But if this was the Redskins you would not be saying this, I am positive you would be pissed off.
I know you're speaking to CLL here but I ultimately blamed the Tampa loss on our team. Our team was responsible for letting the Bucs back into that game and score that TD at the end of regulation. The refs made a bad call at the end. But had that bad call happened and we hadn't let them back in the game previously, then the game would've been won by the Redskins even with that bad call. Yes, sometimes bad calls will burn you. Sometimes they burn you more than others. But if you take care of business then you should be able to minimize or eliminate the damage that any bad call can make.
Chris Luva Luva wrote:So what? What could they do about it, nothing. Who dropped a TD pass in the endzone after the PI call? Seahawks.
They had their chances and didn't pull through so they deserved to lose. I dont care if they had 900 yards if you drop the ball in the endzone wut is it all for? Nothing.
I'll agree to disagree, I really don't care. But if this was the Redskins you would not be saying this, I am positive you would be pissed off.
Damn straight I would. That's because the words 'Redskins' and 'objective' do not live near each other in my vocabulary. Eventually, I'd realize that the Skins should have done more to win the game (as they should have had that first down in the Tampa game to seal it). Sure, Seahawk fans should be upset, as any true fan should be, but the media and the rest of the public is just riding the wave of negative publicity, for fun, it seems.
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But if this was the Redskins you would not be saying this, I am positive you would be pissed off.
I know you're speaking to CLL here but I ultimately blamed the Tampa loss on our team. Our team was responsible for letting the Bucs back into that game and score that TD at the end of regulation. The refs made a bad call at the end. But had that bad call happened and we hadn't let them back in the game previously, then the game would've been won by the Redskins even with that bad call. Yes, sometimes bad calls will burn you. Sometimes they burn you more than others. But if you take care of business then you should be able to minimize or eliminate the damage that any bad call can make.
I am in 100% agreement with you. The refs didn't cause us to lose that game we lost it. We should have thrown the ball at least ONCE during that last possession. We ran the ball when running the ball was 99% ineffective.
Just like the Seahawks we blew our chances and left the games in the hands of a group of people.
The striped shirts didn't cause tight end Jerramy Stevens to drop four passes. The striped shirts didn't cause the Seahawks defense to give up a Steelers first down on a third-and-28 situation (which later led to the Roethlisberger disputed TD). The striped shirts didn't cause the Seahawks defense to give up the longest touchdown run in Super Bowl history. They also didn't cause Etric Pruitt to sprint up from his safety position, only to be fooled by the trick play that resulted in Randle El's 43-yard TD pass to Ward (and by the way, if everyone knows the Steelers like to run gadget plays near midfield, don't you think the Seahawks knew it too?). Or cause Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck to throw a killer interception with nearly 11 minutes left in the game and Seattle trailing by only four points.
I think that last post sums it up quite nicely there, CLL. Thanks.
After reading a lot of posts on this thread, I pretty much agree with the quote provided by CLL.
Yes, some of the calls went the Steelers way but that is not why they won the game. They won the game because the Seahawks simply didn't play like a Super Bowl Champion.
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Chris Luva Luva wrote:Nope not at all. This is my list as to why SEA lost the game.
How many passes did the Seahawks TE drop?
How about all the dropped passes from the other players? Didn't Shaun drop one towards the end in the flats?
What about the poor time management?
How many field goals were missed? Was it two or three?
SEA didn't do enough to win a game they could have won easily. Since they didn't they lost and they deserved to.
Where was the O. MVP? He didn't break 100 yards! A better team would have stepped up.
I agree - Seattle did not lose the game because of the bad calls. They flat out lost because they did not take advantage of the horrendous game by Pittsburgh. RiC is right - this was a bad game by everyone involved between the lines (including the officials) and the coaches.
Regarding the calls:
Jackson should not have touched the defender in the endzone. He broke the rule and got fined when he DIDN'T even NEED TO TOUCH THE GUY. The PITT defender was already beat and was rolling back on his heels, Jackson didn't need to touch him at all. The fact that he did touch him gave the look that his push was the reason why the defender was rolling back. Pushing off is not legal and he got fined for it no matter how light it was.
Yes! But the defender also illegally made contact just before the endzone and the correct call was "offsetting"!
The holding call (in hindsight) IMO, was the worst but this whole game was a case study in bad officiating.
And I have absolutely no respect for their classless QB
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Until recently, Snyder & Allen have made a lot of really bad decisions - nobody with any sense believes this franchise will get better under their guidance Snyder's W/L record = 45% (80-96) - Snyder/Allen = 41% (59-84-1)
The author failed to mention the horrible time management by the medias new darling Matt Hassleback. They also failed to mention how the undeserving league MVP Shaun Alexander quit on his team by not getting out of bounds towards the end of the game.
I dont care what anyone says he was a chump for that, he made no effort to get out of bounds.
