Go whine about fail Mary some more. Face it two of your last 3 losses in Seattle have ended with a Wilson TD pass as the final play. Oh and he threw for more yards than the MVP too. The best big game QB in the league is RW.

Super Bowl baby!!!And no discussion about the officials either!!!!

by **kalibane** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:45 am

Even as a critic of Rodgers (or at least his reputation) I don't have a problem with Aaron Rodgers and what he said after the game. Green Bay was the better team for 55 minutes. He should feel that way.

On the other hand when they got their tails kicked in the opener he gave nothing but credit to the Seahawks for being better. This is not Kaepernick getting blown out by 30 and still not giving the other team it's proper due.

Their fans should be bitter. But it's not like they got jobbed. They got over confident and forgot that in a game like this the other team has to accept defeat before it's really over.

by **wait_a_sec** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:46 am

That was one crazy awesome fun historic game! Hawks are just winners. It doesn't matter how it happens. It just happens.

One more please.

by **RiverDog** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:55 am

Every close game has an element of luck in it somewhere along the way. No way can anyone rationalize this game as us "being lucky." The Packers had their fair share of luck, including some unforced turnovers and stupid penalties, it's just that most of them occurred in the first half, and they failed to put us away. I also think the weather played a role, that it hurt us more than it helped us. We let an inferior Saints team hang with us last year in the playoffs when the weather was a factor. Fortunately, that won't be something we'll have to worry about in Arizona.

Mike McCarthy made a statement saying that they only had themselves to blame for losing that game, but that they would be a better team because of it. I thought that was a good way of summarizing the game from their point of view. And you're right about Rodgers. He's a class act, as are the Packer Backers.

by **monkey** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:02 am

Yeah, gotta say I don't care that the players and fans feel like they were the better team (they weren't*) or that they got jobbed (they didn't**) I understand why they feel that way, and I guarantee we'd ALL be saying the same things if the situation were reversed.

*If we played them 10 times, we'd win 8 of them. Those early game turnovers and blunders were an anomaly, the Seahawks literally never do things like that, it was easily Wilson's worst game in his entire life, helped by Kearse having his worst game in his life. If Green Bay doesn't get those turnovers, this game is a blow out by the fourth quarter the way that Lynch was DOMINATING the Packers defense.
The way we came back again them, in spite of those turnovers, due to superior physicality, and sheer will tells you who the better team is!

** The officiating was fine, if not terrific, their QB was anything but. Aaron Rodgers had a terrible game, and that's the story line no one is talking about today, our defense made him look TERRIBLE AGAIN! The argument could be made that the Seahawks got lucky, but I'm not really sure what luck is though...Recovering an on-sides kick that bounced off a Packers players helmet isn't lucky, it's a combination of a misplayed ball, and a good catch by our hands team. Catching a two point conversion that Wilson threw to his last possible read, after extending the play beyond what anyone else could (something he does often actually) is the result of Ha Ha Clinton-Dix failure to attack the ball, and Willson's clock in his head, telling him the ball hadn't been thrown yet, and he'd better get his head around and locate the ball.
That's not luck, that's will and being better prepared.
There's also NOTHING lucky about Marshawn Lycnh DOMINATING the Packers defense ALL. GAME. LONG.
Nor is there anything lucky about the Packers coaching staff repeatedly choosing not to go for it on fourth and short, when they had a chance to put the game almost out of reach early. That's just bad coaching.

I understand why Packers fans and players are feeling the way they do...I would be too today.

by **kalibane** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:08 am

We'll see if this makes the Packers better. This kind of loss can go two ways. It can steel their resolve or it can cause them to unravel. Only time will tell which way it goes but I tend towards the later than the former.

by **monkey** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:12 am

kalibane wrote:We'll see if this makes the Packers better. This kind of loss can go two ways. It can steel their resolve or it can cause them to unravel. Only time will tell which way it goes but I tend towards the later than the former.

