Posted on 02/05/2006 10:40:43 AM PST by Seattle Conservative
Edited on 02/05/2006 3:30:22 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Are you ready for some football????!!!!
Seattle Seahawks v.s. Pittsburgh Steelers ABC 6:15 ET February 5, 2006
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Bill Levy.
His crew has the lowest percentage of calls overturned on replay in the league.
I thought the game was going to be over right then and there until that happened. Oh well. It just made Steeler nation sweat a little.
Without the INT the STeelers get at least 3 on that possession and are then up a clean 2 TDs having driven the lenght of the field twice with almost nothing but runs.
They weren't ticky-tack calls they were RIGHT calls, your team committed fouls that CLEARLY changed the course of the play and got flagged for it. And the NFL Network guys just said the lead ref is well known for being extremely tight on holding calls. Seattle killed all their best drives with illegal execution.
they saved them all for FIX
It looked to me that this victory had a little help........... I'll say little else.
But....... Seattle took the pipe very nicely in the second half.
FAST WILLIE PARKER
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Let's be serious................ Seattle was pretty lame............ but we just snuck by with our character.
GOOD!!!
Yeah, like the world needs me to sweat more.
I enjoyed the game, no matter what the Seattle fans say. Both defenses made life difficult for both offenses.
You sound like a seventh grader.
Did you think Parker should have gotten the MVP instead of Ward?
I like games that are called fair.
This loss was the biggest disappointment since Gregoire became our governor. We sure have our share of let downs. Neverthless, it was a fun season and we'll go forward. GO SEAHAWKS!
Ask the driver of the Whhhhhambulance....he'll be there soon.
Wow, spoken by someone who lives in Pheonix? Which is really just a huge strip mall in the desert?
Your obsession with mullets is really unhealthy. Maybe next year, Seahawks!
Interestingly, the difficulty of schedule was pretty close to that of Indianapolis...and yet I don't recall hearing a single time how weak their schedule was when they were doing that unbeaten run. The teams that were decent that the Seahawks played this year were Atlanta (they were highly ranked at the time the Hawks beat them), Giants (another bad call allowed the field goal thing to even become an issue), the Panthers, the Colts...the Hawks beat all of these teams.
THe Hawks didn't have that big an advantage on TOP. While I totally respect TOP I think until the difference is 10 minutes it's not that meaningful.
10 minutes is 1/6th of the entire game...a good portion of an entire quarter. It's a significant TOP differential...but vs teams that score quickly, TOP has no meaning...but vs a "running" team it is significant.
All the predictions I heard said the weakness of both defenses was the secondary but the Hawks secondary was a little weaker than the Steelers and that would probably be the difference, and it was.
I would agree. The Hawks lost one of their best secondary guys in Hamlin when someone hit him in the head with a pipe outside a nightclub. And then his replacement went down during the game with an injury, leaving the 3rd tier guy. He's the one that took the wrong angle trying to tackle on that 75yd TD run. And the starting corner went out injured as well. No excuses, injuries happen, I'm just mentioning why the secondary looked a little off.
I didn't hear anybody say the Steelers D would shut them down, shut down the run is about the most I heard predicted.
I did, but that is neither here nor there. I guessed the Hawks would spend a fair amount of time passing...Hasselbeck is very underrated as a passer.
Seattle's defense played very well in the first half I thought. I couldn't believe it when Ward caught that bomb that set up the first touchdown. I thought for sure it was going to be at least knocked down by a Seattle defender.
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