I do too, except for two things.
1. They genuinely have a legitimately great QB to keep building and re-building around. 2. They also have a young, powerful RB that provides offensive balance. Their defense needs some work, especially against the run but their young secondary looks quite good.
If they were the Broncos, a team of aging vets, then I'd say they were hosed.

by **Hawktawk** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:14 am

kalibane wrote:Even as a critic of Rodgers (or at least his reputation) I don't have a problem with Aaron Rodgers and what he said after the game. Green Bay was the better team for 55 minutes. He should feel that way.

On the other hand when they got their tails kicked in the opener he gave nothing but credit to the Seahawks for being better. This is not Kaepernick getting blown out by 30 and still not giving the other team it's proper due.

Their fans should be bitter. But it's not like they got jobbed. They got over confident and forgot that in a game like this the other team has to accept defeat before it's really over.

Kap actually admitted he made too many mistakes in his presser after last years NFC title game and I remember him telling Wilson "go get a ring baby" Yes it is true Kap was more gracious in defeat than Rodgers, who apparently had amnesia that he threw 2 picks and missed some other throws as well.Even though Seattle's pass rush barely got a whiff of him all day he did not crack 200 yards passing.

This team never quits. I remember in week 2 when the Chargers were in victory formation Mebane blew across the line and grabbed Rivers by the jersey in an attempt to cause a turnover. It was a hopeless attempt but I remember thinking it just shows the heart of this team. Green Bay underestimated how hard it is to kill this team. Wilson had 4 picks, 2 of which were not totally on him and spent the day getting sandblasted. He took a hit that would have had lots of guys going off on a stretcher. But in the end he dropped nothing but dimes, outplaying Rodgers when it mattered most. Sherman And Thomas playing with 1 arm...Incredible game bound for NFL lore. Seems like we have had a few of these in the last 5 years.

It was an amazing performance by the Hawks, an epic win.

by **monkey** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:21 am

Hawktawk wrote:Yes it is true Kap was more gracious in defeat than Rodgers, who apparently had amnesia that he threw 2 picks and missed some other throws as well.Even though Seattle's pass rush barely got a whiff of him all day he did not crack 200 yards passing.

Aaron Rodgers had a HORRIBLE game.Actually, a better way of saying that is the Seahawks defense MADE Rodgers have a horrible game.
No one is talking about it, no one seems willing to bring it up in the media, but if that had been Tony Romo, the media would ALL be saying that he CHOKED! Fact.
Rodgers had a lousy game, period. He challenged Sherm once, got burned and then almost never again wen t back to his side, even after it was clear Sherm was hurt. Aaron Rodgers was SCARED!!! He played SCARED. AGAIN!
Where's the media today??? Where are all the questions about why he didn't keep going after Sherman???
If that were Romo, the media's questions would be NON STOP!

by **kalibane** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:28 am

I remember Kaep telling Wilson that, but his comments in the presser I take totally different than you and has always been my beef with Kaep. He has never said that the other team was better. It's always about the plays he (or his teammates) didn't make. It's never about what the other team did or the other team just being flat out better on that day.

Kaep never gives credit. He always comes from a position of "we beat ourselves, but we are still a better team". In this case the Packers clearly outplayed Seattle for the majority of the game. Rodgers has the correct context for feeling that way. Kaep, a lot of the time does not have the right context to feel that way.

Monkey,

I don't think it's a function of age. It's a function of character. The Broncos game was different because they were flat out broken. I don't put them in the same category. But it's like the Oilers... or the 1998 Vikings... they were never quite the same again after heartbreaking defeats.

I've already gone over how I feel like Aaron Rodgers reputation in the clutch is completely overblown in my opinion. This is the kind of defeat that eats at you. I mean he flat out said he'll think about it for the rest of his career. If it were Tom Brady I wouldn't question it really. I think we have enough evidence to see that he knows how to use defeat as motivation. Rodgers I haven't necessarily seen it. Another big difference is Mike McCarthy is a very GOOD coach. He is not Belichek or Walsh or Carroll... He isn't even Holmgren IMO. How well is he able to pull it all back together? We'll see. I just don't think the ability to turn bitter disappointment into a vehicle for improvement nearly as common as people pretend.

I won't be shocked if Rodgers is able to do it, but I'm not completely confident either and I'm betting the average guy this crushes them.

by **burrrton** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:30 am

GB has every right to feel like they just got kicked in the nuts, because they did, doesn't mean Seattle didn't earn or deserve the victory.

Exactly. Our QB uncharacteristically played as bad as he possibly could and one of the most secure offenses in the league gift-wrapped FIVE turnovers for them, and they were never more than 2 scores ahead.

RW had a rough day, but what seems to be ignored today is that Rodgers was only marginally better, and Lacy was shutdown in the second half.

Seattle earned this one, albeit with a couple of plays going our way that I wouldn't call 'high percentage'. That's football, though.

by **burrrton** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:33 am

There isn't a great team that ever existed in sports that didn't have some "luck" factor in their greatness. What makes them great is they put themselves in position to take advantage of when luck bounces their way.

This.

I've always said it's amazing how the best teams also seem to be the "luckiest".

by **HumanCockroach** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:59 am

Always told by coaches, and always beleived that you "create" your OWN "luck" by never quitting, doing your job, and being in the right spot when an opportunity presents itself, to take advantage of that opportunity. Yesterdays game certainly didn't change that opinion one iota for me.

by **RiverDog** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:17 am

I didn't view yesterday's game as being weird or surreal. Tony Romo's fumbled snap was stranger than anything that happened yesterday. I've seen a lot of games that were won when a team that was two scores down with just a few minutes left in the game and got back in it via an onsides kick. It's just that this one was unusual as the victorious team looked like crap almost the entire game and that it happened in such a consequential game with so much on the line.

by **NorthHawk** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:19 am

There's an old saying that goes:
You have to be good to be lucky and lucky to be good.

Ever played Golf with someone far better than you? It seems whenever they hit a bad shot it finds a place where it can be played or hits a tree and bounces into the fairway, but lesser players shots end up in unplayable lies with stroke penalties.

Lady Luck did smile upon us yesterday, no question but good teams take that turn of fortune and capitalize on the gift they've been given.

by **NorthHawk** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:23 am

"Aaron Rodgers had a HORRIBLE game.Actually, a better way of saying that is the Seahawks defense MADE Rodgers have a horrible game.
No one is talking about it, no one seems willing to bring it up in the media, but if that had been Tony Romo, the media would ALL be saying that he CHOKED! Fact.
Rodgers had a lousy game, period. He challenged Sherm once, got burned and then almost never again wen t back to his side, even after it was clear Sherm was hurt. Aaron Rodgers was SCARED!!! He played SCARED. AGAIN!
Where's the media today??? Where are all the questions about why he didn't keep going after Sherman???
If that were Romo, the media's questions would be NON STOP!"

The difference is Romo has never won anything and Rodgers has a ring. Romo has proven that he crumbles under pressure, while Rodgers has shown he can at least at some point rise to the occasion.
That's why there would be questions about Romo and many fewer about Rodgers.

by **Hawktawk** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:42 am

Rodgers has been around for 11 years now, 8 as a starter. He just spent about 45 minutes on Seattle's side of the 50 with excellent protection from his line and one of the best receiving corps in the league. He went 19 for 33 for 174 yards, 1 TD, 2 picks and a rating of 54.Hes 0-3 vs. Wilson. And yet he's the Teflon man, much like Manning. Its never his fault even though he Is a bad throw by Michel Vick from never even getting to the big game. And over in the AFC Luck went 12 for 33 for 121 yards, 2 picks and no TDs. And yet I heard him described this morning as the best young QB in the league. You cant make this stuff up folks.

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